English
Related papers

Related papers: Local Algorithms for Finding Densely Connected Clu…

200 papers

In this work, we study the problem of partitioning a set of graphs into different groups such that the graphs in the same group are similar while the graphs in different groups are dissimilar. This problem was rarely studied previously,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Jinyu Cai , Yi Han , Wenzhong Guo , Jicong Fan

We study the recently introduced problem of finding dense common subgraphs: Given a sequence of graphs that share the same vertex set, the goal is to find a subset of vertices $S$ that maximizes some aggregate measure of the density of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Moses Charikar , Yonatan Naamad , Jimmy Wu

Graphs have become increasingly popular in modeling structures and interactions in a wide variety of problems during the last decade. Graph-based clustering and semi-supervised classification techniques have shown impressive performance.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Zhao Kang , Chong Peng , Qiang Cheng , Xinwang Liu , Xi Peng , Zenglin Xu , Ling Tian

Clustering is indispensable for data analysis in many scientific disciplines. Detecting clusters from heavy noise remains challenging, particularly for high-dimensional sparse data. Based on graph-theoretic framework, the present paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-07-08 Deli Zhao , Xiaoou Tang

Clustering is one of the fundamental tasks in data analytics and machine learning. In many situations, different clusterings of the same data set become relevant. For example, different algorithms for the same clustering task may return…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-06 Steffen Borgwardt , Charles Viss

Local clustering aims to identify a cluster within a given graph that includes a designated seed node or a significant portion of a group of seed nodes. This cluster should be well-characterized, i.e., it has a high number of internal edges…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Adil Chhabra , Marcelo Fonseca Faraj , Christian Schulz

Graphs are a powerful way to model interactions and relationships in data from a wide variety of application domains. In this setting, entities represented by vertices at the "center" of the graph are often more important than those…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-11-06 Michael P. O'Brien , Blair D. Sullivan

Contrastive learning has recently attracted plenty of attention in deep graph clustering for its promising performance. However, complicated data augmentations and time-consuming graph convolutional operation undermine the efficiency of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Yue Liu , Xihong Yang , Sihang Zhou , Xinwang Liu

Algorithms for community detection are usually stochastic, leading to different partitions for different choices of random seeds. Consensus clustering has proven to be an effective technique to derive more stable and accurate partitions…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-04-23 Aditya Tandon , Aiiad Albeshri , Vijey Thayananthan , Wadee Alhalabi , Santo Fortunato

Semi-supervised clustering is a basic problem in various applications. Most existing methods require knowledge of the ideal cluster number, which is often difficult to obtain in practice. Besides, satisfying the must-link constraints is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Wei Liu , Xin Liu , Michael K. Ng , Zaikun Zhang

We propose a method for demonstrating sub community structure in scientific networks of relatively small size from analyzing databases of publications. Research relationships between the network members can be visualized as a graph with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Steven B. Bradlow , Konstantinos Kapenekakis , Georgios Kydonakis , Xinwei Li , Jiarui Xu

Many networks can be characterised by the presence of communities, which are groups of units that are closely linked. Identifying these communities can be crucial for understanding the system's overall function. Recently, hypergraphs have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Quintino Francesco Lotito , Federico Musciotto , Alberto Montresor , Federico Battiston

We present a novel distributed algorithm for counting all four-node induced subgraphs in a big graph. These counts, called the $4$-profile, describe a graph's connectivity properties and have found several uses ranging from bioinformatics…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Ethan R. Elenberg , Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Michael Borokhovich , Alexandros G. Dimakis

Graph algorithms are central to large-scale applications such as navigation systems, social networks, and data analysis platforms. This thesis studies two important challenges in such systems: robustness to failures and fairness in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Kushagra Chatterjee

Clustering a graph, i.e., assigning its nodes to groups, is an important operation whose best known application is the discovery of communities in social networks. Graph clustering and community detection have traditionally focused on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-09 Cecile Bothorel , Juan David Cruz , Matteo Magnani , Barbora Micenkova

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

'Big' high-dimensional data are commonly analyzed in low-dimensions, after performing a dimensionality-reduction step that inherently distorts the data structure. For the same purpose, clustering methods are also often used. These methods…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-20 Tom Lorimer , Karlis Kanders , Ruedi Stoop

Clustering high-dimensional datasets is hard because interpoint distances become less informative in high-dimensional spaces. We present a clustering algorithm that performs nonlinear dimensionality reduction and clustering jointly. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Sohil Atul Shah , Vladlen Koltun

Spectral clustering is a widely studied problem, yet its complexity is prohibitive for dynamic graphs of even modest size. We claim that it is possible to reuse information of past cluster assignments to expedite computation. Our approach…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-13 Lionel Martin , Andreas Loukas , Pierre Vandergheynst

Local sets, a graph structure invariant under local complementation, have been originally introduced in the context of quantum computing for the study of quantum entanglement within the so-called graph state formalism. A local set in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Nathan Claudet , Simon Perdrix