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Community detection is a well-studied problem with applications in domains ranging from networking to bioinformatics. Due to the rapid growth in the volume of real-world data, there is growing interest in accelerating contemporary community…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Frank Wanye , Vitaliy Gleyzer , Edward Kao , Wu-chun Feng

Stochastic block models (SBMs) are a very commonly studied network model for community detection algorithms. In the standard form of an SBM, the $n$ vertices (or nodes) of a graph are generally divided into multiple pre-determined…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Dung Nguyen , Anil Vullikanti

We consider graphs with two communities and analyze an algorithm for learning the community labels when the edges of the graph and only a small fraction of the labels are known in advance. The algorithm is based on the Glauber dynamics for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Diego Goldsztajn

New phase transition phenomena have recently been discovered for the stochastic block model, for the special case of two non-overlapping symmetric communities. This gives raise in particular to new algorithmic challenges driven by the…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-04-07 Emmanuel Abbe , Colin Sandon

Block elimination algorithms for solving sparse discrete optimization problems are considered. The numerical example is provided. The benchmarking is done in order to define real computational capabilities of block elimination algorithms…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-01-04 Alexander Sviridenko , Oleg Shcherbina

We consider semidefinite programming (SDP) for the binary stochastic block model with equal-sized communities. Prior work of Hajek, Wu, and Xu proposed an SDP (sym-SDP) for the symmetric case where the intra-community edge probabilities are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Julia Gaudio , Phawin Prongpaophan

We develop new methods based on graph motifs for graph clustering, allowing more efficient detection of communities within networks. We focus on triangles within graphs, but our techniques extend to other clique motifs as well. Our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Charalampos Tsourakakis , Jakub Pachocki , Michael Mitzenmacher

Spectral algorithms are some of the main tools in optimization and inference problems on graphs. Typically, the graph is encoded as a matrix and eigenvectors and eigenvalues of the matrix are then used to solve the given graph problem.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Souvik Dhara , Julia Gaudio , Elchanan Mossel , Colin Sandon

We study the effect of the quality and quantity of side information on the recovery of a hidden community of size $K=o(n)$ in a graph of size $n$. Side information for each node in the graph is modeled by a random vector with the following…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Hussein Saad , Aria Nosratinia

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

A {\em local graph partitioning algorithm} finds a set of vertices with small conductance (i.e. a sparse cut) by adaptively exploring part of a large graph $G$, starting from a specified vertex. For the algorithm to be local, its complexity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-11-25 Reid Andersen , Yuval Peres

Community detection in graphs that are generated according to stochastic block models (SBMs) has received much attention lately. In this paper, we focus on the binary symmetric SBM -- in which a graph of $n$ vertices is randomly generated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Peng Wang , Zirui Zhou , Anthony Man-Cho So

Community detection in graphs often relies on ad hoc algorithms with no clear specification about the node partition they define as the best, which leads to uninterpretable communities. Stochastic block models (SBM) offer a framework to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Louis Duvivier , Rémy Cazabet , Céline Robardet

Bipartite networks are a common type of network data in which there are two types of vertices, and only vertices of different types can be connected. While bipartite networks exhibit community structure like their unipartite counterparts,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-07-14 Daniel B. Larremore , Aaron Clauset , Abigail Z. Jacobs

The integration of network information and node attribute information has recently gained significant attention in the community detection literature. In this work, we consider community detection in the Contextual Labeled Stochastic Block…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-28 Dian Jin , Yuqian Zhang , Qiaosheng Zhang

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

Binary classification problems can be naturally modeled as bipartite graphs, where we attempt to classify right nodes based on their left adjacencies. We consider the case of labeled bipartite graphs in which some labels and edges are not…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-13 R. W. R. Darling , Mark L. Velednitsky

The stochastic block model is a powerful tool for inferring community structure from network topology. However, it predicts a Poisson degree distribution within each community, while most real-world networks have a heavy-tailed degree…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-06-01 Yaojia Zhu , Xiaoran Yan , Cristopher Moore

In a graph bisection problem, we are given a graph $G$ with two equally-sized unlabeled communities, and the goal is to recover the vertices in these communities. A popular heuristic, known as spectral clustering, is to output an estimated…

Traditionally, community detection in graphs can be solved using spectral methods or posterior inference under probabilistic graphical models. Focusing on random graph families such as the stochastic block model, recent research has unified…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-11 Zhengdao Chen , Xiang Li , Joan Bruna