A Community Detection Algorithm Based on Node Degree Difference and Node Similarity

2013 ◽  
Vol 462-463 ◽  
pp. 458-461
Author(s):  
Jian Jun Cheng ◽  
Peng Fei Wang ◽  
Qi Bin Zhang ◽  
Zheng Quan Zhang ◽  
Ming Wei Leng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Community Detection ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Coarse Grained ◽  
Node Degree ◽  
Detection Algorithms ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Node Similarity ◽  
Feasible Algorithm ◽  
Community Detection Algorithm

This paper proposes an algorithm called DDSCDA, which is based on the concepts of the node degree difference and the node similarity. In the algorithm, we iteratively extract the node from the network with larger degree and certified the node as a kernel node, then take the kernel node as the founder or initiator of a community to attract its neighbors to join in that community; by doing so, we obtain a partition corresponding to a coarse-grained community structure of the network. Finally taken the coarse-grained community as a starting point, we use the strategy of LPA to propagate labels through the network further. At the end of the algorithm, we obtain the final community structure. We compared the performance with classical community detection algorithms such as LPA, LPAm, FastQ, etc., the experimental results have manifested that our proposal is a feasible algorithm, can extract higher quality communities from the network, and outperforms the previous algorithms significantly.

Active semisupervised community detection based on asymmetric similarity measure

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (13) ◽  
pp. 1550078 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mingwei Leng ◽  
Liang Huang ◽  
Longjie Li ◽  
Hanhai Zhou ◽  
Jianjun Cheng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Prior Knowledge ◽  
Complex Network ◽  
Community Detection ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Directed Network ◽  
Detection Algorithms ◽  
Community Detection Algorithm ◽  
Similarity Method ◽  
Asymmetric Similarity

Semisupervised community detection algorithms use prior knowledge to improve the performance of discovering the community structure of a complex network. However, getting those prior knowledge is quite expensive and time consuming in many real-world applications. This paper proposes an active semisupervised community detection algorithm based on the similarities between nodes. First, it transforms a given complex network into a weighted directed network based on the proposed asymmetric similarity method, some informative nodes are selected to be the labeled nodes by using an active mechanism. Second, the proposed algorithm discovers the community structure of a complex network by propagating the community labels of labeled nodes to their neighbors based on the similarity between a node and a community. Finally, the performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated with three real networks and one synthetic network and the experimental results show that the proposed method has a better performance compared with some other community detection algorithms.

Community detection by enhancing community structure in bipartite networks

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (07) ◽  
pp. 1950076 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenjie Zhou ◽  
Xingyuan Wang ◽  
Chuan Zhang ◽  
Rui Li ◽  
Chunpeng Wang
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Community Detection ◽  
Real World ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Original Structure ◽  
Bipartite Networks ◽  
Detection Algorithms ◽  
Low Weight ◽  
Community Detection Algorithm

Community detection is one of the primary tools to discover useful information that is hidden in complex networks. Some community detection algorithms for bipartite networks have been proposed from various viewpoints. However, the performance of these algorithms deteriorates when the community structure becomes unclear. Enhancing community structure remains a nontrivial task. In this paper, we propose a community detection algorithm, called ECD, that enhances community structure in bipartite networks. In the proposed ECD, the topology of a network is modified by reducing unnecessary edges that are connected to neighboring low-weight communities. Therefore, an ambiguous community structure is converted into a structure that is much clearer than the original structure. The experimental results on both artificial and real-world networks verify the accuracy and reliability of our algorithm. Compared with existing community detection algorithms using state-of-the-art methods, our algorithm has better performance.

