Does my algorithm work? There's no shortcut for community detection

Thursday, May 4, 2017 - 07:01 in Mathematics & Economics

Community detection is an important tool for scientists studying networks. It provides descriptions of the large-scale network by dividing its nodes into related communities. To test community detection algorithms, researchers run the algorithm on known data from a real-world network and check to see if their results match up with existing node labels—metadata—from that network.

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