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The conventional notion of community that favors a high ratio of internal edges to outbound edges becomes invalid when each vertex participates in multiple communities. Such a behavior is commonplace in social networks. The significant…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Elvis H. W. Xu , Pak Ming Hui

With the rise of big data, networks have pervaded many aspects of our daily lives, with applications ranging from the social to natural sciences. Understanding the latent structure of the network is thus an important question. In this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Stephen Jiang , Jianqing Fan

We investigate the widely encountered problem of detecting communities in multiplex networks, such as social networks, with an unknown arbitrary heterogeneous structure. To improve detectability, we propose a generative model that leverages…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Yuming Huang , Ashkan Panahi , Hamid Krim , Liyi Dai

Community detection in networks is the process of identifying unusually well-connected sub-networks and is a central component of many applied network analyses. The paradigm of modularity optimization stipulates a partition of the network's…

Applications · Statistics 2017-08-16 Weston D. Viles , A. James O'Malley

Networks are a general language for representing relational information among objects. An effective way to model, reason about, and summarize networks, is to discover sets of nodes with common connectivity patterns. Such sets are commonly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-01-30 Jaewon Yang , Julian McAuley , Jure Leskovec

In this paper, we present a new method for detecting overlapping communities in networks with a predefined number of clusters called LPAM (Link Partitioning Around Medoids). The overlapping communities in the graph are obtained by detecting…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Alexander Ponomarenko , Leonidas Pitsoulis , Marat Shamshetdinov

Modularity is widely used to effectively measure the strength of the disjoint community structure found by community detection algorithms. Although several overlapping extensions of modularity were proposed to measure the quality of…

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

Community detection is the task of clustering objects based on their pairwise relationships. Most of the model-based community detection methods, such as the stochastic block model and its variants, are designed for networks with binary…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-06 Xiang Li , Yunpeng Zhao , Qing Pan , Ning Hao

Real-world networks usually have community structure, that is, nodes are grouped into densely connected communities. Community detection is one of the most popular and best-studied research topics in network science and has attracted…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Yunpeng Zhao

Community detection is the task of detecting hidden communities from observed interactions. Guaranteed community detection has so far been mostly limited to models with non-overlapping communities such as the stochastic block model. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-10-28 Anima Anandkumar , Rong Ge , Daniel Hsu , Sham M. Kakade

Complex networks are intrinsically modular. Resolving small modules is particularly difficult when the network is densely connected; wide variation of link weights invites additional complexities. In this article we present an algorithm to…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2014-01-16 Mahashweta Basu

Community detection is an important research topic in complex networks. We present the employment of a genetic algorithm to detect communities in complex networks which is based on optimizing network modularity. It does not need any prior…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-11-06 Mursel Tasgin , Amac Herdagdelen , Haluk Bingol

Network data is prevalent in numerous big data applications including economics and health networks where it is of prime importance to understand the latent structure of network. In this paper, we model the network using the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Sohom Bhattacharya , Jianqing Fan , Jikai Hou

Research into detection of dense communities has recently attracted increasing attention within network science, various metrics for detection of such communities have been proposed. The most popular metric -- Modularity -- is based on the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-30 Ke-ke Shang , Michael Small , Yan Wang , Di Yin , Shu Li

This paper presents a novel spectral algorithm with additive clustering designed to identify overlapping communities in networks. The algorithm is based on geometric properties of the spectrum of the expected adjacency matrix in a random…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-07 Emilie Kaufmann , Thomas Bonald , Marc Lelarge

A common data mining task on networks is community detection, which seeks an unsupervised decomposition of a network into structural groups based on statistical regularities in the network's connectivity. Although many methods exist, the No…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-10 Amir Ghasemian , Homa Hosseinmardi , Aaron Clauset

We study how to detect groups in a complex network each of which consists of component nodes sharing a similar connection pattern. Based on the mixture models and the exploratory analysis set up by Newman and Leicht (Newman and Leicht 2007…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-12-17 J. Wang , C. -H. Lai

Community detection is a central problem of network data analysis. Given a network, the goal of community detection is to partition the network nodes into a small number of clusters, which could often help reveal interesting structures. The…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-26 Chao Gao , Zongming Ma , Anderson Y. Zhang , Harrison H. Zhou

Community detection, which identifies densely connected node clusters with sparse between-group links, is vital for analyzing network structure and function in real-world systems. Most existing community detection methods based on GCNs…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Gaofeng Zhou , Rui-Feng Wang , Kangning Cui

Several recent studies of complex networks have suggested algorithms for locating network communities, also called modules or clusters, which are mostly defined as groups of nodes with dense internal connections. Along with the rapid…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-09-04 Peter Pollner , Gergely Palla , Daniel Abel , Andras Vicsek , Illes J. Farkas , Imre Derenyi , Tamas Vicsek