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Community detection, also known as graph partitioning, is a well-known NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem with applications in diverse fields such as complex network theory, transportation, and smart power grids. The problem's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Wei Li , Yi-Lun Du , Nan Su , Konrad Tywoniuk , Kyle Godbey , Horst Stöcker

The stochastic block model (SBM) is a fundamental tool for community detection in networks, yet the finite-sample performance of inference methods remains underexplored. We evaluate key algorithms-spectral methods, variational inference,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Tianjun Ke , Zhiyu Xu

Community structure is one of the most important features of real networks and reveals the internal organization of the nodes. Many algorithms have been proposed but the crucial issue of testing, i.e. the question of how good an algorithm…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-10-30 Andrea Lancichinetti , Santo Fortunato , Filippo Radicchi

This paper considers the problem of algorithm selection for community detection. The aim of community detection is to identify sets of nodes in a network which are more interconnected relative to their connectivity to the rest of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2010-10-27 Leto Peel

Community identification in a network is an important problem in fields such as social science, neuroscience, and genetics. Over the past decade, stochastic block models (SBMs) have emerged as a popular statistical framework for this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-02 Min Xu , Varun Jog , Po-Ling Loh

We study community detection in the \emph{symmetric $k$-stochastic block model}, where $n$ nodes are evenly partitioned into $k$ clusters with intra- and inter-cluster connection probabilities $p$ and $q$, respectively. Our main result is a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-21 Jingqiu Ding , Yiding Hua , Kasper Lindberg , David Steurer , Aleksandr Storozhenko

We introduce a novel model for multilayer weighted networks that accounts for global noise in addition to local signals. The model is similar to a multilayer stochastic blockmodel (SBM), but the key difference is that between-block…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Mark He , Dylan Lu , Jason Xu , Rose Mary Xavier

Community detection is a well-studied problem with applications in domains ranging from networking to bioinformatics. Due to the rapid growth in the volume of real-world data, there is growing interest in accelerating contemporary community…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Frank Wanye , Vitaliy Gleyzer , Edward Kao , Wu-chun Feng

The bipartite network appears in various areas, such as biology, sociology, physiology, and computer science. \cite{rohe2016co} proposed Stochastic co-Blockmodel (ScBM) as a tool for detecting community structure of binary bipartite graph…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-31 Huan Qing , Jingli Wang

Community detection, discovering the underlying communities within a network from observed connections, is a fundamental problem in network analysis, yet it remains underexplored for signed networks. In signed networks, both edge connection…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-17 Yichao Chen , Weijing Tang , Ji Zhu

The investigation of community structures in networks is an important issue in many domains and disciplines. This problem is relevant for social tasks (objective analysis of relationships on the web), biological inquiries (functional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Filippo Radicchi , Claudio Castellano , Federico Cecconi , Vittorio Loreto , Domenico Parisi

Designing effective algorithms for community detection is an important and challenging problem in {\em large-scale} graphs, studied extensively in the literature. Various solutions have been proposed, but many of them are centralized with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Reza Fathi , Anisur Rahaman Molla , Gopal Pandurangan

The framework of statistical inference has been successfully used to detect the meso-scale structures in complex networks, such as community structure, core-periphery (CP) structure. The main principle is that the stochastic block model…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-08-29 Chuang Ma , Bing-Bing Xiang , Han-Shuang Chen , Hai-Feng Zhang

The stochastic block model is able to generate different network partitions, ranging from traditional assortative communities to disassortative structures. Since the degree-corrected stochastic block model does not specify which mixing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Xiaoyan Lu , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

According to a recent information-theoretical proposal, the problem of defining and identifying communities in networks can be interpreted as a classical communication task over a noisy channel: memberships of nodes are information bits…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-03-02 Filippo Radicchi

The community detection problem involves making inferences about node labels in a graph, based on observing the graph edges. This paper studies the effect of additional, non-graphical side information on the phase transition of exact…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Hussein Saad , Aria Nosratinia

The problem of community detection in networks is usually formulated as finding a single partition of the network into some "correct" number of communities. We argue that it is more interpretable and in some regimes more accurate to…

Identifying edge-dense communities that are also well-connected is an important aspect of understanding community structure. Prior work has shown that community detection methods can produce poorly connected communities, and some can even…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Minhyuk Park , Daniel Wang Feng , Siya Digra , The-Anh Vu-Le , Lahari Anne , George Chacko , Tandy Warnow

We study the classical problem of community recovery in stochastic block models with a fixed number of communities, with a twist: We seek algorithms that are stable with respect to node-wise changes in the graph structure, formally defined…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Laurentiu Marchis , Ethan D'souza , Tomáš Flídr , Po-Ling Loh

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