Modularity and community structure in networks.

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Summary

It is shown that the modularity of a network can be expressed in terms of the eigenvectors of a characteristic matrix for the network, which is called modularity matrix, and that this expression leads to a spectral algorithm for community detection that returns results of demonstrably higher quality than competing methods in shorter running times.

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2006-02-17
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Modularity (biology), Computer science, Community structure, Eigenvalues and eigenvectors, Clique percolation method

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