Louvain Community Detection
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Louvain Community Detection

You may have already used Full definition for Louvain algorithm (opens in a new tab)A community detection algorithm that repeatedly merges nodes into groups for as long as merging raises modularity. in the Graph Data Science in Practice workshop to detect fraud rings by optimizing Full definition for modularity (opens in a new tab)A score for how much more densely connected the nodes within a group are than they would be by chance..

Graph showing papers as nodes, grouped into communities by citation patterns using Louvain algorithm.