Descriptive vs. inferential community detection: pitfalls, myths and half-truths. (arXiv:2112.00183v3 [physics.soc-ph] UPDATED)

Community detection is one of the most important methodological fields of
network science, and one which has attracted a significant amount of attention
over the past decades. This area deals with the automated division of a network
into fundamental building blocks, with the objective of providing a summary of
its large-scale structure. Despite its importance and widespread adoption,
there is a noticeable gap between what is considered the state-of-the-art and
the methods that are actually used in practice in a …

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