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We formulate sparse support recovery as a salient set identification problem and use information-theoretic analyses to characterize the recovery performance and sample complexity. We consider a very general model where we are not restricted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-14 Cem Aksoylar , Venkatesh Saligrama

We investigate privacy-preserving spectral clustering for community detection within stochastic block models (SBMs). Specifically, we focus on edge differential privacy (DP) and propose private algorithms for community recovery. Our work…

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We study the problem of exact community recovery in the Geometric Stochastic Block Model (GSBM), where each vertex has an unknown community label as well as a known position, generated according to a Poisson point process in $\mathbb{R}^d$.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Julia Gaudio , Xiaochun Niu , Ermin Wei

In the presence of heterogeneous data, where randomly rotated objects fall into multiple underlying categories, it is challenging to simultaneously classify them into clusters and synchronize them based on pairwise relations. This gives…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-15 Yifeng Fan , Yuehaw Khoo , Zhizhen Zhao

We study the problem of $\textit{robust community recovery}$: efficiently recovering communities in sparse stochastic block models in the presence of adversarial corruptions. In the absence of adversarial corruptions, there are efficient…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Sidhanth Mohanty , Prasad Raghavendra , David X. Wu

We consider graphs where edges and their signs are added independently at random from among all pairs of nodes. We establish strong concentration inequalities for adjacency and Laplacian matrices obtained from this family of random graph…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-31 Sawyer Jack Robertson

We address the problem of variable selection in a high-dimensional but sparse mean model, under the additional constraint that only privatised data are available for inference. The original data are vectors with independent entries having a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-30 Cristina Butucea , Amandine Dubois , Adrien Saumard

In the community detection problem, one may have access to additional observations (side information) about the label of each node. This paper studies the effect of the quality and quantity of side information on the phase transition of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Hussein Saad , Ahmed Abotabl , Aria Nosratinia

We study the problem of community detection in hypergraphs under a stochastic block model. Similarly to how the stochastic block model in graphs suggests studying spiked random matrices, our model motivates investigating statistical and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-05 Chiheon Kim , Afonso S. Bandeira , Michel X. Goemans

We study the problem of reconstructing a block-sparse signal from compressively sampled measurements. In certain applications, in addition to the inherent block-sparse structure of the signal, some prior information about the block support,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Sajad Daei , Farzan Haddadi , Arash Amini

Network-based clustering methods frequently require the number of communities to be specified \emph{a priori}. Moreover, most of the existing methods for estimating the number of communities assume the number of communities to be fixed and…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-01-14 Chetkar Jha , Mingyao Li , Ian Barnett

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

Consider the following asynchronous, opportunistic communication model over a graph $G$: in each round, one edge is activated uniformly and independently at random and (only) its two endpoints can exchange messages and perform local…

The stochastic block model is a popular tool for detecting community structures in network data. Detecting the difference between two community structures is an important issue for stochastic block models. However, the two-sample test has…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-12-21 Kang Fu , Jianwei Hu , Seydou Keita , Hao Liu

We consider the problem of recovering block-sparse signals whose structures are unknown \emph{a priori}. Block-sparse signals with nonzero coefficients occurring in clusters arise naturally in many practical scenarios. However, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Jun Fang , Yanning Shen , Hongbin Li , Pu Wang

Predictions from statistical physics postulate that recovery of the communities in Stochastic Block Model (SBM) is possible in polynomial time above, and only above, the Kesten-Stigum (KS) threshold. This conjecture has given rise to a rich…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-10 Alexandra Carpentier , Christophe Giraud , Nicolas Verzelen

We study the information-theoretic limits of exactly recovering the support of a sparse signal using noisy projections defined by various classes of measurement matrices. Our analysis is high-dimensional in nature, in which the number of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-06-04 Wei Wang , Martin J. Wainwright , Kannan Ramchandran

We study the hierarchy of communities in real-world networks under a generic stochastic block model, in which the connection probabilities are structured in a binary tree. Under such model, a standard recursive bi-partitioning algorithm is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-19 Lihua Lei , Xiaodong Li , Xingmei Lou

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

In this paper, we study the information-theoretic limits of learning the structure of Bayesian networks (BNs), on discrete as well as continuous random variables, from a finite number of samples. We show that the minimum number of samples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Asish Ghoshal , Jean Honorio