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Modeling relations between individuals is a classical question in social sciences and clustering individuals according to the observed patterns of interactions allows to uncover a latent structure in the data. Stochastic block model (SBM)…

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Graph clustering is a fundamental task in unsupervised learning with broad real-world applications. While spectral clustering methods for undirected graphs are well-established and guided by a minimum cut optimization consensus, their…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-04 Ning Zhang , Xiaowen Dong , Mihai Cucuringu

We will amalgamate the Rash model (for rectangular binary tables) and the newly introduced $\alpha$-$\beta$ models (for random undirected graphs) in the framework of a semiparametric probabilistic graph model. Our purpose is to give a…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-03-12 Marianna Bolla , Ahmed Elbanna

We construct a novel class of stochastic blockmodels using Bayesian nonparametric mixtures. These model allows us to jointly estimate the structure of multiple networks and explicitly compare the community structures underlying them, while…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-06-17 Perla Reyes , Abel Rodriguez

Networks are a commonly used mathematical model to describe the rich set of interactions between objects of interest. Many clustering methods have been developed in order to partition such structures, among which several rely on underlying…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-05-13 P. Latouche , E. Birmelé , C. Ambroise

A central problem in analyzing networks is partitioning them into modules or communities. One of the best tools for this is the stochastic block model, which clusters vertices into blocks with statistically homogeneous pattern of links.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-24 Xiaoran Yan

Real-world networks often come with side information that can help to improve the performance of network analysis tasks such as clustering. Despite a large number of empirical and theoretical studies conducted on network clustering methods…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-29 Guillaume Braun , Hemant Tyagi , Christophe Biernacki

Network clustering reveals the organization of a network or corresponding complex system with elements represented as vertices and interactions as edges in a (directed, weighted) graph. Although the notion of clustering can be somewhat…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-15 Yongjin Park , Joel S. Bader

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

Modeling of high-dimensional data is very important to categorize different classes. We develop a new mixture model called Multinomial cluster-weighted model (MCWM). We derive the identifiability of a general class of MCWM. We estimate the…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-08-25 Kehinde Olobatuyi , Oludare Ariyo

Finding communities in networks is a problem that remains difficult, in spite of the amount of attention it has recently received. The Stochastic Block-Model (SBM) is a generative model for graphs with "communities" for which, because of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-22 Yali Wan , Marina Meila

Graph clustering is a fundamental computational problem with a number of applications in algorithm design, machine learning, data mining, and analysis of social networks. Over the past decades, researchers have proposed a number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-12 He Sun , Luca Zanetti

A probabilistic model for random hypergraphs is introduced to represent unary, binary and higher order interactions among objects in real-world problems. This model is an extension of the Latent Class Analysis model, which captures…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-08-16 Tin Lok James Ng , Thomas Brendan Murphy

The structure of many complex networks includes edge directionality and weights on top of their topology. Network analysis that can seamlessly consider combination of these properties are desirable. In this paper, we study two important…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Frederique Oggier , Silivanxay Phetsouvanh , Anwitaman Datta

Dynamic networks are a general language for describing time-evolving complex systems, and discrete time network models provide an emerging statistical technique for various applications. It is a fundamental research question to detect the…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-12-21 Kevin H. Lee , Lingzhou Xue , David R. Hunter

We propose two approaches for selecting variables in latent class analysis (i.e.,mixture model assuming within component independence), which is the common model-based clustering method for mixed data. The first approach consists in…

Computation · Statistics 2017-03-08 Matthieu Marbac , Mohammed Sedki

In this work, we propose an original method for aggregating multiple clustering coming from different sources of information. Each partition is encoded by a co-membership matrix between observations. Our approach uses a mixture of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Kylliann De Santiago , Marie Szafranski , Christophe Ambroise

A novel family of twelve mixture models with random covariates, nested in the linear $t$ cluster-weighted model (CWM), is introduced for model-based clustering. The linear $t$ CWM was recently presented as a robust alternative to the better…

Computation · Statistics 2015-03-10 Salvatore Ingrassia , Simona C. Minotti , Antonio Punzo

This work considers clustering nodes of a largely incomplete graph. Under the problem setting, only a small amount of queries about the edges can be made, but the entire graph is not observable. This problem finds applications in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Shahana Ibrahim , Xiao Fu

Spectral clustering has been one of the widely used methods for community detection in networks. However, large-scale networks bring computational challenges to the eigenvalue decomposition therein. In this paper, we study the spectral…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Hai Zhang , Xiao Guo , Xiangyu Chang