成员特定容忍度下的社区搜索
Community Search under Member-Specific Tolerances
Yanghao Liu, Fangda Guo, Yuxuan Zhang, Xueqi Cheng
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研究每个成员对位置差异有各自容忍度时的社区搜索问题,提出纬度一致社区(LCC)模型及精确与近似算法。
cs.SI · cs.CC · cs.DB
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We study community search when each member has its own tolerance for differences in position, as when members of a group interact repeatedly and influence one another. A latitude-consistent community (LCC) contains the query vertex, is connected, has minimum degree at least k, and bounds its diameter by the smallest member tolerance. The bound is exactly the condition under which every interaction in a connected closed group stays accepted under bounded-confidence dynamics for every choice of positive weights. It also prevents rejection under social-judgment dynamics, whereas the pairwise condition and other natural relaxations preserve neither guarantee. Finding a maximum LCC is NP-hard even in the plane, and with unbounded dimension, deciding whether an LCC exists is NP-complete for every fixed k>=2. LatSweep fixes the answer's smallest tolerance and turns the coupled bound into a best-first sweep over candidate thresholds, yielding an exact branch-and-bound algorithm, a (1,2)-bicriteria approximation and two feasible heuristics. Across eight graphs with up to 1.8 billion edges, six with synthetic positions and tolerances, the exact algorithm proves optimality on all but 9 of 3,700 efficiency queries; in a shared implementation on two large graphs, its branch-and-bound solver proves more queries than a reimplemented maximum-(k,r)-core algorithm, a mixed-integer program and CP-SAT. In simulations of closed groups, LCC groups keep every accepted interaction under uneven influence, whereas 3-40% of pairwise-compatible groups lose some. On three location-based networks, tolerance-agnostic groups often place another member's home beyond a member's estimated travel radius. Enforcing every member's tolerance causes no measurable loss of co-visits relative to spatial communities of the same size. Relative to the larger pairwise-compatible groups, it can cause a size-adjusted loss.