Técnicas Espectrais para Detecção de Comunidades

Explore spectral techniques for community detection in complex networks through this 55-minute lecture presented in Portuguese by Thiago Ramos from UFSCar's Statistics Department. Delve into fundamental concepts of network analysis, focusing on methods that examine the spectrum of network-associated matrices like Laplacian and adjacency matrices. Learn about eigenvalue decomposition, eigenvectors, modularity optimization, and spectral clustering while understanding their computational efficiency and applicability to various network structures. Compare the strengths and limitations of spectral methods with alternative approaches in identifying densely connected node groups that reveal significant network patterns.