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Community structure is of paramount importance for the understanding of complex networks. Consequently, there is a tremendous effort in order to develop efficient community detection algorithms. Unfortunately, the issue of a fair assessment…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Jebabli Malek , Cherifi Hocine , Cherifi Chantal , Hamouda Atef

A flow approach to community detection in complex network and multilayer network systems is proposed. Two methods have been developed to search for communities in a network system (NS). The first of them is based on the calculation of flow…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-09-21 Olexandr Polishchuk

Massive network datasets are becoming increasingly common in scientific applications. Existing community detection methods encounter significant computational challenges for such massive networks due to two reasons. First, the full network…

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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

Graph clustering is an unsupervised machine learning method that partitions the nodes in a graph into different groups. Despite achieving significant progress in exploiting both attributed and structured data information, graph clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Rui Zhang , Xiaoyang Hou , Zhihua Tian , Yan he , Enchao Gong , Jian Liu , Qingbiao Wu , Kui Ren

Community detection is a fundamental problem in network analysis, with applications in many diverse areas. The stochastic block model is a common tool for model-based community detection, and asymptotic tools for checking consistency of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-18 Yunpeng Zhao , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

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…

Community detection refers to the task of discovering groups of vertices sharing similar properties or functions so as to understand the network data. With the recent development of deep learning, graph representation learning techniques…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Yuting Jia , Qinqin Zhang , Weinan Zhang , Xinbing Wang

Community detection methods can be used to explore the structure of complex systems. The well-known modular configurations in complex financial systems indicate the existence of community structures. Here we analyze the community properties…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2021-12-28 Longfeng Zhao , Chao Wang , Gang-Jin Wang , H. Eugene Stanley , Lin Chen

Community detection is a fundamental unsupervised learning problem for unlabeled networks which has a broad range of applications. Many community detection algorithms assume that the number of clusters $r$ is known apriori. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-20 Bowei Yan , Purnamrita Sarkar , Xiuyuan Cheng

Community detection aims to reveal the community structure in a social network, which is one of the fundamental problems. In this paper we investigate the community detection problem based on the concept of terminal set. A terminal set is a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-07-05 G. Tong , L. Cui , W. Wu , C. Liu , D-Z. Du

Complex networks represent interactions between entities. They appear in various contexts such as sociology, biology, etc., and they generally contain highly connected subgroups called communities. Community detection is a well-studied…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-06-11 Romain Campigotto , Patricia Conde Céspedes , Jean-Loup Guillaume

Community detection has become a fundamental operation in numerous graph-theoretic applications. It is used to reveal natural divisions that exist within real world networks without imposing prior size or cardinality constraints on the set…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-10-08 Hao Lu , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Ananth Kalyanaraman

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

This paper addresses the ambitious goal of merging two different approaches to group detection in complex domains: one based on fuzzy clustering and the other on community detection theory. To achieve this, two clustering algorithms are…

Community detection is a fundamental problem in computational sciences with extensive applications in various fields. The most commonly used methods are the algorithms designed to maximize modularity over different partitions of the network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Samin Aref , Mahdi Mostajabdaveh , Hriday Chheda

We consider the community detection problem in sparse random hypergraphs. Angelini et al. (2015) conjectured the existence of a sharp threshold on model parameters for community detection in sparse hypergraphs generated by a hypergraph…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-08-05 Soumik Pal , Yizhe Zhu

We present a graph-theoretical approach to data clustering, which combines the creation of a graph from the data with Markov Stability, a multiscale community detection framework. We show how the multiscale capabilities of the method allow…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Zijing Liu , Mauricio Barahona

Community detection in graphs is the problem of finding groups of vertices which are more densely connected than they are to the rest of the graph. This problem has a long history, but it is undergoing a resurgence of interest due to the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Cristopher Moore

The paper investigates the problem of finding communities in complex network systems, the detection of which allows a better understanding of the laws of their functioning. To solve this problem, two approaches are proposed based on the use…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-02-23 Olexandr Polishchuk