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We derive sharp thresholds for exact recovery of communities in a weighted stochastic block model, where observations are collected in the form of a weighted adjacency matrix, and the weight of each edge is generated independently from a…

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The constrained $\ell_p^p/\ell_q^p$ ratio model is scale invariant and is therefore attractive for sparse signal recovery. However, its nonconvex, nonsmooth, and fractional structure makes a unified theoretical and algorithmic analysis…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Lang Yu , Nan-jing Huang

We consider the high-dimensional inference problem where the signal is a low-rank symmetric matrix which is corrupted by an additive Gaussian noise. Given a probabilistic model for the low-rank matrix, we compute the limit in the large…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-31 Marc Lelarge , Léo Miolane

We study the problem of consistently recovering the sparsity pattern of a regression parameter vector from correlated observations governed by deterministic missing data patterns using Lasso. We consider the case in which the observed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Chuyang Ke , Jean Honorio

We consider the problem of detecting a community of densely connected vertices in a high-dimensional bipartite graph of size $n_1 \times n_2$. Under the null hypothesis, the observed graph is drawn from a bipartite Erd\H{o}s-Renyi…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Julien Chhor , Parker Knight

We investigate implications of the (extended) low-degree conjecture (recently formalized in [MW23]) in the context of the symmetric stochastic block model. Assuming the conjecture holds, we establish that no polynomial-time algorithm can…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Jingqiu Ding , Yiding Hua , Lucas Slot , David Steurer

We describe a probabilistic, {\it sublinear} runtime, measurement-optimal system for model-based sparse recovery problems through dimensionality reducing, {\em dense} random matrices. Specifically, we obtain a linear sketch $u\in \R^M$ of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Anastasios Kyrillidis , Volkan Cevher

Generative models for networks with communities have been studied extensively for being a fertile ground to establish information-theoretic and computational thresholds. In this paper we propose a new toy model for planted generative models…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Luca Corinzia , Paolo Penna , Luca Mondada , Joachim M. Buhmann

We study the problem of community recovery from coarse measurements of a graph. In contrast to the problem of community recovery of a fully observed graph, one often encounters situations when measurements of a graph are made at…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Nafiseh Ghoroghchian , Gautam Dasarathy , Stark C. Draper

Consider the following estimation problem: there are $n$ entities, each with an unknown parameter $p_i \in [0,1]$, and we observe $n$ independent random variables, $X_1,\ldots,X_n$, with $X_i \sim $ Binomial$(t, p_i)$. How accurately can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Kevin Tian , Weihao Kong , Gregory Valiant

This paper deals with the problem of sparse recovery often found in compressive sensing applications exploiting a priori knowledge. In particular, we present a knowledge-aided normalized iterative hard thresholding (KA-NIHT) algorithm that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-26 R. C. de Lamare

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

Low modularity networks (Q < 0.2) challenge classical community detection algorithms, which get trapped in local optima. We introduce quantum inspired community detection algorithms leveraging non classical sampling techniques to escape…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Joseph Geraci , Luca Pani

Posterior distributions for community structure in sparse planted bi-section models are shown to achieve exact (resp. almost-exact) recovery, with sharp bounds for the sparsity regimes where edge probabilities decrease as $O(\log(n)/n)$…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-03 B. J. K. Kleijn , J. van Waaij

Community structures represent a crucial aspect of network analysis, and various methods have been developed to identify these communities. However, a common hurdle lies in determining the number of communities K, a parameter that often…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-06-10 Zhixuan Shao , Can M. Le

Compressive sensing predicts that sufficiently sparse vectors can be recovered from highly incomplete information. Efficient recovery methods such as $\ell_1$-minimization find the sparsest solution to certain systems of equations. Random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-08-17 Ulaş Ayaz , Holger Rauhut

We assume i.i.d. data sampled from a mixture distribution with K components along fixed d-dimensional linear subspaces and an additional outlier component. For p>0, we study the simultaneous recovery of the K fixed subspaces by minimizing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-19 Gilad Lerman , Teng Zhang

We study the problem of recovering Gaussian data under adversarial corruptions when the noises are low-rank and the corruptions are on the coordinate level. Concretely, we assume that the Gaussian noises lie in an unknown $k$-dimensional…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Weihao Kong , Mingda Qiao , Rajat Sen

The $k$-tensor Ising model is an exponential family on a $p$-dimensional binary hypercube for modeling dependent binary data, where the sufficient statistic consists of all $k$-fold products of the observations, and the parameter is an…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-25 Tianyu Liu , Somabha Mukherjee , Rahul Biswas

In this paper, we consider the graph alignment problem, which is the problem of recovering, given two graphs, a one-to-one mapping between nodes that maximizes edge overlap. This problem can be viewed as a noisy version of the well-known…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-14 Georgina Hall , Laurent Massoulié