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Community detection algorithms attempt to find the best clusters of nodes in an arbitrary complex network. Multi-scale ("multiresolution") community detection extends the problem to identify the best network scale(s) for these clusters. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-11 Peter Ronhovde , Zohar Nussinov

Communities in directed networks have often been characterized as regions with a high density of links, or as sets of nodes with certain patterns of connection. Our approach for community detection combines the optimization of a quality…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-02-10 Michaël Fanuel , Carlos M. Alaíz , Johan A. K. Suykens

Modularity maximization is one of the state-of-the-art methods for community detection that has gained popularity in the last decade. Yet it suffers from the resolution limit problem by preferring under certain conditions large communities…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Xiaoyan Lu , Konstantin Kuzmin , Mingming Chen , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

Community detection is the task of discovering groups of nodes sharing similar patterns within a network. With recent advancements in deep learning, methods utilizing graph representation learning and deep clustering have shown great…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-14 E. Dmitriev , M. W. Chekol , S. Wang

Community detection for unweighted networks has been widely studied in network analysis, but the case of weighted networks remains a challenge. This paper proposes a general Distribution-Free Model (DFM) for weighted networks in which nodes…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Huan Qing

We demonstrate an exact equivalence between two widely used methods of community detection in networks, the method of modularity maximization in its generalized form which incorporates a resolution parameter controlling the size of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-24 M. E. J. Newman

We consider the problem of community detection in overlapping weighted networks, where nodes can belong to multiple communities and edge weights can be finite real numbers. To model such complex networks, we propose a general framework -…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Huan Qing , Jingli Wang

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

Detecting communities in networks is important in various domains of applications. While a variety of methods exists to perform this task, recent efforts propose Optimal Transport (OT) principles combined with the geometric notion of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-12-01 Daniela Leite , Diego Baptista , Abdullahi Ibrahim , Enrico Facca , Caterina De Bacco

Networks are a widely-used tool to investigate the large-scale connectivity structure in complex systems and graphons have been proposed as an infinite size limit of dense networks. The detection of communities or other meso-scale…

Computation · Statistics 2021-01-05 Florian Klimm , Nick S. Jones , Michael T. Schaub

There has been a surge of interest in community detection in homogeneous single-relational networks which contain only one type of nodes and edges. However, many real-world systems are naturally described as heterogeneous multi-relational…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-07-21 Xin Liu , Weichu Liu , Tsuyoshi Murata , Ken Wakita

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 with node covariates offer two advantages to community detection methods, namely, (i) exploit covariates to improve the quality of communities, and more importantly, (ii) explain the discovered communities by identifying the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Shubham Gupta , Gururaj K. , Ambedkar Dukkipati , Rui M. Castro

Networks (or graphs) are used to model the dyadic relations between entities in a complex system. In cases where there exists multiple relations between the entities, the complex system can be represented as a multilayer network, where the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Abhishek Santra , Sanjukta Bhowmick , Sharma Chakravarthy

In this paper, we consider the community detection problem under either the stochastic block model (SBM) assumption or the degree-correlated stochastic block model (DCSBM) assumption. The modularity maximization formulation for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-04 Junyu Zhang , Haoyang Liu , Zaiwen Wen , Shuzhong Zhang

Unknown node attributes in complex networks may introduce community structures that are important to distinguish from those driven by known attributes. We propose a block-corrected modularity that discounts given block structures present in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-04 Hasti Narimanzadeh , Takayuki Hiraoka , Mikko Kivelä

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

Identifying overlapping communities in networks is a challenging task. In this work we present a novel approach to community detection that utilises the Bayesian non-negative matrix factorisation (NMF) model to produce a probabilistic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-09-28 Ioannis Psorakis , Stephen Roberts , Ben Sheldon

The discrete nature of transmitted symbols poses challenges for achieving optimal detection in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems associated with a large number of antennas. Recently, the combination of two powerful machine…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Xingyu Zhou , Le Liang , Jing Zhang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin

Community detection remains an important problem in data mining, owing to the lack of scalable algorithms that exploit all aspects of available data - namely the directionality of flow of information and the dynamics thereof. Most existing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Rajagopal Venkatesaramani , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik