# Blondel 2008: Fast unfolding of communities in large networks

> Vincent D Blondel, Jean-Loup Guillaume, Renaud Lambiotte et al., 2008. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The inductive-methods survey uses it as…

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# Fast unfolding of communities in large networks

Vincent D Blondel, Jean-Loup Guillaume, Renaud Lambiotte et al., 2008. _Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment_.

Introduces the Louvain method, a fast heuristic that finds communities in very large networks by optimizing modularity.

**Voynich Manuscript** Articledoi: **[10.1088/1742-5468/2008/10/p10008](https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-5468/2008/10/p10008)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

The inductive-methods survey uses it as a baseline community detector for word networks, alongside stochastic block models.

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Blondel, V. D., Guillaume, J. L., Lambiotte, R., & Lefebvre, E. (2008). Fast unfolding of communities in large networks. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-5468/2008/10/p10008
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