Community Detection in Networks via Nonlinear Modularity Eigenvectors

DOI10.1137/17M1144143zbMATH Open1397.90089arXiv1708.05569MaRDI QIDQ4683908FDOQ4683908

Francesco Tudisco, Matthias Hein, Pedro Mercado

Publication date: 26 September 2018

Published in: SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Revealing a community structure in a network or dataset is a central problem arising in many scientific areas. The modularity function $Q$ is an established measure quantifying the quality of a community, being identified as a set of nodes having high modularity. In our terminology, a set of nodes with positive modularity is called a extit{module} and a set that maximizes $Q$ is thus called extit{leading module}. Finding a leading module in a network is an important task, however the dimension of real-world problems makes the maximization of $Q$ unfeasible. This poses the need of approximation techniques which are typically based on a linear relaxation of $Q$, induced by the spectrum of the modularity matrix $M$. In this work we propose a nonlinear relaxation which is instead based on the spectrum of a nonlinear modularity operator $mathcalM$. We show that extremal eigenvalues of $mathcalM$ provide an exact relaxation of the modularity measure $Q$, however at the price of being more challenging to be computed than those of $M$. Thus we extend the work made on nonlinear Laplacians, by proposing a computational scheme, named extit{generalized RatioDCA}, to address such extremal eigenvalues. We show monotonic ascent and convergence of the method. We finally apply the new method to several synthetic and real-world data sets, showing both effectiveness of the model and performance of the method.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.05569

zbMATH Keywords

community detectiongraph modularitynonlinear eigenvaluesCheeger inequalityspectral partitioning

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graphs and linear algebra (matrices, eigenvalues, etc.) (05C50) Deterministic network models in operations research (90B10) Edge subsets with special properties (factorization, matching, partitioning, covering and packing, etc.) (05C70) Particular nonlinear operators (superposition, Hammerstein, Nemytski?, Uryson, etc.) (47H30)

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Uses Software

• SNAP
• SparseMatrix
• MNIST
• GenLouvain

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