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walktrap

walktrap noun: an algorithm for identifying communities in large networks using random walks.

Noun

walktrap

  1. An algorithm for identifying communities in large networks using random walks.
    • We show that fastgreedy and walktrap community detection methods on weighted label co-occurence^([sic]) graphs are 85-92% more likely to yield better F1 scores than random partitioning.2016, Piotr Szymański, Tomasz Kajdanowicz, Kristian Kersting, “How is a data-driven approach better than random choice in label space division for multi-label classification?”, in arXiv

Origin of walktrap

From walk + trap.

Questions about walktrap

What does walktrap mean?
Walktrap means an algorithm for identifying communities in large networks using random walks.
What part of speech is walktrap?
Walktrap is a noun.

Words near walktrap in the dictionary

  1. walkt
  2. walkthrough
  3. walkthroughs
  4. walkthru
  5. walkthrus
  6. walktrap
  7. walkup
  8. walkups
  9. Walkuski
  10. Walkuskis
  11. walkway

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