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Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-23 Shuxiao Chen , Sifan Liu , Zongming Ma

A network is a composition of many communities, i.e., sets of nodes and edges with stronger relationships, with distinct and overlapping properties. Community detection is crucial for various reasons, such as serving as a functional unit of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Isa Inuwa-Dutse , Mark Liptrott , Yannis Korkontzelos

Community detection has been an active research area for decades. Among all probabilistic models, Stochastic Block Model has been the most popular one. This paper introduces a novel probabilistic model: RW-HDP, based on random walks and…

Applications · Statistics 2016-08-04 Ruimin Zhu , Wenxin Jiang

The mixed membership stochastic blockmodel (MMSB) is a popular framework for community detection and network generation. It learns a low-rank mixed membership representation for each node across communities by exploiting the underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Yue Zhang , Arti Ramesh

The problem of community detection is important as it helps in understanding the spread of information in a social network. All real complex networks have an inbuilt structure which captures and characterizes the network dynamics between…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-02-17 Radhika Arava

Community structure in networks is observed in many different domains, and unsupervised community detection has received a lot of attention in the literature. Increasingly the focus of network analysis is shifting towards using network…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-03-02 Jesús Arroyo , Elizaveta Levina

The mixed membership stochastic blockmodel (MMSB) is a popular Bayesian network model for community detection. Fitting such large Bayesian network models quickly becomes computationally infeasible when the number of nodes grows into…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Timothy Jones , Owen G. Ward , Yiran Jiang , John Paisley , Tian Zheng

Modular and hierarchical community structures are pervasive in real-world complex systems. A great deal of effort has gone into trying to detect and study these structures. Important theoretical advances in the detection of modular have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Michael T. Schaub , Jiaze Li , Leto Peel

Stochastic blockmodels have been proposed as a tool for detecting community structure in networks as well as for generating synthetic networks for use as benchmarks. Most blockmodels, however, ignore variation in vertex degree, making them…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-03-02 Brian Karrer , M. E. J. Newman

Community detection in networks is a key exploratory tool with applications in a diverse set of areas, ranging from finding communities in social and biological networks to identifying link farms in the World Wide Web. The problem of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-05 Peter J. Bickel , Purnamrita Sarkar

The stochastic block model (SBM) is a random graph model with different group of vertices connecting differently. It is widely employed as a canonical model to study clustering and community detection, and provides a fertile ground to study…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-26 Emmanuel Abbe

Community structure is prevalent in real-world networks, with empirical studies revealing heterogeneous distributions where a few dominant majority communities coexist with many smaller groups. These small-scale groups, which we term…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jiaze Li , Leto Peel

This paper presents a novel spectral algorithm with additive clustering designed to identify overlapping communities in networks. The algorithm is based on geometric properties of the spectrum of the expected adjacency matrix in a random…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-07 Emilie Kaufmann , Thomas Bonald , Marc Lelarge

A fundamental problem in network analysis is clustering the nodes into groups which share a similar connectivity pattern. Existing algorithms for community detection assume the knowledge of the number of clusters or estimate it a priori…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-03-30 Junxian Geng , Anirban Bhattacharya , Debdeep Pati

We consider the problem of community detection in the Stochastic Block Model with a finite number $K$ of communities of sizes linearly growing with the network size $n$. This model consists in a random graph such that each pair of vertices…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-12-24 Se-Young Yun , Alexandre Proutiere

Unknown node attributes in complex networks may introduce community structures that are important to distinguish from those driven by known attributes. We propose a block-corrected modularity that discounts given block structures present in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-04 Hasti Narimanzadeh , Takayuki Hiraoka , Mikko Kivelä

Traditionally, community detection in graphs can be solved using spectral methods or posterior inference under probabilistic graphical models. Focusing on random graph families such as the stochastic block model, recent research has unified…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-11 Zhengdao Chen , Xiang Li , Joan Bruna

Given a set ${\cal AL}$ of community detection algorithms and a graph $G$ as inputs, we propose two ensemble methods $\mathtt{EnDisCO}$ and $\mathtt{MeDOC}$ that (respectively) identify disjoint and overlapping communities in $G$.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-09-19 Tanmoy Chakraborty , Noseong Park , V. S. Subrahmanian

Hidden community is a useful concept proposed recently for social network analysis. To handle the rapid growth of network scale, in this work, we explore the detection of hidden communities from the local perspective, and propose a new…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Meng Wang , Boyu Li , Kun He , John E. Hopcroft

Community detection is a fundamental task in data analysis, and block models provide an approach for identifying a wide variety of community structures while offering high interpretability. The degree-corrected block model (DCBM) is an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Alexandra Dache , Arnaud Vandaele , Nicolas Gillis