Overlapping Community Detection in Vehicular Social Networks Based on Graph Attention Autoencoder

Community detection is particularly important in vehicular social networks because it helps identify closely connected groups of vehicles within the network. Community structures with overlapping relationships are identified through network topology and vehicle attribute information, thereby optimizing communication efficiency, supporting resource allocation, and enhancing privacy protection. However, most existing community detection methods focus on non-overlapping communities, usually only considering the topological structure of the network, and often ignoring the attribute information of nodes. To address these problems, this paper proposes a semi-supervised overlapping community detection method based on graph attention autoencoder (CDGAAE). The method consists of three key components: graph attention autoencoder module, modularity optimization enhancement module, and semi-supervised clustering module. First, the graph attention autoencoder module fuses topological information and node attribute information and encodes nodes using a graph attention mechanism. Second, the modularity optimization enhancement module effectively captures the structure of overlapping communities. Finally, the semi-supervised clustering module combines prior information to improve the accuracy of community detection. CDGAAE is comprehensively evaluated on multiple real and synthetic datasets, and experimental results show that CDGAAE outperforms other competing methods.