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Complex real-world networks commonly reveal characteristic groups of nodes like communities and modules. These are of value in various applications, especially in the case of large social and information networks. However, while numerous…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-12-30 Lovro Šubelj , Marko Bajec

Community or modular structure is considered to be a significant property of large scale real-world graphs such as social or information networks. Detecting influential clusters or communities in these graphs is a problem of considerable…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Prakhar Ganesh , Saket Dingliwal , Rahul Agarwal

Community detection, which focuses on clustering nodes or detecting communities in (mostly) a single network, is a problem of considerable practical interest and has received a great deal of attention in the research community. While being…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-07 Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee , Purnamrita Sarkar , Lizhen Lin

This paper describes a new algorithm - P&A algorithm - utilized in identifying overlapping communities in non oriented valued graph regardless of their number or their size. The complexity of this algorithm is minimal in the matter that the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Nicolas Pissard , Houssem Assadi

Uncovering the community structure exhibited by real networks is a crucial step towards an understanding of complex systems that goes beyond the local organization of their constituents. Many algorithms have been proposed so far, but none…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-09-17 Andrea Lancichinetti , Santo Fortunato

Finding community structures in social networks is considered to be a challenging task as many of the proposed algorithms are computationally expensive and does not scale well for large graphs. Most of the community detection algorithms…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Partha Basuchowdhuri , Satyaki Sikdar , Varsha Nagarajan , Khusbu Mishra , Surabhi Gupta , Subhashis Majumder

The analysis of multilayer networks is among the most active areas of network science, and there are now several methods to detect dense "communities" of nodes in multilayer networks. One way to define a community is as a set of nodes that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Lucas G. S. Jeub , Michael W. Mahoney , Peter J. Mucha , Mason A. Porter

We propose an algorithm for finding overlapping community structure in very large networks. The algorithm is based on the label propagation technique of Raghavan, Albert, and Kumara, but is able to detect communities that overlap. Like the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-10-15 Steve Gregory

In real-world scenarios, large graphs represent relationships among entities in complex systems. Mining these large graphs often containing millions of nodes and edges helps uncover structural patterns and meaningful insights. Dividing a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Shrabani Ghosh , Erik Saule

Many networks display community structure which identifies groups of nodes within which connections are denser than between them. Detecting and characterizing such community structure, which is known as community detection, is one of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Mingming Chen , Sisi Liu , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

Community detection refers to the task of discovering groups of vertices sharing similar properties or functions so as to understand the network data. With the recent development of deep learning, graph representation learning techniques…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Yuting Jia , Qinqin Zhang , Weinan Zhang , Xinbing Wang

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

It is common in the study of networks to investigate meso-scale features to try to gain an understanding of network structure and function. For example, numerous algorithms have been developed to try to identify "communities," which are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Lucas G. S. Jeub , Prakash Balachandran , Mason A. Porter , Peter J. Mucha , Michael W. Mahoney

In the study of networked systems such as biological, technological, and social networks the available data are often uncertain. Rather than knowing the structure of a network exactly, we know the connections between nodes only with a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Travis Martin , Brian Ball , M. E. J. Newman

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

We show that the VC-dimension of a graph can be computed in time $n^{\log d+1} d^{O(d)}$, where $d$ is the degeneracy of the input graph. The core idea of our algorithm is a data structure to efficiently query the number of vertices that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Pål Grønås Drange , Patrick Greaves , Irene Muzi , Felix Reidl

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

Many edge prediction methods have been proposed, based on various local or global properties of the structure of an incomplete network. Community structure is another significant feature of networks: Vertices in a community are more densely…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-05-16 Bowen Yan , Steve Gregory

The most widely used techniques for community detection in networks, including methods based on modularity, statistical inference, and information theoretic arguments, all work by optimizing objective functions that measure the quality of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Maria A. Riolo , M. E. J. Newman

Large datasets with interactions between objects are common to numerous scientific fields (i.e. social science, internet, biology...). The interactions naturally define a graph and a common way to explore or summarize such dataset is graph…

Applications · Statistics 2009-10-13 Hugo Zanghi , Stevenn Volant , Christophe Ambroise