Searching and Detecting Structurally Similar Communities in Large Heterogeneous Information Networks

Summary: Introduce Structurally Similar Community (SSC), a HIN model that encodes vertex structural similarity and roles (core, non-core, hub, outlier) and supports diverse structural-similarity measures. Present fast online query and index-based algorithms to search and detect SSCs in large HINs with empirical validation. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hdccec0e4b2e862d8
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 5.115241e-05
Overall Rank: 9,874 | 33.64%
DOI: 10.14778/3718057.3718070
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Authors

1. Shu Wang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
2. Yixiang Fang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
3. Wensheng Luo (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

BibTeX Citation

@article{wang_vldb25,
        title = {{Searching and Detecting Structurally Similar Communities in Large Heterogeneous Information Networks}},
        author = {Wang, Shu and Fang, Yixiang and Luo, Wensheng},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '25},
        volume = {18},
        number = {5},
        pages = {1425--1438},
        doi = {10.14778/3718057.3718070},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3718057.3718070},
        year = {2025}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,456	Efficient Meta-subgraph Instance Search over Large Heterogeneous Information Networks	2026	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 17 of 17 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
285	Local Search of Communities in Large Graphs	2014	SIGMOD	0.00022140086
714	Effective Community Search for Large Attributed Graphs	2016	VLDB	0.00014562182
740	PathSim: Meta Path-Based Top-K Similarity Search in Heterogeneous Information Networks	2011	VLDB	0.00014326575
1,354	Truss-based Community Search over Large Directed Graphs	2020	SIGMOD	0.00010922947
1,648	Distance-generalized Core Decomposition	2019	SIGMOD	9.9816501e-05
1,664	Effective and Efficient Community Search over Large Heterogeneous Information Networks	2020	VLDB	9.9394611e-05
2,288	Unboundedness and Efficiency of Truss Maintenance in Evolving Graphs	2019	SIGMOD	8.6907426e-05
2,540	Efficient Structural Graph Clustering: An Index-Based Approach	2018	VLDB	8.3235433e-05
3,210	Relation Strength-Aware Clustering of Heterogeneous Information Networks with Incomplete Attributes	2012	VLDB	7.5337704e-05
3,329	Index-based Optimal Algorithms for Computing Steiner Components with Maximum Connectivity	2015	SIGMOD	7.4158814e-05
3,875	Cohesive Subgraph Search over Big Heterogeneous Information Networks: Applications, Challenges, and Solutions	2021	SIGMOD	6.9503439e-05
4,454	Parallel Index-Based Structural Graph Clustering and Its Approximation	2021	SIGMOD	6.5915e-05
4,780	Influential Community Search over Large Heterogeneous Information Networks	2023	VLDB	6.4161407e-05
6,000	Neural Attributed Community Search at Billion Scale	2023	SIGMOD	5.9170672e-05
9,952	On Efficient Large Sparse Matrix Chain Multiplication	2024	SIGMOD	5.101836e-05

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