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We investigate how to select the number of communities for weighted networks without a full likelihood modeling. First, we propose a novel weighted degree-corrected stochastic block model (DCSBM), where the mean adjacency matrix is modeled…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-12 Yucheng Liu , Xiaodong Li

We propose improved exact and heuristic algorithms for solving the maximum weight clique problem, a well-known problem in graph theory with many applications. Our algorithms interleave successful techniques from related work with novel data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Roman Erhardt , Kathrin Hanauer , Nils Kriege , Christian Schulz , Darren Strash

Graph clustering aims to partition nodes into distinct clusters based on their similarity, thereby revealing relationships among nodes. Nevertheless, most existing methods do not fully utilize these edge weights. Leveraging edge weights in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Haobing Liu , Yinuo Zhang , Tingting Wang , Ruobing Jiang , Yanwei Yu

Timestamped relational datasets consisting of records between pairs of entities are ubiquitous in data and network science. For applications like peer-to-peer communication, email, social network interactions, and computer network security,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Michael Ostroski , Geoffrey Sanders , Trevor Steil , Roger Pearce

Higher-order structures of networks, namely, small subgraphs of networks (also called network motifs), are widely known to be crucial and essential to the organization of networks. There has been a few work studying the community detection…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-04-14 Xiao Guo , Hai Zhang , Xiangyu Chang

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

Graph clustering, or community detection, is the task of identifying groups of closely related objects in a large network. In this paper we introduce a new community-detection framework called LambdaCC that is based on a specially weighted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Nate Veldt , David Gleich , Anthony Wirth

We consider a variant of the clustering problem for a complete weighted graph. The aim is to partition the nodes into clusters maximizing the sum of the edge weights within the clusters. This problem is known as the clique partitioning…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Alexander Belyi , Stanislav Sobolevsky , Alexander Kurbatski , Carlo Ratti

Local graph clustering methods aim to detect small clusters in very large graphs without the need to process the whole graph. They are fundamental and scalable tools for a wide range of tasks such as local community detection, node ranking…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Shenghao Yang , Kimon Fountoulakis

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

Spectral clustering is a powerful tool for unsupervised data analysis. In this paper, we propose a context-aware hypergraph similarity measure (CAHSM), which leads to robust spectral clustering in the case of noisy data. We construct three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Xi Li , Weiming Hu , Chunhua Shen , Anthony Dick , Zhongfei Zhang

We study the problem of clustering nodes in a dynamic graph, where the connections between nodes and nodes' cluster memberships may change over time, e.g., due to community migration. We first propose a dynamic stochastic block model that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Yuhang Yao , Carlee Joe-Wong

Motivated by applications in social and biological network analysis, we introduce a new form of agnostic clustering termed~\emph{motif correlation clustering}, which aims to minimize the cost of clustering errors associated with both edges…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Pan Li , Gregory J. Puleo , Olgica Milenkovic

We consider the exact recovery problem in the hypergraph stochastic block model (HSBM) with $k$ blocks of equal size. More precisely, we consider a random $d$-uniform hypergraph $H$ with $n$ vertices partitioned into $k$ clusters of size $s…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Sam Cole , Yizhe Zhu

We recently proposed a new ensemble clustering algorithm for graphs (ECG) based on the concept of consensus clustering. We validated our approach by replicating a study comparing graph clustering algorithms over benchmark graphs, showing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Valérie Poulin , François Théberge

Spectral clustering methodologies, when extended to accommodate signed graphs, have encountered notable limitations in effectively encapsulating inherent grouping relationships. Recent findings underscore a substantial deterioration in the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Muhieddine Shebaro , Lucas Rusnak , Martin Burtscher , Jelena Tešić

Community detection in hypergraphs is explored. Under a generative hypergraph model called "d-wise hypergraph stochastic block model" (d-hSBM) which naturally extends the Stochastic Block Model from graphs to d-uniform hypergraphs, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-06 I Chien , Chung-Yi Lin , I-Hsiang Wang

We propose clustering algorithms based on a recently developed geometric digraph family called cluster catch digraphs (CCDs). These digraphs are used to devise clustering methods that are hybrids of density-based and graph-based clustering…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-30 Artür Manukyan , Elvan Ceyhan

We study the weak recovery problem on the $r$-uniform hypergraph stochastic block model ($r$-HSBM) with two balanced communities. In this model, $n$ vertices are randomly divided into two communities, and size-$r$ hyperedges are added…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-12 Yuzhou Gu , Aaradhya Pandey

Finding densely connected subsets of vertices in an unsupervised setting, called clustering or community detection, is one of the fundamental problems in network science. The edge clustering approach instead detects communities by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Ryan DeWolfe , François Théberge