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We investigate the widely encountered problem of detecting communities in multiplex networks, such as social networks, with an unknown arbitrary heterogeneous structure. To improve detectability, we propose a generative model that leverages…

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We study the fundamental limits on learning latent community structure in dynamic networks. Specifically, we study dynamic stochastic block models where nodes change their community membership over time, but where edges are generated…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-07-20 Amir Ghasemian , Pan Zhang , Aaron Clauset , Cristopher Moore , Leto Peel

In a graph or complex network, communities and anti-communities are node sets whose modularity attains extremely large values, positive and negative, respectively. We consider the simultaneous detection of communities and anti-communities,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Dario Fasino , Francesco Tudisco

Community detection algorithms are fundamental tools to understand organizational principles in social networks. With the increasing power of social media platforms, when detecting communities there are two possi- ble sources of information…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-04-14 Yuan Li

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

We consider the problem of community detection from the joint observation of a high-dimensional covariate matrix and $L$ sparse networks, all encoding noisy, partial information about the latent community labels of $n$ subjects. In the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Shuyang Gong , Dong Huang , Zhangsong Li

Complex networks are intrinsically modular. Resolving small modules is particularly difficult when the network is densely connected; wide variation of link weights invites additional complexities. In this article we present an algorithm to…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2014-01-16 Mahashweta Basu

Community detection, which identifies densely connected node clusters with sparse between-group links, is vital for analyzing network structure and function in real-world systems. Most existing community detection methods based on GCNs…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Gaofeng Zhou , Rui-Feng Wang , Kangning Cui

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

Modularity is a popular measure of community structure. However, maximizing the modularity can lead to many competing partitions, with almost the same modularity, that are poorly correlated with each other. It can also produce illusory…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-12-30 Pan Zhang , Cristopher Moore

Community detection is a widely-studied unsupervised learning problem in which the task is to group similar entities together based on observed pairwise entity interactions. This problem has applications in diverse domains such as social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Jimit Majmudar , Stephen Vavasis

In this paper, we propose a scalable community detection algorithm using hypergraph modularity function, h-Louvain. It is an adaptation of the classical Louvain algorithm in the context of hypergraphs. We observe that a direct application…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Bogumił Kamiński , Paweł Misiorek , Paweł Prałat , François Théberge

Networks often exhibit structure at disparate scales. We propose a method for identifying community structure at different scales based on multiresolution modularity and consensus clustering. Our contribution consists of two parts. First,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Lucas G. S. Jeub , Olaf Sporns , Santo Fortunato

Communities are clusters of nodes with a higher than average density of internal connections. Their detection is of great relevance to better understand the structure and hierarchies present in a network. Modularity has become a standard…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-17 Filippo Radicchi , Andrea Lancichinetti , José J. Ramasco

Community detection is a significant and challenging task in network research. Nowadays, plenty of attention has been focused on local methods of community detection. Among them, community detection with a greedy algorithm typically starts…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Junfang Zhu , Xuezao Ren , Peijie Ma , Kun Gao

New phase transition phenomena have recently been discovered for the stochastic block model, for the special case of two non-overlapping symmetric communities. This gives raise in particular to new algorithmic challenges driven by the…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-04-07 Emmanuel Abbe , Colin Sandon

Detecting communities in networks is essential for understanding the mesoscopic organization of complex systems. Interactions in most real-world networks evolve over time and exhibit diverse modalities: instantaneous events, continuous…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Victor Brabant , Angela Bonifati , Remy Cazabet

We propose a simple method to extract the community structure of large networks. Our method is a heuristic method that is based on modularity optimization. It is shown to outperform all other known community detection method in terms of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-12-01 Vincent D. Blondel , Jean-Loup Guillaume , Renaud Lambiotte , Etienne Lefebvre

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

We apply a replica inference based Potts model method to unsupervised image segmentation on multiple scales. This approach was inspired by the statistical mechanics problem of "community detection" and its phase diagram. Specifically, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 Dandan Hu , Peter Ronhovde , Zohar Nussinov