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EPL
Volume 106, Number 3, May 2014
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| Article Number | 38001 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Interdisciplinary Physics and Related Areas of Science and Technology | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/106/38001 | |
| Published online | 07 May 2014 | |
A paradox in community detection
Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Bloomington, IN, USA
Received: 19 December 2013
Accepted: 11 April 2014
Recent research has shown that virtually all algorithms aimed at the identification of communities in networks are affected by the same main limitation: the impossibility to detect communities, even when these are well defined, if the average value of the difference between internal and external node degrees does not exceed a strictly positive value, in the literature known as detectability threshold. Here, we counterintuitively show that the value of this threshold is inversely proportional to the intrinsic quality of communities: the detection of well-defined modules is thus more difficult than the identification of ill-defined communities.
PACS: 89.75.Hc – Networks and genealogical trees / 02.70.Hm – Spectral methods / 64.60.aq – Networks
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