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Detection of correlation in a pair of random graphs is a fundamental statistical and computational problem that has been extensively studied in recent years. In this work, we consider a pair of correlated (sparse) stochastic block models…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Guanyi Chen , Jian Ding , Shuyang Gong , Zhangsong Li

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 analyze the spectral properties of the high-dimensional random geometric graph $G(n, d, p)$, formed by sampling $n$ i.i.d vectors $\{v_i\}_{i=1}^{n}$ uniformly on a $d$-dimensional unit sphere and connecting each pair $\{i,j\}$ whenever…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Yifan Cao , Yizhe Zhu

We use semidefinite programming to bound the fractional cut-cover parameter of graphs in association schemes in terms of their smallest eigenvalue. We also extend the equality cases of a primal-dual inequality involving the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Henrique Assumpção , Gabriel Coutinho

For a given graph $G$, each partition of the vertices has a modularity score, with higher values indicating that the partition better captures community structure in $G$. The modularity $q^*(G)$ of the graph $G$ is defined to be the maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-22 Colin McDiarmid , Fiona Skerman

Universality, namely distributional invariance, is a well-known property for many random structures. For example, it is known to hold for a broad range of variational problems with random input. Much less is known about the algorithmic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Houssam El Cheairi , David Gamarnik

We give the first approximation algorithm for mixed packing and covering semidefinite programs (SDPs) with polylogarithmic dependence on width. Mixed packing and covering SDPs constitute a fundamental algorithmic primitive with recent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Arun Jambulapati , Yin Tat Lee , Jerry Li , Swati Padmanabhan , Kevin Tian

Inspired by the increasing interest in self-organizing social opportunistic networks, we investigate the problem of distributed detection of unknown communities in dynamic random graphs. As a formal framework, we consider the dynamic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-07-10 Andrea Clementi , Miriam di Ianni , Giorgio Gambosi , Emanuele Natale , Riccardo Silvestri

The graph partition problem is the problem of partitioning the vertex set of a graph into a fixed number of sets of given sizes such that the sum of weights of edges joining different sets is optimized. In this paper we simplify a known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-25 Edwin R. van Dam , Renata Sotirov

In an era of unprecedented deluge of (mostly unstructured) data, graphs are proving more and more useful, across the sciences, as a flexible abstraction to capture complex relationships between complex objects. One of the main challenges…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-10-17 Alaa Saade

In this work, we tackle the problem of hidden community detection. We consider Belief Propagation (BP) applied to the problem of detecting a hidden Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi (ER) graph embedded in a larger and sparser ER graph, in the presence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Arun Kadavankandy , Konstantin Avrachenkov , Laura Cottatellucci , Rajesh Sundaresan

We consider the problem of graph matching, or learning vertex correspondence, between two correlated stochastic block models (SBMs). The graph matching problem arises in various fields, including computer vision, natural language processing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Joonhyuk Yang , Dongpil Shin , Hye Won Chung

This paper develops new semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation techniques for two classes of mixed binary quadratically constrained quadratic programs (MBQCQP) and analyzes their approximation performance. The first class of problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-18 Zi Xu , Mingyi Hong

A large number of problems in optimization, machine learning, signal processing can be effectively addressed by suitable semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations. Unfortunately, generic SDP solvers hardly scale beyond instances with a few…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-15 Andrea Montanari

It is well-known that by adding integrality constraints to the semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation of the max-cut problem, the resulting integer semidefinite program is an exact formulation of the problem. In this paper we show…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Frank de Meijer , Renata Sotirov

Clustering is a widely deployed unsupervised learning tool. Model-based clustering is a flexible framework to tackle data heterogeneity when the clusters have different shapes. Likelihood-based inference for mixture distributions often…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-30 Yubo Zhuang , Xiaohui Chen , Yun Yang

We determine the asymptotic behavior of the maximum subgraph density of large random graphs with a prescribed degree sequence. The result applies in particular to the Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi model, where it settles a conjecture of Hajek [IEEE…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-01-08 Venkat Anantharam , Justin Salez

A key challenge in network science is the detection of communities, which are sets of nodes in a network that are densely connected internally but sparsely connected to the rest of the network. A fundamental result in community detection is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Lucas Böttcher , Mason A. Porter , Santo Fortunato

Since Tinhofer proposed the MinGreedy algorithm for maximum cardinality matching in 1984, several experimental studies found the randomized algorithm to perform excellently for various classes of random graphs and benchmark instances. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Bert Besser , Matthias Poloczek

We show that for an Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi graph on $N$ vertices with expected degree $d$ satisfying $\log^{-1/9}N\leq d\leq \log^{1/40}N$, the largest eigenvalues can be precisely determined by small neighborhoods around vertices of close to…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-09-21 Ella Hiesmayr , Theo McKenzie