Table 1 Review and comparison of related algorithms.

From: Simple yet effective heuristic community detection with graph convolution network

Model

Year

Types of GNNs

Requirement to specify the number of communities

Contrastive learning

Modularity optimization

Joint optimization

K-means15

1982

Without GNN

✓

   

Louvain38

2008

Without GNN

  

✓

 

Yang et al.27

2016

Stacked Auto-Encoder

✓

 

✓

 

Alexandre Hollocou et al.28

2019

Without GNN

  

✓

 

CommDGI21

2020

GCN

✓

✓

✓

✓

SGCMC22

2021

GATE

 

✓

 

✓

Guillaume Salha-Galvan et al.29

2022

Modularity-Aware GAE/VGAE

✓

 

✓

✓

DCLN24

2023

GCN

✓

✓

 

✓

DGCluster30

2023

GCN

  

✓

✓

DCGL23

2024

GCN and AE

✓

✓

 

✓

MAGI31

2024

GCN

✓

✓

✓

 

MGCN39

2024

GAE and AE

✓

  

✓

MOMCD32

2025

Without GNN

  

✓

 

SCGC25

2025

Without GNN

✓

✓

 

✓

CPGCL26

2025

GCN

✓

✓

 

✓

Our

 

GCN

  

✓