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Benchmarking Overlapping Community Detection Methods For Applications In Human Connectomics.

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Benchmarking overlapping community detection methods for applications in human connectomics.

Annie G Bryant^1,2, Aditi Jha³, Sumeet Agarwal⁴

¹School of Physics, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia.

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|January 15, 2026

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Summary

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Selecting the best brain network analysis method is crucial. We developed a data-driven approach using benchmark networks to choose overlapping community detection algorithms (OCDAs), identifying key brain regions.

Keywords:

Brain networks Community detection Diffusion MRI Structural connectome

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Network Science
Computational Biology

Background:

Brain networks display modular organization for specialized functions.
Traditional methods fail to identify multifunctional brain regions spanning multiple modules.
Overlapping community detection algorithms (OCDAs) exist, but selecting the best one is challenging.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce a data-driven method for selecting the optimal OCDA and parameters.
To objectively evaluate OCDAs using a benchmark network ensemble.
To analyze the human right-hemisphere structural connectome using the selected OCDA.

Main Methods:

Generated a tailored ensemble of benchmark networks.
Assessed 22 unique OCDAs and parameter settings.

Applied the best-performing OCDA (OSLOM) to the human right-hemisphere structural connectome.

Main Results:

The order statistics local optimization method (OSLOM) excelled in identifying overlapping structures.
OSLOM revealed a seven-network decomposition of the right-hemisphere cortex.
Fifteen overlapping regions bridge these modules, potentially indicating higher-order functions and increasing network participation along the cortical hierarchy.

Conclusions:

A data-driven method for OCDA selection enhances the analysis of complex networks.
The findings highlight the importance of overlapping community structure in brain networks.
This approach offers new ways to detect and quantify informative structures in real-world complex systems.