Complex network structure extraction based on community relevance

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (04) ◽  
pp. 2050062
Author(s):  
Jingyi Ding ◽  
Licheng Jiao ◽  
Jianshe Wu ◽  
Fang Liu
Keyword(s):  
Computational Complexity ◽  
Community Detection ◽  
Network Structure ◽  
Link Prediction ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Node Degree ◽  
Network Function ◽  
Detection Algorithms ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Community Detection Algorithm

One way to understand the network function and analyze the network structure is to find the communities of the network accurately. Now, there are many works about designing algorithms for community detection. Most community detection algorithms are based on modularity optimization. However, these methods not only have disadvantages in computational complexity, but also have the problem of resolution restriction. Designing a community detection algorithm that is fast and effective remains a challenge in the field. We attempt to solve the community detection problem in a new perspective in this paper, believing that the assumption used to solve the link prediction problem is useful for the problem of community detection. By using the similarity between modules of the network, we propose a new method to extract the community structure in this paper. Our algorithm consists of three steps. First, we initialize a community partition based on the distribution of the node degree; second, we calculate the similarity between different communities, where the similarity is the index to describe the closeness of the different communities. We assume that the much closer the two different communities are, the greater the likelihood of being divided together; finally, merge the pairs of communities which has the highest similarity value as possible as we can and stop when the condition is not satisfied. Because the convergence of our algorithm is very fast in the process of merging, we find that our method has advantages both in the computational complexity and in the accuracy when compared with other six classical algorithms. Moreover, we design a new measure to describe how difficulty the network division is.

A novel algorithm for community detection based on resistance distance and similarity

2021 ◽  
pp. 2150164
Author(s):  
Pengli Lu ◽  
Zhou Yu ◽  
Yuhong Guo
Keyword(s):  
Community Detection ◽  
Distance Function ◽  
Nearest Neighbor ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Structure And Function ◽  
Resistance Distance ◽  
Node Similarity ◽  
The Common ◽  
Community Detection Algorithm ◽  
And Function

Community detection is important for understanding the structure and function of networks. Resistance distance is a kind of distance function inherent in the network itself, which has important applications in many fields. In this paper, we propose a novel community detection algorithm based on resistance distance and similarity. First, we propose the node similarity, which is based on the common nodes and resistance distance. Then, we define the distance function between nodes by similarity. Furthermore, we calculate the distance between communities by using the distance between nodes. Finally, we detect the community structure in the network according to the nearest-neighbor nodes being in the same community. Experimental results on artificial networks and real-world networks show that the proposed algorithm can effectively detect the community structures in complex networks.

Community detection in complex network by network embedding and density clustering

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
JinFang Sheng ◽  
Huaiyu Zuo ◽  
Bin Wang ◽  
Qiong Li
Keyword(s):  
Complex Network ◽  
Community Detection ◽  
Dimensional Space ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Network Embedding ◽  
Detection Algorithms ◽  
Density Clustering ◽  
Community Detection Algorithm ◽  
Low Dimensional

 In a complex network system, the structure of the network is an extremely important element for the analysis of the system, and the study of community detection algorithms is key to exploring the structure of the complex network. Traditional community detection algorithms would represent the network using an adjacency matrix based on observations, which may contain redundant information or noise that interferes with the detection results. In this paper, we propose a community detection algorithm based on density clustering. In order to improve the performance of density clustering, we consider an algorithmic framework for learning the continuous representation of network nodes in a low-dimensional space. The network structure is effectively preserved through network embedding, and density clustering is applied in the embedded low-dimensional space to compute the similarity of nodes in the network, which in turn reveals the implied structure in a given network. Experiments show that the algorithm has superior performance compared to other advanced community detection algorithms for real-world networks in multiple domains as well as synthetic networks, especially when the network data chaos is high.

Using bootstrap procedures for testing the modular partition inferred via leading eigenvector community detection algorithm

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oksana Vertsimakha ◽  
Igor Dzeverin
Keyword(s):  
Community Detection ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Fine Tuning ◽  
Modular Structure ◽  
Biological Organization ◽  
Detection Algorithms ◽  
Community Detection Algorithm ◽  
Numeric Data ◽  
Bootstrap Algorithm ◽  
Modular Structures

AbstractModularity and modular structures can be recognized at various levels of biological organization and in various domains of studies. Recently, algorithms based on network analysis came into focus. And while such a framework is a powerful tool in studying modular structure, those methods usually pose a problem of assessing statistical support for the obtained modular structures. One of the widely applied methods is the leading eigenvector, or Newman’s spectral community detection algorithm. We conduct a brief overview of the method, including a comparison with some other community detection algorithms and explore a possible fine-tuning procedure. Finally, we propose an adapted bootstrap-based procedure based on Shimodaira’s multiscale bootstrap algorithm to derive approximately unbiased p-values for the module partitions of observations datasets. The proposed procedure also gives a lot of freedom to the researcher in constructing the network construction from the raw numeric data, and can be applied to various types of data and used in diverse problems concerning modular structure. We provide an R language code for all the calculations and the visualization of the obtained results for the researchers interested in using the procedure.

