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CommunityAF: An Example-based Community Search Method via Autoregressive Flow
Summary: CommunityAF pairs incremental GNN embeddings with an autoregressive-flow generator and a learned scorer for scalable, fast-training example-based community search. A square-ranking loss and beam-search termination let it mimic structure metrics and deliver ~15% quality gain and 4–20× speedups.
(summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 13103
- Venue
- VLDB
- Year
- 2023
- Pagerank
- 4.7370979e-05
- Overall Rank
- 7,409 | 48.46%
- DOI
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10.14778/3603581.3603595
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| Rank |
Cited Paper |
Year |
Venue |
Pagerank |
| 283 |
Querying K-Truss Community in Large and Dynamic Graphs |
2014 |
SIGMOD |
0.00029041257 |
| 370 |
Online Search of Overlapping Communities |
2013 |
SIGMOD |
0.00025415479 |
| 1,013 |
Robust Local Community Detection: On Free Rider Effect and Its Elimination |
2015 |
VLDB |
0.00014645542 |
| 1,414 |
Graph Pattern Matching: From Intractable to Polynomial Time |
2010 |
VLDB |
0.00012118275 |
| 1,550 |
Approximate Closest Community Search in Networks |
2016 |
VLDB |
0.00011423628 |
| 1,645 |
Attribute-Driven Community Search |
2017 |
VLDB |
0.00011037459 |
| 2,897 |
ICS-GNN: Lightweight Interactive Community Search via Graph Neural Network |
2021 |
VLDB |
7.9450406e-05 |
| 3,369 |
Query Driven-Graph Neural Networks for Community Search: From Non-Attributed, Attributed, to Interactive Attributed |
2022 |
VLDB |
7.171452e-05 |
| 3,969 |
Efficient Size-Bounded Community Search over Large Networks |
2021 |
VLDB |
6.5787567e-05 |
| 4,543 |
FACE: A Normalizing Flow based Cardinality Estimator |
2022 |
VLDB |
6.1011198e-05 |
| 6,081 |
Subgraph Matching over Graph Federation |
2022 |
VLDB |
5.2208051e-05 |
| 8,398 |
GC: A Graph Caching System for Subgraph/Supergraph Queries |
2018 |
VLDB |
4.5258186e-05 |
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