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A canonical problem in graph mining is the detection of dense communities. This problem is exacerbated for a graph with a large order and size -- the number of vertices and edges -- as many community detection algorithms scale poorly. In…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Heng Wang , Da Zheng , Randal Burns , Carey Priebe

Community search, retrieving the cohesive subgraph which contains the query vertex, has been widely touched over the past decades. The existing studies on community search mainly focus on static networks. However, real-world networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Yifei Zhang , Longlong Lin , Pingpeng Yuan , Hai Jin

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

Networks (or graphs) appear as dominant structures in diverse domains, including sociology, biology, neuroscience and computer science. In most of the aforementioned cases graphs are directed - in the sense that there is directionality on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Fragkiskos D. Malliaros , Michalis Vazirgiannis

Bipartite graphs are widely used to model relationships between two types of entities. Community search retrieves densely connected subgraphs containing a query vertex, which has been extensively studied on unipartite graphs. However,…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Kai Wang , Wenjie Zhang , Xuemin Lin , Ying Zhang , Lu Qin , Yuting Zhang

Searching for local communities is an important research problem that supports advanced data analysis in various complex networks, such as social networks, collaboration networks, cellular networks, etc. The evolution of such networks over…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Yifu Tang , Jianxin Li , Nur Al Hasan Haldar , Ziyu Guan , Jiajie Xu , Chengfei Liu

In real-world scenarios, large graphs represent relationships among entities in complex systems. Mining these large graphs often containing millions of nodes and edges helps uncover structural patterns and meaningful insights. Dividing a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Shrabani Ghosh , Erik Saule

Hypergraphs, increasingly utilised for modelling complex and diverse relationships in modern networks, gain much attention representing intricate higher-order interactions. Among various challenges, cohesive subgraph discovery is one of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Song Kim , Dahee Kim , Taejoon Han , Junghoon Kim , Hyun Ji Jeong , Jungeun Kim

Recently, the community search problem has attracted significant attention, due to its wide spectrum of real-world applications such as event organization, friend recommendation, advertisement in e-commence, and so on. Given a query vertex,…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Ahmed Al-Baghdadi , Xiang Lian

Finding the densest subgraph (DS) from a graph is a fundamental problem in graph databases. The DS obtained, which reveals closely related entities, has been found to be useful in various application domains such as e-commerce, social…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Yi Yang , Chenhao Ma , Reynold Cheng , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan , Xiaolin Han

The mining of frequent subgraphs from labeled graph data has been studied extensively. Furthermore, much attention has recently been paid to frequent pattern mining from graph sequences. A method, called GTRACE, has been proposed to mine…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-05-30 Akihiro Inokuchi , Hiroaki Ikuta , Takashi Washio

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

Community detection in large social networks is affected by degree heterogeneity of nodes. The D-SCORE algorithm for directed networks was introduced to reduce this effect by taking the element-wise ratios of the singular vectors of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-01 Zhe Wang , Yingbin Liang , Pengsheng Ji

In this paper, we present a novel way to summarize the structure of large graphs, based on non-parametric estimation of edge density in directed multigraphs. Following coclustering approach, we use a clustering of the vertices, with a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-08-07 Marc Boullé

Community search aims at finding densely connected subgraphs for query vertices in a graph. While this task has been studied widely in the literature, most of the existing works only focus on finding homogeneous communities rather than…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Zheng Dong , Xin Huang , Guorui Yuan , Hengshu Zhu , Hui Xiong

Truss was proposed to study social network data represented by graphs. A k-truss of a graph is a cohesive subgraph, in which each edge is contained in at least k-2 triangles within the subgraph. While truss has been demonstrated as superior…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-02-13 Rui Zhou , Chengfei Liu , Jeffrey Xu Yu , Weifa Liang , Yanchun Zhang

Community search aims to identify a refined set of nodes that are most relevant to a given query, supporting tasks ranging from fraud detection to recommendation. Unlike homophilic graphs, many real-world networks are heterophilic, where…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Qing Sima , Xiaoyang Wang , Wenjie Zhang

The study of complex networks has significantly advanced our understanding of community structures which serves as a crucial feature of real-world graphs. Detecting communities in graphs is a challenging problem with applications in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Jiakang Li , Songning Lai , Zhihao Shuai , Yuan Tan , Yifan Jia , Mianyang Yu , Zichen Song , Xiaokang Peng , Ziyang Xu , Yongxin Ni , Haifeng Qiu , Jiayu Yang , Yutong Liu , Yonggang Lu

The k-truss is a type of cohesive subgraphs proposed recently for the study of networks. While the problem of computing most cohesive subgraphs is NP-hard, there exists a polynomial time algorithm for computing k-truss. Compared with k-core…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-05-31 Jia Wang , James Cheng

The goal of community search in heterogeneous information networks (HINs) is to identify a set of closely related target nodes that includes a query target node. In practice, a size constraint is often imposed due to limited resources,…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Xinjian Zhang , Lu Chen , Chengfei Liu , Rui Zhou , Bo Ning