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The problem of node-centric, or local, community detection in information networks refers to the identification of a community for a given input node, having limited information about the network topology. Existing methods for solving this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Roberto Interdonato , Andrea Tagarelli , Dino Ienco , Arnaud Sallaberry , Pascal Poncelet

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

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…

In social networks, the discovery of community structures has received considerable attention as a fundamental problem in various network analysis tasks. However, due to privacy concerns or access restrictions, the network structure is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Yu Hou , Cong Tran , Ming Li , Won-Yong Shin

The different approaches developed to analyze the structure of complex networks have generated a large number of studies. In the field of social networks at least, studies mainly address the detection and analysis of communities. In this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Djellabi Mehdi , Jouve Bertrand , Amblard Frédéric

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

Community structure detection in complex networks is important since it can help better understand the network topology and how the network works. However, there is still not a clear and widely-accepted definition of community structure,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-05-14 Zhong-Yuan Zhang , Kai-Di Sun , Si-Qi Wang

The idea underlying the modal formulation of density-based clustering is to associate groups with the regions around the modes of the probability density function underlying the data. This correspondence between clusters and dense regions…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Giovanna Menardi , Domenico De Stefano

Community detection, which focuses on clustering vertex interactions, plays a significant role in network analysis. However, it also faces numerous challenges like missing data and adversarial attack. How to further improve the performance…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Jiajun Zhou , Zhi Chen , Min Du , Lihong Chen , Shanqing Yu , Guanrong Chen , Qi Xuan

Many times the nodes of a complex network, whether deliberately or not, are aggregated for technical, ethical, legal limitations or privacy reasons. A common example is the geographic position: one may uncover communities in a network of…

This paper addresses the problem of community detection in networked data that combines link and content analysis. Most existing work combines link and content information by a generative model. There are two major shortcomings with the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-05-14 Tianbao Yang , Rong Jin , Yun Chi , Shenghuo Zhu

Community detection is the task of identifying clusters or groups of nodes in a network where nodes within the same group are more connected with each other than with nodes in different groups. It has practical uses in identifying similar…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-01-08 Mursel Tasgin , Haluk O. Bingol

Community structure is one of the key properties of complex networks and plays a crucial role in their topology and function. While an impressive amount of work has been done on the issue of community detection, very little attention has…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-09-17 Andrea Lancichinetti , Mikko Kivela , Jari Saramaki , Santo Fortunato

Communities are a common and widely studied structure in networks, typically under the assumption that the network is fully and correctly observed. In practice, network data are often collected by querying nodes about their connections. In…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-03-22 Tianxi Li , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

Embedding network data into a low-dimensional vector space has shown promising performance for many real-world applications, such as node classification and entity retrieval. However, most existing methods focused only on leveraging network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Lizi Liao , Xiangnan He , Hanwang Zhang , Tat-Seng Chua

Proximity measures on graphs have a variety of applications in network analysis, including community detection. Previously they have been mainly studied in the context of networks without attributes. If node attributes are taken into…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Rinat Aynulin , Pavel Chebotarev

How can we uncover the natural communities in a real network that allows insight into its underlying structure and also potential functions? In this paper, we introduce a new community detection algorithm, called Attractor, which…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Junming Shao , Zhichao Han , Qinli Yang

Community detection is a very active field in complex networks analysis, consisting in identifying groups of nodes more densely interconnected relatively to the rest of the network. The existing algorithms are usually tested and compared on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-08-16 Günce Orman , Vincent Labatut , Hocine Cherifi

Community detection is a crucial task to unravel the intricate dynamics of online social networks. The emergence of these networks has dramatically increased the volume and speed of interactions among users, presenting researchers with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Michele Mazza , Guglielmo Cola , Maurizio Tesconi

Community structure is one of the most important features of complex networks. Modularity-based methods for community detection typically rely on heuristic algorithms to optimize a specific community quality function. Such methods are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-09-02 Kun Gao , Xuezao Ren , Lei Zhou , Junfang Zhu