This paper reviews the state of the art in overlapping community detection algorithms, quality measures, and benchmarks. A thorough comparison of different algorithms (a total of fourteen) is provided. In addition to community level evaluation, we propose a framework for evaluating algorithms' ability to detect overlapping nodes, which helps to assess over-detection and underdetection. After considering community level detection performance measured by Normalized Mutual Information, the Omega index, and node level detection performance measured by Fscore, we reached the following conclusions. For low overlapping density networks, SLPA, OSLOM, Game and COPRA offer better performance than the other tested algorithms. For networks with high overlapping density and high overlapping diversity, both SLPA and Game provide relatively stable performance. However, test results also suggest that the detection in such networks is still not yet fully resolved. A common feature observed by various algorithms in real-world networks is the relatively small fraction of overlapping nodes (typically less than 30%), each of which belongs to only 2 or 3 communities.
Another relevant paper REF discusses overlapping community detection algorithms along with various quality measurements.
Overlapping Community Detection in Networks: the State of the Art and Comparative Study
ACM Computing Surveys 45(4), Article 43 (August 2013)
Computer Science Physics