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A bipartite graph extensively models relationships between real-world entities of two different types, such as user-product data in e-commerce. Such graph data are inherently becoming more and more streaming, entailing continuous insertions…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Serafeim Papadias , Zoi Kaoudi , Varun Pandey , Jorge-Arnulfo Quiane-Ruiz , Volker Markl

Bipartite graphs characterize relationships between two different sets of entities, like actor-movie, user-item, and author-paper. The butterfly, a 4-vertices 4-edges (2,2)-biclique, is the simplest cohesive motif in a bipartite graph and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xinwei Cai , Xiangyu Ke , Kai Wang , Lu Chen , Tianming Zhang , Qing Liu , Yunjun Gao

Wing and Tip decomposition construct a hierarchy of butterfly-dense edge and vertex induced bipartite subgraphs, respectively. They have applications in several domains including e-commerce, recommendation systems and document analysis.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Kartik Lakhotia , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna

Bipartite networks are of great importance in many real-world applications. In bipartite networks, butterfly (i.e., a complete 2 x 2 biclique) is the smallest non-trivial cohesive structure and plays a key role. In this paper, we study the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Kai Wang , Xuemin Lin , Lu Qin , Wenjie Zhang , Ying Zhang

Balanced butterfly counting, corresponding to counting balanced (2, 2)-bicliques, is a fundamental primitive in the analysis of signed bipartite graphs and provides a basis for studying higher-order structural properties such as clustering…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Mekala Kiran , Apurba Das , Suman Banerjee , Tathagata Ray

We study the fundamental problem of butterfly (i.e. (2,2)-bicliques) counting in bipartite streaming graphs. Similar to triangles in unipartite graphs, enumerating butterflies is crucial in understanding the structure of bipartite graphs.…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Aida Sheshbolouki , M. Tamer Özsu

Bipartite graphs are ubiquitous in many domains, e.g., e-commerce platforms, social networks, and academia, by modeling interactions between distinct entity sets. Within these graphs, the butterfly motif, a complete 2*2 biclique, represents…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Qiuyang Mang , Jingbang Chen , Hangrui Zhou , Yu Gao , Yingli Zhou , Qingyu Shi , Richard Peng , Yixiang Fang , Chenhao Ma

Temporal bipartite graphs are widely used to denote time-evolving relationships between two disjoint sets of nodes, such as customer-product interactions in E-commerce and user-group memberships in social networks. Temporal butterflies,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Jiaxi Pu , Yanhao Wang , Yuchen Li , Xuan Zhou

We consider space-efficient single-pass estimation of the number of butterflies, a fundamental bipartite graph motif, from a massive bipartite graph stream where each edge represents a connection between entities in two different…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Seyed-Vahid Sanei-Mehri , Yu Zhang , Ahmet Erdem Sariyuce , Srikanta Tirthapura

Bipartite graphs offer a powerful framework for modeling complex relationships between two distinct types of vertices, incorporating probabilistic, temporal, and rating-based information. While the research community has extensively…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Apurba Das , Aman Abidi , Ajinkya Shingane , Mekala Kiran

Bipartite graphs serve as a natural model for representing relationships between two different types of entities. When analyzing bipartite graphs, butterfly counting is a fundamental research problem that aims to count the number of…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Chi Luo , Jiaxin Song , Yuhao Zhang , Kai Wang , Zhixing He , Kuan Yang

Cohesive subgraph mining in bipartite graphs becomes a popular research topic recently. An important structure k-bitruss is the maximal cohesive subgraph where each edge is contained in at least k butterflies (i.e., (2, 2)-bicliques). In…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Kai Wang , Xuemin Lin , Lu Qin , Wenjie Zhang , Ying Zhang

Bipartite graphs are commonly used to model relationships between two distinct entities in real-world applications, such as user-product interactions, user-movie ratings and collaborations between authors and publications. A butterfly (a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Lingkai Meng , Long Yuan , Xuemin Lin , Chengjie Li , Kai Wang , Wenjie Zhang

We consider the problem of counting motifs in bipartite affiliation networks, such as author-paper, user-product, and actor-movie relations. We focus on counting the number of occurrences of a "butterfly", a complete $2 \times 2$ biclique,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Seyed-Vahid Sanei-Mehri , Ahmet Erdem Sariyuce , Srikanta Tirthapura

The butterfly algorithm is a fast algorithm which approximately evaluates a discrete analogue of the integral transform \int K(x,y) g(y) dy at large numbers of target points when the kernel, K(x,y), is approximately low-rank when restricted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-11-26 Jack Poulson , Laurent Demanet , Nicholas Maxwell , Lexing Ying

Tip decomposition is a crucial kernel for mining dense subgraphs in bipartite networks, with applications in spam detection, analysis of affiliation networks etc. It creates a hierarchy of vertex-induced subgraphs with varying densities…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Kartik Lakhotia , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna , Cesar A. F. De Rose

Butterflies, or 4-cycles in bipartite graphs, are crucial for identifying cohesive structures and dense subgraphs. While agent-based data mining is gaining prominence, its application to bipartite networks remains relatively unexplored. We…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Prabhat Kumar Chand , Apurba Das , Anisur Rahaman Molla

Community search aims at finding densely connected subgraphs for query vertices in a graph. While this task has been studied widely in the literature, most of the existing works only focus on finding homogeneous communities rather than…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Zheng Dong , Xin Huang , Guorui Yuan , Hengshu Zhu , Hui Xiong

This paper studies the nucleus decomposition problem, which has been shown to be useful in finding dense substructures in graphs. We present a novel parallel algorithm that is efficient both in theory and in practice. Our algorithm achieves…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Jessica Shi , Laxman Dhulipala , Julian Shun

The densest subgraph problem has received significant attention, both in theory and in practice, due to its applications in problems such as community detection, social network analysis, and spam detection. Due to the high cost of obtaining…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Pattara Sukprasert , Quanquan C. Liu , Laxman Dhulipala , Julian Shun
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