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We discuss a variant of `blind' community detection, in which we aim to partition an unobserved network from the observation of a (dynamical) graph signal defined on the network. We consider a scenario where our observed graph signals are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Michael T. Schaub , Santiago Segarra , Hoi-To Wai

The goal of community detection over graphs is to recover underlying labels/attributes of users (e.g., political affiliation) given the connectivity between users (represented by adjacency matrix of a graph). There has been significant…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Mohamed Seif , Dung Nguyen , Anil Vullikanti , Ravi Tandon

Community detection is an important task in network analysis, in which we aim to learn a network partition that groups together vertices with similar community-level connectivity patterns. By finding such groups of vertices with similar…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-25 Christopher Aicher , Abigail Z. Jacobs , Aaron Clauset

Networks are useful representations of many systems with interacting entities, such as social, biological and physical systems. Characterizing the meso-scale organization, i.e. the community structure, is an important problem in network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-11-06 Abdullah Karaaslanli , Selin Aviyente

Many inference problems, notably the stochastic block model (SBM) that generates a random graph with a hidden community structure, undergo phase transitions as a function of the signal-to-noise ratio, and can exhibit hard phases in which…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-04-09 Federico Ricci-Tersenghi , Guilhem Semerjian , Lenka Zdeborova

A relevant, sometimes overlooked, quality criterion for communities in graphs is that they should be well-connected in addition to being edge-dense. Prior work has shown that leading community detection methods can produce poorly-connected…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-07 The-Anh Vu-Le , Minhyuk Park , Ian Chen , George Chacko , Tandy Warnow

Recently network analysis has gained more and more attentions in statistics, as well as in computer science, probability, and applied mathematics. Community detection for the stochastic block model (SBM) is probably the most studied topic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-17 Anderson Y. Zhang , Harrison H. Zhou

The community structure of a complex network can be determined by finding the partitioning of its nodes that maximizes modularity. Many of the proposed algorithms for doing this work by recursively bisecting the network. We show that this…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Yudong Sun , Bogdan Danila , Kresimir Josic , Kevin E. Bassler

We propose a novel family of model-free algorithms for node clustering and parameter inference in graphs generated from the Stochastic Block Model (SBM), a fundamental framework in community detection. Drawing inspiration from the Lloyd…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-22 Bertrand Cloez , Adrien Cotil , Jean-Baptiste Menassol , Nicolas Verzelen

Stochastic block models (SBMs) are a very commonly studied network model for community detection algorithms. In the standard form of an SBM, the $n$ vertices (or nodes) of a graph are generally divided into multiple pre-determined…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Dung Nguyen , Anil Vullikanti

This paper proposes a novel scalable community-based neural framework for graph learning. The framework learns the graph topology through the task of community detection and link prediction by optimizing with our proposed joint SBM loss…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Zheng Chen , Xinli Yu , Yuan Ling , Xiaohua Hu

We study the fundamental limits on learning latent community structure in dynamic networks. Specifically, we study dynamic stochastic block models where nodes change their community membership over time, but where edges are generated…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-07-20 Amir Ghasemian , Pan Zhang , Aaron Clauset , Cristopher Moore , Leto Peel

Community detection in graphs is the problem of finding groups of vertices which are more densely connected than they are to the rest of the graph. This problem has a long history, but it is undergoing a resurgence of interest due to the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Cristopher Moore

We consider the community detection problem in sparse random hypergraphs under the non-uniform hypergraph stochastic block model (HSBM), a general model of random networks with community structure and higher-order interactions. When the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-11 Ioana Dumitriu , Haixiao Wang , Yizhe Zhu

We consider the problem of identifying underlying community-like structures in graphs. Towards this end we study the Stochastic Block Model (SBM) on $k$-clusters: a random model on $n=km$ vertices, partitioned in $k$ equal sized clusters,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-10 Naman Agarwal , Afonso S. Bandeira , Konstantinos Koiliaris , Alexandra Kolla

Community detection is one of the most important problems in network analysis. Among many algorithms proposed for this task, methods based on statistical inference are of particular interest: they are mathematically sound and were shown to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Liudmila Prokhorenkova , Alexey Tikhonov

We propose and study a set of algorithms for discovering community structure in networks -- natural divisions of network nodes into densely connected subgroups. Our algorithms all share two definitive features: first, they involve iterative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. E. J. Newman , M. Girvan

Detecting communities in high-dimensional graphs can be achieved by applying random matrix theory where the adjacency matrix of the graph is modeled by a Stochastic Block Model (SBM). However, the SBM makes an unrealistic assumption that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-08 Robert Malinas , Dogyoon Song , Alfred O. Hero

Community detection in social networks is a problem with considerable interest, since, discovering communities reveals hidden information about networks. There exist many algorithms to detect inherent community structures and recently few…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Waqas Nawaz

The study of networks has received increased attention recently not only from the social sciences and statistics but also from physicists, computer scientists and mathematicians. One of the principal problem in networks is community…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-01-27 Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya , Peter J. Bickel