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Community structure is one of the most important features of real networks and reveals the internal organization of the nodes. Many algorithms have been proposed but the crucial issue of testing, i.e., the question of how good an algorithm is, with respect to others, is still open. Standard tests include the analysis of simple artificial graphs with a built-in community structure, that the algorithm has to recover. However, the special graphs adopted in actual tests have a structure that does not reflect the real properties of nodes and communities found in real networks. Here we introduce a class of benchmark graphs, that account for the heterogeneity in the distributions of node degrees and of community sizes. We use this benchmark to test two popular methods of community detection, modularity optimization, and Potts model clustering. The results show that the benchmark poses a much more severe test to algorithms than standard benchmarks, revealing limits that may not be apparent at a first analysis.
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Andrea Lancichinetti
Northwestern University
Santo Fortunato
Northeastern University
Filippo Radicchi
Indiana University
Physical Review E
Institute for Scientific Interchange
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synapsesocial.com/papers/69d725488a0e2c5879bef91d — DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.78.046110