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Network science

community detection method that finds the partition minimizing the description length of a random walk on the network.

In network science, Infomap refers to community detection method that finds the partition minimizing the description length of a random walk on the network. This meaning comes from Rosvall (2008) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[1]

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  1. Rosvall, M., & Bergstrom, C. T. (2008). Maps of random walks on complex networks reveal community structure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(4), 1118-1123. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0706851105

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