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Community detection is an important task in network analysis. A community (also referred to as a cluster) is a set of cohesive vertices that have more connections inside the set than outside. In many social and information networks, these…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-04-06 Joyce Jiyoung Whang , David F. Gleich , Inderjit S. Dhillon

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

Community structure in networks has been investigated from many viewpoints, usually with the same end result: a community detection algorithm of some kind. Recent research offers methods for combining the results of such algorithms into…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-01-10 James P. Ferry , J. Oren Bumgarner

As communities represent similar opinions, similar functions, similar purposes, etc., community detection is an important and extremely useful tool in both scientific inquiry and data analytics. However, the classic methods of community…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Fanzhen Liu , Shan Xue , Jia Wu , Chuan Zhou , Wenbin Hu , Cecile Paris , Surya Nepal , Jian Yang , Philip S. Yu

Community identification of network components enables us to understand the mesoscale clustering structure of networks. A number of algorithms have been developed to determine the most likely community structures in networks. Such a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-08-20 Heetae Kim , Sang Hoon Lee

Most existing approaches for community detection require complete information of the graph in a specific scale, which is impractical for many social networks. We propose a novel algorithm that does not embrace the universal approach but…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-30 Hui-Jia Li , Junhua Zhang , Zhi-Ping Liu , Luonan Chen , Xiang-Sun Zhang

The clustering ensemble paradigm has emerged as an effective tool for community detection in multilayer networks, which allows for producing consensus solutions that are designed to be more robust to the algorithmic selection and…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Domenico Mandaglio , Alessia Amelio , Andrea Tagarelli

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

In social networks, the discovery of community structures has received considerable attention as a fundamental problem in various network analysis tasks. However, due to privacy concerns or access restrictions, the network structure is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Yu Hou , Cong Tran , Ming Li , Won-Yong Shin

Community detection, the decomposition of a graph into essential building blocks, has been a core research topic in network science over the past years. Since a precise notion of what constitutes a community has remained evasive, community…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-17 Michael T. Schaub , Jean-Charles Delvenne , Martin Rosvall , Renaud Lambiotte

Based on signaling process on complex networks, a method for identification community structure is proposed. For a network with $n$ nodes, every node is assumed to be a system which can send, receive, and record signals. Each node is taken…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-05-29 Yanqing Hu , Menghui Li , Peng Zhang , Ying Fan , Zengru Di

Community detection is a core tool for analyzing large realworld graphs. It is often used to derive additional local features of vertices and edges that will be used to perform a downstream task, yet the impact of community detection on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Shrabani Ghosh , Erik Saule

Discovering community structure in complex networks is a mature field since a tremendous number of community detection methods have been introduced in the literature. Nevertheless, it is still very challenging for practioners to determine…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Vinh-Loc Dao , Cécile Bothorel , Philippe Lenca

Recent years have seen a surge of interest in the analysis of complex networks, facilitated by the availability of relational data and the increasingly powerful computational resources that can be employed for their analysis. Naturally, the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-08-08 Jean-Charles Delvenne , Michael T. Schaub , Sophia N. Yaliraki , Mauricio Barahona

Network representations have been effectively employed to analyze complex systems across various areas and applications, leading to the development of network science as a core tool to study systems with multiple components and complex…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-25 ItaloIvo Lima Dias Pinto , Javier Omar Garcia , Kanika Bansal

Community detection refers to the problem of clustering the nodes of a network (either graph or hypergrah) into groups. Various algorithms are available for community detection and all these methods apply to uncensored networks. In…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-08 Mingao Yuan , Bin Zhao , Xiaofeng Zhao

Many community detection algorithms are inherently stochastic, leading to variations in their output depending on input parameters and random seeds. This variability makes the results of a single run of these algorithms less reliable.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yasamin Tabatabaee , Eleanor Wedell , Minhyuk Park , Tandy Warnow

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

Community detection and link prediction are both of great significance in network analysis, which provide very valuable insights into topological structures of the network from different perspectives. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Hui-Min Cheng , Yi-Zi Ning , Zhao Yin , Chao Yan , Xin Liu , Zhong-Yuan Zhang

Detecting communities in large-scale networks is a challenging task when each vertex may belong to multiple communities, as is often the case in social networks. The multiple memberships of vertices and thus the strong overlaps among…

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