Node Trust: an effective method to detect non-overlapping community in social networks

2020 ◽  
pp. 2150036
Author(s):  
Jinfang Sheng ◽  
Qiong Li ◽  
Bin Wang ◽  
Wanghao Guan ◽  
Jinying Dai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Community Structure ◽  
Community Detection ◽  
Linear Time ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Underlying Structure ◽  
Community Detection Algorithm ◽  
Stable Community ◽  
Synthetic Networks

Social networks are made up of members in society and the social relationships established by the interaction between members. Community structure is an essential attribute of social networks. The question arises that how can we discover the community structure in the network to gain a deep understanding of its underlying structure and mine information from it? In this paper, we introduce a novel community detection algorithm NTCD (Community Detection based on Node Trust). This is a stable community detection algorithm that does not require any parameters settings and has nearly linear time complexity. NTCD determines the community ownership of a node by studying the relationship between the node and its neighbor communities. This relationship is called Node Trust, representing the possibility that the node is in the current community. Node Trust is also a quality function, which is used for community detection by seeking maximum. Experiments on real and synthetic networks show that our algorithm has high accuracy in most data sets and stable community division results. Additionally, through experiments on different types of synthetic networks, we can conclude that our algorithm has good robustness.

Recent trends on community detection algorithms: A survey

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (35) ◽  
pp. 2050408
Author(s):  
Sumit Gupta ◽  
Dhirendra Pratap Singh
Keyword(s):  
Community Detection ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Detection Algorithms ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
Application Data ◽  
Art Community ◽  
Community Detection Algorithm ◽  
Two Parameters

In today’s world scenario, many of the real-life problems and application data can be represented with the help of the graphs. Nowadays technology grows day by day at a very fast rate; applications generate a vast amount of valuable data, due to which the size of their representation graphs is increased. How to get meaningful information from these data become a hot research topic. Methodical algorithms are required to extract useful information from these raw data. These unstructured graphs are not scattered in nature, but these show some relationships between their basic entities. Identifying communities based on these relationships improves the understanding of the applications represented by graphs. Community detection algorithms are one of the solutions which divide the graph into small size clusters where nodes are densely connected within the cluster and sparsely connected across. During the last decade, there are lots of algorithms proposed which can be categorized into mainly two broad categories; non-overlapping and overlapping community detection algorithm. The goal of this paper is to offer a comparative analysis of the various community detection algorithms. We bring together all the state of art community detection algorithms related to these two classes into a single article with their accessible benchmark data sets. Finally, we represent a comparison of these algorithms concerning two parameters: one is time efficiency, and the other is how accurately the communities are detected.

A Novel Overlapping Community Detection Algorithm of Weighted Networks

2014 ◽  
Vol 599-601 ◽  
pp. 1369-1373
Author(s):  
Huang Bin You ◽  
Xue Wu Zhang ◽  
Huai Yong Fu ◽  
Zhuo Zhang ◽  
Min Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Community Detection ◽  
Classification Accuracy ◽  
Time Complexity ◽  
Maximum Degree ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Overlapping Community Detection ◽  
Weighted Networks ◽  
Overlapping Community ◽  
Community Detection Algorithm

The community structure is a vital property of complex networks. As special networks the weighted networks also have community structure. Nowadays the studies of overlapping community draw attentions of researchers. However, the scale of networks become huge, so it requires the algorithm has lower time complexity and higher classification accuracy. Many existing algorithms cannot meet these two requirements at the same time. So we propose a novel overlapping community detection algorithm. Firstly we apply maximum degree node and its some special adjacent nodes as the initial community, and then expand the initial community by adding eligible nodes to it, finally other communities can be found by repeating these two steps. Experiments results show that our algorithm can detect overlapping community structure from weighted networks successfully, and also reveal that our method has higher division accuracy and lower time complexity than many previously proposed methods.

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