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When searching for communities in networks, domain experts may have some prior expectations about the size of communities. Yet, community detection methods normally do not optimize communities under cluster size constraints.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-26 Filipi N. Silva , Samin Aref , Vincent Traag , Santo Fortunato

Modularity is widely used to effectively measure the strength of the disjoint community structure found by community detection algorithms. Several overlapping extensions of modularity were proposed to measure the quality of overlapping…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Mingming Chen , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

Multilayer networks are a useful way to capture and model multiple, binary or weighted relationships among a fixed group of objects. While community detection has proven to be a useful exploratory technique for the analysis of single-layer…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-09 James D. Wilson , John Palowitch , Shankar Bhamidi , Andrew B. Nobel

Unknown node attributes in complex networks may introduce community structures that are important to distinguish from those driven by known attributes. We propose a block-corrected modularity that discounts given block structures present in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-04 Hasti Narimanzadeh , Takayuki Hiraoka , Mikko Kivelä

Community detection is a fascinating and rapidly evolving field, but when it comes to analyzing networks with multiple types of interactions, referred to as multilayer networks, there is still a lot of untapped potential. Despite the wide…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Randa Boukabene , Fatima Benbouzid Si Tayeb

Aiming at improving the efficiency and accuracy of community detection in complex networks, we proposed a new algorithm, which is based on the idea that communities could be detected from subnetworks by comparing the internal and external…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-20 Jihui Han , Wei Li , Weibing Deng

Community detection is a fundamental problem in the analysis of complex networks. It is the analogue of clustering in network data mining. Within community detection methods, hierarchical algorithms are popular. However, their iterative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Julio-Omar Palacio-Niño , Fernando Berzal

In this paper we present a novel strategy to discover the community structure of (possibly, large) networks. This approach is based on the well-know concept of network modularity optimization. To do so, our algorithm exploits a novel…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-02-13 Pasquale De Meo , Emilio Ferrara , Giacomo Fiumara , Alessandro Provetti

Affinity propagation is one of the most effective unsupervised pattern recognition algorithms for data clustering in high-dimensional feature space. However, the numerous attempts to test its performance for community detection in complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci , Alessandro Muscoloni

Network representations have been effectively employed to analyze complex systems across various areas and applications, leading to the development of network science as a core tool to study systems with multiple components and complex…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-25 ItaloIvo Lima Dias Pinto , Javier Omar Garcia , Kanika Bansal

The community structure of a complex network can be determined by finding the partitioning of its nodes that maximizes modularity. Many of the proposed algorithms for doing this work by recursively bisecting the network. We show that this…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Yudong Sun , Bogdan Danila , Kresimir Josic , Kevin E. Bassler

Community detection is a commonly used technique for identifying groups in a network based on similarities in connectivity patterns. To facilitate community detection in large networks, we recast the network to be partitioned into a smaller…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Natalie Stanley , Roland Kwitt , Marc Niethammer , Peter J. Mucha

Background: Network communities help the functional organization and evolution of complex networks. However, the development of a method, which is both fast and accurate, provides modular overlaps and partitions of a heterogeneous network,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-09-06 Istvan A. Kovacs , Robin Palotai , Mate S. Szalay , Peter Csermely

Community detection algorithms are fundamental tools to understand organizational principles in social networks. With the increasing power of social media platforms, when detecting communities there are two possi- ble sources of information…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-04-14 Yuan Li

Community detection is key to understand the structure of complex networks. However, the lack of appropriate evaluation strategies for this specific task may produce biased and incorrect results that might invalidate further analyses or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Jeancarlo Campos Leão , Alberto H. F. Laender , Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo

The generalized version of modularity for multilayer networks, a.k.a. multislice modularity, is characterized by two model parameters, namely resolution factor and inter-layer coupling factor. The former corresponds to a notion of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Alessia Amelio , Giuseppe Mangioni , Andrea Tagarelli

Complex systems are usually illustrated by networks which captures the topology of the interactions between the entities. To better understand the roles played by the entities in the system one needs to uncover the underlying community…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Han Zhang , Chang-Dong Wang , Jian-Huang Lai , Philip S. Yu

Community detection is an important research topic in complex networks. We present the employment of a genetic algorithm to detect communities in complex networks which is based on optimizing network modularity. It does not need any prior…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-11-06 Mursel Tasgin , Amac Herdagdelen , Haluk Bingol

We introduce a metric space of clusterings, where clusterings are described by a binary vector indexed by the vertex-pairs. We extend this geometry to a hypersphere and prove that maximizing modularity is equivalent to minimizing the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Martijn Gösgens , Remco van der Hofstad , Nelly Litvak

Algorithms for detecting communities in complex networks are generally unsupervised, relying solely on the structure of the network. However, these methods can often fail to uncover meaningful groupings that reflect the underlying…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Elham Alghamdi , Derek Greene