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Identifying communities in networks is a fundamental and challenging problem of practical importance in many fields of science. Current methods either ignore the heterogeneous distribution of nodal degrees or assume prior knowledge of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Xin-Jian Xu , Cheng Chen , J. F. F. Mendes

We propose a robust, scalable, integrated methodology for community detection and community comparison in graphs. In our procedure, we first embed a graph into an appropriate Euclidean space to obtain a low-dimensional representation, and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-08-29 Vince Lyzinski , Minh Tang , Avanti Athreya , Youngser Park , Carey E. Priebe

In applications such as biological, social, and transportation networks, interactions between objects span multiple aspects. For accurately modeling such applications, multilayer networks have been proposed. Community search allows for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Ali Behrouz , Farnoosh Hashemi , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan

Hypergraphs provide a powerful framework for modeling complex systems and networks with higher-order interactions beyond simple pairwise relationships. However, graph-based clustering approaches, which focus primarily on pairwise relations,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Giuseppe F. Italiano , Athanasios L. Konstantinidis , Anna Mpanti , Fariba Ranjbar

Community detection, aiming to group the graph nodes into clusters with dense inner-connection, is a fundamental graph mining task. Recently, it has been studied on the heterogeneous graph, which contains multiple types of nodes and edges,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Linhao Luo , Yixiang Fang , Xin Cao , Xiaofeng Zhang , Wenjie Zhang

Detecting and characterizing dense subgraphs (tight communities) in social and information networks is an important exploratory tool in social network analysis. Several approaches have been proposed that either (i) partition the whole…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-10-12 Marco Pellegrini , Filippo Geraci , Miriam Baglioni

Community detection is expensive, and the cost generally depends at least linearly on the number of vertices in the graph. We propose working with a reduced graph that has many fewer nodes but nonetheless captures key community structure.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-10-14 Chengbin Peng , Tamara G. Kolda , Ali Pinar

This article considers the problem of community detection in sparse dynamical graphs in which the community structure evolves over time. A fast spectral algorithm based on an extension of the Bethe-Hessian matrix is proposed, which benefits…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Lorenzo Dall'Amico , Romain Couillet , Nicolas Tremblay

Breadth-First Search (BFS) is a building block used in a wide array of graph analytics and is used in various network analysis domains: social, road, transportation, communication, and much more. Over the last two decades, network sizes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Oded Green

Graph clustering is an important technique to understand the relationships between the vertices in a big graph. In this paper, we propose a novel random-walk-based graph clustering method. The proposed method restricts the reach of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Honglei Zhang , Jenni Raitoharju , Serkan Kiranyaz , Moncef Gabbouj

The Web is a typical example of a social network. One of the most intriguing features of the Web is its self-organization behavior, which is usually faced through the existence of communities. The discovery of the communities in a Web-graph…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Antonis Sidiropoulos

Community search is a personalized community discovery problem designed to identify densely connected subgraphs containing the query node. Recently, community search in heterogeneous information networks (HINs) has received considerable…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Guoxin Chen , Fangda Guo , Yongqing Wang , Yanghao Liu , Peiying Yu , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

A distinguishing property of communities in networks is that cycles are more prevalent within communities than across communities. Thus, the detection of these communities may be aided through the incorporation of measures of the local…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Behnaz Moradi-Jamei , Heman Shakeri , Pietro Poggi-Corradini , Michael J. Higgins

A distinguishing property of communities in networks is that cycles are more prevalent within communities than across communities. Thus, the detection of these communities may be aided through the incorporation of measures of the local…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Behnaz Moradi , Heman Shakeri , Pietro Poggi-Corradini , Michael Higgins

Community search over bipartite graphs has attracted significant interest recently. In many applications such as user-item bipartite graph in E-commerce, customer-movie bipartite graph in movie rating website, nodes tend to have attributes,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Zongyu Xu , Yihao Zhang , Long Yuan , Yuwen Qian , Zi Chen , Mingliang Zhou , Qin Mao , Weibin Pan

Community detection plays a central role in uncovering meso scale structures in networks. However, existing methods often suffer from disconnected or weakly connected clusters, undermining interpretability and robustness. Well-Connected…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Mohammad Dindoost , Oliver Alvarado Rodriguez , Bartosz Bryg , Minhyuk Park , George Chacko , Tandy Warnow , David A. Bader

Temporal graphs are ubiquitous. Mining communities that are bursting in a period of time is essential to seek emergency events in temporal graphs. Unfortunately, most previous studies for community mining in temporal networks ignore the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Hongchao Qin , Rong-Hua Li , Guoren Wang , Lu Qin , Ye Yuan , Zhiwei Zhang

Finding $k$-cores in graphs is a valuable and effective strategy for extracting dense regions of otherwise sparse graphs. We focus on the important problem of maintaining cores on rapidly changing dynamic graphs, where batches of edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Kasimir Gabert , Ali Pınar , Ümit V. Çatalyürek

Herein we present a novel approach of identifying community structures in complex networks. We propose the usage of the Random Walk Centrality (RWC), first introduced by Noh and Rieger [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92.11 (2004): 118701]. We adapt this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-09-12 Ashwat Jain , P. Manimaran

Complex data in social and natural sciences find effective representation through networks, wherein quantitative and categorical information can be associated with nodes and connecting edges. The internal structure of networks can be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Fabio Morea , Domenico De Stefano