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A hypergraph is a useful combinatorial object to model ternary or higher-order relations among entities. Clustering hypergraphs is a fundamental task in network analysis. In this study, we develop two clustering algorithms based on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Yuuki Takai , Atsushi Miyauchi , Masahiro Ikeda , Yuichi Yoshida

One of the most useful measures of cluster quality is the modularity of a partition, which measures the difference between the number of the edges joining vertices from the same cluster and the expected number of such edges in a random…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-09-29 Hristo Djidjev

Detecting communities or the modular structure of real-life networks (e.g. a social network or a product purchase network) is an important task because the way a network functions is often determined by its communities. Traditional…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Swarup Chattopadhyay , Debasis Ganguly

Finding groups of connected individuals in large graphs with tens of thousands or more nodes has received considerable attention in academic research. In this paper, we analyze three main issues with respect to the recent influx of papers…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Pieter Leyman , Patrick De Causmaecker

This paper introduces the notion of co-modularity, to co-cluster observations of bipartite networks into co-communities. The task of co-clustering is to group together nodes of one type with nodes of another type, according to the…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-11-09 Thomas E. Bartlett

Many real-world complex networks exhibit a community structure, in which the modules correspond to actual functional units. Identifying these communities is a key challenge for scientists. A common approach is to search for the network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-22 Federico Botta , Charo I. del Genio

We develop new methods based on graph motifs for graph clustering, allowing more efficient detection of communities within networks. We focus on triangles within graphs, but our techniques extend to other clique motifs as well. Our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Charalampos Tsourakakis , Jakub Pachocki , Michael Mitzenmacher

The modern science of networks has brought significant advances to our understanding of complex systems. One of the most relevant features of graphs representing real systems is community structure, or clustering, i. e. the organization of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-09-17 Santo Fortunato

When forming a team or group of individuals, we often seek a balance of expertise in a particular task while at the same time maintaining diversity of skills within each group. Here, we view the problem of finding diverse and experienced…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Ilya Amburg , Nate Veldt , Austin R. Benson

Graph clustering, or community detection, is the task of identifying groups of closely related objects in a large network. In this paper we introduce a new community-detection framework called LambdaCC that is based on a specially weighted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Nate Veldt , David Gleich , Anthony Wirth

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

Hypergraphs are generalizations of simple graphs that allow for the representation of complex group interactions beyond pairwise relationships. Clustering coefficients quantify local link density in networks and have been widely studied for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Rikuya Miyashita , Shiori Hironaka , Kazuyuki Shudo

Spectral clustering is a popular method for community detection in network graphs: starting from a matrix representation of the graph, the nodes are clustered on a low dimensional projection obtained from a truncated spectral decomposition…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-10 Francesco Sanna Passino , Nicholas A. Heard , Patrick Rubin-Delanchy

Modularity is one of the most widely used quality measures for graph clusterings. Maximizing modularity is NP-hard, and the runtime of exact algorithms is prohibitive for large graphs. A simple and effective class of heuristics coarsens the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-09-22 Andreas Noack , Randolf Rotta

Most networks found in social and biochemical systems have modular structures. An important question prompted by the modularity of these networks is whether nodes can be said to belong to a single group. If they cannot, we would need to…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-05-02 Erin N. Sawardecker , Marta Sales-Pardo , Luís A. Nunes Amaral

Hypergraphs, describing networks where interactions take place among any number of units, are a natural tool to model many real-world social and biological systems. In this work we propose a principled framework to model the organization of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Nicolò Ruggeri , Martina Contisciani , Federico Battiston , Caterina De Bacco

The paper tackles the problem of clustering multiple networks, directed or not, that do not share the same set of vertices, into groups of networks with similar topology. A statistical model-based approach based on a finite mixture of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Tabea Rebafka

The problem of node-similarity in networks has motivated a plethora of such measures between node-pairs, which make use of the underlying graph structure. However, higher-order relations cannot be losslessly captured by mere graphs and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Govind Sharma , Paarth Gupta , M. Narasihma Murty

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

Graph clustering is a fundamental and challenging task in the field of graph mining where the objective is to group the nodes into clusters taking into consideration the topology of the graph. It has several applications in diverse domains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Aritra Bhowmick , Mert Kosan , Zexi Huang , Ambuj Singh , Sourav Medya