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In network research, Community Detection has always been a topic of significant interest in network science, with numerous papers and algorithms proposing to uncover the underlying structures within networks. In this paper, we conduct a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Yash Malode , Amit Aylani , Arvind Bhardwaj , Deepak Hajoary

This paper considers the problem of algorithm selection for community detection. The aim of community detection is to identify sets of nodes in a network which are more interconnected relative to their connectivity to the rest of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2010-10-27 Leto Peel

In this paper, we consider the problem of inferring the sign of a link based on limited sign data in signed networks. Regarding this link sign prediction problem, SDGNN (Signed Directed Graph Neural Networks) provides the best prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Zhihong Fang , Shaolin Tan , Yaonan Wang

Many algorithms have been proposed for detecting disjoint communities (relatively densely connected subgraphs) in networks. One popular technique is to optimize modularity, a measure of the quality of a partition in terms of the number of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-02-03 Bowen Yan , Steve Gregory

Modularity based community detection encompasses a number of widely used, efficient heuristics for identification of structure in networks. Recently, a belief propagation approach to modularity optimization provided a useful guide for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-22 William H. Weir , Benjamin Walker , Lenka Zdeborová , Peter J. Mucha

With invaluable theoretical and practical benefits, the problem of partitioning networks for community structures has attracted significant research attention in scientific and engineering disciplines. In literature, Newman's modularity…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Wenye Li

We present NECTAR, a community detection algorithm that generalizes Louvain method's local search heuristic for overlapping community structures. NECTAR chooses dynamically which objective function to optimize based on the network on which…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-07-07 Yehonatan Cohen , Danny Hendler , Amir Rubin

Community detection, or clustering, identifies groups of nodes in a graph that are more densely connected to each other than to the rest of the network. Given the size and dynamic nature of real-world graphs, efficient community detection…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Subhajit Sahu

Many methods have been proposed to detect communities, not only in plain, but also in attributed, directed or even dynamic complex networks. In its simplest form, a community structure takes the form of a partition of the node set. From the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-10-22 Günce Keziban Orman , Vincent Labatut , Marc Plantevit , Jean-François Boulicaut

The optimal strategy for community detection in complex networks is not universal, but depends critically on the network's underlying structural properties. Although popular graph-theoretic methods, such as Louvain, optimize for modularity,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Jelena Losic

We address the problem of classifying the links of signed social networks given their full structural topology. Motivated by a binary user behaviour assumption, which is supported by decades of research in psychology, we develop an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Géraud Le Falher , Fabio Vitale

Many complex networks display a mesoscopic structure with groups of nodes sharing many links with the other nodes in their group and comparatively few with nodes of different groups. This feature is known as community structure and encodes…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-07-31 Andrea Lancichinetti , Santo Fortunato

We review and improve a recently introduced method for the detection of communities in complex networks. This method combines spectral properties of some matrices encoding the network topology, with well known hierarchical clustering…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Donetti , M. A. Munoz

Signed networks are graphs whose edges are labelled with either a positive or a negative sign, and can be used to capture nuances in interactions that are missed by their unsigned counterparts. The concept of balance in signed graph theory…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Bruno Ordozgoiti , Antonis Matakos , Aristides Gionis

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

Detecting communities in complex networks can shed light on the essential characteristics and functions of the modeled phenomena. This topic has attracted researchers of various fields from both academia and industry. Among the different…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Sajjad Hesamipour , Mohammad Ali Balafar , Saeed Mousazadeh

We investigate the recently proposed label-propagation algorithm (LPA) for identifying network communities. We reformulate the LPA as an equivalent optimization problem, giving an objective function whose maxima correspond to community…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-08-31 Michael J. Barber , John W. Clark

Signed networks, characterized by edges labeled as either positive or negative, offer nuanced insights into interaction dynamics beyond the capabilities of unsigned graphs. Central to this is the task of identifying the maximum balanced…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Jingbang Chen , Qiuyang Mang , Hangrui Zhou , Richard Peng , Yu Gao , Chenhao Ma

Temporal Networks, and more specifically, Markovian Temporal Networks, present a unique challenge regarding the community discovery task. The inherent dynamism of these systems requires an intricate understanding of memory effects and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-20 Giulio Virginio Clemente , Diego Garlaschelli

Characterizing the community structure of complex networks is a key challenge in many scientific fields. Very diverse algorithms and methods have been proposed to this end, many working reasonably well in specific situations. However, no…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-01-01 Rodrigo Aldecoa , Ignacio Marín