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Modularity is a widely used measure for evaluating community structure in networks. The definition of modularity involves a comparison of within-community edges in the observed network and that number in an equivalent randomized network.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-02-13 Xin Liu , Tsuyoshi Murata , Ken Wakita

The function or performance of a network is strongly dependent on its robustness, quantifying the ability of the network to continue functioning under perturbations. While a wide variety of robustness metrics have been proposed, they have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Liwang Zhu , Qi Bao , Zhongzhi Zhang

Modularity is a quantity which has been introduced in the context of complex networks in order to quantify how close a network is to an ideal modular network in which the nodes form small interconnected communities that are joined together…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-05 Jordan Chellig , Nikolaos Fountoulakis , Fiona Skerman

Community detection, which involves partitioning nodes within a network, has widespread applications across computational sciences. Modularity-based algorithms identify communities by attempting to maximize the modularity function across…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Samin Aref , Mahdi Mostajabdaveh

Community detection, which aims to cluster $N$ nodes in a given graph into $r$ distinct groups based on the observed undirected edges, is an important problem in network data analysis. In this paper, the popular stochastic block model (SBM)…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-04 T. Tony Cai , Xiaodong Li

Components of complex systems are often classified according to the way they interact with each other. In graph theory such groups are known as clusters or communities. Many different techniques have been recently proposed to detect them,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-04-30 Muhittin Mungan , Jose J. Ramasco

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

Unsupervised node clustering (or community detection) is a classical graph learning task. In this paper, we study algorithms, which exploit the geometry of the graph to identify densely connected substructures, which form clusters or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Yu Tian , Zachary Lubberts , Melanie Weber

The community structure of a complex network can be determined by finding the partitioning of its nodes that maximizes modularity. Many of the proposed algorithms for doing this work by recursively bisecting the network. We show that this…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Yudong Sun , Bogdan Danila , Kresimir Josic , Kevin E. Bassler

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

We propose a general form of community detecting functions for finding the communities or the optimal partition of a random network, and examine the concentration and stability of the function values using the bounded difference martingale…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-03-28 Weituo Zhang , Chjan C. Lim

Several algorithms have been proposed to compute partitions of networks into communities that score high on a graph clustering index called modularity. While publications on these algorithms typically contain experimental evaluations to…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 U. Brandes , D. Delling , M. Gaertler , R. Goerke , M. Hoefer , Z. Nikoloski , D. Wagner

The problem of finding clusters in complex networks has been extensively studied by mathematicians, computer scientists and, more recently, by physicists. Many of the existing algorithms partition a network into clear clusters, without…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 David Gfeller , Jean-Cédric Chappelier , Paolo De Los Rios

The study of network structure is pervasive in sociology, biology, computer science, and many other disciplines. One of the most important areas of network science is the algorithmic detection of cohesive groups of nodes called…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-04-18 Huiyi Hu , Thomas Laurent , Mason A. Porter , Andrea L. Bertozzi

The identification of community structure in a social network is an important problem tackled in the literature of network analysis. There are many solutions to this problem using a static scenario, when facing a dynamic scenario some…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Aurélio Ribeiro Costa

Networks are a convenient way to represent complex systems of interacting entities. Many networks contain "communities" of nodes that are more densely connected to each other than to nodes in the rest of the network. In this paper, we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-12-27 Marya Bazzi , Mason A. Porter , Stacy Williams , Mark McDonald , Daniel J. Fenn , Sam D. Howison

Community detection algorithms attempt to find the best clusters of nodes in an arbitrary complex network. Multi-scale ("multiresolution") community detection extends the problem to identify the best network scale(s) for these clusters. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-11 Peter Ronhovde , Zohar Nussinov

Statistical significance of network clustering has been an unresolved problem since it was observed that community detection algorithms produce false positives even in random graphs. After a phase transition between undetectable and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Jeremi K. Ochab

The ubiquity of modular structure in real-world complex networks is being the focus of attention in many trials to understand the interplay between network topology and functionality. The best approaches to the identification of modular…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-07-30 A. Arenas , J. Duch , A. Fernandez , S. Gomez

Most current studies estimate the invulnerability of complex networks using a qualitative method that analyzes the inaccurate decay rate of network efficiency. This method results in confusion over the invulnerability of various types of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Jun Qin , Hongrun Wu , Xiaonian Tong , Bojin Zheng