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Graph clustering is an unsupervised machine learning method that partitions the nodes in a graph into different groups. Despite achieving significant progress in exploiting both attributed and structured data information, graph clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Rui Zhang , Xiaoyang Hou , Zhihua Tian , Yan he , Enchao Gong , Jian Liu , Qingbiao Wu , Kui Ren

Identifying communities has always been a fundamental task in analysis of complex networks. Many methods have been devised over the last decade for detection of communities. Amongst them, the label propagation algorithm brings great…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Aria Rezaei , Saeed Mahlouji Far , Mahdieh Soleymani

Graph clustering, or community detection, is the task of identifying groups of closely related objects in a large network. In this paper we introduce a new community-detection framework called LambdaCC that is based on a specially weighted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Nate Veldt , David Gleich , Anthony Wirth

Graph clustering is a fundamental problem in unsupervised learning, with numerous applications in computer science and in analysing real-world data. In many real-world applications, we find that the clusters have a significant high-level…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Peter Macgregor

Community detection is a fundamental unsupervised learning problem for unlabeled networks which has a broad range of applications. Many community detection algorithms assume that the number of clusters $r$ is known apriori. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-20 Bowei Yan , Purnamrita Sarkar , Xiuyuan Cheng

Community detection is an important task in network analysis. A community (also referred to as a cluster) is a set of cohesive vertices that have more connections inside the set than outside. In many social and information networks, these…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-04-06 Joyce Jiyoung Whang , David F. Gleich , Inderjit S. Dhillon

Community detection in graphs is a problem that is likely to be relevant whenever network data appears, and consequently the problem has received much attention with many different methods and algorithms applied. However, many of these…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Vilhelm Agdur

Semi-supervised clustering is a basic problem in various applications. Most existing methods require knowledge of the ideal cluster number, which is often difficult to obtain in practice. Besides, satisfying the must-link constraints is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Wei Liu , Xin Liu , Michael K. Ng , Zaikun Zhang

Community detection refers to the task of discovering closely related subgraphs to understand the networks. However, traditional community detection algorithms fail to pinpoint a particular kind of community. This limits its applicability…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Xixi Wu , Yun Xiong , Yao Zhang , Yizhu Jiao , Caihua Shan , Yiheng Sun , Yangyong Zhu , Philip S. Yu

We study the problem of recovering a known cluster structure in a sparse network, also known as the planted partitioning problem, by means of statistical mechanics. We find a sharp transition from un-recoverable to recoverable structure as…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-12-11 Joerg Reichardt , Michele Leone

Community detection in social graphs has attracted researchers' interest for a long time. With the widespread of social networks on the Internet it has recently become an important research domain. Most contributions focus upon the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-02-26 Michel Crampes , Michel Plantié

In the graph clustering problem with a planted solution, the input is a graph on $n$ vertices partitioned into $k$ clusters, and the task is to infer the clusters from graph structure. A standard assumption is that clusters induce…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Hendrik Fichtenberger , Michael Kapralov , Ekaterina Kochetkova , Silvio Lattanzi , Davide Mazzali , Weronika Wrzos-Kaminska

We address the problem of un-supervised soft-clustering called micro-clustering. The aim of the problem is to enumerate all groups composed of records strongly related to each other, while standard clustering methods separate records at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Takeaki Uno , Hiroki Maegawa , Takanobu Nakahara , Yukinobu Hamuro , Ryo Yoshinaka , Makoto Tatsuta

Motivated by social network analysis and network-based recommendation systems, we study a semi-supervised community detection problem in which the objective is to estimate the community label of a new node using the network topology and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Yicong Jiang , Tracy Ke

Learning community structures in graphs has broad applications across scientific domains. While graph neural networks (GNNs) have been successful in encoding graph structures, existing GNN-based methods for community detection are limited…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-05 Yueqi Wang , Yoonho Lee , Pallab Basu , Juho Lee , Yee Whye Teh , Liam Paninski , Ari Pakman

Clustering trajectory data attracted considerable attention in the last few years. Most of prior work assumed that moving objects can move freely in an euclidean space and did not consider the eventual presence of an underlying road network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Mohamed Khalil El Mahrsi , Fabrice Rossi

Community detection is a critical challenge in analysing real graphs, including social, transportation, citation, cybersecurity, and many other networks. This article proposes three new, general, hierarchical frameworks to deal with this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Łukasz Brzozowski , Grzegorz Siudem , Marek Gagolewski

Community detection in graphs is the problem of finding groups of vertices which are more densely connected than they are to the rest of the graph. This problem has a long history, but it is undergoing a resurgence of interest due to the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Cristopher Moore

Inference of community structure in probabilistic graphical models may not be consistent with fairness constraints when nodes have demographic attributes. Certain demographics may be over-represented in some detected communities and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-23 Davoud Ataee Tarzanagh , Laura Balzano , Alfred O. Hero

Graph clustering (or community detection) has long drawn enormous attention from the research on web mining and information networks. Recent literature on this topic has reached a consensus that node contents and link structures should be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Carl Yang , Mengxiong Liu , Zongyi Wang , Liyuan Liu , Jiawei Han