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Label propagation has proven to be a fast method for detecting communities in complex networks. Recent work has also improved the accuracy and stability of the basic algorithm, however, a general approach is still an open issue. We propose…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-04-03 Lovro Šubelj , Marko Bajec

We show that the recently introduced label propagation method for detecting communities in complex networks is equivalent to find the local minima of a simple Potts model. Applying to empirical data, the number of such local minima was…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Gergely Tibely , Janos Kertesz

Community detection is an essential task in network analysis as it helps identify groups and patterns within a network. High-speed community detection algorithms are necessary to analyze large-scale networks in a reasonable amount of time.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Subhajit Sahu

Many networks display community structure which identifies groups of nodes within which connections are denser than between them. Detecting and characterizing such community structure, which is known as community detection, is one of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Mingming Chen , Sisi Liu , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

Community detection is one of the fundamental problems of network analysis, for which a number of methods have been proposed. Most model-based or criteria-based methods have to solve an optimization problem over a discrete set of labels to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-12 Can M. Le , Elizaveta Levina , Roman Vershynin

An increasingly important challenge in network analysis is efficient detection and tracking of communities in dynamic networks for which changes arrive as a stream. There is a need for algorithms that can incrementally update and monitor…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-05-15 Jierui Xie , Mingming Chen , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

Community detection is the problem of identifying natural divisions in networks. Efficient parallel algorithms for identifying such divisions are critical in a number of applications. This report presents an optimized implementation of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Subhajit Sahu

Community detection is the problem of identifying natural divisions in networks. Efficient parallel algorithms for this purpose are crucial in various applications, particularly as datasets grow to substantial scales. This technical report…

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

Modern networks are of huge sizes as well as high dynamics, which challenges the efficiency of community detection algorithms. In this paper, we study the problem of overlapping community detection on distributed and dynamic graphs. Given a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-19 Xun Jian , Xiang Lian , Lei Chen

A modularity-specialized label propagation algorithm (LPAm) for detecting network communities was recently proposed. This promising algorithm offers some desirable qualities. However, LPAm favors community divisions where all communities…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-03-22 Xin Liu , Tsuyoshi Murata

Overlap is one of the characteristics of social networks, in which a person may belong to more than one social group. For this reason, discovering overlapping structures is necessary for realistic social analysis. In this paper, we present…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-05-15 Jierui Xie , Boleslaw K. Szymanski , Xiaoming Liu

Semi-supervised learning and weakly supervised learning are important paradigms that aim to reduce the growing demand for labeled data in current machine learning applications. In this paper, we introduce a novel analysis of the classical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Rattana Pukdee , Dylan Sam , Maria-Florina Balcan , Pradeep Ravikumar

We propose an algorithm for finding overlapping community structure in very large networks. The algorithm is based on the label propagation technique of Raghavan, Albert, and Kumara, but is able to detect communities that overlap. Like the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-10-15 Steve Gregory

Community detection is a key aspect of network analysis, as it allows for the identification of groups and patterns within a network. With the ever-increasing size of networks, it is crucial to have fast algorithms to analyze them…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Subhajit Sahu

The investigation of network structure has important significance to understand the functions of various complex networks. The communities with hierarchical and overlapping structures and the special nodes like hubs and outliers are all…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Tao Wu , Yuxiao Guo , LeiTing Chen , YanBing Liu

Algorithms for detecting communities in complex networks are generally unsupervised, relying solely on the structure of the network. However, these methods can often fail to uncover meaningful groupings that reflect the underlying…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Elham Alghamdi , Derek Greene

We propose a similarity-based method, using the similarity between nodes, to address the problem of classification in partially labeled networks. The basic assumption is that two nodes are more likely to be categorized into the same class…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2010-10-05 Qian-Ming Zhang , Ming-Sheng Shang , Linyuan Lu

In this paper we present results from a method of community detection using label propagation in undirected, unweighted graphs which incorporates elements of neural computing and spike-based data. Using a fully connected, edge-weighted…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-10-24 Kathleen E. Hamilton , Travis S. Humble

In complex networks, especially social networks, networks could be divided into disjoint partitions that the ratio between the number of internal edges (the edges between the vertices within same partition) to the number of outer edges…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Hamid Shahrivari Joghan , Alireza Bagheri , Meysam Azad

Motivated by social network analysis and network-based recommendation systems, we study a semi-supervised community detection problem in which the objective is to estimate the community label of a new node using the network topology and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Yicong Jiang , Tracy Ke