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Main Authors: Brisson, Laurent, Bothorel, Cécile, Duminy, Nicolas
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06245
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author Brisson, Laurent
Bothorel, Cécile
Duminy, Nicolas
author_facet Brisson, Laurent
Bothorel, Cécile
Duminy, Nicolas
contents Graph models help understand network dynamics and evolution. Creating graphs with controlled topology and embedded partitions is a common strategy for evaluating community detection algorithms. However, existing benchmarks often overlook the need to track the evolution of communities in real-world networks. To address this, a new community-centered model is proposed to generate customizable evolving community structures where communities can grow, shrink, merge, split, appear or disappear. This benchmark also generates the underlying temporal network, where nodes can appear, disappear, or move between communities. The benchmark has been used to test three methods, measuring their performance in tracking nodes' cluster membership and detecting community evolution. Python libraries, drawing utilities, and validation metrics are provided to compare ground truth with algorithm results for detecting dynamic communities.
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spellingShingle DynBenchmark: Customizable Ground Truths to Benchmark Community Detection and Tracking in Temporal Networks
Brisson, Laurent
Bothorel, Cécile
Duminy, Nicolas
Social and Information Networks
Artificial Intelligence
Graph models help understand network dynamics and evolution. Creating graphs with controlled topology and embedded partitions is a common strategy for evaluating community detection algorithms. However, existing benchmarks often overlook the need to track the evolution of communities in real-world networks. To address this, a new community-centered model is proposed to generate customizable evolving community structures where communities can grow, shrink, merge, split, appear or disappear. This benchmark also generates the underlying temporal network, where nodes can appear, disappear, or move between communities. The benchmark has been used to test three methods, measuring their performance in tracking nodes' cluster membership and detecting community evolution. Python libraries, drawing utilities, and validation metrics are provided to compare ground truth with algorithm results for detecting dynamic communities.
title DynBenchmark: Customizable Ground Truths to Benchmark Community Detection and Tracking in Temporal Networks
topic Social and Information Networks
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06245