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The problem of recovering planted community structure in random graphs has received a lot of attention in the literature on the stochastic block model, where the input is a random graph in which edges crossing between different communities…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Michael Kapralov , Luca Trevisan , Weronika Wrzos-Kaminska

We study community detection in stochastic block models under pure node-level differential privacy, a stringent notion that protects the participation of an individual together with all of their incident edges. This setting is substantially…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Olga Klopp , Ilias Zadik

The maximization of generalized modularity performs well on networks in which the members of all communities are statistically indistinguishable from each other. However, there is no theory bounding the maximization performance in more…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Xiaoyan Lu , Brendan Cross , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

In a sparse stochastic block model with two communities of unequal sizes we derive two posterior concentration inequalities, that imply (1) posterior (almost-)exact recovery of the community structure under sparsity bounds comparable to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-08-17 B. J. K. Kleijn , J. van Waaij

We propose and analyze the problems of \textit{community goodness-of-fit and two-sample testing} for stochastic block models (SBM), where changes arise due to modification in community memberships of nodes. Motivated by practical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Aditya Gangrade , Praveen Venkatesh , Bobak Nazer , Venkatesh Saligrama

We consider the community detection problem in sparse random hypergraphs under the non-uniform hypergraph stochastic block model (HSBM), a general model of random networks with community structure and higher-order interactions. When the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-11 Ioana Dumitriu , Haixiao Wang , Yizhe Zhu

In this paper, we study the problem of exact community recovery in the symmetric stochastic block model, where a graph of $n$ vertices is randomly generated by partitioning the vertices into $K \ge 2$ equal-sized communities and then…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-11 Peng Wang , Huikang Liu , Zirui Zhou , Anthony Man-Cho So

We consider the problem of identifying underlying community-like structures in graphs. Towards this end we study the Stochastic Block Model (SBM) on $k$-clusters: a random model on $n=km$ vertices, partitioned in $k$ equal sized clusters,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-10 Naman Agarwal , Afonso S. Bandeira , Konstantinos Koiliaris , Alexandra Kolla

We consider the problem of exact community recovery in the Labeled Stochastic Block Model (LSBM) with $k$ communities, where each pair of vertices is associated with a label from the set $\{0,1, \dots, L\}$. A pair of vertices from…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-26 Julia Gaudio , Heming Liu

We propose and analyze a generic method for community recovery in stochastic block models and degree corrected block models. This approach can exactly recover the hidden communities with high probability when the expected node degrees are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-01 Jing Lei , Lingxue Zhu

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

We study the problem of recovering a hidden community of cardinality $K$ from an $n \times n$ symmetric data matrix $A$, where for distinct indices $i,j$, $A_{ij} \sim P$ if $i, j$ both belong to the community and $A_{ij} \sim Q$ otherwise,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-01-26 Bruce Hajek , Yihong Wu , Jiaming Xu

We propose to estimate the number of communities in degree-corrected stochastic block models based on a pseudo likelihood ratio statistic. To this end, we introduce a method that combines spectral clustering with binary segmentation. This…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-07-31 Shujie Ma , Liangjun Su , Yichong Zhang

This article develops limit laws for network sampling based estimates of subgraph counts and clustering coefficient of a large population network, and uses them for predictive inference. A model based approach is used, where the population…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Anirban Mandal , Arindam Chatterjee

Community detection in networks has drawn much attention in diverse fields, especially social sciences. Given its significance, there has been a large body of literature with approaches from many fields. Here we present a statistical…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-12-18 Lijun Peng , Luis Carvalho

The problem of community detection with two equal-sized communities is closely related to the minimum graph bisection problem over certain random graph models. In the stochastic block model distribution over networks with community…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-13 Alberto Del Pia , Aida Khajavirad , Dmitriy Kunisky

We make the first steps towards generalizing the theory of stochastic block models, in the sparse regime, towards a model where the discrete community structure is replaced by an underlying geometry. We consider a geometric random graph…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-04 Ronen Eldan , Dan Mikulincer , Hester Pieters

We propose an efficient meta-algorithm for Bayesian estimation problems that is based on low-degree polynomials, semidefinite programming, and tensor decomposition. The algorithm is inspired by recent lower bound constructions for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Samuel B. Hopkins , David Steurer

Variational approximation has been widely used in large-scale Bayesian inference recently, the simplest kind of which involves imposing a mean field assumption to approximate complicated latent structures. Despite the computational…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-21 Purnamrita Sarkar , Y. X. Rachel Wang , Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee

The stochastic block model is a classical cluster-exhibiting random graph model that has been widely studied in statistics, physics and computer science. In its simplest form, the model is a random graph with two equal-sized clusters, with…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-07-04 Varun Kanade , Elchanan Mossel , Tselil Schramm