scholarly journals Uncovering Hidden Community Structure in Multi-Layer Networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 2857
Author(s):  
Faiza Riaz Khawaja ◽  
Jinfang Sheng ◽  
Bin Wang ◽  
Yumna Memon
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Community Detection ◽  
Real World ◽  
Graph Clustering ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Connected Components ◽  
Natural Community ◽  
As Graph ◽  
Dominant Structure

Community detection, also known as graph clustering, in multi-layer networks has been extensively studied in the literature. The goal of community detection is to partition vertices in a network into densely connected components so called communities. Networks contain a set of strong, dominant communities, which may interfere with the detection of weak, natural community structure. When most of the members of the weak communities also belong to stronger communities, they are extremely hard to be uncovered. We call the weak communities the hidden or disguised community structure. In this paper, we present a method to uncover weak communities in a network by weakening the strength of the dominant structure. With the aim to detect the weak communities, through experiments, we observe real-world networks to answer the question of whether real-world networks have hidden community structure or not. Results of the hidden community detection (HCD) method showed the great variation in the number of communities detected in multiple layers when compared with the results of other community detection methods.

Detecting communities in networks using a Bayesian nonparametric method

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (28) ◽  
pp. 1450199
Author(s):  
Shengze Hu ◽  
Zhenwen Wang
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Community Detection ◽  
Real World ◽  
Detection Method ◽  
Generative Models ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
Nonparametric Method ◽  
Bayesian Nonparametric ◽  
New Community

In the real world, a large amount of systems can be described by networks where nodes represent entities and edges the interconnections between them. Community structure in networks is one of the interesting properties revealed in the study of networks. Many methods have been developed to extract communities from networks using the generative models which give the probability of generating networks based on some assumption about the communities. However, many generative models require setting the number of communities in the network. The methods based on such models are lack of practicality, because the number of communities is unknown before determining the communities. In this paper, the Bayesian nonparametric method is used to develop a new community detection method. First, a generative model is built to give the probability of generating the network and its communities. Next, the model parameters and the number of communities are calculated by fitting the model to the actual network. Finally, the communities in the network can be determined using the model parameters. In the experiments, we apply the proposed method to the synthetic and real-world networks, comparing with some other community detection methods. The experimental results show that the proposed method is efficient to detect communities in networks.

scholarly journals Modelling community structure and temporal spreading on complex networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vesa Kuikka
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Complex Networks ◽  
Community Detection ◽  
Network Structure ◽  
Network Connectivity ◽  
Network Models ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Detection Methods

AbstractWe present methods for analysing hierarchical and overlapping community structure and spreading phenomena on complex networks. Different models can be developed for describing static connectivity or dynamical processes on a network topology. In this study, classical network connectivity and influence spreading models are used as examples for network models. Analysis of results is based on a probability matrix describing interactions between all pairs of nodes in the network. One popular research area has been detecting communities and their structure in complex networks. The community detection method of this study is based on optimising a quality function calculated from the probability matrix. The same method is proposed for detecting underlying groups of nodes that are building blocks of different sub-communities in the network structure. We present different quantitative measures for comparing and ranking solutions of the community detection algorithm. These measures describe properties of sub-communities: strength of a community, probability of formation and robustness of composition. The main contribution of this study is proposing a common methodology for analysing network structure and dynamics on complex networks. We illustrate the community detection methods with two small network topologies. In the case of network spreading models, time development of spreading in the network can be studied. Two different temporal spreading distributions demonstrate the methods with three real-world social networks of different sizes. The Poisson distribution describes a random response time and the e-mail forwarding distribution describes a process of receiving and forwarding messages.

An algorithm Walktrap-SPM for detecting overlapping community structure

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (15) ◽  
pp. 1750121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fang Hu ◽  
Youze Zhu ◽  
Yuan Shi ◽  
Jianchao Cai ◽  
Luogeng Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Random Walk ◽  
Community Detection ◽  
Real World ◽  
Overlapping Community Detection ◽  
Overlapping Communities ◽  
Running Time ◽  
Overlapping Community ◽  
Negative Links ◽  
Novel Algorithm

In this paper, based on Walktrap algorithm with the idea of random walk, and by selecting the neighbor communities, introducing improved signed probabilistic mixture (SPM) model and considering the edges within the community as positive links and the edges between the communities as negative links, a novel algorithm Walktrap-SPM for detecting overlapping community is proposed. This algorithm not only can identify the overlapping communities, but also can greatly increase the objectivity and accuracy of the results. In order to verify the accuracy, the performance of this algorithm is tested on several representative real-world networks and a set of computer-generated networks based on LFR benchmark. The experimental results indicate that this algorithm can identify the communities accurately, and it is more suitable for overlapping community detection. Compared with Walktrap, SPM and LMF algorithms, the presented algorithm can acquire higher values of modularity and NMI. Moreover, this new algorithm has faster running time than SPM and LMF algorithms.

