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Re: [igraph] community detection


From: Stijn van Dongen
Subject: Re: [igraph] community detection
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 17:05:22 +0100
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Your graph seems quite dense; about (2*3M) / 7K = 857 outgoing
edges/arcs per node on average.  This is *only* on average.

If you have, in addition, a graph that has highly connected hub nodess
and/or small diameter, it could well be a very hard graph to cluster.

I advise you to look into ways to reduce the number of edges in the
graph and make sure it does not have highly connected nodes; a simple
approach is possible if the edges have weights associated with them.  (I
recommend considering (reciprocal) nearest neighbour type selection;
e.g. take the arc merge (or intersect) of all top-N sections of the arc
lists of all nodes).

It should be possible even in the absence of weights, either with quick
and crude methods (remove nodes with many edges) or by considering the
number of triangles an edge participates in and thus establishing some
kind of weighting.

There is another clustering algorithm that has a parameter affecting
granularity (mcl - I wrote it), but I have not yet made it available
in igraph unfortunately. Anyway, I think the considerations above are
likely more important.

best,
Stijn



On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:31:31AM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote:
> Hi,
> No matter what community detection I use (leading.eigenvector.community,
> multilevel.community &c), I get just 2 communities (I have 7k vertexes
> and ~3M edges).  I want many more smaller communities (even if less
> modular), because this community detection is just one step in a long
> process.
> How do I limit the community size?
> Is there a better way to ensure that I get many communities?
> Thanks!
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