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We study the problem of recognizing the cluster structure of a graph in the framework of property testing in the bounded degree model. Given a parameter $\varepsilon$, a $d$-bounded degree graph is defined to be $(k, \phi)$-clusterable, if…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Artur Czumaj , Pan Peng , Christian Sohler

Graph clustering has been studied extensively on both plain graphs and attributed graphs. However, all these methods need to partition the whole graph to find cluster structures. Sometimes, based on domain knowledge, people may have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Wei Ye , Dominik Mautz , Christian Boehm , Ambuj Singh , Claudia Plant

Local clustering aims at extracting a local structure inside a graph without the necessity of knowing the entire graph structure. As the local structure is usually small in size compared to the entire graph, one can think of it as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Zhaiming Shen , Ming-Jun Lai , Sheng Li

Local graph clustering methods aim to detect small clusters in very large graphs without the need to process the whole graph. They are fundamental and scalable tools for a wide range of tasks such as local community detection, node ranking…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Shenghao Yang , Kimon Fountoulakis

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

In the framework of graph property testing, we study the problem of determining if a graph admits a cluster structure. We say that a graph is $(k, \phi)$-clusterable if it can be partitioned into at most $k$ parts such that each part has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Sandeep Silwal , Jonathan Tidor

In network tomography, one goal is to identify a small set of failed links in a network, by sending a few packets through the network and seeing which reach their destination. This problem can be seen as a variant of combinatorial group…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Bruce Spang , Mary Wootters

A natural approach to analyze interaction data of form "what-connects-to-what-when" is to create a time-series (or rather a sequence) of graphs through temporal discretization (bandwidth selection) and spatial discretization (vertex…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-01-13 Nam H. Lee , Carey Priebe , Youngser Park , I-Jeng Wang , Michael Rosen

Clustering a graph, i.e., assigning its nodes to groups, is an important operation whose best known application is the discovery of communities in social networks. Graph clustering and community detection have traditionally focused on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-09 Cecile Bothorel , Juan David Cruz , Matteo Magnani , Barbora Micenkova

Graph clustering is a fundamental computational problem with a number of applications in algorithm design, machine learning, data mining, and analysis of social networks. Over the past decades, researchers have proposed a number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-12 He Sun , Luca Zanetti

This paper uses the relationship between graph conductance and spectral clustering to study (i) the failures of spectral clustering and (ii) the benefits of regularization. The explanation is simple. Sparse and stochastic graphs create a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-04 Yilin Zhang , Karl Rohe

We theoretically study semi-supervised clustering in sparse graphs in the presence of pairwise constraints on the cluster assignments of nodes. We focus on bi-cluster graphs, and study the impact of semi-supervision for varying constraint…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-11-01 Greg Ver Steeg , Aram Galstyan , Armen E. Allahverdyan

In this paper, we present a novel way to summarize the structure of large graphs, based on non-parametric estimation of edge density in directed multigraphs. Following coclustering approach, we use a clustering of the vertices, with a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-08-07 Marc Boullé

In this paper, we present a detailed analysis of the global clustering coefficient in scale-free graphs. Many observed real-world networks of diverse nature have a power-law degree distribution. Moreover, the observed degree distribution…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-07-06 Liudmila Ostroumova Prokhorenkova

Graph clustering is a fundamental problem that has been extensively studied both in theory and practice. The problem has been defined in several ways in literature and most of them have been proven to be NP-Hard. Due to their high practical…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-03-27 Sumit Singh

Graph clustering is a fundamental computational problem with a number of applications in algorithm design, machine learning, data mining, and analysis of social networks. Over the past decades, researchers have proposed a number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-06 He Sun , Luca Zanetti

Graph clustering has many important applications in computing, but due to the increasing sizes of graphs, even traditionally fast clustering methods can be computationally expensive for real-world graphs of interest. Scalability problems…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Kimon Fountoulakis , David F. Gleich , Michael W. Mahoney

Local clustering aims to identify specific substructures within a large graph without any additional structural information of the graph. These substructures are typically small compared to the overall graph, enabling the problem to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Zhaiming Shen , Sung Ha Kang

We study the complexity of finding an optimal hierarchical clustering of an unweighted similarity graph under the recently introduced Dasgupta objective function. We introduce a proof technique, called the normalization procedure, that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Svein Høgemo , Christophe Paul , Jan Arne Telle

Many empirical networks display an inherent tendency to cluster, i.e. to form circles of connected nodes. This feature is typically measured by the clustering coefficient (CC). The CC, originally introduced for binary, undirected graphs,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Giorgio Fagiolo