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Community discovery in the social network is one of the tremendously expanding areas which earn interest among researchers for the past one decade. There are many already existing algorithms. However, new seed-based algorithms establish an…

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Finding dense subgraphs is a core problem with numerous graph mining applications such as community detection in social networks and anomaly detection. However, in many real-world networks connections are not equal. One way to label edges…

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We study community detection in multiple networks with jointly correlated node attributes and edges. This setting arises naturally in applications such as social platforms, where a shared set of users may exhibit both correlated friendship…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Joonhyuk Yang , Hye Won Chung

Community detection is one of the most investigated problems in the field of complex networks. Although several methods were proposed, there is still no precise definition of communities. As a step towards a definition, I highlight two…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-27 Gergely Tibély

The problem of finding dense components of a graph is a widely explored area in data analysis, with diverse applications in fields and branches of study including community mining, spam detection, computer security and bioinformatics. This…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-02 B. D. M. De Zoysa , Y. A. M. M. A. Ali , M. D. I. Maduranga , Indika Perera , Saliya Ekanayake , Anil Vullikanti

Community detection in graphs is crucial for understanding the organization of nodes into densely connected clusters. While numerous strategies have been developed to identify these clusters, the success of community detection can lead to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Junyuan Fang , Huimin Liu , Yueqi Peng , Jiajing Wu , Zibin Zheng , Chi K. Tse

Finding the densest subgraph (DS) from a graph is a fundamental problem in graph databases. The DS obtained, which reveals closely related entities, has been found to be useful in various application domains such as e-commerce, social…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Yi Yang , Chenhao Ma , Reynold Cheng , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan , Xiaolin Han

Finding densely connected subsets of vertices in an unsupervised setting, called clustering or community detection, is one of the fundamental problems in network science. The edge clustering approach instead detects communities by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Ryan DeWolfe , François Théberge

Community detection, a vital technology for real-world applications, uncovers cohesive node groups (communities) by leveraging both topological and attribute similarities in social networks. However, existing Graph Convolutional Networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Anjali de Silva , Gang Chen , Hui Ma , Seyed Mohammad Nekooei , Xingquan Zuo

Community detection plays a central role in uncovering meso scale structures in networks. However, existing methods often suffer from disconnected or weakly connected clusters, undermining interpretability and robustness. Well-Connected…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Mohammad Dindoost , Oliver Alvarado Rodriguez , Bartosz Bryg , Minhyuk Park , George Chacko , Tandy Warnow , David A. Bader

Community detection in large social networks is affected by degree heterogeneity of nodes. The D-SCORE algorithm for directed networks was introduced to reduce this effect by taking the element-wise ratios of the singular vectors of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-01 Zhe Wang , Yingbin Liang , Pengsheng Ji

Dense sub-graphs of sparse graphs (communities), which appear in most real-world complex networks, play an important role in many contexts. Most existing community detection algorithms produce a hierarchical structure of community and seek…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Pascal Pons , Matthieu Latapy

Current flow closeness centrality (CFCC) has a better discriminating ability than the ordinary closeness centrality based on shortest paths. In this paper, we extend this notion to a group of vertices in a weighted graph, and then study the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Huan Li , Richard Peng , Liren Shan , Yuhao Yi , Zhongzhi Zhang

Community structure is one of the most important features of real networks and reveals the internal organization of the nodes. Many algorithms have been proposed but the crucial issue of testing, i.e. the question of how good an algorithm…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-10-30 Andrea Lancichinetti , Santo Fortunato , Filippo Radicchi

Community detection is the process of assigning nodes and links in significant communities (e.g. clusters, function modules) and its development has led to a better understanding of complex networks. When applied to sizable networks, we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-10-15 Jean-Gabriel Young , Antoine Allard , Laurent Hébert-Dufresne , Louis J. Dubé

We propose a new local community detection algorithm that finds communities by identifying borderlines between them using boundary nodes. Our method performs label propagation for community detection, where nodes decide their labels based…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-10-17 Mursel Tasgin , Haluk O. Bingol

Algorithms for community detection are usually stochastic, leading to different partitions for different choices of random seeds. Consensus clustering has proven to be an effective technique to derive more stable and accurate partitions…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-04-23 Aditya Tandon , Aiiad Albeshri , Vijey Thayananthan , Wadee Alhalabi , Santo Fortunato

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

Generating realistic synthetic citation, patent, or component dependency networks is essential for benchmarking community detection, graph visualisation, and network data mining algorithms. We present the first systematic comparison of…

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