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We consider the task of learning latent community structure from multiple correlated networks. First, we study the problem of learning the latent vertex correspondence between two edge-correlated stochastic block models, focusing on the…

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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…

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We study the problem of community detection in a random hypergraph model which we call the stochastic block model for $k$-uniform hypergraphs ($k$-SBM). We investigate the exact recovery problem in $k$-SBM and show that a sharp phase…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-07-10 Chiheon Kim , Afonso S. Bandeira , Michel X. Goemans

Semidefinite programs have recently been developed for the problem of community detection, which may be viewed as a special case of the stochastic blockmodel. Here, we develop a semidefinite program that can be tailored to other instances…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-17 David Choi

In this paper, we study the information-theoretic limits of community detection in the symmetric two-community stochastic block model, with intra-community and inter-community edge probabilities $\frac{a}{n}$ and $\frac{b}{n}$ respectively.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Jonathan Scarlett , Volkan Cevher

We study the weak recovery problem on the $r$-uniform hypergraph stochastic block model ($r$-HSBM) with two balanced communities. In HSBM a random graph is constructed by placing hyperedges with higher density if all vertices of a hyperedge…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Yuzhou Gu , Yury Polyanskiy

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

The stochastic block model is a natural model for studying community detection in random networks. Its clustering properties have been extensively studied in the statistics, physics and computer science literature. Recently this area has…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Gerandy Brito , Ioana Dumitriu , Shirshendu Ganguly , Christopher Hoffman , Linh V. Tran

We consider the problem of clustering (or reconstruction) in the stochastic block model, in the regime where the average degree is constant. For the case of two clusters with equal sizes, recent results by Mossel, Neeman and Sly, and by…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-04-28 Joe Neeman , Praneeth Netrapalli

We study the problem of community recovery and detection in multi-layer stochastic block models, focusing on the critical network density threshold for consistent community structure inference. Using a prototypical two-block model, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-15 Jing Lei , Anru R. Zhang , Zihan Zhu

This paper considers the problem of community detection on multiple potentially correlated graphs from an information-theoretical perspective. We first put forth a random graph model, called the multi-view stochastic block model (MVSBM),…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Yexin Zhang , Zhongtian Ma , Qiaosheng Zhang , Zhen Wang , Xuelong Li

The stochastic block model (SBM) is a widely used framework for community detection in networks, where the network structure is typically represented by an adjacency matrix. However, conventional SBMs are not directly applicable to an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-18 Jie Jian , Mu Zhu , Peijun Sang

The problem of community detection with two equal-sized communities is closely related to the minimum graph bisection problem over certain random graph models. In the stochastic block model distribution over networks with community…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-13 Alberto Del Pia , Aida Khajavirad , Dmitriy Kunisky

We study the weak recovery problem on the $r$-uniform hypergraph stochastic block model ($r$-HSBM) with two balanced communities. In this model, $n$ vertices are randomly divided into two communities, and size-$r$ hyperedges are added…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-12 Yuzhou Gu , Aaradhya Pandey

We investigate implications of the (extended) low-degree conjecture (recently formalized in [MW23]) in the context of the symmetric stochastic block model. Assuming the conjecture holds, we establish that no polynomial-time algorithm can…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Jingqiu Ding , Yiding Hua , Lucas Slot , David Steurer

Signed graphs encode similarity and dissimilarity relationships among different entities with positive and negative edges. In this paper, we study the problem of community recovery over signed graphs generated by the signed stochastic block…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Xiaolu Wang , Peng Wang , Anthony Man-Cho So

The stochastic block model is widely used to generate graphs with a community structure, but no simple alternative currently exists for hypergraphs, in which more than two nodes can be connected together through a hyperedge. We discuss here…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-01-15 Alexis Pister , Marc Barthelemy

Stochastic blockmodels provide a convenient representation of relations between communities of nodes in a network. However, they imply a notion of stochastic equivalence that is often unrealistic for real networks, and they comprise large…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-10-17 Mirko Signorelli

The vast majority of network datasets contains errors and omissions, although this is rarely incorporated in traditional network analysis. Recently, an increasing effort has been made to fill this methodological gap by developing network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Tiago P. Peixoto

Community detection seeks to recover mesoscopic structure from network data that may be binary, count-valued, signed, directed, weighted, or multilayer. The stochastic block model (SBM) explains such structure by positing a latent partition…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Marios Papamichalis , Regina Ruane