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Community detection plays an important role in understanding and exploiting the structure of complex systems. Many algorithms have been developed for community detection using modularity maximization or other techniques. In this paper, we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Meng Wei , Wen Huang , Kyle A. Gallivan , Paul Van Dooren

We provide a rearrangement based algorithm for fast detection of subgraphs of $k$ vertices with long escape times for directed or undirected networks. Complementing other notions of densest subgraphs and graph cuts, our method is based on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Zachary M. Boyd , Nicolas Fraiman , Jeremy L. Marzuola , Peter J. Mucha , Braxton Osting

In a network, the vertices with similar characteristics construct communities. The vertices in a community are well-connected. Detecting the communities in a network is a challenging and important problem in the theory of complex networks.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Md Samsur Rahaman , Supriyo Dutta

Community detection is crucial for analyzing social and biological networks, and comprehensive approaches have been proposed in the last two decades. Nevertheless, finding all overlapping communities in large networks that could accurately…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Yanhao Yang , Pan Shi , Yuyi Wang , Kun He

Semantic knowledge graphs are large-scale triple-oriented databases for knowledge representation and reasoning. Implicit knowledge can be inferred by modeling and reconstructing the tensor representations generated from knowledge graphs.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-26 Yunpu Ma , Volker Tresp

Community detection is a widely-studied unsupervised learning problem in which the task is to group similar entities together based on observed pairwise entity interactions. This problem has applications in diverse domains such as social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Jimit Majmudar , Stephen Vavasis

Graph clustering or community detection constitutes an important task for investigating the internal structure of graphs, with a plethora of applications in several domains. Traditional techniques for graph clustering, such as spectral…

In recent years hypergraphs have emerged as a powerful tool to study systems with multi-body interactions which cannot be trivially reduced to pairs. While highly structured methods to generate synthetic data have proved fundamental for the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Nicolò Ruggeri , Federico Battiston , Caterina De Bacco

We introduce a quantum dynamic programming framework that allows us to directly extend to the quantum realm a large body of classical dynamic programming algorithms. The corresponding quantum dynamic programming algorithms retain the same…

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…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Mostafa Rahmani , Andre Beckus , Adel Karimian , George Atia

Spectral clustering is a popular method for community detection in network graphs: starting from a matrix representation of the graph, the nodes are clustered on a low dimensional projection obtained from a truncated spectral decomposition…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-10 Francesco Sanna Passino , Nicholas A. Heard , Patrick Rubin-Delanchy

Extending community detection from pairwise networks to hypergraphs introduces fundamental theoretical challenges. Hypergraphs exhibit structural heterogeneity with no direct graph analogue: hyperedges of varying orders can connect nodes…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Jiaze Li , Michael T. Schaub , Leto Peel

The goal of community detection over graphs is to recover underlying labels/attributes of users (e.g., political affiliation) given the connectivity between users (represented by adjacency matrix of a graph). There has been significant…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Mohamed Seif , Dung Nguyen , Anil Vullikanti , Ravi Tandon

Topological data analysis (TDA) has become an attractive area for the application of quantum computing. Recent advances have uncovered many interesting connections between the two fields. On one hand, complexity theoretic results show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Nhat A. Nghiem

Community detection in hypergraphs is explored. Under a generative hypergraph model called "d-wise hypergraph stochastic block model" (d-hSBM) which naturally extends the Stochastic Block Model from graphs to d-uniform hypergraphs, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-06 I Chien , Chung-Yi Lin , I-Hsiang Wang

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…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-05-31 Biao Xiang , En-Hong Chen , Tao Zhou

Motivated by social network analysis and network-based recommendation systems, we study a semi-supervised community detection problem in which the objective is to estimate the community label of a new node using the network topology and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Yicong Jiang , Tracy Ke

Community structure is of paramount importance for the understanding of complex networks. Consequently, there is a tremendous effort in order to develop efficient community detection algorithms. Unfortunately, the issue of a fair assessment…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Jebabli Malek , Cherifi Hocine , Cherifi Chantal , Hamouda Atef

High-dimensional datasets typically cluster around lower-dimensional manifolds but are also often marred by severe noise, obscuring the intrinsic geometry essential for downstream learning tasks. We present a quantum algorithm for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Nhat A. Nghiem , Tuan K. Do , Tzu-Chieh Wei , Trung V. Phan

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