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Graph clustering (or community detection) has long drawn enormous attention from the research on web mining and information networks. Recent literature on this topic has reached a consensus that node contents and link structures should be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Carl Yang , Mengxiong Liu , Zongyi Wang , Liyuan Liu , Jiawei Han

For data represented by networks, the community structure of the underlying graph is of great interest. A classical clustering problem is to uncover the overall ``best'' partition of nodes in communities. Here, a more elaborate description…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-11-11 Nicolas Tremblay , Pierre Borgnat

Real-world complex networks are usually being modeled as graphs. The concept of graphs assumes that the relations within the network are binary (for instance, between pairs of nodes); however, this is not always true for many real-life…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Alessia Antelmi , Gennaro Cordasco , Bogumił Kamiński , Paweł Prałat , Vittorio Scarano , Carmine Spagnuolo , Przemyslaw Szufel

In recent years, networks with higher-order interactions have emerged as a powerful tool to model complex systems. Comparing these higher-order systems remains however a challenge. Traditional similarity measures designed for pairwise…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-24 Cosimo Agostinelli , Marco Mancastroppa , Alain Barrat

How can we find a good graph clustering of a real-world network, that allows insight into its underlying structure and also potential functions? In this paper, we introduce a new graph clustering algorithm Dcut from a density point of view.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Junming Shao , Qinli Yang , Jinhu Liu , Stefan Kramer

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

Modularity is a quantity which has been introduced in the context of complex networks in order to quantify how close a network is to an ideal modular network in which the nodes form small interconnected communities that are joined together…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-05 Jordan Chellig , Nikolaos Fountoulakis , Fiona Skerman

Community detection is a critical challenge in analysing real graphs, including social, transportation, citation, cybersecurity, and many other networks. This article proposes three new, general, hierarchical frameworks to deal with this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Łukasz Brzozowski , Grzegorz Siudem , Marek Gagolewski

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

Graph clustering is an important unsupervised learning technique for partitioning graphs with attributes and detecting communities. However, current methods struggle to accurately capture true community structures and intra-cluster…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Samarth Bhatia , Yukti Makhija , Manoj Kumar , Sandeep Kumar

Observational data usually comes with a multimodal nature, which means that it can be naturally represented by a multi-layer graph whose layers share the same set of vertices (users) with different edges (pairwise relationships). In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-08-31 Xiaowen Dong , Pascal Frossard , Pierre Vandergheynst , Nikolai Nefedov

Correlation clustering is a widely-used approach for clustering large data sets based only on pairwise similarity information. In recent years, there has been a steady stream of better and better classical algorithms for approximating this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Sepehr Assadi , Sanjeev Khanna , Aaron Putterman

We introduce a spatial graph and hypergraph model that smoothly interpolates between a graph with purely pairwise edges and a graph where all connections are in large hyperedges. The key component is a spatial clustering resolution…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Omar Eldaghar , Yu Zhu , David F. Gleich

Random graph models are a recurring tool-of-the-trade for studying network structural properties and benchmarking community detection and other network algorithms. Moreover, they serve as test-bed generators for studying diffusion and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-02-16 Dario Fasino , Arianna Tonetto , Francesco Tudisco

We present an approach to model-based hierarchical clustering by formulating an objective function based on a Bayesian analysis. This model organizes the data into a cluster hierarchy while specifying a complex feature-set partitioning that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-18 Shivakumar Vaithyanathan , Byron E Dom

A probabilistic model for random hypergraphs is introduced to represent unary, binary and higher order interactions among objects in real-world problems. This model is an extension of the Latent Class Analysis model, which captures…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-08-16 Tin Lok James Ng , Thomas Brendan Murphy

Many real-world complex networks exhibit a community structure, in which the modules correspond to actual functional units. Identifying these communities is a key challenge for scientists. A common approach is to search for the network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-22 Federico Botta , Charo I. del Genio

Numerous networked systems feature a structure of nontrivial communities, which often correspond to their functional modules. Such communities have been detected in real-world biological, social and technological systems, as well as in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-08 Charo I. del Genio

Graphs may be used to represent many different problem domains -- a concrete example is that of detecting communities in social networks, which are represented as graphs. With big data and more sophisticated applications becoming widespread…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Miguel E. Coimbra , Alexandre P. Francisco , Luis Veiga

In this paper, a new general decomposition theory inspired from modular graph decomposition is presented. Our main result shows that, within this general theory, most of the nice algorithmic tools developed for modular decomposition are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Binh Minh Bui Xuan , Michel Habib , Vincent Limouzy , Fabien De Montgolfier