Louvain Clustering

Louvain Clustering

Method

Starting with a state where each node is a singleton cluster, it greedily merges two clusters if the modularity score gets higher.

Complexity

The algorithms scales well for large graphs

References

• Fast unfolding of communities in large networks, Vincent D Blondel, Jean-Loup Guillaume, Renaud Lambiotte, Etienne Lefebvre, Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 2008 (10), P10008 (12pp) doi: 10.1088/1742-5468/2008/10/P10008. ArXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/0803.0476
• "The Louvain method for community detection in large networks" Vincent Blondel http://perso.uclouvain.be/vincent.blondel/research/louvain.html