From Community Detection to Community Profiling

Summary: Formalizes community profiling, describing internal content profiles and external diffusion profiles to characterize communities beyond membership. Proposes the CPD model and a linear-time, parallelizable inference algorithm, achieving scalable, joint detection and profiling and outperforming baselines on large real-world data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11763
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,023 | 17.52%
DOI: 10.14778/3067421.3067430

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Authors

1. Hongyun Cai (Advanced Digital Sciences Center; University of Queensland)
2. Vincent W. Zheng (Advanced Digital Sciences Center; University of Queensland)
3. Fanwei Zhu (Zhejiang University)
4. Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
5. Zi Huang (University of Queensland)

BibTeX Citation

@article{cai_vldb17,
        title = {{From Community Detection to Community Profiling}},
        author = {Cai, Hongyun and Zheng, Vincent W. and Zhu, Fanwei and Chang, Kevin Chen-Chuan and Huang, Zi},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '17},
        volume = {10},
        number = {7},
        pages = {817--828},
        doi = {10.14778/3067421.3067430},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3067421.3067430},
        year = {2017}
}

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
364	Graph Clustering Based on Structural/Attribute Similarities	2009	VLDB	0.00020054172
2,580	Community Detection in Social Networks: An In-depth Benchmarking Study with a Procedure-Oriented Framework	2015	VLDB	8.3887788e-05
2,644	A Model-based Approach to Attributed Graph Clustering	2012	SIGMOD	8.3043854e-05
3,151	Relation Strength-Aware Clustering of Heterogeneous Information Networks with Incomplete Attributes	2012	VLDB	7.7036411e-05
6,582	From Group Recommendations to Group Formation	2015	SIGMOD	5.8364579e-05
8,533	Community Level Diffusion Extraction	2015	SIGMOD	5.4119882e-05

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