walktrap

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noun

An algorithm for identifying communities in large networks using random walks.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

noun
  1. graph theoryAn algorithm for identifying communities in large networks using random walks.

    We show that fastgreedy and walktrap community detection methods on weighted label co-occurence^([sic]) graphs are 85-92% more likely to yield better F1 scores than random partitioning.

    2016, Piotr Szymański, Tomasz Kajdanowicz, Kristian Kersting, “How is a data-driven approach better than random choice in label space division for multi-label classification?”, in arXiv

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