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What is Community detection?

Verified 5 August 2026

In a coverage graph, communities correspond to discourses — groups of publishers and documents that cite each other and share vocabulary. Label propagation is the usual algorithm at scale, because it is near-linear.

The retrieval use is disambiguation. A term that means different things in different fields produces results spanning several communities; filtering to one keeps the agent inside a single discourse.

Common questions

What is Community detection?

Community detection partitions a graph into clusters of nodes that reference each other far more than the rest of the graph.

How does Community detection work in practice?

The retrieval use is disambiguation. A term that means different things in different fields produces results spanning several communities; filtering to one keeps the agent inside a single discourse.

See it working

The free tier is 10,000 requests a month with no card — enough to test any of this against your own queries.