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This paper studies the problem of recovering a hidden vertex correspondence between two correlated graphs when both edge weights and node features are observed. While most existing work on graph alignment relies primarily on edge…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Dong Huang , Chenyang Tian , Pengkun Yang

We present a near-linear-time algorithm that, given a bridgeless cubic graph, finds a perfect matching intersecting every 3-edge-cut in exactly one edge. This improves over a cubic algorithm of Boyd et al. for the same problem, and over our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Babak Ghanbari , Robert Šámal

Neural node embeddings have recently emerged as a powerful representation for supervised learning tasks involving graph-structured data. We leverage this recent advance to develop a novel algorithm for unsupervised community discovery in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Weicong Ding , Christy Lin , Prakash Ishwar

The Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model serves as a common abstraction of many modern large-scale parallel computation frameworks and has recently gained a lot of importance, especially in the context of classic graph problems.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Sebastian Brandt , Manuela Fischer , Jara Uitto

We present a new algorithm for community detection. The algorithm uses random walks to embed the graph in a space of measures, after which a modification of $k$-means in that space is applied. The algorithm is therefore fast and easily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-11 Mark Kozdoba , Shie Mannor

A recent paper \cite{CaeCaeSchBar06} proposed a provably optimal, polynomial time method for performing near-isometric point pattern matching by means of exact probabilistic inference in a chordal graphical model. Their fundamental result…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2007-10-03 Julian J. McAuley , Tiberio S. Caetano , Marconi S. Barbosa

Many fixed-parameter tractable algorithms using a bounded search tree have been repeatedly improved, often by describing a larger number of branching rules involving an increasingly complex case analysis. We introduce a novel and general…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-05-19 James Nastos , Yong Gao

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

We study community recovery in the planted partition model in regimes where the number and sizes of communities may vary arbitrarily with the number of vertices. In such highly unbalanced settings, standard accuracy or overlap-based metrics…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Martijn Gösgens , Maximilien Dreveton

We recently proposed a new ensemble clustering algorithm for graphs (ECG) based on the concept of consensus clustering. We validated our approach by replicating a study comparing graph clustering algorithms over benchmark graphs, showing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Valérie Poulin , François Théberge

The stochastic block model is one of the most studied network models for community detection. It is well-known that most algorithms proposed for fitting the stochastic block model likelihood function cannot scale to large-scale networks.…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-08-31 Jiangzhou Wang , Jingfei Zhang , Binghui Liu , Ji Zhu , Jianhua Guo

Spectral algorithms are an important building block in machine learning and graph algorithms. We are interested in studying when such algorithms can be applied directly to provide optimal solutions to inference tasks. Previous works by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Souvik Dhara , Julia Gaudio , Elchanan Mossel , Colin Sandon

We present an efficient algorithm for the min-max correlation clustering problem. The input is a complete graph where edges are labeled as either positive $(+)$ or negative $(-)$, and the objective is to find a clustering that minimizes the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Nairen Cao , Steven Roche , Hsin-Hao Su

The unsupervised learning of community structure, in particular the partitioning vertices into clusters or communities, is a canonical and well-studied problem in exploratory graph analysis. However, like most graph analyses the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Benjamin W. Priest , Alec Dunton , Geoffrey Sanders

Motivated by applications in domains such as social networks and computational biology, we study the problem of community recovery in graphs with locality. In this problem, pairwise noisy measurements of whether two nodes are in the same…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Yuxin Chen , Govinda Kamath , Changho Suh , David Tse

In this paper, we develop two new randomized block-coordinate optimistic gradient algorithms to approximate a solution of nonlinear equations in large-scale settings, which are called root-finding problems. Our first algorithm is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Quoc Tran-Dinh , Yang Luo

Community-based graph clustering is one of the most popular topics in the analysis of complex social networks. This type of clustering involves grouping vertices that are considered to share more connections, whereas vertices in different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Wenshun Teng , Qingna Li

Exact pattern matching in labeled graphs is the problem of searching paths of a graph $G=(V,E)$ that spell the same string as the pattern $P[1..m]$. This basic problem can be found at the heart of more complex operations on variation graphs…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Massimo Equi , Roberto Grossi , Veli Mäkinen

We propose a new local, deterministic and parameter-free algorithm that detects fuzzy and crisp overlapping communities in a weighted network and simultaneously reveals their hierarchy. Using a local fitness function, the algorithm greedily…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-03-17 Frank Havemann , Michael Heinz , Alexander Struck , Jochen Gläser

Finding optimal matchings in dense graphs is of general interest and of particular importance in social, transportation and biological networks. While developing optimal solutions for various matching problems is important, the running…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Nitish K. Panigrahy , Prithwish Basu , Don Towsley