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Community detection has become a fundamental operation in numerous graph-theoretic applications. It is used to reveal natural divisions that exist within real world networks without imposing prior size or cardinality constraints on the set…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-10-08 Hao Lu , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Ananth Kalyanaraman

Community detection now is an important operation in numerous graph based applications. It is used to reveal groups that exist within real world networks without imposing prior size or cardinality constraints on the set of communities.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Richard Forster

The amount of graph-structured data has recently experienced an enormous growth in many applications. To transform such data into useful information, fast analytics algorithms and software tools are necessary. One common graph analytics…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-03 Christian L. Staudt , Henning Meyerhenke

Community detection is a key aspect of network analysis, as it allows for the identification of groups and patterns within a network. With the ever-increasing size of networks, it is crucial to have fast algorithms to analyze them…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Subhajit Sahu

This paper proposes a novel community detection method that integrates the Louvain algorithm with Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), enabling the discovery of communities without prior knowledge. Compared to most existing solutions, the proposed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Dalila Khettaf , Djamel Djenouri , Zeinab Rezaeifar , Youcef Djenouri

We propose an ensemble clustering algorithm for graphs (ECG), which is based on the Louvain algorithm and the concept of consensus clustering. We validate our approach by replicating a recently published study comparing graph clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Valérie Poulin , François Théberge

Finding community structures in social networks is considered to be a challenging task as many of the proposed algorithms are computationally expensive and does not scale well for large graphs. Most of the community detection algorithms…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Partha Basuchowdhuri , Satyaki Sikdar , Varsha Nagarajan , Khusbu Mishra , Surabhi Gupta , Subhashis Majumder

Communities play a crucial role to describe and analyse modern networks. However, the size of those networks has grown tremendously with the increase of computational power and data storage. While various methods have been developed to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-08-30 Arnaud Browet , P. -A. Absil , Paul Van Dooren

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

In this paper, we propose a scalable community detection algorithm using hypergraph modularity function, h-Louvain. It is an adaptation of the classical Louvain algorithm in the context of hypergraphs. We observe that a direct application…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Bogumił Kamiński , Paweł Misiorek , Paweł Prałat , François Théberge

The emergence of specialized optimization hardware such as CMOS annealers and adiabatic quantum computers carries the promise of solving hard combinatorial optimization problems more efficiently in hardware. Recent work has focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Eldan Cohen , Avradip Mandal , Hayato Ushijima-Mwesigwa , Arnab Roy

Network community detection often relies on optimizing partition quality functions, like modularity. This optimization appears to be a complex problem traditionally relying on discrete heuristics. And although the problem could be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Stanislav Sobolevsky

Graph clustering is the process of grouping vertices into densely connected sets called clusters. We tailor two mathematical programming formulations from the literature, to this problem. In doing so, we obtain a heuristic approximation to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Pierre Miasnikof , Mohammad Bagherbeik , Ali Sheikholeslami

In this work, we explore four common algorithms for community detection in networks, namely Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering, Divisive Hierarchical Clustering (Girvan-Newman), Fastgreedy and the Louvain Method. We investigate their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Niko Motschnig , Alexander Ramharter , Oliver Schweiger , Philipp Zabka , Klaus-Tycho Foerster

The Louvain method was proposed 15 years ago as a heuristic method for the fast detection of communities in large networks. During this period, it has emerged as one of the most popular methods for community detection, the task of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-11-13 Vincent Blondel , Jean-Loup Guillaume , Renaud Lambiotte

Many complex networks exhibit a modular structure of densely connected groups of nodes. Usually, such a modular structure is uncovered by the optimization of some quality function. Although flawed, modularity remains one of the most popular…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-09-10 V. A. Traag

Community detection has attracted increasing attention during the past decade, and many algorithms have been proposed to find the underlying community structure in a given network. Many of these algorithms are based on modularity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-27 Necdet Serhat Aybat , Sahar Zarmehri , Soundar Kumara

Community detection in networks is a very actual and important field of research with applications in many areas. But, given that the amount of processed data increases more and more, existing algorithms need to be adapted for very large…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Benjamin Chiêm , Andine Havelange , Paul Van Dooren

Community detection is a critical challenge in analysing real graphs, including social, transportation, citation, cybersecurity, and many other networks. This article proposes three new, general, hierarchical frameworks to deal with this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Łukasz Brzozowski , Grzegorz Siudem , Marek Gagolewski

The rise of graph data in various fields calls for efficient and scalable community detection algorithms. In this paper, we present parallel implementations of two widely used algorithms: Label Propagation and Louvain, specifically designed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Fuhuan Li , Zhihui Du , David A. Bader
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