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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

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are able to achieve promising performance on multiple graph downstream tasks such as node classification and link prediction. Comparatively lesser work has been done to design GNNs which can operate directly for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Sambaran Bandyopadhyay , Vishal Peter

Most networks found in social and biochemical systems have modular structures. An important question prompted by the modularity of these networks is whether nodes can be said to belong to a single group. If they cannot, we would need to…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-05-02 Erin N. Sawardecker , Marta Sales-Pardo , Luís A. Nunes Amaral

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

Communities typically capture homophily as people of the same community share many common features. This paper is motivated by the problem of community detection in social networks, as it can help improve our understanding of the network…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-01 Radhika Arava

Community detection, which uncovers closely connected vertex groups in networks, is vital for applications in social networks, recommendation systems, and beyond. Real-world networks often have bipartite structures (vertices in two disjoint…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Yue Zeng , Rong-Hua Li , Qiangqiang Dai , Guoren Wang

A significant problem in analysis of complex network is to reveal community structure, in which network nodes are tightly connected in the same communities, between which there are sparse connections. Previous algorithms for community…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-25 Jingming Zhang , Jianjun Cheng , Xing Su , Xinhong Yin , Shiyan Zhao , Xiaoyun Chen

Community detection refers to the problem of clustering the nodes of a network (either graph or hypergrah) into groups. Various algorithms are available for community detection and all these methods apply to uncensored networks. In…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-08 Mingao Yuan , Bin Zhao , Xiaofeng Zhao

Traditionally, community detection in graphs can be solved using spectral methods or posterior inference under probabilistic graphical models. Focusing on random graph families such as the stochastic block model, recent research has unified…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-11 Zhengdao Chen , Xiang Li , Joan Bruna

This paper reviews the state of the art in overlapping community detection algorithms, quality measures, and benchmarks. A thorough comparison of different algorithms (a total of fourteen) is provided. In addition to community level…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-08-30 Jierui Xie , Stephen Kelley , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

In this paper, we introduce a novel community detection algorithm in graphs, called SCoDA (Streaming Community Detection Algorithm), based on an edge streaming setting. This algorithm has an extremely low memory footprint and a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Alexandre Hollocou , Julien Maudet , Thomas Bonald , Marc Lelarge

Overlapping communities are key characteristics of the structure and function analysis of complex networks. Shared or overlapping nodes within overlapping communities can form either subcommunities or act as intersections between larger…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Vesa Kuikka , Kosti Koistinen , Kimmo K Kaski

Detecting community structures in social networks has gained considerable attention in recent years. However, lack of prior knowledge about the number of communities, and their overlapping nature have made community detection a challenging…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Mahsa Ghorbani , Hamid R. Rabiee , Ali Khodadadi

Community detection techniques are useful for social media platforms to discover tightly connected groups of users who share common interests. However, this functionality often comes at the expense of potentially exposing individuals to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Andrea Bernini , Fabrizio Silvestri , Gabriele Tolomei

Graph representation learning is crucial for many real-world applications (e.g. social relation analysis). A fundamental problem for graph representation learning is how to effectively learn representations without human labeling, which is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Bolian Li , Baoyu Jing , Hanghang Tong

Overlapping community detection (OCD) is a fundamental graph data analysis task for extracting graph patterns. Traditional OCD methods can be broadly divided into node clustering and link clustering approaches, both of which rely solely on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Shaozhen Ma , Hanchen Wang , Dong Wen , Wenjie Zhang , Wei Huang , Ying Zhang

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

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

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

Community detection in networks is commonly performed using information about interactions between nodes. Recent advances have been made to incorporate multiple types of interactions, thus generalizing standard methods to multilayer…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Martina Contisciani , Eleanor Power , Caterina De Bacco