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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…

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Community detection refers to the task of discovering closely related subgraphs to understand the networks. However, traditional community detection algorithms fail to pinpoint a particular kind of community. This limits its applicability…

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Community identification is a long-standing challenge in the modern network science, especially for very large scale networks containing millions of nodes. In this paper, we propose a new metric to quantify the structural similarity between…

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Bipartite graphs, modeling relationships between two types of entities, are widely used in practical applications. Community search, a fundamental problem in bipartite graphs, has gained significant attention. However, existing studies…

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This work considers clustering nodes of a largely incomplete graph. Under the problem setting, only a small amount of queries about the edges can be made, but the entire graph is not observable. This problem finds applications in…

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Detecting and characterizing dense subgraphs (tight communities) in social and information networks is an important exploratory tool in social network analysis. Several approaches have been proposed that either (i) partition the whole…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in natural language processing tasks, yet their application to graph structure analysis, particularly in community search, remains underexplored. Community search, a…

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Influential community search (ICS) finds a set of densely connected and high-impact vertices from a social network. Although great effort has been devoted to ICS problems, most existing methods do not consider how relevant the influential…

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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…

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Many systems can be described using graphs, or networks. Detecting communities in these networks can provide information about the underlying structure and functioning of the original systems. Yet this detection is a complex task and a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-02-06 Erwan Le Martelot , Chris Hankin

Community detection is an important task in network analysis. A community (also referred to as a cluster) is a set of cohesive vertices that have more connections inside the set than outside. In many social and information networks, these…

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Community detection is a powerful tool from complex networks analysis that finds applications in various research areas. Several image segmentation methods rely for instance on community detection algorithms as a black box in order to…

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Searching for local communities is an important research problem that supports advanced data analysis in various complex networks, such as social networks, collaboration networks, cellular networks, etc. The evolution of such networks over…

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A network is a composition of many communities, i.e., sets of nodes and edges with stronger relationships, with distinct and overlapping properties. Community detection is crucial for various reasons, such as serving as a functional unit of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Isa Inuwa-Dutse , Mark Liptrott , Yannis Korkontzelos

Community detection is an important problem when processing network data. Traditionally, this is done by exploiting the connections between nodes, but connections can be too sparse to detect communities in many real datasets. Node…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-06-29 Yaofang Hu , Wanjie Wang

$k$-core is a subgraph where every node has at least $k$ neighbors within the subgraph. The $k$-core subgraphs has been employed in large platforms like Network Repository to comprehend the underlying structures and dynamics of the network.…

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This article explores and analyzes the unsupervised clustering of large partially observed graphs. We propose a scalable and provable randomized framework for clustering graphs generated from the stochastic block model. The clustering is…

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Collaborative Mobile crowdsourcing (CMCS) allows entities, e.g., local authorities or individuals, to hire a team of workers from the crowd of connected people, to execute complex tasks. In this paper, we investigate two different CMCS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Aymen Hamrouni , Hakim Ghazzai , Turki Alelyani , Yehia Massoud

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…

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