Computing Communities in Large Networks Using Random Walks

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DOI10.7155/JGAA.00124zbMATH Open1161.68694DBLPjournals/jgaa/PonsL06arXivcond-mat/0412368OpenAlexW2033590892WikidataQ62072911 ScholiaQ62072911MaRDI QIDQ5301388FDOQ5301388


Authors: Pascal Pons, Matthieu Latapy Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 19 January 2009

Published in: Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Dense subgraphs of sparse graphs (communities), which appear in most real-world complex networks, play an important role in many contexts. Computing them however is generally expensive. We propose here a measure of similarities between vertices based on random walks which has several important advantages: it captures well the community structure in a network, it can be computed efficiently, it works at various scales, and it can be used in an agglomerative algorithm to compute efficiently the community structure of a network. We propose such an algorithm which runs in time O(mn^2) and space O(n^2) in the worst case, and in time O(n^2log n) and space O(n^2) in most real-world cases (n and m are respectively the number of vertices and edges in the input graph). Experimental evaluation shows that our algorithm surpasses previously proposed ones concerning the quality of the obtained community structures and that it stands among the best ones concerning the running time. This is very promising because our algorithm can be improved in several ways, which we sketch at the end of the paper.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0412368




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