An Optimal and Progressive Approach to Online Search of Top-K Influential Communities
Summary: Proposes an instance-optimal online search, LocalSearch, for top-k influential communities without indices; runtime scales with the smallest subgraph accessed. Progressive, influence-ordered reporting (no k) and support for other cohesiveness measures; experiments show major speedups over online baselines. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Fei Bi (University of New South Wales)
- 2. Lijun Chang (University of Sydney)
- 3. Xuemin Lin (University of New South Wales)
- 4. Wenjie Zhang (University of New South Wales)
BibTeX Citation
@article{bi_vldb18,
title = {{An Optimal and Progressive Approach to Online Search of Top-K Influential Communities}},
author = {Bi, Fei and Chang, Lijun and Lin, Xuemin and Zhang, Wenjie},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '18},
volume = {11},
number = {9},
pages = {1056--1068},
doi = {10.14778/3213880.3213881},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3213880.3213881},
year = {2018}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,395 | Efficient Size-Bounded Community Search over Large Networks | 2021 | VLDB | 7.44939e-05 |
| 4,004 | Butterfly-Core Community Search over Labeled Graphs | 2021 | VLDB | 6.965474e-05 |
| 4,681 | Influential Community Search over Large Heterogeneous Information Networks | 2023 | VLDB | 6.5665144e-05 |
| 7,006 | Topic-based Community Search over Spatial-Social Networks | 2020 | VLDB | 5.726836e-05 |
| 8,365 | Hunting Temporal Bumps in Graphs with Dynamic Vertex Properties | 2022 | SIGMOD | 5.44244e-05 |
| 10,367 | Efficient Size-Bounded Community Search, Revisited: Frameworks for Practical Improvements | 2026 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,448 | Efficient Influential Community Search over Dynamic Graphs | 2026 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,528 | Effective Durable Community Search in Large Temporal Graph | 2026 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,502 | Density Personalized Group Query | 2023 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract] | 2001 | PODS | 0.0010828372 |
| 189 | Querying K-Truss Community in Large and Dynamic Graphs | 2014 | SIGMOD | 0.00026114928 |
| 804 | Robust Local Community Detection: On Free Rider Effect and Its Elimination | 2015 | VLDB | 0.0001389717 |
| 982 | Influential Community Search in Large Networks | 2015 | VLDB | 0.0001283311 |
| 1,113 | Approximate Closest Community Search in Networks | 2016 | VLDB | 0.00012124571 |
| 2,083 | Fast Hierarchy Construction for Dense Subgraphs | 2017 | VLDB | 9.1976617e-05 |
| 3,261 | Index-based Optimal Algorithms for Computing Steiner Components with Maximum Connectivity | 2015 | SIGMOD | 7.5853837e-05 |
| 5,540 | Efficiently Computing k-Edge Connected Components via Graph Decomposition | 2013 | SIGMOD | 6.1809407e-05 |
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