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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

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

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 is a central problem of network data analysis. Given a network, the goal of community detection is to partition the network nodes into a small number of clusters, which could often help reveal interesting structures. The…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-26 Chao Gao , Zongming Ma , Anderson Y. Zhang , Harrison H. Zhou

The stochastic block model is one of the oldest and most ubiquitous models for studying clustering and community detection. In an exciting sequence of developments, motivated by deep but non-rigorous ideas from statistical physics, Decelle…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Ankur Moitra , William Perry , Alexander S. Wein

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

Revealing underlying relations between nodes in a network is one of the most important tasks in network analysis. Using tools and techniques from a variety of disciplines, many community recovery methods have been developed for different…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-14 Kalle Alaluusua , Lasse Leskelä

We prove the existence of an asymptotic phase transition threshold on community detectability for the spectral modularity method [M. E. J. Newman, Phys. Rev. E 74, 036104 (2006) and Proc. National Academy of Sciences. 103, 8577 (2006)]…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Pin-Yu Chen , Alfred O. Hero

We propose a semidefinite programming (SDP) algorithm for community detection in the stochastic block model, a popular model for networks with latent community structure. We prove that our algorithm achieves exact recovery of the latent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Amelia Perry , Alexander S. Wein

To capture the inherent geometric features of many community detection problems, we propose to use a new random graph model of communities that we call a Geometric Block Model. The geometric block model builds on the random geometric graphs…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Sainyam Galhotra , Arya Mazumdar , Soumyabrata Pal , Barna Saha

Multiplex networks have become increasingly more prevalent in many fields, and have emerged as a powerful tool for modeling the complexity of real networks. There is a critical need for developing inference models for multiplex networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Arash A. Amini , Marina S. Paez , Lizhen Lin

Community detection in multi-layer undirected networks has attracted considerable attention in recent years. However, multi-layer directed networks are common in the real world, and existing community detection methods often either ignore…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Huan Qing

We consider the sparse stochastic block model in the case where the degrees are uninformative. The case where the two communities have approximately the same size has been extensively studied and we concentrate here on the community…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-04-04 Francesco Caltagirone , Marc Lelarge , Léo Miolane

Detecting communities in large-scale networks is a challenging task when each vertex may belong to multiple communities, as is often the case in social networks. The multiple memberships of vertices and thus the strong overlaps among…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Elvis H. W. Xu , P. M. Hui

In recent years there has been an increased interest in statistical analysis of data with multiple types of relations among a set of entities. Such multi-relational data can be represented as multi-layer graphs where the set of vertices…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-27 Subhadeep Paul , Yuguo Chen

Spectral clustering is a widely used method for community detection in networks. We focus on a semi-supervised community detection scenario in the Partially Labeled Stochastic Block Model (PL-SBM) with two balanced communities, where a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-16 Nicolas Fraiman , Michael Nisenzon

Community detection is a fundamental task in graph analysis, with methods often relying on fitting models like the Stochastic Block Model (SBM) to observed networks. While many algorithms can accurately estimate SBM parameters when the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-05 Leonardo Martins Bianco , Christine Keribin , Zacharie Naulet

We analyze the performance of spectral clustering for community extraction in stochastic block models. We show that, under mild conditions, spectral clustering applied to the adjacency matrix of the network can consistently recover hidden…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-31 Jing Lei , Alessandro Rinaldo

One of the most fundamental problems in network study is community detection. The stochastic block model (SBM) is a widely used model, for which various estimation methods have been developed with their community detection consistency…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-10-09 Sihan Huang , Jiajin Sun , Yang Feng

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