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Measuring graph clustering quality remains an open problem. To address it, we introduce quality measures based on comparisons of intra- and inter-cluster densities, an accompanying statistical test of the significance of their differences…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Pierre Miasnikof , Alexander Y. Shestopaloff , Anthony J. Bonner , Yuri Lawryshyn , Panos M. Pardalos

Graph clustering is a fundamental problem that has been extensively studied both in theory and practice. The problem has been defined in several ways in literature and most of them have been proven to be NP-Hard. Due to their high practical…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-03-27 Sumit Singh

Graph clustering is the problem of identifying sparsely connected dense subgraphs (clusters) in a given graph. Proposed clustering algorithms usually optimize various fitness functions that measure the quality of a cluster within the graph.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jiri Sima , Satu Elisa Schaeffer

Correlation clustering provides a method for separating the vertices of a signed graph into the optimum number of clusters without specifying that number in advance. The main goal in this type of clustering is to minimize the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Leila Parsaei-Majd

We are interested in multilayer graph clustering, which aims at dividing the graph nodes into categories or communities. To do so, we propose to learn a clustering-friendly embedding of the graph nodes by solving an optimization problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Mireille El Gheche , Pascal Frossard

Graph clustering has been studied extensively on both plain graphs and attributed graphs. However, all these methods need to partition the whole graph to find cluster structures. Sometimes, based on domain knowledge, people may have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Wei Ye , Dominik Mautz , Christian Boehm , Ambuj Singh , Claudia Plant

This article introduces a concept and measure of graph compartmentalization. This new measure allows for principled comparison between graphs of arbitrary structure, unlike existing measures such as graph modularity. The proposed measure is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-08-29 Matthew J. Denny

Deep graph clustering, which aims to group the nodes of a graph into disjoint clusters with deep neural networks, has achieved promising progress in recent years. However, the existing methods fail to scale to the large graph with million…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Yue Liu , Ke Liang , Jun Xia , Sihang Zhou , Xihong Yang , Xinwang Liu , Stan Z. Li

Hierarchical graph clustering is a common technique to reveal the multi-scale structure of complex networks. We propose a novel metric for assessing the quality of a hierarchical clustering. This metric reflects the ability to reconstruct…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Thomas Bonald , Bertrand Charpentier

Graph-based clustering has shown promising performance in many tasks. A key step of graph-based approach is the similarity graph construction. In general, learning graph in kernel space can enhance clustering accuracy due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Zhao Kang , Honghui Xu , Boyu Wang , Hongyuan Zhu , Zenglin Xu

Graph clustering involves the task of dividing nodes into clusters, so that the edge density is higher within clusters as opposed to across clusters. A natural, classic and popular statistical setting for evaluating solutions to this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-17 Yudong Chen , Sujay Sanghavi , Huan Xu

This paper describes a graph clustering algorithm that aims to minimize the normalized cut criterion and has a model order selection procedure. The performance of the proposed algorithm is comparable to spectral approaches in terms of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-05-06 Seyed Salim Tabatabaei , Mark Coates , Michael Rabbat

We consider the clustering problem of attributed graphs. Our challenge is how we can design an effective and efficient clustering method that precisely captures the hidden relationship between the topology and the attributes in real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Seiji Maekawa , Koh Takeuch , Makoto Onizuka

Clustering a graph means identifying internally dense subgraphs which are only sparsely interconnected. Formalizations of this notion lead to measures that quantify the quality of a clustering and to algorithms that actually find…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-12-12 Robert Görke , Andrea Schumm , Dorothea Wagner

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art results on many graph analysis tasks such as node classification and link prediction. However, important unsupervised problems on graphs, such as graph clustering, have proved more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Anton Tsitsulin , John Palowitch , Bryan Perozzi , Emmanuel Müller

An original graph clustering approach to efficient localization of error covariances is proposed within an ensemble-variational data assimilation framework. Here the localization term is very generic and refers to the idea of breaking up a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Sibo Cheng , Jean-Philippe Argaud , Bertrand Iooss , Angélique Ponçot , Didier Lucor

Modularity is a very widely used measure of the level of clustering or community structure in networks. Here we consider a recent generalisation of the definition of modularity to temporal graphs, whose edge-sets change over discrete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Vilhelm Agdur , Jessica Enright , Laura Larios-Jones , Kitty Meeks , Fiona Skerman , Ella Yates

The structure of many complex networks includes edge directionality and weights on top of their topology. Network analysis that can seamlessly consider combination of these properties are desirable. In this paper, we study two important…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Frederique Oggier , Silivanxay Phetsouvanh , Anwitaman Datta

Graph neural networks (GNNs) based methods have achieved impressive performance on node clustering task. However, they are designed on the homophilic assumption of graph and clustering on heterophilic graph is overlooked. Due to the lack of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Erlin Pan , Zhao Kang

Statistical analysis and node clustering in hypergraphs constitute an emerging topic suffering from a lack of standardization. In contrast to the case of graphs, the concept of nodes' community in hypergraphs is not unique and encompasses…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Veronica Poda , Catherine Matias