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Community detection is a widely-studied unsupervised learning problem in which the task is to group similar entities together based on observed pairwise entity interactions. This problem has applications in diverse domains such as social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Jimit Majmudar , Stephen Vavasis

Many algorithms have been proposed for detecting disjoint communities (relatively densely connected subgraphs) in networks. One popular technique is to optimize modularity, a measure of the quality of a partition in terms of the number of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-02-03 Bowen Yan , Steve Gregory

Detecting clusters or communities in large real-world graphs such as large social or information networks is a problem of considerable interest. In practice, one typically chooses an objective function that captures the intuition of a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-04-21 Jure Leskovec , Kevin J. Lang , Michael W. Mahoney

Complex networks represent interactions between entities. They appear in various contexts such as sociology, biology, etc., and they generally contain highly connected subgroups called communities. Community detection is a well-studied…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-06-11 Romain Campigotto , Patricia Conde Céspedes , Jean-Loup Guillaume

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

Discovering communities in complex networks helps to understand the behaviour of the network. Some works in this promising research area exist, but communities uncovering in time-dependent and/or multiplex networks has not deeply…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-04-05 Vincenza Carchiolo , Alessandro Longheu , Michele Malgeri , Giuseppe Mangioni

Community detection for large networks poses challenges due to the high computational cost as well as heterogeneous community structures. In this paper, we consider widely existing real-world networks with ``grouped communities'' (or ``the…

Computation · Statistics 2024-11-04 Sheng Zhang , Rui Song , Wenbin Lu , Ji Zhu

Identifying overlapping communities in networks is a challenging task. In this work we present a novel approach to community detection that utilises the Bayesian non-negative matrix factorisation (NMF) model to produce a probabilistic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-09-28 Ioannis Psorakis , Stephen Roberts , Ben Sheldon

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

In this paper, we consider the composite optimization problems over the Stiefel manifold. A successful method to solve this class of problems is the proximal gradient method proposed by Chen et al. Motivated by the proximal Newton-type…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-17 Qinsi Wang , Wei Hong Yang

Community detection, also known as graph partitioning, is a well-known NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem with applications in diverse fields such as complex network theory, transportation, and smart power grids. The problem's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Wei Li , Yi-Lun Du , Nan Su , Konrad Tywoniuk , Kyle Godbey , Horst Stöcker

Community detection is a central problem of network data analysis. Given a network, the goal of community detection is to partition the network nodes into a small number of clusters, which could often help reveal interesting structures. The…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-26 Chao Gao , Zongming Ma , Anderson Y. Zhang , Harrison H. Zhou

Riemannian optimization has drawn a lot of attention due to its wide applications in practice. Riemannian stochastic first-order algorithms have been studied in the literature to solve large-scale machine learning problems over Riemannian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-22 Bokun Wang , Shiqian Ma , Lingzhou Xue

Community detection and link prediction are both of great significance in network analysis, which provide very valuable insights into topological structures of the network from different perspectives. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Hui-Min Cheng , Yi-Zi Ning , Zhao Yin , Chao Yan , Xin Liu , Zhong-Yuan Zhang

Community detection involves grouping the nodes in the network and is one of the most-studied tasks in network science. Conventional methods usually require the specification of the number of communities $K$ in the network. This number is…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-30 Yuhua Zhang , Kori S. Zachrison , Renee Y. Hsia , Jukka-Pekka Onnela

In recent years, the proximal gradient method and its variants have been generalized to Riemannian manifolds for solving optimization problems with an additively separable structure, i.e., $f + h$, where $f$ is continuously differentiable,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Wutao Si , P. -A. Absil , Wen Huang , Rujun Jiang , Simon Vary

One of the most widely used methods for community detection in networks is the maximization of the quality function known as modularity. Of the many maximization techniques that have been used in this context, some of the most conceptually…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-11-24 Xiao Zhang , M. E. J. Newman

Conjugate gradient (CG) methods are widely acknowledged as efficient for minimizing continuously differentiable functions in Euclidean spaces. In recent years, various CG methods have been extended to Riemannian manifold optimization, but…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Chunming Tang , Shaohui Liang , Huangyue Chen

Modularity maximization has been a fundamental tool for understanding the community structure of a network, but the underlying optimization problem is nonconvex and NP-hard to solve. State-of-the-art algorithms like the Louvain or Leiden…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Po-Wei Wang , J. Zico Kolter

This article considers the problem of community detection in sparse dynamical graphs in which the community structure evolves over time. A fast spectral algorithm based on an extension of the Bethe-Hessian matrix is proposed, which benefits…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Lorenzo Dall'Amico , Romain Couillet , Nicolas Tremblay