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It is often of interest to find communities in network data for unsupervised learning, feature discovery, anomaly detection, or scientific study. The vast majority of community detection methods proceed via optimization of a quality…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-11-20 John Palowitch

Local community detection, the problem of identifying a set of relevant nodes nearby a small set of input seed nodes, is an important graph primitive with a wealth of applications and research activity. Recent approaches include using local…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Kyle Kloster , Yixuan Li

Hidden community is a useful concept proposed recently for social network analysis. To handle the rapid growth of network scale, in this work, we explore the detection of hidden communities from the local perspective, and propose a new…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Meng Wang , Boyu Li , Kun He , John E. Hopcroft

Community detection has long been an important yet challenging task to analyze complex networks with a focus on detecting topological structures of graph data. Essentially, real-world graph data contains various features, node and edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Yaping Zheng , Shiyi Chen , Xinni Zhang , Xiaofeng Zhang , Xiaofei Yang , Di Wang

Finding densely connected subsets of vertices in an unsupervised setting, called clustering or community detection, is one of the fundamental problems in network science. The edge clustering approach instead detects communities by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Ryan DeWolfe , François Théberge

Community discovery is the general process of attaining assortative communities from a network: collections of nodes that are densely connected within yet sparsely connected to the rest of the network. While community discovery has been…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Connor P. Gibbs , Bailey K. Fosdick , James D. Wilson

In this paper, we propose a new spectral-based approach to hypothesis testing for populations of networks. The primary goal is to develop a test to determine whether two given samples of networks come from the same random model or…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-11-26 Li Chen , Nathaniel Josephs , Lizhen Lin , Jie Zhou , Eric D. Kolaczyk

We consider the problem of detecting communities or modules in networks, groups of vertices with a higher-than-average density of edges connecting them. Previous work indicates that a robust approach to this problem is the maximization of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 M. E. J. Newman

Community detection in social networks is a problem with considerable interest, since, discovering communities reveals hidden information about networks. There exist many algorithms to detect inherent community structures and recently few…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Waqas Nawaz

Community detection is a key task to further understand the function and the structure of complex networks. Therefore, a strategy used to assess this task must be able to avoid biased and incorrect results that might invalidate further…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Jeancarlo Campos Leão , Alberto H. F. Laender , Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo

How can researchers test for heterogeneity in the local structure of a network? In this paper, we present a framework that utilizes random sampling to give subgraphs which are then used in a goodness of fit test to test for heterogeneity.…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-12-04 Jonathan Tuke , Matthew Roughan

We propose new image forgery detection and localization algorithms by recasting these problems as graph-based community detection problems. To do this, we introduce a novel abstract, graph-based representation of an image, which we call the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Owen Mayer , Matthew C. Stamm

We study how to detect groups in a complex network each of which consists of component nodes sharing a similar connection pattern. Based on the mixture models and the exploratory analysis set up by Newman and Leicht (Newman and Leicht 2007…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-12-17 J. Wang , C. -H. Lai

The stochastic block model is one of the most studied network models for community detection. It is well-known that most algorithms proposed for fitting the stochastic block model likelihood function cannot scale to large-scale networks.…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-08-31 Jiangzhou Wang , Jingfei Zhang , Binghui Liu , Ji Zhu , Jianhua Guo

Different kinds of random walks have proven to be useful in the study of structural properties of complex networks. Among them, the restricted dynamics of self-avoiding random walks (SAW), which visit only at most once each vertex in the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-01-23 Guilherme de Guzzi Bagnato , José Ricardo Furlan Ronqui , Gonzalo Travieso

The problem of node-centric, or local, community detection in information networks refers to the identification of a community for a given input node, having limited information about the network topology. Existing methods for solving this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Roberto Interdonato , Andrea Tagarelli , Dino Ienco , Arnaud Sallaberry , Pascal Poncelet

We develop an algorithm to detect community structure in complex networks. The algorithm is based on spectral methods and takes into account weights and links orientations. Since the method detects efficiently clustered nodes in large…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Andrea Capocci , Vito D. P. Servedio , Guido Caldarelli , Francesca Colaiori

Community detection is crucial in data mining. Traditional methods primarily focus on graph structure, often neglecting the significance of attribute features. In contrast, deep learning-based approaches incorporate attribute features and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hong Wang , Yinglong Zhang , Zhangqi Zhao , Zhicong Cai , Xuewen Xia , Xing Xu

As communities represent similar opinions, similar functions, similar purposes, etc., community detection is an important and extremely useful tool in both scientific inquiry and data analytics. However, the classic methods of community…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Fanzhen Liu , Shan Xue , Jia Wu , Chuan Zhou , Wenbin Hu , Cecile Paris , Surya Nepal , Jian Yang , Philip S. Yu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have improved unsupervised community detection of clustered nodes due to their ability to encode the dual dimensionality of the connectivity and feature information spaces of graphs. Identifying the latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-28 William Leeney , Ryan McConville