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This paper studies the joint community detection and phase synchronization problem on the \textit{stochastic block model with relative phase}, where each node is associated with an unknown phase angle. This problem, with a variety of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Lingda Wang , Zhizhen Zhao

We study the inference of communities in stochastic block models with a growing number of communities. For block models with $n$ vertices and a fixed number of communities $q$, it was predicted in Decelle et al. (2011) that there are…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Byron Chin , Elchanan Mossel , Youngtak Sohn , Alexander S. Wein

Community detection for large networks poses challenges due to the high computational cost as well as heterogeneous community structures. In this paper, we consider widely existing real-world networks with ``grouped communities'' (or ``the…

Computation · Statistics 2024-11-04 Sheng Zhang , Rui Song , Wenbin Lu , Ji Zhu

Learning the community structure of a large-scale graph is a fundamental problem in machine learning, computer science and statistics. We study the problem of exactly recovering the communities in a graph generated from the Stochastic Block…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Zelin Li , Pan Peng , Xianbin Zhu

Community detection in multi-layer networks is a crucial problem in network analysis. In this paper, we analyze the performance of two spectral clustering algorithms for community detection within the framework of the multi-layer…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Huan Qing

Blockmodels are a foundational tool for modeling community structure in networks, with the stochastic blockmodel (SBM), degree-corrected blockmodel (DCBM), and popularity-adjusted blockmodel (PABM) forming a natural hierarchy of increasing…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-23 Subhankar Bhadra , Minh Tang , Srijan Sengupta

Community detection is the problem of identifying community structure in graphs. Often the graph is modeled as a sample from the Stochastic Block Model, in which each vertex belongs to a community. The probability that two vertices are…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-12 Souvik Dhara , Julia Gaudio , Elchanan Mossel , Colin Sandon

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

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

Community detection is a fundamental problem in network science. In this paper, we consider community detection in hypergraphs drawn from the $hypergraph$ $stochastic$ $block$ $model$ (HSBM), with a focus on exact community recovery. We…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Julia Gaudio , Nirmit Joshi

We consider spectral clustering algorithms for community detection under a general bipartite stochastic block model (SBM). A modern spectral clustering algorithm consists of three steps: (1) regularization of an appropriate adjacency or…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Zhixin Zhou , Arash A. Amini

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 propose and analyze a generic method for community recovery in stochastic block models and degree corrected block models. This approach can exactly recover the hidden communities with high probability when the expected node degrees are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-01 Jing Lei , Lingxue Zhu

We study the problem of community detection (CD) on Euclidean random geometric graphs where each vertex has two latent variables: a binary community label and a $\mathbb{R}^d$ valued location label which forms the support of a Poisson point…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-20 Emmanuel Abbe , Francois Baccelli , Abishek Sankararaman

We investigate the widely encountered problem of detecting communities in multiplex networks, such as social networks, with an unknown arbitrary heterogeneous structure. To improve detectability, we propose a generative model that leverages…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Yuming Huang , Ashkan Panahi , Hamid Krim , Liyi Dai

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 detection is a fundamental problem in network analysis, with applications in many diverse areas. The stochastic block model is a common tool for model-based community detection, and asymptotic tools for checking consistency of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-18 Yunpeng Zhao , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

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 study the problem of exact community recovery in the Geometric Stochastic Block Model (GSBM), where each vertex has an unknown community label as well as a known position, generated according to a Poisson point process in $\mathbb{R}^d$.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Julia Gaudio , Xiaochun Niu , Ermin Wei

In bipartite networks, community structures are restricted to being disassortative, in that nodes of one type are grouped according to common patterns of connection with nodes of the other type. This makes the stochastic block model (SBM),…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-09-30 Tzu-Chi Yen , Daniel B. Larremore