cdlib.algorithms.slpa

slpa(g_original: object, t: int = 21, r: float = 0.1) → cdlib.classes.node_clustering.NodeClustering

SLPA is an overlapping community discovery that extends tha LPA. SLPA consists of the following three stages: 1) the initialization 2) the evolution 3) the post-processing

Supported Graph Types

Undirected Directed Weighted
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Parameters:
  • g_original – a networkx/igraph object
  • t – maximum number of iterations, default 20
  • r – threshold ∈ [0, 1]. It is used in the post-processing stage: if the probability of seeing a particular label during the whole process is less than r, this label is deleted from a node’s memory. Default 0.1
Returns:

NodeClustering object

Example:
>>> from cdlib import algorithms
>>> import networkx as nx
>>> G = nx.karate_club_graph()
>>> coms = algorithms.slpa(G,  t=21, r=0.1)
References:

Xie Jierui, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, and Xiaoming Liu. Slpa: Uncovering overlapping communities in social networks via a speaker-listener interaction dynamic process. Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW), 2011 IEEE 11th International Conference on. IEEE, 2011.

Note

Reference implementation: https://github.com/kbalasu/SLPA