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Community detection in graphs has many important and fundamental applications including in distributed systems, compression, image segmentation, divide-and-conquer graph algorithms such as nested dissection, document and word clustering,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Ryan A. Rossi , Nesreen K. Ahmed , Eunyee Koh , Sungchul Kim

Influential community search (ICS) finds a set of densely connected and high-impact vertices from a social network. Although great effort has been devoted to ICS problems, most existing methods do not consider how relevant the influential…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Long Teng , Yanhao Wang , Zhe Lin , Fei Yu

In complex networks, especially social networks, networks could be divided into disjoint partitions that the ratio between the number of internal edges (the edges between the vertices within same partition) to the number of outer edges…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Hamid Shahrivari Joghan , Alireza Bagheri , Meysam Azad

Community search is a personalized community discovery problem aimed at finding densely-connected subgraphs containing the query vertex. In particular, the search for communities with high-importance vertices has recently received a great…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Yanghao Liu , Fangda Guo , Bingbing Xu , Peng Bao , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

We study the temporal k-core component search (TCCS), which outputs the k-core containing the query vertex in the snapshot over an arbitrary query time window in a temporal graph. The problem has been shown to be critical for tasks such as…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Zhuo Ma , Dong Wen , Kaiyu Chen , Yixiang Fang , Xuemin Lin , Wenjie Zhang

Community search aims to identify a refined set of nodes that are most relevant to a given query, supporting tasks ranging from fraud detection to recommendation. Unlike homophilic graphs, many real-world networks are heterophilic, where…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Qing Sima , Xiaoyang Wang , Wenjie Zhang

Massive network exploration is an important research direction with many applications. In such a setting, the network is, usually, modeled as a graph $G$, whereas any structural information of interest is extracted by inspecting the way…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Panagiotis Strouthopoulos , Apostolos Papadopoulos

Community Search (CS) aims to identify densely interconnected subgraphs corresponding to query vertices within a graph. However, existing heterogeneous graph-based community search methods need help identifying cross-group communities and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-22 JiaYi Du , Yinghao Wu , Wei Ai , Tao Meng , CanHao Xie , KeQin Li

Community search is a widely studied semi-supervised graph clustering problem, retrieving a high-quality connected subgraph containing the user-specified query vertex. However, existing methods primarily focus on cohesiveness within the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Longlong Lin , Yue He , Wei Chen , Pingpeng Yuan , Rong-Hua Li , Tao Jia

Computing high-quality independent sets quickly is an important problem in combinatorial optimization. Several recent algorithms have shown that kernelization techniques can be used to find exact maximum independent sets in medium-sized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-05 Jakob Dahlum , Sebastian Lamm , Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz , Darren Strash , Renato F. Werneck

Hypergraphs, increasingly utilised to model complex and diverse relationships in modern networks, have gained significant attention for representing intricate higher-order interactions. Among various challenges, cohesive subgraph discovery…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Dahee Kim , Hyewon Kim , Song Kim , Minseok Kim , Junghoon Kim , Yeon-Chang Lee , Sungsu Lim

Temporal graphs are ubiquitous. Mining communities that are bursting in a period of time is essential to seek emergency events in temporal graphs. Unfortunately, most previous studies for community mining in temporal networks ignore the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Hongchao Qin , Rong-Hua Li , Guoren Wang , Lu Qin , Ye Yuan , Zhiwei Zhang

One of the major challenges in applications related to social networks, computational biology, collaboration networks etc., is to efficiently search for similar patterns in their underlying graphs. These graphs are typically noisy and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-12-17 Kanigalpula Samanvi , Naveen Sivadasan

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances large language models by incorporating external knowledge. However, existing vector-based methods often fail on global sensemaking tasks that require reasoning across many documents. GraphRAG…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Jakir Hossain , Ahmet Erdem Sarıyüce

Signed networks, where edges are labeled as positive or negative to represent friendly or antagonistic interactions, provide a natural framework for analyzing polarization, trust, and conflict in social systems. Detecting meaningful group…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Linus Aronsson , Morteza Haghir Chehreghani

Several approaches have been recently proposed for community search in bipartite graphs. These methods have shown promising results in identifying communities in real-world bipartite networks, such as social and biological networks. Given a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Kovan A. Bavi , Xiang Lian

Graph clustering or community detection constitutes an important task for investigating the internal structure of graphs, with a plethora of applications in several domains. Traditional techniques for graph clustering, such as spectral…

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

With the rapid development of information technologies, various big graphs are prevalent in many real applications (e.g., social media and knowledge bases). An important component of these graphs is the network community. Essentially, a…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Yixiang Fang , Xin Huang , Lu Qin , Ying Zhang , Wenjie Zhang , Reynold Cheng , Xuemin Lin

Given a graph $G$, a query node $q$, and an integer $k$, community search (CS) seeks a cohesive subgraph (measured by community models such as $k$-core or $k$-truss) from $G$ that contains $q$. It is difficult for ordinary users with less…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Yuxiang Wang , Yuyang Zhao , Xiaoliang Xu , Yue Wu , Tianxing Wu , Xiangyu Ke