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Computing Communities in Large Networks Using Random Walks

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Pons, Pascal, Latapy, Matthieu·2006·Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications

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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)andspaceO(n 2)inthe worst case, and in time O(n 2 log n) andspaceO(n 2)inmostreal-world cases (n and m are respectively the number of vertices and edges in the input graph). 1

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Authors
Pons, P., & Latapy, M.
Venue
Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications
Published
2006
Volume
10
Issue
2
Pages
191-218
ISSN
1526-1719 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2033590892
Cited by
1,501
References
4
FWCI
11.35
Type
journal article
Language
en
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