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Flow-based methods for local graph clustering have received significant recent attention for their theoretical cut improvement and runtime guarantees. In this work we present two improvements for using flow-based methods in real-world…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Nate Veldt , Christine Klymko , David Gleich

Given a collection of vertex-aligned networks and an additional label-shuffled network, we propose procedures for leveraging the signal in the vertex-aligned collection to recover the labels of the shuffled network. We consider matching the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-31 Zhirui Li , Jesus Arroyo , Konstantinos Pantazis , Vince Lyzinski

Large-scale L1-regularized loss minimization problems arise in high-dimensional applications such as compressed sensing and high-dimensional supervised learning, including classification and regression problems. High-performance algorithms…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-12-19 Chad Scherrer , Ambuj Tewari , Mahantesh Halappanavar , David Haglin

Attributed graph clustering is challenging as it requires joint modelling of graph structures and node attributes. Recent progress on graph convolutional networks has proved that graph convolution is effective in combining structural and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Xiaotong Zhang , Han Liu , Qimai Li , Xiao-Ming Wu

Due to the massive size of modern network data, local algorithms that run in sublinear time for analyzing the cluster structure of the graph are receiving growing interest. Two typical examples are local graph clustering algorithms that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Pan Peng

Hypergraphs provide a powerful framework for modeling complex systems and networks with higher-order interactions beyond simple pairwise relationships. However, graph-based clustering approaches, which focus primarily on pairwise relations,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Giuseppe F. Italiano , Athanasios L. Konstantinidis , Anna Mpanti , Fariba Ranjbar

Graph clustering is a fundamental computational problem with a number of applications in algorithm design, machine learning, data mining, and analysis of social networks. Over the past decades, researchers have proposed a number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-12 He Sun , Luca Zanetti

Local graph clustering and the closely related seed set expansion problem are primitives on graphs that are central to a wide range of analytic and learning tasks such as local clustering, community detection, nodes ranking and feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Kimon Fountoulakis , Di Wang , Shenghao Yang

Finding clusters of well-connected nodes in a graph is an extensively studied problem in graph-based data analysis. Because of its many applications, a large number of distinct graph clustering objective functions and algorithms have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Nate Veldt , David F. Gleich , Anthony Wirth

Local algorithms on graphs are algorithms that run in parallel on the nodes of a graph to compute some global structural feature of the graph. Such algorithms use only local information available at nodes to determine local aspects of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-04-09 David Gamarnik , Madhu Sudan

We study the design of local algorithms for massive graphs. A local algorithm is one that finds a solution containing or near a given vertex without looking at the whole graph. We present a local clustering algorithm. Our algorithm finds a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-09-19 Daniel A. Spielman , Shang-Hua Teng

Seeded PageRank is an important network analysis tool for identifying and studying regions nearby a given set of nodes, which are called seeds. The seeded PageRank vector is the stationary distribution of a random walk that randomly resets…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-05-23 David F. Gleich , Kyle Kloster , Huda Nassar

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

Graph clustering is a fundamental task in network analysis where the goal is to detect sets of nodes that are well-connected to each other but sparsely connected to the rest of the graph. We present faster approximation algorithms for an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Vedangi Bengali , Nate Veldt

Local graph clustering is an important machine learning task that aims to find a well-connected cluster near a set of seed nodes. Recent results have revealed that incorporating higher order information significantly enhances the results of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Rania Ibrahim , David F. Gleich

In this study, we address the complex issue of graph clustering in signed graphs, which are characterized by positive and negative weighted edges representing attraction and repulsion among nodes, respectively. The primary objective is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Felix Hausberger , Marcelo Fonseca Faraj , Christian Schulz

Grouping the nodes of a graph into clusters is a standard technique for studying networks. We study a problem where we are given a directed network and are asked to partition the graph into a sequence of coherent groups. We assume that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Iiro Kumpulainen , Nikolaj Tatti

We present new refinement heuristics for the balanced graph partitioning problem that break with an age-old rule. Traditionally, local search only permits moves that keep the block sizes balanced (below a size constraint). In this work, we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Nikolai Maas , Lars Gottesbüren , Daniel Seemaier

Cluster repair methods aim to determine errors in clusters and modify them so that each cluster consists of records representing the same entity. Current cluster repair methodologies primarily assume duplicate-free data sources, where each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Victor Christen , Daniel Obraczka , Marvin Hofer , Martin Franke , Erhard Rahm

Modern graph or network datasets often contain rich structure that goes beyond simple pairwise connections between nodes. This calls for complex representations that can capture, for instance, edges of different types as well as so-called…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Ilya Amburg , Nate Veldt , Austin R. Benson