tau-community-detection 1.0.2

Community detection via Louvain/Leiden + Genetic Algorithm

TAU Community Detection

tau-community-detection implements TAU, an evolutionary community detection algorithm that couples genetic search with Leiden refinements. It is designed for scalable graph clustering with configurable hyper-parameters and multiprocessing support.

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Highlights

• Evolutionary search: Maintains a population of candidate partitions and applies crossover/mutation tailored for graph clustering.
• Leiden optimisation: Refines every candidate with Leiden to ensure modularity gains.
• Multiprocessing aware: Utilises worker pools for population optimisation.
• Deterministic options: Accepts a user-specified random seed for reproducibility.
• Simple API: Access everything through the TauClustering class.

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Installation

The project targets Python 3.10 or newer (required for slot-based dataclasses).

pip install tau-community-detection

To work from a clone, install the package in editable mode inside a virtual environment:

git clone https://github.com/HillelCharbit/community_TAU.git
cd community_TAU
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -e .

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Quick Start (Python API)

from tau_community_detection import TauClustering

clustering = TauClustering(
    graph_source="path/to/graph.adjlist",
    population_size=80,
    max_generation=250,
)
membership, modularity_history = clustering.run()

print("community for node 0:", membership[0])
print("best modularity:", modularity_history[-1])

Graph input

TauClustering accepts either an igraph/NetworkX graph object or the path to an adjacency list that NetworkX can parse (see nx.read_adjlist). Nodes are internally remapped to contiguous integers to maximise igraph performance.

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Example Script

The repository ships with a runnable example that uses the bundled src/tau_community_detection/examples/example.graph file. To execute it from the project root:

python3 src/tau_community_detection/run_clustering.py

The script prints the detected membership vector and the modularity score history.

Note: multiprocessing may be restricted inside some sandboxed environments. Run the example on a local machine for best results.

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Configuration

All algorithm hyper-parameters live on the TauConfig dataclass. You can pass a custom configuration instance to TauClustering or adjust attributes on the default one. Key fields include:

• population_size: number of partitions maintained per generation.
• max_generations: upper bound on evolutionary iterations.
• elite_fraction / immigrant_fraction: govern selection pressure.
• stopping_generations / stopping_jaccard: convergence checks based on membership stability.
• random_seed: makes runs reproducible across processes.

See src/tau_community_detection/config.py for the complete list.

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Development Workflow

• Format imports and style according to your preferred tooling (no formatter is enforced).
• Validate new changes by executing the example script or custom experiments.
• When contributing, ensure dependency pins remain compatible with Python 3.10+.

Pull requests are welcome—please include context on parameter changes or performance observations when proposing algorithmic tweaks.

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License

Released under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.