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We present the class of projection methods for community detection that generalizes many popular community detection methods. In this framework, we represent each clustering (partition) by a vector on a high-dimensional hypersphere. A…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Martijn Gösgens , Remco van der Hofstad , Nelly Litvak

We present a structural clustering algorithm for large-scale datasets of small labeled graphs, utilizing a frequent subgraph sampling strategy. A set of representatives provides an intuitive description of each cluster, supports the…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Till Schäfer , Petra Mutzel

Even though 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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-10-04 Mohamed Khalil El Mahrsi , Fabrice Rossi

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

We study the structure of loops in networks using the notion of modulus of loop families. We introduce a new measure of network clustering by quantifying the richness of families of (simple) loops. Modulus tries to minimize the expected…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Heman Shakeri , Pietro Poggi-Corradini , Nathan Albin , Caterina Scoglio

Deep clustering is an essential task in modern artificial intelligence, aiming to partition a set of data samples into a given number of homogeneous groups (i.e., clusters). Recent studies have proposed increasingly advanced deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Tianyu Cheng , Qun Chen

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

This article considers spectral community detection in the regime of sparse networks with heterogeneous degree distributions, for which we devise an algorithm to efficiently retrieve communities. Specifically, we demonstrate that a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-12 Lorenzo Dall'Amico , Romain Couillet , Nicolas Tremblay

In this paper, we consider the community detection problem under either the stochastic block model (SBM) assumption or the degree-correlated stochastic block model (DCSBM) assumption. The modularity maximization formulation for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-04 Junyu Zhang , Haoyang Liu , Zaiwen Wen , Shuzhong Zhang

Community and cluster detection is a popular field of social network analysis. Most algorithms focus on static graphs or series of snapshots. In this paper we present an algorithm, which detects communities in dynamic graphs. The method is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Pascal Held , Rudolf Kruse

This work considers clustering nodes of a largely incomplete graph. Under the problem setting, only a small amount of queries about the edges can be made, but the entire graph is not observable. This problem finds applications in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Shahana Ibrahim , Xiao Fu

We develop new methods based on graph motifs for graph clustering, allowing more efficient detection of communities within networks. We focus on triangles within graphs, but our techniques extend to other clique motifs as well. Our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Charalampos Tsourakakis , Jakub Pachocki , Michael Mitzenmacher

Many algorithms have been proposed for detecting disjoint communities (relatively densely connected subgraphs) in networks. One popular technique is to optimize modularity, a measure of the quality of a partition in terms of the number of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-02-03 Bowen Yan , Steve Gregory

A novel approach rooted on the notion of consensus clustering, a strategy developed for community detection in complex networks, is proposed to cope with the heterogeneity that characterizes connectivity matrices in health and disease. The…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-05-09 Javier Rasero , Mario Pellicoro , Leonardo Angelini , Jesus M. Cortes , Daniele Marinazzo , Sebastiano Stramaglia

Local graph clustering methods aim to detect small clusters in very large graphs without the need to process the whole graph. They are fundamental and scalable tools for a wide range of tasks such as local community detection, node ranking…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Shenghao Yang , Kimon Fountoulakis

In standard graph clustering/community detection, one is interested in partitioning the graph into more densely connected subsets of nodes. In contrast, the "search" problem of this paper aims to only find the nodes in a "single" such…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Avik Ray , Sujay Sanghavi , Sanjay Shakkottai

Many methods have been developed for data clustering, such as k-means, expectation maximization and algorithms based on graph theory. In this latter case, graphs are generally constructed by taking into account the Euclidian distance as a…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-01-27 Francisco A. Rodrigues , Guilherme Ferraz de Arruda , Luciano da Fontoura Costa

This paper initiates formal analysis of a simple, distributed algorithm for community detection on networks. We analyze an algorithm that we call \textsc{Max-LPA}, both in terms of its convergence time and in terms of the "quality" of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-10-16 Kishore Kothapalli , Sriram V. Pemmaraju , Vivek Sardeshmukh

Image segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision. Data annotation for training supervised methods can be labor-intensive, motivating unsupervised methods. Current approaches often rely on extracting deep features from pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Amit Aflalo , Shai Bagon , Tamar Kashti , Yonina Eldar

We study large-scale, distributed graph clustering. Given an undirected graph, our objective is to partition the nodes into disjoint sets called clusters. A cluster should contain many internal edges while being sparsely connected to other…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Michael Hamann , Ben Strasser , Dorothea Wagner , Tim Zeitz