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Clusters or communities can provide a coarse-grained description of complex systems at multiple scales, but their detection remains challenging in practice. Community detection methods often define communities as dense subgraphs, or…

A common data mining task on networks is community detection, which seeks an unsupervised decomposition of a network into structural groups based on statistical regularities in the network's connectivity. Although many methods exist, the No…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-10 Amir Ghasemian , Homa Hosseinmardi , Aaron Clauset

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

This paper is an extensive survey of literature on complex network communities and clustering. Complex networks describe a widespread variety of systems in nature and society especially systems composed by a large number of highly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Biswajit Saha , Amitabha Mandal , Soumendu Bikas Tripathy , Debaprasad Mukherjee

Detecting community structures in social networks has gained considerable attention in recent years. However, lack of prior knowledge about the number of communities, and their overlapping nature have made community detection a challenging…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Mahsa Ghorbani , Hamid R. Rabiee , Ali Khodadadi

Algorithms for detecting communities in complex networks are generally unsupervised, relying solely on the structure of the network. However, these methods can often fail to uncover meaningful groupings that reflect the underlying…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Elham Alghamdi , Derek Greene

Real-world networks usually have community structure, that is, nodes are grouped into densely connected communities. Community detection is one of the most popular and best-studied research topics in network science and has attracted…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Yunpeng Zhao

Automatic detection of relevant groups of nodes in large real-world graphs, i.e. community detection, has applications in many fields and has received a lot of attention in the last twenty years. The most popular method designed to find…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Alexis Baudin , Maximilien Danisch , Sergey Kirgizov , Clémence Magnien , Marwan Ghanem

We show here that the problem of maximizing a family of quantitative functions, encompassing both the modularity (Q-measure) and modularity density (D-measure), for community detection can be uniformly understood as a combinatoric…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-27 Jonathan Q. Jiang , Lisa J. McQuay

Many real networks that are inferred or collected from data are incomplete due to missing edges. Missing edges can be inherent to the dataset (Facebook friend links will never be complete) or the result of sampling (one may only have access…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Matthew Burgess , Eytan Adar , Michael Cafarella

A precise definition of what constitutes a community in networks has remained elusive. Consequently, network scientists have compared community detection algorithms on benchmark networks with a particular form of community structure and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Martin Rosvall , Jean-Charles Delvenne , Michael T. Schaub , Renaud Lambiotte

Revealing a community structure in a network or dataset is a central problem arising in many scientific areas. The modularity function $Q$ is an established measure quantifying the quality of a community, being identified as a set of nodes…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Francesco Tudisco , Pedro Mercado , Matthias Hein

Network communities represent mesoscopic structure for understanding the organization of real-world networks, where nodes often belong to multiple communities and form overlapping community structure in the network. Due to non-triviality in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-11 Tanmoy Chakraborty

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

Community detection has long been an important yet challenging task to analyze complex networks with a focus on detecting topological structures of graph data. Essentially, real-world graph data contains various features, node and edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Yaping Zheng , Shiyi Chen , Xinni Zhang , Xiaofeng Zhang , Xiaofei Yang , Di Wang

In real-world scenarios, large graphs represent relationships among entities in complex systems. Mining these large graphs often containing millions of nodes and edges helps uncover structural patterns and meaningful insights. Dividing a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Shrabani Ghosh , Erik Saule

Modularity is widely used to effectively measure the strength of the disjoint community structure found by community detection algorithms. Several overlapping extensions of modularity were proposed to measure the quality of overlapping…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Mingming Chen , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

Community detection in networks is one of the most popular topics of modern network science. Communities, or clusters, are usually groups of vertices having higher probability of being connected to each other than to members of other…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-11-04 Santo Fortunato , Darko Hric

Background: Network communities help the functional organization and evolution of complex networks. However, the development of a method, which is both fast and accurate, provides modular overlaps and partitions of a heterogeneous network,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-09-06 Istvan A. Kovacs , Robin Palotai , Mate S. Szalay , Peter Csermely

Community detection in online social networks has been a hot research topic in recent years. Meanwhile, to enjoy more social network services, users nowadays are usually involved in multiple online social networks simultaneously, some of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Jiawei Zhang , Philip S. Yu