针对异质图社区搜索难题,提出轻量级自适应框架,显著提升准确率与效率。
Beyond Homophily: Community Search on Heterophilic Graphs
- 分离多跳与多频信号,同时捕捉同质与异质关系
- 相比基线平均提升11%的F1分数,异质性下仍保持鲁棒
- 适合处理真实世界异质网络,如社交欺诈检测、推荐系统
社区搜索旨在识别与查询最相关的节点集合,广泛应用于欺诈检测、推荐等任务。不同于同质图中相似节点间连接,许多真实网络具有异质性,即边主要连接不相似节点,导致原本反映平滑低频相似性的结构信号变为尖锐高频对比。传统算法(如k-core、k-truss)和基于GNN的模型在异质图上表现不佳,前者常生成标签混杂的社区,后者因依赖同质性假设而模糊关键信号。为此,本文提出自适应社区搜索(AdaptCS),包含三项核心设计:(i) AdaptCS编码器解耦多跳与多频信号,可同时建模同质与异质关系;(ii) 基于低秩优化的内存高效机制,消除主要计算瓶颈,保障可扩展性;(iii) 自适应社区评分(ACS)在线引导搜索,平衡嵌入相似性与拓扑关系。在异质与同质基准上的大量实验表明,AdaptCS相比最优基线平均提升11% F1分数,跨异质性水平保持鲁棒,并相较最强的基于ML的基线实现高达两数量级的速度提升。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Community search aims to identify a refined set of nodes that are most relevant to a given query, supporting tasks ranging from fraud detection to recommendation. Unlike homophilic graphs, many real-world networks are heterophilic, where edges predominantly connect dissimilar nodes. Therefore, structural signals that once reflected smooth, low-frequency similarity now appear as sharp, high-frequency contrasts. However, both classical algorithms (e.g., k-core, k-truss) and recent ML-based models struggle to achieve effective community search on heterophilic graphs, where edge signs or semantics are generally unknown. Algorithm-based methods often return communities with mixed class labels, while GNNs, built on homophily, smooth away meaningful signals and blur community boundaries. Therefore, we propose Adaptive Community Search (AdaptCS), a lightweight framework featuring three key designs: (i) an AdaptCS Encoder that disentangles multi-hop and multi-frequency signals, enabling the model to capture both smooth (homophilic) and contrastive (heterophilic) relations; (ii) a memory-efficient low-rank optimization that removes the main computational bottleneck and ensures model scalability; and (iii) an Adaptive Community Score (ACS) that guides online search by balancing embedding similarity and topological relations. Extensive experiments on both heterophilic and homophilic benchmarks demonstrate that AdaptCS outperforms the best-performing baseline by an average of 11% in F1-score, retains robustness across heterophily levels, and achieves up to 2 orders of magnitude speedup over the strongest ML-based CS baselines.
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