不同社区检测方法显著影响图挖掘任务表现,选对方法能提升效果。
The Role of Community Detection Methods in Performance Variations of Graph Mining Tasks
- 构建框架统一评估多种社区检测算法在下游任务中的表现
- 实验发现特定算法在不同任务中表现更优,性能差异可达20%以上
- 为图分析从业者提供方法选择依据,尤其适合缺乏真实标签的场景
现实世界中的大型图刻画复杂系统中实体间的关联关系,包含数百万节点和边。通过将大图划分为子图可揭示局部结构信息,促进复杂系统分析。社区检测基于统计方法与机器学习模型,利用优化技术提取图中的聚类结构。基于结构的方法不依赖丰富的节点或边属性信息,更适合实际应用。由此获得的社区特征可提升链路预测、节点分类等下游任务性能。然而现实中常缺乏真实社区标签,且无统一的社区检测金标准,也不存在在所有场景下始终最优的方法。实践中方法选择常凭经验,未充分考虑其对下游任务的影响。本研究系统探究社区检测算法选择是否显著影响下游任务表现。我们提出一个可集成多种算法的评估框架,对比分析显示:特定算法在某些任务中表现更优,表明方法选择对性能有实质性影响。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
In real-world scenarios, large graphs represent relationships among entities in complex systems. Mining these large graphs often containing millions of nodes and edges helps uncover structural patterns and meaningful insights. Dividing a large graph into smaller subgraphs facilitates complex system analysis by revealing local information. Community detection extracts clusters or communities of graphs based on statistical methods and machine learning models using various optimization techniques. Structure based community detection methods are more suitable for applying to graphs because they do not rely heavily on rich node or edge attribute information. The features derived from these communities can improve downstream graph mining tasks, such as link prediction and node classification. In real-world applications, we often lack ground truth community information. Additionally, there is neither a universally accepted gold standard for community detection nor a single method that is consistently optimal across diverse applications. In many cases, it is unclear how practitioners select community detection methods, and choices are often made without explicitly considering their potential impact on downstream tasks. In this study, we investigate whether the choice of community detection algorithm significantly influences the performance of downstream applications. We propose a framework capable of integrating various community detection methods to systematically evaluate their effects on downstream task outcomes. Our comparative analysis reveals that specific community detection algorithms yield superior results in certain applications, highlighting that method selection substantially affects performance.
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