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A network community detection method with integration of data from multiple layers and node attributes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2023

Hannu Reittu Open the ORCID record for Hannu Reittu [Opens in a new window] ,
Lasse Leskelä  and
Tomi Räty
Hannu Reittu*
Affiliation:
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Espoo, Finland
Lasse Leskelä
Affiliation:
School of Science, Department of Mathematics and System Analysis, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
Tomi Räty
Affiliation:
Microsoft, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA, USA
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*Corresponding author. Email: hannu.reittu@vtt.fi
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Abstract

Multilayer networks are in the focus of the current complex network study. In such networks, multiple types of links may exist as well as many attributes for nodes. To fully use multilayer—and other types of complex networks in applications, the merging of various data with topological information renders a powerful analysis. First, we suggest a simple way of representing network data in a data matrix where rows correspond to the nodes and columns correspond to the data items. The number of columns is allowed to be arbitrary, so that the data matrix can be easily expanded by adding columns. The data matrix can be chosen according to targets of the analysis and may vary a lot from case to case. Next, we partition the rows of the data matrix into communities using a method which allows maximal compression of the data matrix. For compressing a data matrix, we suggest to extend so-called regular decomposition method for non-square matrices. We illustrate our method for several types of data matrices, in particular, distance matrices, and matrices obtained by augmenting a distance matrix by a column of node degrees, or by concatenating several distance matrices corresponding to layers of a multilayer network. We illustrate our method with synthetic power-law graphs and two real networks: an Internet autonomous systems graph and a world airline graph. We compare the outputs of different community recovery methods on these graphs and discuss how incorporating node degrees as a separate column to the data matrix leads our method to identify community structures well-aligned with tiered hierarchical structures commonly encountered in complex scale-free networks.

Keywords

multiplex networkscommunity detectioninformation criteriapower-law graphsgraph distance matrix
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Research Article
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Network Science , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , September 2023 , pp. 374 - 396
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press

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