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Network classification has a variety of applications, such as detecting communities within networks and finding similarities between those representing different aspects of the real world. However, most existing work in this area focus on…

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Mixture model-based frameworks are very popular for statistical inference in clustering. While convenient for producing probabilistic estimates of cluster assignments and uncertainty, they are prone to misspecification, which can lead to…

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This paper introduces two families of probability distributions for Bayesian analysis of hypertoroidal data. The first family consists of symmetric distributions derived from the projection of multivariate normal distributions under…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-02 Shogo Kato , Gianluca Mastrantonio , Masayuki Ishikawa

Exact recovery in stochastic block models (SBMs) is well understood in undirected settings, but remains considerably less developed for directed and sparse networks, particularly when the number of communities diverges. Spectral methods for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-18 Behzad Aalipur , Yichen Qin

The problem of community detection in multi-layer undirected networks has received considerable attention in recent years. However, practical scenarios often involve multi-layer bipartite networks, where each layer consists of two distinct…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Huan Qing

In this paper, we consider the problem of exploring structural regularities of networks by dividing the nodes of a network into groups such that the members of each group have similar patterns of connections to other groups. Specifically,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-30 Hua-Wei Shen , Xue-Qi Cheng , Jia-Feng Guo

This paper focuses on two fundamental tasks of graph analysis: community detection and node representation learning, which capture the global and local structures of graphs, respectively. In the current literature, these two tasks are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Fan-Yun Sun , Meng Qu , Jordan Hoffmann , Chin-Wei Huang , Jian Tang

It is a significant challenge to predict the network topology from a small amount of dynamical observations. Different from the usual framework of the node-based reconstruction, two optimization approaches (i.e., the global and partitioned…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-03-03 Ming Xu , Chuan-Yun Xu , Huan Wang , Yong-Kui Li , Jing-Bo Hu , Ke-Fei Cao

This paper proposes a logistic undirected network formation model which allows for assortative matching on observed individual characteristics and the presence of edge-wise fixed effects. We model the coefficients of observed…

Econometrics · Economics 2021-03-08 Shujie Ma , Liangjun Su , Yichong Zhang

We propose two spectral algorithms for partitioning nodes in directed graphs respectively with a cyclic and an acyclic pattern of connection between groups of nodes. Our methods are based on the computation of extremal eigenvalues of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-09 H. Van Lierde , T. W. S. Chow , J. -C. Delvenne

More than two decades ago, combinatorial topology was shown to be useful for analyzing distributed fault-tolerant algorithms in shared memory systems and in message passing systems. In this work, we show that combinatorial topology can also…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Armando Castañeda , Pierre Fraigniaud , Ami Paz , Sergio Rajsbaum , Matthieu Roy , Corentin Travers

Stochastic Block Models (SBMs) are a fundamental tool for community detection in network analysis. But little theoretical work exists on the statistical performance of Bayesian SBMs, especially when the community count is unknown. This…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Sheng Jiang , Surya Tokdar

We present a new layout algorithm for complex networks that combines a multi-scale approach for community detection with a standard force-directed design. Since community detection is computationally cheap, we can exploit the multi-scale…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-13 Oliver Dürr , Arnd Brandenburg

With the advent of structured data in the form of social networks, genetic circuits and protein interaction networks, statistical analysis of networks has gained popularity over recent years. Stochastic block model constitutes a classical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Debdeep Pati , Anirban Bhattacharya

Community detection is an important content in complex network analysis. The existing community detection methods in attributed networks mostly focus on only using network structure, while the methods of integrating node attributes is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Xiao Wang , Fang Dai , Wenyan Guo , Junfeng Wang

Besides the complexity in time or in number of messages, a common approach for analyzing distributed algorithms is to look at the assumptions they make on the underlying network. We investigate this question from the perspective of network…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-05-02 Arnaud Casteigts , Serge Chaumette , Afonso Ferreira

Community detection is a critical challenge in analysing real graphs, including social, transportation, citation, cybersecurity, and many other networks. This article proposes three new, general, hierarchical frameworks to deal with this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Łukasz Brzozowski , Grzegorz Siudem , Marek Gagolewski

Diagonalizability plays an important role in the analysis and design of multivariable systems. A structured matrix is called structurally diagonalizable if almost all of its numerical realizations, obtained by assigning real values to its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Yuan Zhang , Yutong Han , Yuanqing Xia , Aming Li

Community detection in networks is commonly performed using information about interactions between nodes. Recent advances have been made to incorporate multiple types of interactions, thus generalizing standard methods to multilayer…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Martina Contisciani , Eleanor Power , Caterina De Bacco

We provide a framework for determining the centralities of agents in a broad family of random networks. Current understanding of network centrality is largely restricted to deterministic settings, but practitioners frequently use random…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Krishna Dasaratha