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Community detection has become a fundamental operation in numerous graph-theoretic applications. It is used to reveal natural divisions that exist within real world networks without imposing prior size or cardinality constraints on the set…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-10-08 Hao Lu , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Ananth Kalyanaraman

We present NECTAR, a community detection algorithm that generalizes Louvain method's local search heuristic for overlapping community structures. NECTAR chooses dynamically which objective function to optimize based on the network on which…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-07-07 Yehonatan Cohen , Danny Hendler , Amir Rubin

Community detection in graphs aims to cluster nodes into meaningful groups, a task particularly challenging in heterophilic graphs, where nodes sharing similarities and membership to the same community are typically distantly connected.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-21 William Leeney , Alessio Gravina , Davide Bacciu

The Louvain method was proposed 15 years ago as a heuristic method for the fast detection of communities in large networks. During this period, it has emerged as one of the most popular methods for community detection, the task of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-11-13 Vincent Blondel , Jean-Loup Guillaume , Renaud Lambiotte

Heterogeneous networks are networks consisting of different types of nodes and multiple types of edges linking such nodes. While community detection has been extensively developed as a useful technique for analyzing networks that contain…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Jingfei Zhang , Yuguo Chen

This paper introduces a refined graph encoder embedding method, enhancing the original graph encoder embedding through linear transformation, self-training, and hidden community recovery within observed communities. We provide the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Cencheng Shen , Jonathan Larson , Ha Trinh , Carey E. Priebe

Graph autoencoders (GAE) and variational graph autoencoders (VGAE) emerged as powerful methods for link prediction. Their performances are less impressive on community detection problems where, according to recent and concurring…

Community detection is a critical challenge in analysing real graphs, including social, transportation, citation, cybersecurity, and many other networks. This article proposes three new, general, hierarchical frameworks to deal with this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Łukasz Brzozowski , Grzegorz Siudem , Marek Gagolewski

The representation of data and its relationships using networks is prevalent in many research fields such as computational biology, medical informatics and social networks. Recently, complex networks models have been introduced to better…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Pietro Hiram Guzzi , Giuseppe Tradigo , Pierangelo Veltri

Neural node embeddings have recently emerged as a powerful representation for supervised learning tasks involving graph-structured data. We leverage this recent advance to develop a novel algorithm for unsupervised community discovery in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Weicong Ding , Christy Lin , Prakash Ishwar

Integral curves have been widely used to represent and analyze various vector fields. In this paper, we propose a Curve Segment Neighborhood Graph (CSNG) to capture the relationships between neighboring curve segments. This graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Nguyen Phan , Guoning Chen

Spatial networks are useful for modeling geographic phenomena where spatial interaction plays an important role. To analyze the spatial networks and their internal structures, graph-based methods such as community detection have been widely…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Yunlei Liang , Jiawei Zhu , Wen Ye , Song Gao

The optimal strategy for community detection in complex networks is not universal, but depends critically on the network's underlying structural properties. Although popular graph-theoretic methods, such as Louvain, optimize for modularity,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Jelena Losic

Community detection, aiming to group the graph nodes into clusters with dense inner-connection, is a fundamental graph mining task. Recently, it has been studied on the heterogeneous graph, which contains multiple types of nodes and edges,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Linhao Luo , Yixiang Fang , Xin Cao , Xiaofeng Zhang , Wenjie Zhang

In the area of large-scale training of graph embeddings, effective training frameworks and partitioning methods are critical for handling large networks. However, they face two major challenges: 1) existing synchronized distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Yuhe Bai , Camelia Constantin , Hubert Naacke

The rise of graph data in various fields calls for efficient and scalable community detection algorithms. In this paper, we present parallel implementations of two widely used algorithms: Label Propagation and Louvain, specifically designed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Fuhuan Li , Zhihui Du , David A. Bader

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have improved unsupervised community detection of clustered nodes due to their ability to encode the dual dimensionality of the connectivity and feature information spaces of graphs. Identifying the latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-28 William Leeney , Ryan McConville

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

Recently, graph neural networks (GNNs) have proved to be suitable in tasks on unstructured data. Particularly in tasks as community detection, node classification, and link prediction. However, most GNN models still operate with static…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Darwin Saire Pilco , Adín Ramírez Rivera

Community detection finds homogeneous groups of nodes in a graph. Existing approaches either partition the graph into disjoint, non-overlapping, communities, or determine only overlapping communities. To date, no method supports both…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Atefeh Moradan , Andrew Draganov , Davide Mottin , Ira Assent