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Volume 103, Number 2, July 2013
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Article Number | 28003 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Interdisciplinary Physics and Related Areas of Science and Technology | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/103/28003 | |
Published online | 12 August 2013 |
Community detection and graph partitioning
Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Received: 7 June 2013
Accepted: 16 July 2013
Many methods have been proposed for community detection in networks. Some of the most promising are methods based on statistical inference, which rest on solid mathematical foundations and return excellent results in practice. In this paper we show that two of the most widely used inference methods can be mapped directly onto versions of the standard minimum-cut graph partitioning problem, which allows us to apply any of the many well-understood partitioning algorithms to the solution of community detection problems. We illustrate the approach by adapting the Laplacian spectral partitioning method to perform community inference, testing the resulting algorithm on a range of examples, including computer-generated and real-world networks. Both the quality of the results and the running time rival the best previous methods.
PACS: 89.75.Hc – Networks and genealogical trees / 02.50.Cw – Probability theory / 02.70.Hm – Spectral methods
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