Community detection based on minimum-cut graph partitioning

Yashen Wang*, Heyan Huang, Chong Feng, Zhirun Liu

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Abstract

One of the most useful measurements of community detection quality is the modularity, which evaluates how a given division deviates from an expected random graph. This article demonstrates that (i) modularity maximization can be transformed into versions of the standard minimum-cut graph partitioning, and (ii) normalized version of modularity maximization is identical to normalized cut graph partitioning. Meanwhile, we innovatively combine the modularity theory with popular statistical inference method in two aspects: (i) transforming such statistical model into null model in modularity maximization; (ii) adapting the objective function of statistical inference method for our optimization. Based on the demonstrations above, this paper proposes an efficient algorithm for community detection by adapting the Laplacian spectral partitioning algorithm. The experiments, in both real-world and synthetic networks, show that both the quality and the running time of the proposed algorithm rival the previous best algorithms.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWeb-Age Information Management - 16th International Conference, WAIM 2015, Proceedings
EditorsYizhou Sun, Jian Li
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages57-69
Number of pages13
ISBN (Electronic)9783319210414
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Event16th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2015 - Qingdao, China
Duration: 8 Jun 201510 Jun 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9098
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference16th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2015
Country/TerritoryChina
CityQingdao
Period8/06/1510/06/15

Keywords

  • Community detection
  • Minimum-cut
  • Modularity

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