Uncovering local community structure on line graph through degree centrality and expansion

2021 ◽  
pp. 2150120
Author(s):  
Guishen Wang ◽  
Kaitai Wang ◽  
Hongmei Wang ◽  
Huimin Lu ◽  
Xiaotang Zhou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Community Detection ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Line Graph ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Degree Centrality ◽  
Original Graph ◽  
Normalized Mutual Information ◽  
Local Community Detection ◽  
On Line

Local community detection algorithms are an important type of overlapping community detection methods. Local community detection methods identify local community structure through searching seeds and expansion process. In this paper, we propose a novel local community detection method on line graph through degree centrality and expansion (LCDDCE). We firstly employ line graph model to transfer edges into nodes of a new graph. Secondly, we evaluate edges relationship through a novel node similarity method on line graph. Thirdly, we introduce local community detection framework to identify local node community structure of line graph, combined with degree centrality and PageRank algorithm. Finally, we transfer them back into original graph. The experimental results on three classical benchmarks show that our LCDDCE method achieves a higher performance on normalized mutual information metric with other typical methods.

Community detection via closure extension

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (12) ◽  
pp. 1850119
Author(s):  
Jingming Zhang ◽  
Jianjun Cheng ◽  
Xiaosu Feng ◽  
Xiaoyun Chen
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Computational Complexity ◽  
Community Detection ◽  
Network Structure ◽  
Real World ◽  
Prior Information ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Local Information ◽  
Second Step ◽  
Novel Method

Identifying community structure in networks plays an important role in understanding the network structure and analyzing the network features. Many state-of-the-art algorithms have been proposed to identify the community structure in networks. In this paper, we propose a novel method based on closure extension; it performs in two steps. The first step uses the similarity closure or correlation closure to find the initial community structure. In the second step, we merge the initial communities using Modularity [Formula: see text]. The proposed method does not need any prior information such as the number or sizes of communities, and it is able to obtain the same resulting communities in multiple runs. Moreover, it is noteworthy that our method has low computational complexity because of considering only local information of network. Some real-world and synthetic graphs are used to test the performance of the proposed method. The results demonstrate that our method can detect deterministic and informative community structure in most cases.

scholarly journals Variational Approach for Learning Community Structures

Complexity ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Jin Choong ◽  
Xin Liu ◽  
Tsuyoshi Murata
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Community Structure ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
Community Detection ◽  
Representation Learning ◽  
Semisupervised Learning ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Community Structures ◽  
Learning Tasks ◽  
Proposed Model

Discovering and modeling community structure exist to be a fundamentally challenging task. In domains such as biology, chemistry, and physics, researchers often rely on community detection algorithms to uncover community structures from complex systems yet no unified definition of community structure exists. Furthermore, existing models tend to be oversimplified leading to a neglect of richer information such as nodal features. Coupled with the surge of user generated information on social networks, a demand for newer techniques beyond traditional approaches is inevitable. Deep learning techniques such as network representation learning have shown tremendous promise. More specifically, supervised and semisupervised learning tasks such as link prediction and node classification have achieved remarkable results. However, unsupervised learning tasks such as community detection remain widely unexplored. In this paper, a novel deep generative model for community detection is proposed. Extensive experiments show that the proposed model, empowered with Bayesian deep learning, can provide insights in terms of uncertainty and exploit nonlinearities which result in better performance in comparison to state-of-the-art community detection methods. Additionally, unlike traditional methods, the proposed model is community structure definition agnostic. Leveraging on low-dimensional embeddings of both network topology and feature similarity, it automatically learns the best model configuration for describing similarities in a community.

