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Algorithms for node clustering typically focus on finding homophilous structure in graphs. That is, they find sets of similar nodes with many edges within, rather than across, the clusters. However, graphs often also exhibit heterophilous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Sudhanshu Chanpuriya , Cameron Musco

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

Analysis of higher-order organizations, usually small connected subgraphs called motifs, is a fundamental task on complex networks. This paper studies a new problem of testing higher-order clusterability: given query access to an undirected…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Yifei Li , Donghua Yang , Jianzhong Li

One important tool is the optimal clustering of data into useful categories. Dividing similar objects into a smaller number of clusters is of importance in many applications. These include search engines, monitoring of academic performance,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Gavriel Yarmish , Philip Listowsky , Simon Dexter

This paper is concerned with distributed computation of several commonly used centrality measures in complex networks. In particular, we propose deterministic algorithms, which converge in finite time, for the distributed computation of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Keyou You , Roberto Tempo , Li Qiu

We propose Distributed Neighbor Expansion (Distributed NE), a parallel and distributed graph partitioning method that can scale to trillion-edge graphs while providing high partitioning quality. Distributed NE is based on a new heuristic,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Masatoshi Hanai , Toyotaro Suzumura , Wen Jun Tan , Elvis Liu , Georgios Theodoropoulos , Wentong Cai

Partitioning a graph into blocks of roughly equal weight while cutting only few edges is a fundamental problem in computer science with numerous practical applications. While shared-memory parallel partitioners have recently matured to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Peter Sanders , Daniel Seemaier

Spectral clustering is a widely used algorithm to find clusters in networks. Several researchers have studied the stability of spectral clustering under local differential privacy with the additional assumption that the underlying networks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Sayan Mukherjee , Vorapong Suppakitpaisarn

An unsupervised classification method for point events occurring on a network of lines is proposed. The idea relies on the distributional flexibility and practicality of random partition models to discover the clustering structure featuring…

With the recent popularity of graphical clustering methods, there has been an increased focus on the information between samples. We show how learning cluster structure using edge features naturally and simultaneously determines the most…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-09 Matt Barnes , Artur Dubrawski

Graph clustering is crucial for unraveling intricate data structures, yet it presents significant challenges due to its unsupervised nature. Recently, goal-directed clustering techniques have yielded impressive results, with contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Enhao Cheng , Shoujia Zhang , Jianhua Yin , Li Jin , Liqiang Nie

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

We consider a generalized version of the correlation clustering problem, defined as follows. Given a complete graph $G$ whose edges are labeled with $+$ or $-$, we wish to partition the graph into clusters while trying to avoid errors: $+$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-25 Gregory J. Puleo , Olgica Milenkovic

Online social networks are a dominant medium in everyday life to stay in contact with friends and to share information. In Twitter, users can connect with other users by following them, who in turn can follow back. In recent years,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Christoph Schweimer , Christine Gfrerer , Florian Lugstein , David Pape , Jan A. Velimsky , Robert Elsässer , Bernhard C. Geiger

Numerous approaches have been explored for graph clustering, including those which optimize a global criteria such as modularity. More recently, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), which have produced state-of-the-art results in graph analysis…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Co Tran , Mo Badawy , Tyler McDonnell

Graph clustering is a fundamental task in unsupervised learning with broad real-world applications. While spectral clustering methods for undirected graphs are well-established and guided by a minimum cut optimization consensus, their…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-04 Ning Zhang , Xiaowen Dong , Mihai Cucuringu

We study the problem of graph clustering under a broad class of objectives in which the quality of a cluster is defined based on the ratio between the number of edges in the cluster, and the total weight of vertices in the cluster. We show…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Jakub Łącki , Vahab Mirrokni , Christian Sohler

Multi-relational graphs (MRGs) are an expressive data structure for modeling diverse interactions/relations among real objects (i.e., nodes), which pervade extensive applications and scenarios. Given an MRG G with N nodes, partitioning the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Xiaoyang Lin , Runhao Jiang , Renchi Yang

We present \textit{CluProp}, a novel framework that reimagines varied-density clustering in high-dimensional spaces as a label propagation process over neighborhood graphs. Our approach formally bridges the gap between density-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Yingtao Zheng , Hugo Phibbs , Ninh Pham

Local clustering aims at extracting a local structure inside a graph without the necessity of knowing the entire graph structure. As the local structure is usually small in size compared to the entire graph, one can think of it as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Zhaiming Shen , Ming-Jun Lai , Sheng Li