English
Related papers

Related papers: Deep Overlapping Community Search via Subspace Emb…

200 papers

Algorithms for detecting communities in complex networks are generally unsupervised, relying solely on the structure of the network. However, these methods can often fail to uncover meaningful groupings that reflect the underlying…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Elham Alghamdi , Derek Greene

Community search is a widely studied semi-supervised graph clustering problem, retrieving a high-quality connected subgraph containing the user-specified query vertex. However, existing methods primarily focus on cohesiveness within the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Longlong Lin , Yue He , Wei Chen , Pingpeng Yuan , Rong-Hua Li , Tao Jia

Discovery of communities in complex networks is a topic of considerable recent interest within the complex systems community. Due to the dynamic and rapidly evolving nature of large-scale networks, like online social networks, the notion of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Nasheen Nur , Wenwen Dou , Xi Niu , Siddharth Krishnan , Noseong Park

Hyperparameter tuning is the main challenge of machine learning (ML) algorithms. Grid search is a popular method in hyperparameter tuning of simple ML algorithms; however, high computational complexity in complex ML algorithms such as Deep…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 M. A. Amirabadi

A "community" in a social network is usually understood to be a group of nodes more densely connected with each other than with the rest of the network. This is an important concept in most domains where networks arise: social,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-12-09 Sanjeev Arora , Rong Ge , Sushant Sachdeva , Grant Schoenebeck

This paper reviews the state of the art in overlapping community detection algorithms, quality measures, and benchmarks. A thorough comparison of different algorithms (a total of fourteen) is provided. In addition to community level…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-08-30 Jierui Xie , Stephen Kelley , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

Seeding then expanding is a commonly used scheme to discover overlapping communities in a network. Most seeding methods are either too complex to scale to large networks or too simple to select high-quality seeds, and the non-principled…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Changxing Shang , Shengzhong Feng , Zhongying Zhao , Jianping Fan

Recent developments in the internet and technology have made major advancements in tools that facilitate the collection of social data, opening up thus new opportunities for analyzing social networks. Social network analysis studies the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Souaad Boudebza

Sparse Subspace Clustering (SSC) is one of the most popular methods for clustering data points into their underlying subspaces. However, SSC may suffer from heavy computational burden. Orthogonal Matching Pursuit applied on SSC accelerates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Wenqi Zhu , Yuesheng Zhu , Li Zhong , Shuai Yang

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

We present a new online algorithm for detecting overlapping communities. The main ingredients are a modification of an online k-means algorithm and a new approach to modelling overlap in communities. An evaluation on large benchmark graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Mark Kozdoba , Shie Mannor

Community structure is one of the most prominent features of complex networks. Community structure detection is of great importance to provide insights into the network structure and functionalities. Most proposals focus on static networks.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Souâad Boudebza , Rémy Cazabet , Faiçal Azouaou , Omar Nouali

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

Community Search (CS) is one of the fundamental graph analysis tasks, which is a building block of various real applications. Given any query nodes, CS aims to find cohesive subgraphs that query nodes belong to. Recently, a large number of…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Shuheng Fang , Kangfei Zhao , Guanghua Li , Jeffery Xu Yu

Community detection is one of the most critical problems in modern network science. Its applications can be found in various fields, from protein modeling to social network analysis. Recently, many papers appeared studying the problem of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-12 Fedor Noskov , Maxim Panov

This paper focuses on the identification of overlapping communities, allowing nodes to simultaneously belong to several communities, in a decentralised way. To that aim it proposes LOCNeSs, an algorithm specially designed to run in a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Maël Canu , Marie-Jeanne Lesot , Adrien Revault d'Allonnes

Overlapping community detection (OCD) is a fundamental graph data analysis task for extracting graph patterns. Traditional OCD methods can be broadly divided into node clustering and link clustering approaches, both of which rely solely on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Shaozhen Ma , Hanchen Wang , Dong Wen , Wenjie Zhang , Wei Huang , Ying Zhang

This paper presents a novel spectral algorithm with additive clustering designed to identify overlapping communities in networks. The algorithm is based on geometric properties of the spectrum of the expected adjacency matrix in a random…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-07 Emilie Kaufmann , Thomas Bonald , Marc Lelarge

Detecting communities in large-scale networks is a challenging task when each vertex may belong to multiple communities, as is often the case in social networks. The multiple memberships of vertices and thus the strong overlaps among…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Elvis H. W. Xu , P. M. Hui

Membership diversity is a characteristic aspect of social networks in which a person may belong to more than one social group. For this reason, discovering overlapping structures is necessary for realistic social analysis. In this paper, we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-05-15 Jierui Xie , Boleslaw K. Szymanski