scholarly journals LIMITED RESOLUTION AND MULTIRESOLUTION METHODS IN COMPLEX NETWORK COMMUNITY DETECTION

2007 ◽  
Vol 07 (03) ◽  
pp. L209-L214 ◽  
Author(s):  
JUSSI M. KUMPULA ◽  
JARI SARAMÄKI ◽  
KIMMO KASKI ◽  
JÁNOS KERTÉSZ
Keyword(s):  
Simulated Annealing ◽  
Community Structure ◽  
Complex Network ◽  
Community Detection ◽  
Real World ◽  
Tuning Parameter ◽  
Challenging Problem ◽  
Resolution Limit ◽  
Network Community ◽  
Multiresolution Methods

Detecting community structure in real-world networks is a challenging problem. Recently, it has been shown that the resolution of methods based on optimizing a modularity measure or a corresponding energy is limited; communities with sizes below some threshold remain unresolved. One possibility to go around this problem is to vary the threshold by using a tuning parameter, and investigate the community structure at variable resolutions. Here, we analyze the resolution limit and multiresolution behavior for two different methods: a q-state Potts method proposed by Reichard and Bornholdt, and a recent multiresolution method by Arenas, Fernández, and Gómez. These methods are studied analytically, and applied to three test networks using simulated annealing.

scholarly journals Mobile Recommendation Based on Link Community Detection

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Kun Deng ◽  
Jianpei Zhang ◽  
Jing Yang
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Community Detection ◽  
Mobile Networks ◽  
Real World ◽  
Recommendation Systems ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Greedy Search ◽  
Recommendation Algorithm

Since traditional mobile recommendation systems have difficulty in acquiring complete and accurate user information in mobile networks, the accuracy of recommendation is not high. In order to solve this problem, this paper proposes a novel mobile recommendation algorithm based on link community detection (MRLD). MRLD executes link label diffusion algorithm and maximal extended modularity (EQ) of greedy search to obtain the link community structure, and overlapping nodes belonging analysis (ONBA) is adopted to adjust the overlapping nodes in order to get the more accurate community structure. MRLD is tested on both synthetic and real-world networks, and the experimental results show that our approach is valid and feasible.

Detecting community structure by belonging intensity analysis of intermediate nodes

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (11) ◽  
pp. 1950079
Author(s):  
Mengjia Shen ◽  
Dong Lv ◽  
Zhixin Ma
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Community Detection ◽  
Real World ◽  
Intensity Analysis ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Intermediate Node ◽  
Detection Algorithms ◽  
Interactive Behavior

Community structure is a common characteristic of complex networks and community detection is an important methodology to reveal the structure of real-world networks. In recent years, many algorithms have been proposed to detect the high-quality communities in real-world networks. However, these algorithms have shortcomings of performing calculation on the whole network or defining objective function and the number of commonties in advance, which affects the performance and complexity of community detection algorithms. In this paper, a novel algorithm has been proposed to detect communities in networks by belonging intensity analysis of intermediate nodes, named BIAS, which is inspired from the interactive behavior in human communication networks. More specifically, intermediate nodes are middlemen between different groups in social networks. BIAS algorithm defines belonging intensity using local interactions and metrics between nodes, and the belonging intensity of intermediate node in different communities is analyzed to distinguish which community the intermediate node belongs to. The experiments of our algorithm with other state-of-the-art algorithms on synthetic networks and real-world networks have shown that BIAS algorithm has better accuracy and can significantly improve the quality of community detection without prior information.

scholarly journals NMLPA: Uncovering Overlapping Communities in Attributed Networks via a Multi-Label Propagation Approach

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bingyang Huang ◽  
Chaokun Wang ◽  
Binbin Wang
Keyword(s):  
Community Detection ◽  
Real World ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Label Propagation ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Overlapping Communities ◽  
Propagation Algorithm ◽  
Pruning Strategy ◽  
Node Similarity ◽  
Attributed Networks

With the enrichment of the entity information in the real world, many networks with attributed nodes are proposed and studied widely. Community detection in these attributed networks is an essential task that aims to find groups where the intra-nodes are much more densely connected than the inter-nodes. However, many existing community detection methods in attributed networks do not distinguish overlapping communities from non-overlapping communities when designing algorithms. In this paper, we propose a novel and accurate algorithm called Node-similarity-based Multi-Label Propagation Algorithm (NMLPA) for detecting overlapping communities in attributed networks. NMLPA first calculates the similarity between nodes and then propagates multiple labels based on the network structure and the node similarity. Moreover, NMLPA uses a pruning strategy to keep the number of labels per node within a suitable range. Extensive experiments conducted on both synthetic and real-world networks show that our new method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods.

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