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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

Community detection, a fundamental task for network analysis, aims to partition a network into multiple sub-structures to help reveal their latent functions. Community detection has been extensively studied in and broadly applied to many…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Di Jin , Zhizhi Yu , Pengfei Jiao , Shirui Pan , Dongxiao He , Jia Wu , Philip S. Yu , Weixiong Zhang

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

Community detection is often used to understand the structure of large and complex networks. One of the most popular algorithms for uncovering community structure is the so-called Louvain algorithm. We show that this algorithm has a major…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Vincent Traag , Ludo Waltman , Nees Jan van Eck

In this article, we consider the problem of community detection in signed networks. We propose SignedLouvain, an adaptation of the Louvain method to maximise signed modularity, efficiently taking advantage of the structure induced by signed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-07-30 John N. Pougué-Biyong , Renaud Lambiotte

Community structure is an important structural property that extensively exists in various complex networks. In the past decade, much attention has been paid to the design of community-detection methods, but analyzing the behaviors of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-06-28 Ju Xiang , Zhi-Zhong Wang , Hui-Jia Li , Yan Zhang , Fang Li , Li-Ping Dong , Jian-Ming Li

A flow approach to community detection in complex network and multilayer network systems is proposed. Two methods have been developed to search for communities in a network system (NS). The first of them is based on the calculation of flow…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-09-21 Olexandr Polishchuk

Local network community detection aims to find a single community in a large network, while inspecting only a small part of that network around a given seed node. This is much cheaper than finding all communities in a network. Most methods…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Twan van Laarhoven

One of the most widely studied problem in mining and analysis of complex networks is the detection of community structures. The problem has been extensively studied by researchers due to its high utility and numerous applications in various…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Muhammad Qasim Pasta , Faraz Zaidi , Guy Melançon

Community detection, which focuses on clustering nodes or detecting communities in (mostly) a single network, is a problem of considerable practical interest and has received a great deal of attention in the research community. While being…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-07 Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee , Purnamrita Sarkar , Lizhen Lin

Community detection is the problem of identifying natural divisions in networks. Efficient parallel algorithms for identifying such divisions is critical in a number of applications, where the size of datasets have reached significant…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Subhajit Sahu

Complex real-world networks commonly reveal characteristic groups of nodes like communities and modules. These are of value in various applications, especially in the case of large social and information networks. However, while numerous…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-12-30 Lovro Šubelj , Marko Bajec

In this article, we advance divide-and-conquer strategies for solving the community detection problem in networks. We propose two algorithms which perform clustering on a number of small subgraphs and finally patches the results into a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-21 Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee , Purnamrita Sarkar , Peter J. Bickel

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

Networks are commonly used to model complex systems. The different entities in the system are represented by nodes of the network and their interactions by edges. In most real life systems, the different entities may interact in different…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Meiby Ortiz-Bouza , Selin Aviyente

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

The computational demands of community detection algorithms such as Louvain and spectral optimization can be prohibitive for large networks. Eigenvector centrality and Katz centrality are two network statistics commonly used to describe the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Mark Ditsworth , Justin Ruths

The "clumpiness" matrix of a network is used to develop a method to identify its community structure. A "projection space" is constructed from the eigenvectors of the clumpiness matrix and a border line is defined using some kind of angular…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-28 Ali Faqeeh , Keivan Aghababaei Samani

Community detection can reveal the underlying structure and patterns of complex networks, identify sets of nodes with specific functions or similar characteristics, and study the evolution process and development trends of networks. Despite…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Jiaqi Yao , Lewis Mitchell

Many methods have been proposed for community detection in networks, but most of them do not take into account additional information on the nodes that is often available in practice. In this paper, we propose a new joint community…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-13 Yuan Zhang , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu