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Community detection in a complex network is an important problem of much interest in recent years. In general, a community detection algorithm chooses an objective function and captures the communities of the network by optimizing the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-08-27 Suman Saha , Satya P. Ghrera

Many networks exhibit some community structure. There exists a wide variety of approaches to detect communities in networks, each offering different interpretations and associated algorithms. For large networks, there is the additional…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-02-16 Vincent A. Traag , Lovro Šubelj

The task of \emph{community detection} in a graph formalizes the intuitive task of grouping together subsets of vertices such that vertices within clusters are connected tighter than those in disparate clusters. This paper approaches…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-10-12 Ramezan Paravi Torghabeh , Narayana Prasad Santhanam

Community detection is the problem of identifying densely connected clusters within a network. While the Louvain algorithm is commonly used for this task, it can produce internally-disconnected communities. To address this, the Leiden…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Subhajit Sahu

The label propagation algorithm (LPA) has been proved to be a fast and effective method for detecting communities in large complex networks. However, its performance is subject to the non-stable and trivial solutions of the problem. In this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-15 Jihui Han , Wei Li , Zhu Su , Longfeng Zhao , Weibing Deng

We study the problem of community detection (CD) on Euclidean random geometric graphs where each vertex has two latent variables: a binary community label and a $\mathbb{R}^d$ valued location label which forms the support of a Poisson point…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-20 Emmanuel Abbe , Francois Baccelli , Abishek Sankararaman

Community detection is a fundamental and important problem in network science, as community structures often reveal both topological and functional relationships between different components of the complex system. In this paper, we first…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-11-18 Wenyi Fang , Xin Wang , Longzhao Liu , Zhaole Wu , Shaoting Tang , Zhiming Zheng

Community detection in network analysis aims at partitioning nodes in a network into $K$ disjoint communities. Most currently available algorithms assume that $K$ is known, but choosing a correct $K$ is generally very difficult for real…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-07-03 Chong Chen , Ruibin Xi , Nan Lin

Community detection involves identifying natural divisions in networks, a crucial task for many large-scale applications. This report presents GVE-Louvain, one of the most efficient multicore implementations of the Louvain algorithm, a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Subhajit Sahu

We investigate the possibility of global optimization-based overlapping community detection, using link community framework. We first show that partition density, the original quality function used in link community detection method, is not…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-10-11 Juyong Lee , Zhong-Yuan Zhang , Jooyoung Lee , Bernard R. Brooks , Yong-Yeol Ahn

In this paper, we introduce a novel community detection algorithm in graphs, called SCoDA (Streaming Community Detection Algorithm), based on an edge streaming setting. This algorithm has an extremely low memory footprint and a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Alexandre Hollocou , Julien Maudet , Thomas Bonald , Marc Lelarge

Given a time-evolving network, how can we detect communities over periods of high internal and low external interactions? To address this question we generalize traditional local community detection in graphs to the setting of dynamic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Daniel J. DiTursi , Gaurav Ghosh , Petko Bogdanov

An efficient and relatively fast algorithm for the detection of communities in complex networks is introduced. The method exploits spectral properties of the graph Laplacian-matrix combined with hierarchical-clustering techniques, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Luca Donetti , Miguel A. Munoz

Community detection is a widely-studied unsupervised learning problem in which the task is to group similar entities together based on observed pairwise entity interactions. This problem has applications in diverse domains such as social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Jimit Majmudar , Stephen Vavasis

Community detection is a foundational capability in large-scale industrial graph analytics, powering applications such as fraud-ring discovery, recommendation systems, and hierarchical indexing for retrieval-augmented generation. Among…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Chunxu Lin , Yumao Xie , Yixiang Fang , Yongmin Hu , Yingqian Hu , Chen Cheng

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances large language models by incorporating external knowledge. However, existing vector-based methods often fail on global sensemaking tasks that require reasoning across many documents. GraphRAG…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Jakir Hossain , Ahmet Erdem Sarıyüce

In this work, we explore four common algorithms for community detection in networks, namely Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering, Divisive Hierarchical Clustering (Girvan-Newman), Fastgreedy and the Louvain Method. We investigate their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Niko Motschnig , Alexander Ramharter , Oliver Schweiger , Philipp Zabka , Klaus-Tycho Foerster

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

Detecting groups of users, who have similar opinions, interests, or social behavior, has become an important task for many applications. A recent study showed that dynamic distance based Attractor, a community detection algorithm,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Nguyen Vo , Kyumin Lee , Thanh Tran

Community detection is the problem of recognizing natural divisions in networks. A relevant challenge in this problem is to find communities on rapidly evolving graphs. In this report we present our Parallel Dynamic Frontier (DF) Louvain…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Subhajit Sahu