Jean-Gabriel Young, Antoine Allard, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Louis J. Dubé
Community detection is the process of assigning nodes and links in significant communities (e.g. clusters, function modules) and its development has led to a better understanding of complex networks. When applied to sizable networks, we argue that most detection algorithms correctly identify prominent communities, but fail to do so across multiple scales. As a result, a significant fraction of the network is left uncharted. We show that this problem stems from larger or denser communities overshadowing smaller or sparser ones, and that this effect accounts for most of the undetected communities and unassigned links. We propose a generic cascading approach to community detection that circumvents the problem. Using real network datasets with two widely used community detection algorithms, we show how cascading detection allows for the detection of the missing communities and results in a significant drop of the fraction of unassigned links.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.1364
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