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Limited resolution in complex network community detection with Potts model approach

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According to Fortunato and Barthélemy, modularity-based community detection algorithms have a resolution threshold such that small communities in a large network are invisible. Here we generalize their work and show that the q-state Potts community detection method introduced by Reichardt and Bornholdt also has a resolution threshold. The model contains a parameter by which this threshold can be tuned, but no a priori principle is known to select the proper value. Single global optimization criteria do not seem capable for detecting all communities if their size distribution is broad.

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Kumpula, J., Saramäki, J., Kaski, K. et al. Limited resolution in complex network community detection with Potts model approach. Eur. Phys. J. B 56, 41–45 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2007-00088-4

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