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Community detection is the task of detecting hidden communities from observed interactions. Guaranteed community detection has so far been mostly limited to models with non-overlapping communities such as the stochastic block model. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-10-28 Anima Anandkumar , Rong Ge , Daniel Hsu , Sham M. Kakade

Motivated by social network analysis and network-based recommendation systems, we study a semi-supervised community detection problem in which the objective is to estimate the community label of a new node using the network topology and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Yicong Jiang , Tracy Ke

In this paper, we study the sensitivity of the spectral clustering based community detection algorithm subject to a Erdos-Renyi type random noise model. We prove phase transitions in community detectability as a function of the external…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Pin-Yu Chen , Alfred O. Hero

Community detection plays a pivotal role in uncovering closely connected subgraphs, aiding various real-world applications such as recommendation systems and anomaly detection. With the surge of rich information available for entities in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Anran Zhang , Xingfen Wang , Yuhan Zhao

In standard graph clustering/community detection, one is interested in partitioning the graph into more densely connected subsets of nodes. In contrast, the "search" problem of this paper aims to only find the nodes in a "single" such…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Avik Ray , Sujay Sanghavi , Sanjay Shakkottai

We formalize the problem of detecting a community in a network into testing whether in a given (random) graph there is a subgraph that is unusually dense. We observe an undirected and unweighted graph on N nodes. Under the null hypothesis,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-01 Ery Arias-Castro , Nicolas Verzelen

Community detection plays a key role in understanding graph structure. However, several recent studies showed that community detection is vulnerable to adversarial structural perturbation. In particular, via adding or removing a small…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Jinyuan Jia , Binghui Wang , Xiaoyu Cao , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

In recent years there has been an increased interest in statistical analysis of data with multiple types of relations among a set of entities. Such multi-relational data can be represented as multi-layer graphs where the set of vertices…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-27 Subhadeep Paul , Yuguo Chen

Identifying edge-dense communities that are also well-connected is an important aspect of understanding community structure. Prior work has shown that community detection methods can produce poorly connected communities, and some can even…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Minhyuk Park , Daniel Wang Feng , Siya Digra , The-Anh Vu-Le , Lahari Anne , George Chacko , Tandy Warnow

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…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Sheng Jiang , Surya Tokdar

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

The methodology of community detection can be divided into two principles: imposing a network model on a given graph, or optimizing a designed objective function. The former provides guarantees on theoretical detectability but falls short…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-06 Pin-Yu Chen , Lingfei Wu

Spectral clustering is one of the most popular algorithms for community detection in network analysis. Based on this rationale, in this paper we give the convergence rate of eigenvectors for the adjacency matrix in the $l_\infty$ norm,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Yan Liu , Zhiqiang Hou , Zhigang Yao , Zhidong Bai , Jiang Hu , Shurong Zheng

We propose a novel family of model-free algorithms for node clustering and parameter inference in graphs generated from the Stochastic Block Model (SBM), a fundamental framework in community detection. Drawing inspiration from the Lloyd…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-22 Bertrand Cloez , Adrien Cotil , Jean-Baptiste Menassol , Nicolas Verzelen

The stochastic block model (SBM) is a widely used framework for community detection in networks, where the network structure is typically represented by an adjacency matrix. However, conventional SBMs are not directly applicable to an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-18 Jie Jian , Mu Zhu , Peijun Sang

Motivated by applications in domains such as social networks and computational biology, we study the problem of community recovery in graphs with locality. In this problem, pairwise noisy measurements of whether two nodes are in the same…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Yuxin Chen , Govinda Kamath , Changho Suh , David Tse

We show that a simple community detection algorithm originated from stochastic blockmodel literature achieves consistency, and even optimality, for a broad and flexible class of sparse latent space models. The class of models includes…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-05 Fengnan Gao , Zongming Ma , Hongsong Yuan

Community detection in multi-layer networks is a crucial problem in network analysis. In this paper, we analyze the performance of two spectral clustering algorithms for community detection within the framework of the multi-layer…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Huan Qing

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

We consider the problem of detecting a tight community in a sparse random network. This is formalized as testing for the existence of a dense random subgraph in a random graph. Under the null hypothesis, the graph is a realization of an…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-09-26 Ery Arias-Castro , Nicolas Verzelen