Size reduction of complex networks preserving modularity

Details Size reduction of complex networks preserving modularity Size reduction of complex networks preserving modularity

2007-02-02

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0702015v1

New Journal of Physics 9 (2007) 176

Physics

Computational Physics

14 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/1367-2630/9/6/176

The ubiquity of modular structure in real-world complex networks is being the focus of attention in many trials to understand the interplay between network topology and functionality. The best approaches to the identification of modular structure are based on the optimization of a quality function known as modularity. However this optimization is a hard task provided that the computational complexity of the problem is in the NP-hard class. Here we propose an exact method for reducing the size of weighted (directed and undirected) complex networks while maintaining invariant its modularity. This size reduction allows the heuristic algorithms that optimize modularity for a better exploration of the modularity landscape. We compare the modularity obtained in several real complex-networks by using the Extremal Optimization algorithm, before and after the size reduction, showing the improvement obtained. We speculate that the proposed analytical size reduction could be extended to an exact coarse graining of the network in the scope of real-space renormalization.

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