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Community discovery in the social network is one of the tremendously expanding areas which earn interest among researchers for the past one decade. There are many already existing algorithms. However, new seed-based algorithms establish an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Belfin R , E. Grace Mary Kanaga , Piotr Bródka

This paper presents a simple and efficient approach for finding the bridges and failure points in a densely connected network mapped as a graph. The algorithm presented here is a parallel algorithm which works in a distributed environment.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Ashwani Kumar , Aditya Pratap Singh

This article explores and analyzes the unsupervised clustering of large partially observed graphs. We propose a scalable and provable randomized framework for clustering graphs generated from the stochastic block model. The clustering is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Mostafa Rahmani , Andre Beckus , Adel Karimian , George Atia

We propose and analyze a generic method for community recovery in stochastic block models and degree corrected block models. This approach can exactly recover the hidden communities with high probability when the expected node degrees are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-01 Jing Lei , Lingxue Zhu

This paper introduces a refined graph encoder embedding method, enhancing the original graph encoder embedding through linear transformation, self-training, and hidden community recovery within observed communities. We provide the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Cencheng Shen , Jonathan Larson , Ha Trinh , Carey E. Priebe

We study the classical problem of community recovery in stochastic block models with a fixed number of communities, with a twist: We seek algorithms that are stable with respect to node-wise changes in the graph structure, formally defined…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Laurentiu Marchis , Ethan D'souza , Tomáš Flídr , Po-Ling Loh

We present a method that allows for the discovery of communities within graphs of arbitrary size in times that scale linearly with their size. This method avoids edge cutting and is based on notions of voltage drops across networks that are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Fang Wu , Bernardo A. Huberman

Embedding graphs in a geographical or latent space, i.e.\ inferring locations for vertices in Euclidean space or on a smooth manifold or submanifold, is a common task in network analysis, statistical inference, and graph visualization. We…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Varsha Dani , Josep Díaz , Thomas P. Hayes , Cristopher Moore

This paper studies the problem of recovering the hidden vertex correspondence between two edge-correlated random graphs. We focus on the Gaussian model where the two graphs are complete graphs with correlated Gaussian weights and the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Yihong Wu , Jiaming Xu , Sophie H. Yu

In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in community detection algorithms for complex networks. A variety of computational heuristics, some with a long history, have been proposed for the identification of communities or,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-03-06 Michael T. Schaub , Jean-Charles Delvenne , Sophia N. Yaliraki , Mauricio Barahona

We study graph realization problems from a distributed perspective and we study it in the node capacitated clique (NCC) model of distributed computing, recently introduced for representing peer-to-peer networks. We focus on two central…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-19 John Augustine , Keerti Choudhary , Avi Cohen , David Peleg , Sumathi Sivasubramaniam , Suman Sourav

As communities represent similar opinions, similar functions, similar purposes, etc., community detection is an important and extremely useful tool in both scientific inquiry and data analytics. However, the classic methods of community…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Fanzhen Liu , Shan Xue , Jia Wu , Chuan Zhou , Wenbin Hu , Cecile Paris , Surya Nepal , Jian Yang , Philip S. Yu

We design algorithms for fitting a high-dimensional statistical model to a large, sparse network without revealing sensitive information of individual members. Given a sparse input graph $G$, our algorithms output a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Christian Borgs , Jennifer T. Chayes , Adam Smith

We study stochastic graph optimization problems in a novel distributed setting. As in the standard centralized setting, a random subgraph $G^*$ of a known base graph $G$ is realized by including each edge $e$ independently with a known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Keren Censor-Hillel , Aditi Dudeja , George Giakkoupis

The modern science of networks has brought significant advances to our understanding of complex systems. One of the most relevant features of graphs representing real systems is community structure, or clustering, i. e. the organization of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-09-17 Santo Fortunato

Spectral methods based on the eigenvectors of matrices are widely used in the analysis of network data, particularly for community detection and graph partitioning. Standard methods based on the adjacency matrix and related matrices,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-08-30 M. E. J. Newman

We propose a novel dynamic network model to capture evolving latent communities within temporal networks. To achieve this, we decompose each observed dynamic edge between vertices using a Poisson-gamma edge partition model, assigning each…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Xincan Yu , Sikun Yang

The conventional notion of community that favors a high ratio of internal edges to outbound edges becomes invalid when each vertex participates in multiple communities. Such a behavior is commonplace in social networks. The significant…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Elvis H. W. Xu , Pak Ming Hui

Motivated by applications that arise in online social media and collaboration networks, there has been a lot of work on community-search and team-formation problems. In the former class of problems, the goal is to find a subgraph that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Esther Galbrun , Behzad Golshan , Aristides Gionis , Evimaria Terzi

Community detection is a fundamental problem in machine learning. While deep learning has shown great promise in many graphrelated tasks, developing neural models for community detection has received surprisingly little attention. The few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Oleksandr Shchur , Stephan Günnemann