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We present a new layout algorithm for complex networks that combines a multi-scale approach for community detection with a standard force-directed design. Since community detection is computationally cheap, we can exploit the multi-scale…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-13 Oliver Dürr , Arnd Brandenburg

The paper investigates the problem of finding communities in complex network systems, the detection of which allows a better understanding of the laws of their functioning. To solve this problem, two approaches are proposed based on the use…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-02-23 Olexandr Polishchuk

Many methods have been proposed for community detection in networks. Some of the most promising are methods based on statistical inference, which rest on solid mathematical foundations and return excellent results in practice. In this paper…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-08-13 M. E. J. Newman

In a graph, a community may be loosely defined as a group of nodes that are more closely connected to one another than to the rest of the graph. While there are a variety of metrics that can be used to specify the quality of a given…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-04-24 Christine Klymko , David Gleich , Tamara G. Kolda

In this paper, we propose a novel parallel hierarchical Leiden-based algorithm for dynamic community detection. The algorithm, for a given batch update of edge insertions and deletions, partitions the network into communities using only a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Grigoriy Bokov , Aleksandr Konovalov , Anna Uporova , Stanislav Moiseev , Ivan Safonov , Alexander Radionov

Local community detection, the problem of identifying a set of relevant nodes nearby a small set of input seed nodes, is an important graph primitive with a wealth of applications and research activity. Recent approaches include using local…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Kyle Kloster , Yixuan Li

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

In this paper, we present a new method for detecting overlapping communities in networks with a predefined number of clusters called LPAM (Link Partitioning Around Medoids). The overlapping communities in the graph are obtained by detecting…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Alexander Ponomarenko , Leonidas Pitsoulis , Marat Shamshetdinov

We provide a rearrangement based algorithm for fast detection of subgraphs of $k$ vertices with long escape times for directed or undirected networks. Complementing other notions of densest subgraphs and graph cuts, our method is based on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Zachary M. Boyd , Nicolas Fraiman , Jeremy L. Marzuola , Peter J. Mucha , Braxton Osting

Large graphs arise in a number of contexts and understanding their structure and extracting information from them is an important research area. Early algorithms on mining communities have focused on the global structure, and often run in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Yixuan Li , Kun He , David Bindel , John Hopcroft

Consider a network consisting of two subnetworks (communities) connected by some external edges. Given the network topology, the community detection problem can be cast as a graph partitioning problem that aims to identify the external…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Pin-Yu Chen , Alfred O. Hero

This work considers clustering nodes of a largely incomplete graph. Under the problem setting, only a small amount of queries about the edges can be made, but the entire graph is not observable. This problem finds applications in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Shahana Ibrahim , Xiao Fu

Let $N$ components be partitioned into two communities, denoted ${\cal P}_+$ and ${\cal P}_-$, possibly of different sizes. Assume that they are connected via a directed and weighted Erd\"os-R\'enyi (DWER) random graph with unknown…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Julien Chevallier , Guilherme Ost

We develop an algorithm to detect community structure in complex networks. The algorithm is based on spectral methods and takes into account weights and links orientations. Since the method detects efficiently clustered nodes in large…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Andrea Capocci , Vito D. P. Servedio , Guido Caldarelli , Francesca Colaiori

Community detection has arisen as one of the most relevant topics in the field of graph data mining due to its importance in many fields such as biology, social networks or network traffic analysis. The metrics proposed to shape communities…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-07-27 Arnau Prat-Pérez , David Dominguez-Sal , Josep M. Brunat , Josep-Lluis Larriba-Pey

One of the most useful measures of cluster quality is the modularity of a partition, which measures the difference between the number of the edges joining vertices from the same cluster and the expected number of such edges in a random…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-09-29 Hristo Djidjev

Community detection is of great importance for understand-ing graph structure in social networks. The communities in real-world networks are often overlapped, i.e. some nodes may be a member of multiple clusters. How to uncover the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-09 Kuang Zhou , Arnaud Martin , Quan Pan

Embedding dyadic data into a latent space has long been a popular approach to modeling networks of all kinds. While clustering has been done using this approach for static networks, this paper gives two methods of community detection within…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-05-19 Daniel K. Sewell , Yuguo Chen

To connect structure, dynamics and function in systems with multibody interactions, network scientists model random walks on hypergraphs and identify communities that confine the walks for a long time. The two flow-based community-detection…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-06-02 Anton Eriksson , Timoteo Carletti , Renaud Lambiotte , Alexis Rojas , Martin Rosvall

We define an approach to identify overlapping communities in multiplex networks, extending the popular clique percolation method for simple graphs. The extension requires to rethink the basic concepts on which the clique percolation…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-03-08 Nazanin Afsarmanesh , Matteo Magnani