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Community detection is one of the most important problems in network analysis. Among many algorithms proposed for this task, methods based on statistical inference are of particular interest: they are mathematically sound and were shown to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Liudmila Prokhorenkova , Alexey Tikhonov

In network research, Community Detection has always been a topic of significant interest in network science, with numerous papers and algorithms proposing to uncover the underlying structures within networks. In this paper, we conduct a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Yash Malode , Amit Aylani , Arvind Bhardwaj , Deepak Hajoary

Networks have been a general tool for representing, analyzing, and modeling relational data arising in several domains. One of the most important aspect of network analysis is community detection or network clustering. Until recently, the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-01-27 Vladimir Gligorijevic , Yannis Panagakis , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Unveiling the community structure of networks is a powerful methodology to comprehend interconnected systems across the social and natural sciences. To identify different types of functional modules in interaction data aggregated in a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-04-24 Manlio De Domenico , Andrea Lancichinetti , Alex Arenas , Martin Rosvall

The analysis of multilayer networks is among the most active areas of network science, and there are now several methods to detect dense "communities" of nodes in multilayer networks. One way to define a community is as a set of nodes that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Lucas G. S. Jeub , Michael W. Mahoney , Peter J. Mucha , Mason A. Porter

The community plays a crucial role in understanding user behavior and network characteristics in social networks. Some users can use multiple social networks at once for a variety of objectives. These users are called overlapping users who…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Ziqing Zhu , Guan Yuan , Tao Zhou , Jiuxin Cao

The most widely used techniques for community detection in networks, including methods based on modularity, statistical inference, and information theoretic arguments, all work by optimizing objective functions that measure the quality of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Maria A. Riolo , M. E. J. Newman

Complex data in social and natural sciences find effective representation through networks, wherein quantitative and categorical information can be associated with nodes and connecting edges. The internal structure of networks can be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Fabio Morea , Domenico De Stefano

Community detection is of considerable importance for analyzing the structure and function of complex networks. Many real-world networks may possess community structures at multiple scales, and recently, various multi-resolution methods…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-09-01 Ju Xiang , Yan-Ni Tang , Yuan-Yuan Gao , Yan Zhang , Ke Deng , Xiao-Ke Xu , Ke Hu

Networks are a general language for representing relational information among objects. An effective way to model, reason about, and summarize networks, is to discover sets of nodes with common connectivity patterns. Such sets are commonly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-01-30 Jaewon Yang , Julian McAuley , Jure Leskovec

We review and improve a recently introduced method for the detection of communities in complex networks. This method combines spectral properties of some matrices encoding the network topology, with well known hierarchical clustering…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Donetti , M. A. Munoz

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

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 graphs is crucial for understanding the organization of nodes into densely connected clusters. While numerous strategies have been developed to identify these clusters, the success of community detection can lead to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Junyuan Fang , Huimin Liu , Yueqi Peng , Jiajing Wu , Zibin Zheng , Chi K. Tse

Because networks can be used to represent many complex systems, they have attracted considerable attention in physics, computer science, sociology, and many other disciplines. One of the most important areas of network science is the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Huiyi Hu , Yves van Gennip , Blake Hunter , Mason A. Porter , Andrea L. Bertozzi

The optimal strategy for community detection in complex networks is not universal, but depends critically on the network's underlying structural properties. Although popular graph-theoretic methods, such as Louvain, optimize for modularity,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Jelena Losic

We propose a new local community detection algorithm that finds communities by identifying borderlines between them using boundary nodes. Our method performs label propagation for community detection, where nodes decide their labels based…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-10-17 Mursel Tasgin , Haluk O. Bingol

A lot of research effort has been put into community detection from all corners of academic interest such as physics, mathematics and computer science. In this paper I have proposed a Bi-Objective Genetic Algorithm for community detection…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-09-19 Rohan Agrawal

Multilayer networks capture pairwise relationships between the components of complex systems across multiple modes or scales of interactions. An important meso-scale feature of these networks is measured though their community structure,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-03-12 Michael Vaiana , Sarah Muldoon

Modularity and persistence probability are two widely used quality functions for detecting communities in complex networks. In this paper, we introduce a new objective function called null-adjusted persistence, which incorporates features…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-20 Alessandro Avellone , Paolo Bartesaghi , Stefano Benati , Christos Charalambous , Rosanna Grassi