title: A node influence based label propagation algorithm for community detection in networks.
abstract: Label propagation algorithm (LPA) is an extremely fast community detection method and is widely used in large scale networks. In spite of the advantages of LPA, the issue of its poor stability has not yet been well addressed. We propose a novel node influence based label propagation algorithm for community detection (NIBLPA), which improves the performance of LPA by improving the node orders of label updating and the mechanism of label choosing when more than one label is contained by the maximum number of nodes. NIBLPA can get more stable results than LPA since it avoids the complete randomness of LPA. The experimental results on both synthetic and real networks demonstrate that NIBLPA maintains the efficiency of the traditional LPA algorithm, and, at the same time, it has a superior performance to some representative methods.
authors.affiliation: School of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, Jiangsu 221116, China.
authors.forename: Yan
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-0367-7212
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xing
authors.affiliation: School of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, Jiangsu 221116, China.
authors.forename: Fanrong
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Meng
authors.affiliation: School of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, Jiangsu 221116, China.
authors.forename: Yong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: School of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, Jiangsu 221116, China.
authors.forename: Mu
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-6744-9887
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.affiliation: School of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, Jiangsu 221116, China.
authors.forename: Mengyu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.affiliation: School of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, Jiangsu 221116, China.
authors.forename: Guibin
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sun
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D019058:Community Networks; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D053858:Metabolic Networks and Pathways