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Detection of an unspecified number of communities in feature-rich networks
The problem of community detection in a network with features at its nodes takes into account both the graph structure and node features. The goal is to find relatively dense groups of interconnected entities sharing some features in common. Existing approaches require the number of communities pre-specified. We apply the so-called data recovery approach to allow a relaxation of the criterion for finding communities one-by-one. We show that our proposed method is effective on real-world data, as well as on synthetic data involving either only quantitative features or only categorical attributes or both. In the cases at which attributes are categorical, state-of-the-art algorithms are available. Our algorithm appears competitive against them. © 2020 CEUR-WS. All rights reserved.