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A network is a composition of many communities, i.e., sets of nodes and edges with stronger relationships, with distinct and overlapping properties. Community detection is crucial for various reasons, such as serving as a functional unit of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Isa Inuwa-Dutse , Mark Liptrott , Yannis Korkontzelos

A community within a network is a group of vertices densely connected to each other but less connected to the vertices outside. The problem of detecting communities in large networks plays a key role in a wide range of research areas, e.g.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-03-08 Pasquale De Meo , Emilio Ferrara , Giacomo Fiumara , Alessandro Provetti

A fundamental problem in the analysis of network data is the detection of network communities, groups of densely interconnected nodes, which may be overlapping or disjoint. Here we describe a method for finding overlapping communities based…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Brian Ball , Brian Karrer , M. E. J. Newman

Network embedding aims to learn low-dimensional representations of nodes while capturing structure information of networks. It has achieved great success on many tasks of network analysis such as link prediction and node classification.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Hansheng Xue , Luwei Yang , Wen Jiang , Yi Wei , Yi Hu , Yu Lin

In this paper, we propose DyPerm, the first dynamic community detection method which optimizes a novel community scoring metric, called permanence. DyPerm incrementally modifies the community structure by updating those communities where…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Prerna Agarwal , Richa Verma , Ayush Agarwal , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Dynamic community detection concerns inferring how community memberships evolve over time, including the emergence, persistence, merging, and dissolution of groups in temporal networks. We propose a Bayesian nonparametric model for…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-09 Xenia Miscouridou , Francesca Panero , Antreas Laos

Consider a network consisting of two subnetworks (communities) connected by some external edges. Given the network topology, the community detection problem can be cast as a graph partitioning problem that aims to identify the external…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Pin-Yu Chen , Alfred O. Hero

In this paper, we propose a method that extends the persistence-based topological data analysis (TDA) that is typically used for characterizing shapes to general networks. We introduce the concept of the community tree, a tree structure…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Wei Guo , Ruqian Chen , Yen-Chi Chen , Ashis G. Banerjee

Community detection is crucial in data mining. Traditional methods primarily focus on graph structure, often neglecting the significance of attribute features. In contrast, deep learning-based approaches incorporate attribute features and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hong Wang , Yinglong Zhang , Zhangqi Zhao , Zhicong Cai , Xuewen Xia , Xing Xu

The hypergraph community detection problem seeks to identify groups of related nodes in hypergraph data. We propose an information-theoretic hypergraph community detection algorithm which compresses the observed data in terms of community…

The study and comprehension of complex systems are crucial intellectual and scientific challenges of the 21st century. In this scenario, network science has emerged as a mathematical tool to support the study of such systems. Examples…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Alessandra Marli , Didier A Vega-Oliveros , Moshé Cotacallapa , Leonardo N Ferreira , Elbert EN Macau , Marcos G Quiles

A number of real world problems in many domains (e.g. sociology, biology, political science and communication networks) can be modeled as dynamic networks with nodes representing entities of interest and edges representing interactions…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Yu Wang , Aniket Chakrabarti , David Sivakoff , Srinivasan Parthasarathy

Many networks exhibit some community structure. There exists a wide variety of approaches to detect communities in networks, each offering different interpretations and associated algorithms. For large networks, there is the additional…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-02-16 Vincent A. Traag , Lovro Šubelj

With the increasing volume of streaming data in industrial systems, online anomaly detection has become a critical task. The diverse and rapidly evolving data patterns pose significant challenges for online anomaly detection. Many existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Zewei Yu , Jianqiu Xu , Caimin Li

The classical setting of community detection consists of networks exhibiting a clustered structure. To more accurately model real systems we consider a class of networks (i) whose edges may carry labels and (ii) which may lack a clustered…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-06-27 Jiaming Xu , Laurent Massoulié , Marc Lelarge

In signed networks, some existing community detection methods treat negative connections as intercommunity links and positive ones as intracommunity links. However, it is important to recognize that negative links on real-world networks…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-08-17 Peng Zhang , Xianyu Xu , Leyang Xue

Many temporal networks exhibit multiple system states, such as weekday and weekend patterns in social contact networks. The detection of such distinct states in temporal network data has recently been explored as it helps reveal underlying…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Shun Cao , Hiroki Sayama

Community structure describes the organization of a network into subgraphs that contain a prevalence of edges within each subgraph and relatively few edges across boundaries between subgraphs. The development of community-detection methods…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-05-08 Saray Shai , Natalie Stanley , Clara Granell , Dane Taylor , Peter J. Mucha

Graph models help understand network dynamics and evolution. Creating graphs with controlled topology and embedded partitions is a common strategy for evaluating community detection algorithms. However, existing benchmarks often overlook…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Laurent Brisson , Cécile Bothorel , Nicolas Duminy

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