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Community detection, also known as graph partitioning, is a well-known NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem with applications in diverse fields such as complex network theory, transportation, and smart power grids. The problem's…

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Community detection approaches resolve complex networks into smaller groups (communities) that are expected to be relatively edge-dense and well-connected. The stochastic block model (SBM) is one of several approaches used to uncover…

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Decision-making processes often involve voting. Human interactions with exogenous entities such as legislations or products can be effectively modeled as two-mode (bipartite) signed networks-where people can either vote positively,…

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Clustering and community detection with multiple graphs have typically focused on aligned graphs, where there is a mapping between nodes across the graphs (e.g., multi-view, multi-layer, temporal graphs). However, there are numerous…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Guilherme Gomes , Vinayak Rao , Jennifer Neville

Many bipartite networks exhibit hierarchical community structure, but existing community detection methods are not well-suited for detecting hierarchy. They also do not effectively handle weighted bipartite networks. In this work, we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Tania Ghosh , Kevin E. Bassler

In this paper we discuss a very simple approach of combining content and link information in graph structures for the purpose of community discovery, a fundamental task in network analysis. Our approach hinges on the basic intuition that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-12-04 Yiye Ruan , David Fuhry , Srinivasan Parthasarathy

Cohesive subgraph mining in bipartite graphs becomes a popular research topic recently. An important structure k-bitruss is the maximal cohesive subgraph where each edge is contained in at least k butterflies (i.e., (2, 2)-bicliques). In…

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Mining complex data in the form of networks is of increasing interest in many scientific disciplines. Network communities correspond to densely connected subnetworks, and often represent key functional parts of real-world systems. In this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Blaž Škrlj , Jan Kralj , Nada Lavrač

Networks are useful representations of many systems with interacting entities, such as social, biological and physical systems. Characterizing the meso-scale organization, i.e. the community structure, is an important problem in network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-11-06 Abdullah Karaaslanli , Selin Aviyente

A bipartite graph extensively models relationships between real-world entities of two different types, such as user-product data in e-commerce. Such graph data are inherently becoming more and more streaming, entailing continuous insertions…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Serafeim Papadias , Zoi Kaoudi , Varun Pandey , Jorge-Arnulfo Quiane-Ruiz , Volker Markl

Bipartite graphs are rich data structures with prevalent applications and identifier structural features. However, less is known about their growth patterns, particularly in streaming settings. Current works study the patterns of static or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Aida Sheshbolouki , M. Tamer Özsu

With the prevalence of graphs for modeling complex relationships among objects, the topic of graph mining has attracted a great deal of attention from both academic and industrial communities in recent years. As one of the most fundamental…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Wensheng Luo , Chenhao Ma , Yixiang Fang , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan

Community detection, which focuses on recovering the group structure within networks, is a crucial and fundamental task in network analysis. However, the detection process can be quite challenging and unstable when community signals are…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Tianchen Gao , Jingyuan Liu , Rui Pan , Ao Sun

Bipartite networks provide an effective resource for representing, characterizing, and modeling several abstract and real-world systems and structures involving binary relations, which include food webs, social interactions, and…

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Community detection in graphs has many important and fundamental applications including in distributed systems, compression, image segmentation, divide-and-conquer graph algorithms such as nested dissection, document and word clustering,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Ryan A. Rossi , Nesreen K. Ahmed , Eunyee Koh , Sungchul Kim

We consider the problem of counting motifs in bipartite affiliation networks, such as author-paper, user-product, and actor-movie relations. We focus on counting the number of occurrences of a "butterfly", a complete $2 \times 2$ biclique,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Seyed-Vahid Sanei-Mehri , Ahmet Erdem Sariyuce , Srikanta Tirthapura

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…

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Networks (or graphs) are used to model the dyadic relations between entities in a complex system. In cases where there exists multiple relations between the entities, the complex system can be represented as a multilayer network, where the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Abhishek Santra , Sanjukta Bhowmick , Sharma Chakravarthy

Bipartite graphs characterize relationships between two different sets of entities, like actor-movie, user-item, and author-paper. The butterfly, a 4-vertices 4-edges (2,2)-biclique, is the simplest cohesive motif in a bipartite graph and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xinwei Cai , Xiangyu Ke , Kai Wang , Lu Chen , Tianming Zhang , Qing Liu , Yunjun Gao

Social networks facilitate the social space where actors or the users have ties among them. The ties and their patterns are based on their life styles and communication. Similarly, in online social media networks like Facebook, Twitter,…

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