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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

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

In this paper, we investigate the problem of recovering hidden communities in the Labeled Stochastic Block Model (LSBM) with a finite number of clusters whose sizes grow linearly with the total number of nodes. We derive the necessary and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Kaito Ariu , Alexandre Proutiere , Se-Young Yun

Social networks are often associated with rich side information, such as texts and images. While numerous methods have been developed to identify communities from pairwise interactions, they usually ignore such side information. In this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Guillaume Braun , Masashi Sugiyama

This paper studies community detection for a nonlinear opinion dynamics model from its equilibria. It is assumed that the underlying network is generated from a stochastic block model with two communities, where agents are assigned with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-16 Yu Xing , Anastasia Bizyaeva , Karl H. Johansson

Discrete-time robust optimal control problems generally take a min-max structure over continuous variable spaces, which can be difficult to solve in practice. In this paper, we extend the class of such problems that can be solved through a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Jad Wehbeh , Eric C. Kerrigan

The geometric block model is a recently proposed generative model for random graphs that is able to capture the inherent geometric properties of many community detection problems, providing more accurate characterizations of practical…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Eli Chien , Antonia Maria Tulino , Jaime Llorca

The most widely used techniques for community detection in networks, including methods based on modularity, statistical inference, and information theoretic arguments, all work by optimizing objective functions that measure the quality of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Maria A. Riolo , M. E. J. Newman

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

In the model-based clustering of networks, blockmodelling may be used to identify roles in the network. We identify a special case of the Stochastic Block Model (SBM) where we constrain the cluster-cluster interactions such that the density…

Computation · Statistics 2012-10-30 Aaron F. McDaid , Brendan Thomas Murphy , Nial Friel , Neil J. Hurley

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

Stochastic blockmodels and variants thereof are among the most widely used approaches to community detection for social networks and relational data. A stochastic blockmodel partitions the nodes of a network into disjoint sets, called…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-09-16 Diego Franco Saldana , Yi Yu , Yang Feng

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

There has been a lot of interest in developing algorithms to extract clusters or communities from networks. This work proposes a method, based on blockmodelling, for leveraging communities and other topological features for use in a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-10-20 Leto Peel

Community detection refers to the problem of clustering the nodes of a network (either graph or hypergrah) into groups. Various algorithms are available for community detection and all these methods apply to uncensored networks. In…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-08 Mingao Yuan , Bin Zhao , Xiaofeng Zhao

Inference of community structure in probabilistic graphical models may not be consistent with fairness constraints when nodes have demographic attributes. Certain demographics may be over-represented in some detected communities and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-23 Davoud Ataee Tarzanagh , Laura Balzano , Alfred O. Hero

One promising approach to dealing with datapoints that are outside of the initial training distribution (OOD) is to create new classes that capture similarities in the datapoints previously rejected as uncategorizable. Systems that generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Jeremy Nixon , Jeremiah Liu , David Berthelot

This article studies the estimation of latent community memberships from pairwise interactions in a network of $N$ nodes, where the observed interactions can be of arbitrary type, including binary, categorical, and vector-valued, and not…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Maximilien Dreveton , Lasse Leskelä

Modern network datasets are often composed of multiple layers, either as different views, time-varying observations, or independent sample units, resulting in collections of networks over the same set of vertices but with potentially…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Joshua Agterberg , Zachary Lubberts , Jesús Arroyo

Mixture models are probabilistic models aimed at uncovering and representing latent subgroups within a population. In the realm of network data analysis, the latent subgroups of nodes are typically identified by their connectivity…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-05-27 Giacomo De Nicola , Benjamin Sischka , Göran Kauermann