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Consider the community detection problem in random hypergraphs under the non-uniform hypergraph stochastic block model (HSBM), where each hyperedge appears independently with some given probability depending only on the labels of its…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-29 Ioana Dumitriu , Haixiao Wang

We study the problem of learning latent community structure from multiple correlated networks, focusing on edge-correlated stochastic block models with two balanced communities. Recent work of Gaudio, R\'acz, and Sridhar (COLT 2022)…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-05 Miklós Z. Rácz , Jifan Zhang

In this paper, we study the exact recovery problem in the Gaussian weighted version of the Stochastic block model with two symmetric communities. We provide the information-theoretic threshold in terms of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Aaradhya Pandey , Sanjeev Kulkarni

We study the two inference problems of detecting and recovering an isolated community of \emph{general} structure planted in a random graph. The detection problem is formalized as a hypothesis testing problem, where under the null…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Wasim Huleihel

Empirical observations suggest that in practice, community membership does not completely explain the dependency between the edges of an observation graph. The residual dependence of the graph edges are modeled in this paper, to first…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Mohammad Esmaeili , Aria Nosratinia

Hidden community problems, such as community detection in the Stochastic Block Model (SBM), submatrix localization, and $\mathbb{Z}_2$ synchronization, have received considerable attention in the probability, statistics, and…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Julia Gaudio , Andrew Jin

We study community recovery in the planted partition model in regimes where the number and sizes of communities may vary arbitrarily with the number of vertices. In such highly unbalanced settings, standard accuracy or overlap-based metrics…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Martijn Gösgens , Maximilien Dreveton

Community detection refers to the problem of clustering the nodes of a network (either graph or hypergrah) into groups. Various algorithms are available for community detection and all these methods apply to uncensored networks. In…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-08 Mingao Yuan , Bin Zhao , Xiaofeng Zhao

We study exact recovery for community detection in a Gaussian mixture model with dependent and heterogeneous Gaussian noise. The noise covariance matrix $\Sigma$ may be non-diagonal and, in the general formulation, singular. In the singular…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Zhongyang Li , Sichen Yang

The support recovery problem consists of determining a sparse subset of a set of variables that is relevant in generating a set of observations, and arises in a diverse range of settings such as compressive sensing, and subset selection in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Jonathan Scarlett , Volkan Cevher

In this paper we propose a method of proving impossibility results based on applying strong data-processing inequalities to estimate mutual information between sets of variables forming certain Markov random fields. The end result is that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Yury Polyanskiy , Yihong Wu

Clustering is often a challenging problem because of the inherent ambiguity in what the "correct" clustering should be. Even when the number of clusters $K$ is known, this ambiguity often still exists, particularly when there is variation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Kayvon Mazooji , Ilan Shomorony

Consider a Bernoulli-Gaussian complex $n$-vector whose components are $V_i = X_i B_i$, with $X_i \sim \Cc\Nc(0,\Pc_x)$ and binary $B_i$ mutually independent and iid across $i$. This random $q$-sparse vector is multiplied by a square random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Antonia Tulino , Giuseppe Caire , Sergio Verdu' , Shlomo Shamai

We study the classical problem of community recovery in stochastic block models with a fixed number of communities, with a twist: We seek algorithms that are stable with respect to node-wise changes in the graph structure, formally defined…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Laurentiu Marchis , Ethan D'souza , Tomáš Flídr , Po-Ling Loh

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

Community recovery is a central problem that arises in a wide variety of applications such as network clustering, motion segmentation, face clustering and protein complex detection. The objective of the problem is to cluster data points…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Kwangjun Ahn , Kangwook Lee , Changho Suh

The community detection problem for graphs asks one to partition the n vertices V of a graph G into k communities, or clusters, such that there are many intracluster edges and few intercluster edges. Of course this is equivalent to finding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Ming-Jun Lai , Daniel Mckenzie

Let $N$ components be partitioned into two communities, denoted ${\cal P}_+$ and ${\cal P}_-$, possibly of different sizes. Assume that they are connected via a directed and weighted Erd\"os-R\'enyi (DWER) random graph with unknown…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Julien Chevallier , Guilherme Ost

The community detection problem involves making inferences about node labels in a graph, based on observing the graph edges. This paper studies the effect of additional, non-graphical side information on the phase transition of exact…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Hussein Saad , Aria Nosratinia

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