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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
h33ae2b55ba9726b7
Venue
VLDB
Year
2023
Pagerank
5.4977582e-05
Overall Rank
7,540 | 49.33%
DOI
10.14778/3603581.3603595
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BibTeX Citation

@article{chen_vldb23,
        title = {{CommunityAF: An Example-based Community Search Method via Autoregressive Flow}},
        author = {Chen, Jiazun and Xia, Yikuan and Gao, Jun},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '23},
        volume = {16},
        number = {10},
        pages = {2565--2577},
        doi = {10.14778/3603581.3603595},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3603581.3603595},
        year = {2023}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
9,875 A Flexible Framework for Query-oriented Interactive Community Search 2025 VLDB 5.115241e-05
9,968 Inductive Attributed Community Search: to Learn Communities across Graphs 2024 VLDB 5.1014161e-05
11,305 A Comprehensive Survey and Experimental Study of Learning-based Community Search 2025 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
184 Querying K-Truss Community in Large and Dynamic Graphs 2014 SIGMOD 0.00026097449
283 Online Search of Overlapping Communities 2013 SIGMOD 0.00022225677
830 Robust Local Community Detection: On Free Rider Effect and Its Elimination 2015 VLDB 0.00013599041
1,130 Approximate Closest Community Search in Networks 2016 VLDB 0.00011897973
1,150 Graph Pattern Matching: From Intractable to Polynomial Time 2010 VLDB 0.00011804185
1,262 Attribute-Driven Community Search 2017 VLDB 0.00011284364
2,442 ICS-GNN: Lightweight Interactive Community Search via Graph Neural Network 2021 VLDB 8.4581267e-05
2,941 Query Driven-Graph Neural Networks for Community Search: From Non-Attributed, Attributed, to Interactive Attributed 2022 VLDB 7.8297732e-05
3,444 Efficient Size-Bounded Community Search over Large Networks 2021 VLDB 7.2931726e-05
3,742 FACE: A Normalizing Flow based Cardinality Estimator 2022 VLDB 7.0564546e-05
5,673 Subgraph Matching over Graph Federation 2022 VLDB 6.0404425e-05
8,561 GC: A Graph Caching System for Subgraph/Supergraph Queries 2018 VLDB 5.3128683e-05
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