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Spectral clustering has been one of the widely used methods for community detection in networks. However, large-scale networks bring computational challenges to the eigenvalue decomposition therein. In this paper, we study the spectral…
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The stochastic block model (SBM) is a random graph model with different group of vertices connecting differently. It is widely employed as a canonical model to study clustering and community detection, and provides a fertile ground to study…
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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…
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Chernoff coefficient is an upper bound of Bayes error probability in classification problem. In this paper, we will develop sharp Chernoff type bound on Bayes error probability. The new bound is not only an upper bound but also a lower…
Many algorithms have been proposed for fitting network models with communities, but most of them do not scale well to large networks, and often fail on sparse networks. Here we propose a new fast pseudo-likelihood method for fitting the…
Detection of correlation in a pair of random graphs is a fundamental statistical and computational problem that has been extensively studied in recent years. In this work, we consider a pair of correlated (sparse) stochastic block models…
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The nonbacktracking matrix, and the related nonbacktracking centrality (NBC) play a crucial role in models of percolation-type processes on networks, such as non-recurrent epidemics. Here we study the localization of NBC in infinite sparse…