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Improving Heuristics for Network Modularity Maximization Using an Exact Algorithm

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Heuristics are widely applied to modularity maximization models for the identification of communities in complex networks. We present an approach to be applied as a post-processing to heuristic methods in order to improve their performances. Starting from a given partition, we test with an exact algorithm for bipartitioning if it is worthwhile to split some communities or to merge two of them. A combination of merge and split actions is also performed. Computational experiments show that the proposed approach is effective in improving heuristic results.

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Improving heuristics for network modularity maximization using an exact algorithm
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Discrete Applied Mathematics, 163(1), 65–72, 2014 BibTeX reference