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Many well-established anomaly detection methods use the distance of a sample to those in its local neighbourhood: so-called `local outlier methods', such as LOF and DBSCAN. They are popular for their simple principles and strong performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Adam Goodge , Bryan Hooi , See Kiong Ng , Wee Siong Ng

Community detection refers to the task of discovering closely related subgraphs to understand the networks. However, traditional community detection algorithms fail to pinpoint a particular kind of community. This limits its applicability…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Xixi Wu , Yun Xiong , Yao Zhang , Yizhu Jiao , Caihua Shan , Yiheng Sun , Yangyong Zhu , Philip S. Yu

By definition, outliers are rarely observed in reality, making them difficult to detect or analyse. Artificial outliers approximate such genuine outliers and can, for instance, help with the detection of genuine outliers or with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Georg Steinbuss , Klemens Böhm

Community search has been extensively studied in the past decades. In recent years, there is a growing interest in attributed community search that aims to identify a community based on both the query nodes and query attributes. A set of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Jianwei Wang , Kai Wang , Xuemin Lin , Wenjie Zhang , Ying Zhang

In the age of social computing, finding interesting network patterns or motifs is significant and critical for various areas such as decision intelligence, intrusion detection, medical diagnosis, social network analysis, fake news…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Shuo Yu , Feng Xia , Yuchen Sun , Tao Tang , Xiaoran Yan , Ivan Lee

Most real-world IoT data analysis tasks, such as clustering and anomaly event detection, are unsupervised and highly susceptible to the presence of outliers. In addition to sporadic scattered outliers caused by factors such as faulty sensor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Yiqun Zhang , Zexi Tan , Xiaopeng Luo , Yunlin Liu

We present a network community-detection technique based on properties that emerge from a nature-inspired system of aligning particles. Initially, each vertex is assigned a random-direction unit vector. A nonlinear dynamic law is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Filipe Alves Neto Verri , Roberto Alves Gueleri , Qiusheng Zheng , Junbao Zhang , Liang Zhao

The growing popularity of online social networks has provided researchers with access to large amount of social network data. This, coupled with the ever increasing computation speed, storage capacity and data mining capabilities, led to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Rumi Ghosh , Kristina Lerman

When neural networks are employed for high-stakes decision-making, it is desirable that they provide explanations for their prediction in order for us to understand the features that have contributed to the decision. At the same time, it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Penny Chong , Ngai-Man Cheung , Yuval Elovici , Alexander Binder

A deep community in a graph is a connected component that can only be seen after removal of nodes or edges from the rest of the graph. This paper formulates the problem of detecting deep communities as multi-stage node removal that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Pin-Yu Chen , Alfred O. Hero

In this paper we introduce a new method for detecting outliers in a set of proportions. It is based on the construction of a suitable two-way contingency table and on the application of an algorithm for the detection of outlying cells in…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-08-04 Flavio Mignone , Fabio Rapallo

Community detection is crucial in data mining. Traditional methods primarily focus on graph structure, often neglecting the significance of attribute features. In contrast, deep learning-based approaches incorporate attribute features and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hong Wang , Yinglong Zhang , Zhangqi Zhao , Zhicong Cai , Xuewen Xia , Xing Xu

Community detection has become an extremely active area of research in recent years, with researchers proposing various new metrics and algorithms to address the problem. Recently, the Weighted Community Clustering (WCC) metric was proposed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-11-04 Matthew Saltz , Arnau Prat-Pèrez , David Dominguez-Sal

Most existing community-related studies focus on detection, which aim to find the community membership for each user from user friendship links. However, membership alone, without a complete profile of what a community is and how it…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Hongyun Cai , Vincent W. Zheng , Fanwei Zhu , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang , Zi Huang

Uncovering the community structure exhibited by real networks is a crucial step towards an understanding of complex systems that goes beyond the local organization of their constituents. Many algorithms have been proposed so far, but none…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-09-17 Andrea Lancichinetti , Santo Fortunato

We present a novel active learning algorithm for community detection on networks. Our proposed algorithm uses a Maximal Expected Model Change (MEMC) criterion for querying network nodes label assignments. MEMC detects nodes that maximally…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Dan Kushnir , Benjamin Mirabelli

In this paper, a new comparative definition for community in networks is proposed and the corresponding detecting algorithm is given. A community is defined as a set of nodes, which satisfy that each node's degree inside the community…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Yanqing Hu , Hongbin Chen , Peng Zhang , Menghui Li , Zengru Di , Ying Fan

We propose a new latent Boolean feature model for complex networks that captures different types of node interactions and network communities. The model is based on a new concept in graph theory, termed the Boolean intersection…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-30 Son Hoang Dau , Olgica Milenkovic

Complex networks can be typically broken down into groups or modules. Discovering this "community structure" is an important step in studying the large-scale structure of networks. Many algorithms have been proposed for community detection…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-12-19 Jan Dreier , Philipp Kuinke , Rafael Przybylski , Felix Reidl , Peter Rossmanith , Somnath Sikdar

Unsupervised node clustering (or community detection) is a classical graph learning task. In this paper, we study algorithms, which exploit the geometry of the graph to identify densely connected substructures, which form clusters or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Yu Tian , Zachary Lubberts , Melanie Weber