Influential Community Search over Large Heterogeneous Information Networks

Summary: Introduces heterogeneous influential communities (HICs): same-type, tightly connected vertices with type-specific importance, modeled via meta-path-based cores. Peeling, key-vertex identification, and pruning enable scalable search in large HINs, outperforming baselines. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 13247
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 6.5665144e-05
Overall Rank: 4,681 | 67.89%
DOI: 10.14778/3594512.3594532

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Authors

1. Yingli Zhou (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
2. Yixiang Fang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
3. Wensheng Luo (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
4. Yunming Ye (Harbin Engineering University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{zhou_vldb23,
        title = {{Influential Community Search over Large Heterogeneous Information Networks}},
        author = {Zhou, Yingli and Fang, Yixiang and Luo, Wensheng and Ye, Yunming},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '23},
        volume = {16},
        number = {8},
        pages = {2047--2060},
        doi = {10.14778/3594512.3594532},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3594512.3594532},
        year = {2023}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 17 of 17 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,674	Efficient Core Maintenance in Large Bipartite Graphs	2023	SIGMOD	6.1255689e-05
8,477	Cohesiveness-aware Hierarchical Compressed Index for Community Search on Attributed Graphs	2025	SIGMOD	5.4170414e-05
9,690	Searching and Detecting Structurally Similar Communities in Large Heterogeneous Information Networks	2025	VLDB	5.2351259e-05
9,691	A Flexible Framework for Query-oriented Interactive Community Search	2025	VLDB	5.2351259e-05
9,766	On Efficient Large Sparse Matrix Chain Multiplication	2024	SIGMOD	5.2214067e-05
10,204	Beyond Maximum Common Subgraph: A Framework Maximizing Shared Computation for Multi-Query Subgraph Matching	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,229	Efficient Meta-subgraph Instance Search over Large Heterogeneous Information Networks	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,349	Budgeted Strong Community Search in Heterogeneous Graphs	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-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
10,754	Community Detection in Heterogeneous Information Networks Without Materialization	2025	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,807	In-depth Analysis of Densest Subgraph Discovery in a Unified Framework	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
10,930	Efficient k-Clique Densest Subgraph Discovery: Towards Bridging Practice and Theory	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
10,941	Effective and Efficient Community Search for Complex Network Semantics Capture: From Coarse-Grain to Fine-Grain	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,085	Finding Time-Proximity Communities in Temporal Heterogeneous Information Networks	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,271	Efficient Betweenness Centrality Computation over Large Heterogeneous Information Networks	2024	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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Showing 21 of 21 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
189	Querying K-Truss Community in Large and Dynamic Graphs	2014	SIGMOD	0.00026114928
273	Online Search of Overlapping Communities	2013	SIGMOD	0.00022671795
276	Local Search of Communities in Large Graphs	2014	SIGMOD	0.00022620623
731	PathSim: Meta Path-Based Top-K Similarity Search in Heterogeneous Information Networks	2011	VLDB	0.00014537965
982	Influential Community Search in Large Networks	2015	VLDB	0.0001283311
1,113	Approximate Closest Community Search in Networks	2016	VLDB	0.00012124571
1,239	Attribute-Driven Community Search	2017	VLDB	0.000115381
1,640	Distance-generalized Core Decomposition	2019	SIGMOD	0.00010153865
1,647	Effective and Efficient Community Search over Large Heterogeneous Information Networks	2020	VLDB	0.00010125633
2,106	Maximum Co-located Community Search in Large Scale Social Networks	2018	VLDB	9.1568079e-05
2,243	Unboundedness and Efficiency of Truss Maintenance in Evolving Graphs	2019	SIGMOD	8.8813183e-05
2,321	Effective and Efficient Relational Community Detection and Search in Large Dynamic Heterogeneous Information Networks	2020	VLDB	8.7540322e-05
3,151	Relation Strength-Aware Clustering of Heterogeneous Information Networks with Incomplete Attributes	2012	VLDB	7.7036411e-05
3,254	Skyline Community Search in Multi-valued Networks	2018	SIGMOD	7.5928992e-05
3,261	Index-based Optimal Algorithms for Computing Steiner Components with Maximum Connectivity	2015	SIGMOD	7.5853837e-05
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
4,579	Cohesive Subgraph Search over Big Heterogeneous Information Networks: Applications, Challenges, and Solutions	2021	SIGMOD	6.6203846e-05
4,903	A Convex-Programming Approach for Efficient Directed Densest Subgraph Discovery	2022	SIGMOD	6.4520708e-05
4,921	Effective Community Search over Large Star-Schema Heterogeneous Information Networks	2022	VLDB	6.4448544e-05
5,149	An Optimal and Progressive Approach to Online Search of Top-K Influential Communities	2018	VLDB	6.3459884e-05

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