An efficient and principled method for detecting communities in networks

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Summary

This work describes a method for finding overlapping communities based on a principled statistical approach using generative network models and shows how the method can be implemented using a fast, closed-form expectation-maximization algorithm that allows us to analyze networks of millions of nodes in reasonable running times.

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Published
2011-04-18
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Keywords

Computer science, Disjoint sets, Maximization, Relaxation (psychology), Community structure

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