Louvain Clustering

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Louvain Clustering

Method

The Louvain clustering tries to optimize modularity in a greedy fashion by randomly moving nodes from one cluster to another in multiple levels.

The algorithm is:

  1. (level) start with each node being a singleton cluster:
  2. consider nodes in random order
  3. iterate as long as cluster membership changes
    • for each node : remove it from its current cluster and add it to the cluster with the highest modularity gain
  4. aggregate the resulting clustering to a new graph and continue on next level (step 1), as long as modularity improves.


Complexity

Practically, the algorithm seems to scale well for large graphs.

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