Hierarchical community detection via rank-2 symmetric nonnegative matrix factorization

Abstract Background Community discovery is an important task for revealing structures in large networks. The massive size of contemporary social networks poses a tremendous challenge to the scalability of traditional graph clustering algorithms and the evaluation of discovered communities. Methods W...

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Main Authors: Rundong Du, Da Kuang, Barry Drake, Haesun Park
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-09-01
Series:Computational Social Networks
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40649-017-0043-5