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The Hierarchical Clustering (HC) problem consists of building a hierarchy of clusters to represent a given dataset. Motivated by the modern large-scale applications, we study the problem in the \streaming model, in which the memory is…

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The frustration index is a key measure for analysing signed networks, which has been underused due to its computational complexity. We use an exact optimisation-based method to analyse frustration as a global structural property of signed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Samin Aref , Mark C. Wilson

Social networks and interactions in social media involve both positive and negative relationships. Signed graphs capture both types of relationships: positive edges correspond to pairs of "friends", and negative edges to pairs of "foes".…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Michael Mitzenmacher , Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

Stable gonality is a multigraph parameter that measures the complexity of a graph. It is defined using maps to trees. Those maps, in some sense, divide the edges equally over the edges of the tree; stable gonality asks for the map with the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Ragnar Groot Koerkamp , Marieke van der Wegen

Fair graph partition of social networks is a crucial step toward ensuring fair and non-discriminatory treatments in unsupervised user analysis. Current fair partition methods typically consider node balance, a notion pursuing a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Tingwei Liu , Peizhao Li , Hongfu Liu

Structural balance theory is an established framework for studying social relationships of friendship and enmity. These relationships are modeled by a signed network whose energy potential measures the level of imbalance, while stochastic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Jakub Svoboda , Ðorđe Žikelić , Andreas Pavlogiannis , Josef Tkadlec

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

Grouping the nodes of a graph into clusters is a standard technique for studying networks. We study a problem where we are given a directed network and are asked to partition the graph into a sequence of coherent groups. We assume that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Iiro Kumpulainen , Nikolaj Tatti

Network visualization has established as a key complement to network analysis since the large variety of existing network layouts are able to graphically highlight different properties of networks. However, signed networks, i.e., networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Edoardo Galimberti , Chiara Madeddu , Francesco Bonchi , Giancarlo Ruffo

In this paper we study graph problems in dynamic streaming model, where the input is defined by a sequence of edge insertions and deletions. As many natural problems require $\Omega(n)$ space, where $n$ is the number of vertices, existing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Zengfeng Huang , Pan Peng

Analyzing massive data sets has been one of the key motivations for studying streaming algorithms. In recent years, there has been significant progress in analysing distributions in a streaming setting, but the progress on graph problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-05-05 Kook Jin Ahn , Sudipto Guha

We design a space efficient algorithm that approximates the transitivity (global clustering coefficient) and total triangle count with only a single pass through a graph given as a stream of edges. Our procedure is based on the classic…

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Imbalanced node classification is a critical challenge in graph learning, where most existing methods typically utilize Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to learn node representations. These methods can be broadly categorized into the data-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Chaofan Zhu , Xiaobing Rui , Zhixiao Wang

This paper initiates the study of the classic balanced graph partitioning problem from an online perspective: Given an arbitrary sequence of pairwise communication requests between $n$ nodes, with patterns that may change over time, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Chen Avin , Marcin Bienkowski , Andreas Loukas , Maciej Pacut , Stefan Schmid

Graph partition is a key component to achieve workload balance and reduce job completion time in parallel graph processing systems. Among the various partition strategies, edge partition has demonstrated more promising performance in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Zhenyu Guo , Mingyu Xiao , Yi Zhou , Dongxiang Zhang , Kian-Lee Tan

Balance theory explains the forces behind the structure of social systems, which are commonly modeled as static undirected signed networks. We expand this modeling approach to incorporate directionality of edges, and consider three levels…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Samin Aref , Ly Dinh , Rezvaneh Rezapour , Jana Diesner

Imbalanced node classification is a critical challenge in graph learning, where most existing methods typically utilize Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to learn node representations. These methods can be broadly categorized into the data-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Zhixiao Wang , Chaofan Zhu , Qihan Feng , Jian Zhang , Xiaobin Rui , Philip S Yu

Computer or communication networks are so designed that they do not easily get disrupted under external attack and, moreover, these are easily reconstructible if they do get disrupted. These desirable properties of networks can be measured…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-09-23 T. C. E. Cheng , Yinkui Li , Chuandong Xu , Shenggui Zhang

On signed social networks, balanced and unbalanced triangles are a critical motif due to their role as the foundations of Structural Balance Theory. The uses for these motifs have been extensively explored in networks with known edge signs,…

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