Efficient Unsupervised Community Search with Pre-trained Graph Transformer
Summary: TransZero: pre-trained graph Transformer for zero-label community search, using personalization and link self-supervised losses to learn node embeddings. Query uses embedding similarity plus an expected-gain criterion for threshold-free extraction; efficient unsupervised algorithms yield superior performance on 10 datasets. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Jianwei Wang (University of New South Wales)
- 2. Kai Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
- 3. Xuemin Lin (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
- 4. Wenjie Zhang (University of New South Wales)
- 5. Ying Zhang (Zhejiang Gongshang University)
BibTeX Citation
@article{wang_vldb24,
title = {{Efficient Unsupervised Community Search with Pre-trained Graph Transformer}},
author = {Wang, Jianwei and Wang, Kai and Lin, Xuemin and Zhang, Wenjie and Zhang, Ying},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '24},
volume = {17},
number = {9},
pages = {2227--2240},
doi = {10.14778/3665844.3665853},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3665844.3665853},
year = {2024}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 8,731 | Simpler is More: Efficient Top-K Nearest Neighbors Search on Large Road Networks | 2024 | VLDB | 5.3766157e-05 |
| 9,557 | Common Neighborhood Estimation over Bipartite Graphs under Local Differential Privacy | 2024 | SIGMOD | 5.2528121e-05 |
| 9,688 | Deep Overlapping Community Search via Subspace Embedding | 2025 | SIGMOD | 5.2351259e-05 |
| 10,446 | Efficient and Effective Biclique Counting with Local Differential Privacy | 2026 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,821 | Synergetic Community Search over Large Multilayer Graphs | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,900 | A Comprehensive Survey and Experimental Study of Learning-based Community Search | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,924 | On LLM-Enhanced Mixed-Type Data Imputation with High-Order Message Passing | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,067 | Machine Learning for Graph Data Management and Query Processing | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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