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Enhance the Efficiency of Heuristic Algorithm for Maximizing Modularity Q

Physics and Society 2009-11-13 v1

Abstract

Modularity Q is an important function for identifying community structure in complex networks. In this paper, we prove that the modularity maximization problem is equivalent to a nonconvex quadratic programming problem. This result provide us a simple way to improve the efficiency of heuristic algorithms for maximizing modularity Q. Many numerical results demonstrate that it is very effective.

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@article{arxiv.0801.1964,
  title  = {Enhance the Efficiency of Heuristic Algorithm for Maximizing Modularity Q},
  author = {Yanqing Hu and Jinshan Wu and Zengru Di},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.1964},
  year   = {2009}
}

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9 pages, 3 figures

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