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Traditionally, graph quality metrics focus on readability, but recent studies show the need for metrics which are more specific to the discovery of patterns in graphs. Cluster analysis is a popular task within graph analysis, yet there is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Amyra Meidiana , Seok-Hee Hong , Peter Eades , Daniel Keim

Unsupervised node clustering (or community detection) is a classical graph learning task. In this paper, we study algorithms, which exploit the geometry of the graph to identify densely connected substructures, which form clusters or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Yu Tian , Zachary Lubberts , Melanie Weber

This paper proposes a simple but effective graph-based agglomerative algorithm, for clustering high-dimensional data. We explore the different roles of two fundamental concepts in graph theory, indegree and outdegree, in the context of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Wei Zhang , Xiaogang Wang , Deli Zhao , Xiaoou Tang

Recently, several complex network approaches to time series analysis have been developed and applied to study a wide range of model systems as well as real-world data, e.g., geophysical or financial time series. Among these techniques,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-03-23 Reik V. Donner , Jobst Heitzig , Jonathan F. Donges , Yong Zou , Norbert Marwan , Jürgen Kurths

We show that the clustering coefficient, a standard measure in network theory, when applied to flow networks, i.e. graph representations of fluid flows in which links between nodes represent fluid transport between spatial regions,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-02-23 Victor Rodriguez-Mendez , Enrico Ser-Giacomi , Emilio Hernandez-Garcia

The Euler characteristic is an invariant of a topological space that in a precise sense captures its canonical notion of size, akin to the cardinality of a set. The Euler characteristic is closely related to the homology of a space, as it…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Nina Otter

The evolution of many stochastic systems is accurately described by random walks on graphs. We here explore the close connection between local steady-state fluctuations of random walks and the global structure of the underlying graph.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-25 M. Bruderer

The behaviour and functioning of a variety of complex physical and biological systems depend on the spatial organisation of their constituent units, and on the presence and formation of clusters of functionally similar or related…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-08-16 Silvia Rognone , Vincenzo Nicosia

Global physical properties of random media change qualitatively at a percolation threshold, where isolated clusters merge to form one infinite connected component. The precise knowledge of percolation thresholds is thus of paramount…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-01-13 Richard A. Neher , Klaus Mecke , Herbert Wagner

We introduce new clustering coefficients for weighted networks. They are continuous and robust against edge weight changes. Recently, generalized clustering coefficients for weighted and directed networks have been proposed. These…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-12-02 Kent Miyajima , Takashi Sakuragawa

Symmetries in a network connectivity regulate how the graph's functioning organizes into clustered states. Classical methods for tracing the symmetry group of a network require very high computational costs, and therefore they are of hard,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-01-05 Pitambar Khanra , Subrata Ghosh , Karin Alfaro-Bittner , Prosenjit Kundu , Stefano Boccaletti , Chittaranjan Hens , Pinaki Pal

A fundamental property of complex networks is the tendency for edges to cluster. The extent of the clustering is typically quantified by the clustering coefficient, which is the probability that a length-2 path is closed, i.e., induces a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Hao Yin , Austin R. Benson , Jure Leskovec

The global clustering coefficient serves as a powerful metric for the structural analysis and comparison of complex networks. Random geometric graphs offer a realistic framework for representing the spatial constraints and geometry often…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Mingao Yuan , Md. Niamul Islam Sium

Motivated by applications of large-scale graph clustering, we study random-walk-based LOCAL algorithms whose running times depend only on the size of the output cluster, rather than the entire graph. All previously known such algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-08 Zeyuan Allen Zhu , Silvio Lattanzi , Vahab Mirrokni

Correlation Clustering is an elegant model that captures fundamental graph cut problems such as Min $s-t$ Cut, Multiway Cut, and Multicut, extensively studied in combinatorial optimization. Here, we are given a graph with edges labeled $+$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Moses Charikar , Neha Gupta , Roy Schwartz

Graph clustering is essential in graph analysis for revealing structural patterns and node communities. Despite recent advances in self-supervised contrastive learning that have improved clustering via structural and attribute signals,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Lei Zhang , Fubo Sun , Haipeng Yang , Zhong Guan , Likang Wu

Statistical inference for exponential-family models of random graphs with dependent edges is challenging. We stress the importance of additional structure and show that additional structure facilitates statistical inference. A simple…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-13 Michael Schweinberger , Jonathan Stewart

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

Many real-world networks exhibit scale-free feature, have a small diameter and a high clustering tendency. We have studied the properties of a growing network, which has all these features, in which an incoming node is connected to its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Parongama Sen , S. S. Manna

The Correlation Clustering problem is one of the most extensively studied clustering formulations due to its wide applications in machine learning, data mining, computational biology and other areas. We consider the Correlation Clustering…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Jianqi Zhou , Zhongyi Zhang , Jiong Guo