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In this paper, we consider the problem of partitioning a small data sample of size $n$ drawn from a mixture of $2$ sub-gaussian distributions. Our work is motivated by the application of clustering individuals according to their population…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-05 Shuheng Zhou

Predicting labels of nodes in a network, such as community memberships or demographic variables, is an important problem with applications in social and biological networks. A recently-discovered phase transition puts fundamental limits on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-11-20 Pan Zhang , Cristopher Moore , Lenka Zdeborová

Community structure is an important structural property that extensively exists in various complex networks. In the past decade, much attention has been paid to the design of community-detection methods, but analyzing the behaviors of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-06-28 Ju Xiang , Zhi-Zhong Wang , Hui-Jia Li , Yan Zhang , Fang Li , Li-Ping Dong , Jian-Ming Li

Community detection is considered as a fundamental task in analyzing social networks. Even though many techniques have been proposed for community detection, most of them are based exclusively on the connectivity structures. However, there…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-12-25 Hadi Zare , Mahdi Hajiabadi , Mahdi Jalili

We study the problem of recovering a planted hierarchy of partitions in a network. The detectability of a single planted partition has previously been analysed in detail and a phase transition has been identified below which the partition…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Leto Peel , Michael T. Schaub

To capture the inherent geometric features of many community detection problems, we propose to use a new random graph model of communities that we call a Geometric Block Model. The geometric block model generalizes the random geometric…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Sainyam Galhotra , Arya Mazumdar , Soumyabrata Pal , Barna Saha

Community detection is a classic network problem with extensive applications in various fields. Its most common method is using modularity maximization heuristics which rarely return an optimal partition or anything similar. Partitions with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Samin Aref , Mahdi Mostajabdaveh , Hriday Chheda

Many signal processing problems can be solved by maximizing the fitness of a segmented model over all possible partitions of the data interval. This letter describes a simple but powerful algorithm that searches the exponentially large…

In this paper, we consider the problem of partitioning a small data sample of size $n$ drawn from a mixture of 2 sub-gaussian distributions in $\R^p$. We consider semidefinite programming relaxations of an integer quadratic program that is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-19 Shuheng Zhou

We propose a new model to detect the overlapping communities of a network that is based on cooperative games and mathematical programming. More specifically, communities are defined as stable coalitions of a weighted graph community game…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-26 Stefano Benati , Justo Puerto , Antonio M. Rodríguez-Chía , Francisco Temprano

This article explores and analyzes the unsupervised clustering of large partially observed graphs. We propose a scalable and provable randomized framework for clustering graphs generated from the stochastic block model. The clustering is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Mostafa Rahmani , Andre Beckus , Adel Karimian , George Atia

Detection of communities in a graph entails identifying clusters of densely connected vertices; the area has a variety of important applications and a rich literature. The problem has previously been situated in the realm of error…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Allison Beemer , Jessalyn Bolkema

A recently introduced novel community detection strategy is based on a label propagation algorithm (LPA) which uses the diffusion of information in the network to identify communities. Studies of LPAs showed that the strategy is effective…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-03-28 Gennaro Cordasco , Luisa Gargano

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

Community structure is prevalent in real-world networks, with empirical studies revealing heterogeneous distributions where a few dominant majority communities coexist with many smaller groups. These small-scale groups, which we term…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jiaze Li , Leto Peel

The stochastic block model (SBM) is a fundamental tool for community detection in networks, yet the finite-sample performance of inference methods remains underexplored. We evaluate key algorithms-spectral methods, variational inference,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Tianjun Ke , Zhiyu Xu

Neural node embeddings have recently emerged as a powerful representation for supervised learning tasks involving graph-structured data. We leverage this recent advance to develop a novel algorithm for unsupervised community discovery in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Weicong Ding , Christy Lin , Prakash Ishwar

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

We express community detection as an inference problem of determining the most likely arrangement of communities. We then apply belief propagation and mean-field theory to this problem, and show that this leads to fast, accurate algorithms…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. B. Hastings

We present a new algorithm for community detection. The algorithm uses random walks to embed the graph in a space of measures, after which a modification of $k$-means in that space is applied. The algorithm is therefore fast and easily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-11 Mark Kozdoba , Shie Mannor