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Near neighbor search (NNS) is a powerful abstraction for data access; however, data indexing is troublesome even for approximate indexes. For intrinsically high-dimensional data, high-quality fast searches demand either indexes with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Eric S. Tellez , Guillermo Ruiz , Edgar Chavez , Mario Graff

The community detection problem for graphs asks one to partition the n vertices V of a graph G into k communities, or clusters, such that there are many intracluster edges and few intercluster edges. Of course this is equivalent to finding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Ming-Jun Lai , Daniel Mckenzie

In many real-world applications, the evolving relationships between entities can be modeled as temporal graphs, where each edge has a timestamp representing the interaction time. As a fundamental problem in graph analysis, {\it community…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Yue Zhang , Yankai Chen , Yingli Zhou , Yucan Guo , Xiaolin Han , Chenhao Ma

Hidden community is a useful concept proposed recently for social network analysis. To handle the rapid growth of network scale, in this work, we explore the detection of hidden communities from the local perspective, and propose a new…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Meng Wang , Boyu Li , Kun He , John E. Hopcroft

Given one or more query vertices, Community Search (CS) aims to find densely intra-connected and loosely inter-connected structures containing query vertices. Attributed Community Search (ACS), a related problem, is more challenging since…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Yuli Jiang , Yu Rong , Hong Cheng , Xin Huang , Kangfei Zhao , Junzhou Huang

Although the inference of global community structure in networks has recently become a topic of great interest in the physics community, all such algorithms require that the graph be completely known. Here, we define both a measure of local…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-04-12 Aaron Clauset

A large number of applications such as querying sensor networks, and analyzing protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks, rely on mining uncertain graph and hypergraph databases. In this work we study the following problem: given an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Charalampos E. Tsourakakis , Shreyas Sekar , Johnson Lam , Liu Yang

Recently, numerous community search methods for large graphs have been proposed, at the core of which is defining and measuring cohesion. This paper experimentally evaluates the effectiveness of these community search algorithms w.r.t.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Yining Zhao , Sourav S Bhowmick , Nastassja L. Fischer , SH Annabel Chen

Finding groups of connected individuals in large graphs with tens of thousands or more nodes has received considerable attention in academic research. In this paper, we analyze three main issues with respect to the recent influx of papers…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Pieter Leyman , Patrick De Causmaecker

Geo-social group search aims to find a group of people proximate to a location while socially related. One of the driven applications for geo-social group search is organizing an impromptu activity. This is because the social cohesiveness…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Lu Chen , Chengfei Liu , Rui Zhou , Jiajie Xu , Jianxin Li

In this paper we propose a graph-community detection approach to identify cross-document relationships at the topic segment level. Given a set of related documents, we automatically find these relationships by clustering segments with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Pedro Mota , Maxine Eskenazi , Luisa Coheur

There are extensive studies focusing on the application scenario that all the bipartite cohesive subgraphs need to be discovered in a bipartite graph. However, we observe that, for some applications, one is interested in finding bipartite…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Aman Abidi , Lu Chen , Rui Zhou , Chengfei Liu

The Maximum Weight Independent Set problem is a fundamental NP-hard problem in combinatorial optimization with several real-world applications. Given an undirected vertex-weighted graph, the problem is to find a subset of the vertices with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Ernestine Großmann , Kenneth Langedal , Christian Schulz

Graph data management and querying has many practical applications. When graphs are very heterogeneous and/or users are unfamiliar with their structure, they may need to find how two or more groups of nodes are connected in a graph, even…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Angelos Christos Anadiotis , Ioana Manolescu , Madhulika Mohanty

The k-core of a graph is its maximal subgraph with minimum degree at least k, and the core value of a vertex u is the largest k for which u is contained in the k-core of the graph. Among cohesive subgraphs, k-core and its variants have…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yan S. Couto , Cristina G. Fernandes

Community detection in social networks is a problem with considerable interest, since, discovering communities reveals hidden information about networks. There exist many algorithms to detect inherent community structures and recently few…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Waqas Nawaz

Finding dense subgraphs of a large network is a fundamental problem in graph mining that has been studied extensively both for its theoretical richness and its many practical applications over the last five decades. However, most existing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Ali Behrouz , Farnoosh Hashemi

Shortest path search is a core operation in graph-based applications, yet existing methods face important limitations. Classical algorithms such as Dijkstra's and A* become inefficient as graphs grow more complex, while index-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Tiantian Liu , Xiao Li , Huan Li , Hua Lu , Christian S. Jensen , Jianliang Xu

Hypergraphs serve as a powerful tool for modeling complex relationships across domains like social networks, transactions, and recommendation systems. The (k,g)-core model effectively identifies cohesive subgraphs by assessing internal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Hyewon Kim , Woocheol Shin , Dahee Kim , Junghoon Kim , Sungsu Lim , Hyunji Jeong

This paper introduces a refined graph encoder embedding method, enhancing the original graph encoder embedding through linear transformation, self-training, and hidden community recovery within observed communities. We provide the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Cencheng Shen , Jonathan Larson , Ha Trinh , Carey E. Priebe