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Attributed graph clustering or community detection which learns to cluster the nodes of a graph is a challenging task in graph analysis. In this paper, we introduce a contrastive learning framework for learning clustering-friendly node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Maedeh Ahmadi , Mehran Safayani , Abdolreza Mirzaei

This paper studies the problem of graph-level clustering, which is a novel yet challenging task. This problem is critical in a variety of real-world applications such as protein clustering and genome analysis in bioinformatics. Recent years…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Wei Ju , Yiyang Gu , Binqi Chen , Gongbo Sun , Yifang Qin , Xingyuming Liu , Xiao Luo , Ming Zhang

Graph based clustering is one of the major clustering methods. Most of it work in three separate steps: similarity graph construction, clustering label relaxing and label discretization with k-means. Such common practice has three…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Yudong Han , Lei Zhu , Zhiyong Cheng , Jingjing Li , Xiaobai Liu

Graph clustering is an unsupervised machine learning method that partitions the nodes in a graph into different groups. Despite achieving significant progress in exploiting both attributed and structured data information, graph clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Rui Zhang , Xiaoyang Hou , Zhihua Tian , Yan he , Enchao Gong , Jian Liu , Qingbiao Wu , Kui Ren

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

Recently, some contrastive learning methods have been proposed to simultaneously learn representations and clustering assignments, achieving significant improvements. However, these methods do not take the category information and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Huasong Zhong , Jianlong Wu , Chong Chen , Jianqiang Huang , Minghua Deng , Liqiang Nie , Zhouchen Lin , Xian-Sheng Hua

A wide variety of information is disseminated through social media, and content that spreads at scale can have tangible effects on the real world. To curb the spread of harmful content and promote the dissemination of reliable information,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Naoki Shibao , Sho Tsugawa

Recently, neighbor-based contrastive learning has been introduced to effectively exploit neighborhood information for clustering. However, these methods rely on the homophily assumption-that connected nodes share similar class labels and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Liang Peng , Yixuan Ye , Cheng Liu , Hangjun Che , Man-Fai Leung , Si Wu , Hau-San Wong

Attributed graph clustering is challenging as it requires joint modelling of graph structures and node attributes. Recent progress on graph convolutional networks has proved that graph convolution is effective in combining structural and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Xiaotong Zhang , Han Liu , Qimai Li , Xiao-Ming Wu

Graph clustering is a longstanding research topic, and has achieved remarkable success with the deep learning methods in recent years. Nevertheless, we observe that several important issues largely remain open. On the one hand, graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Li Sun , Feiyang Wang , Junda Ye , Hao Peng , Philip S. Yu

Graph-based clustering has shown promising performance in many tasks. A key step of graph-based approach is the similarity graph construction. In general, learning graph in kernel space can enhance clustering accuracy due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Zhao Kang , Honghui Xu , Boyu Wang , Hongyuan Zhu , Zenglin Xu

Attributed graph clustering, which learns node representation from node attribute and topological graph for clustering, is a fundamental but challenging task for graph analysis. Recently, methods based on graph contrastive learning (GCL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Wei Xia , Quanxue Gao , Ming Yang , Xinbo Gao

Graph clustering is a crucial task in network analysis with widespread applications, focusing on partitioning nodes into distinct groups with stronger intra-group connections than inter-group ones. Recently, contrastive learning has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Xunlian Wu , Jingqi Hu , Anqi Zhang , Yining Quan , Qiguang Miao , Peng Gang Sun

Due to the power of learning representations from unlabeled graphs, graph contrastive learning (GCL) has shown excellent performance in community detection tasks. Existing GCL-based methods on the community detection usually focused on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Qi Wen , Yiyang Zhang , Yutong Ye , Yingbo Zhou , Nan Zhang , Xiang Lian , Mingsong Chen

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

Community detection is a critical challenge in analysing real graphs, including social, transportation, citation, cybersecurity, and many other networks. This article proposes three new, general, hierarchical frameworks to deal with this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Łukasz Brzozowski , Grzegorz Siudem , Marek Gagolewski

Graph clustering, which involves the partitioning of nodes within a graph into disjoint clusters, holds significant importance for numerous subsequent applications. Recently, contrastive learning, known for utilizing supervisory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Yunhui Liu , Xinyi Gao , Tieke He , Tao Zheng , Jianhua Zhao , Hongzhi Yin

Previous contrastive deep clustering methods mostly focus on instance-level information while overlooking the member relationship within groups/clusters, which may significantly undermine their representation learning and clustering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Haixin Zhang , Dong Huang

Deep graph clustering, which aims to group nodes into disjoint clusters by neural networks in an unsupervised manner, has attracted great attention in recent years. Although the performance has been largely improved, the excellent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Yue Liu , Ke Liang , Jun Xia , Xihong Yang , Sihang Zhou , Meng Liu , Xinwang Liu , Stan Z. Li

Multilayer graph has garnered plenty of research attention in many areas due to their high utility in modeling interdependent systems. However, clustering of multilayer graph, which aims at dividing the graph nodes into categories or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Liang Liu , Zhao Kang , Ling Tian , Wenbo Xu , Xixu He