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In bipartite networks, community structures are restricted to being disassortative, in that nodes of one type are grouped according to common patterns of connection with nodes of the other type. This makes the stochastic block model (SBM),…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-09-30 Tzu-Chi Yen , Daniel B. Larremore

Graph clustering, or community detection, is the task of identifying groups of closely related objects in a large network. In this paper we introduce a new community-detection framework called LambdaCC that is based on a specially weighted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Nate Veldt , David Gleich , Anthony Wirth

Community detection in graphs that are generated according to stochastic block models (SBMs) has received much attention lately. In this paper, we focus on the binary symmetric SBM -- in which a graph of $n$ vertices is randomly generated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Peng Wang , Zirui Zhou , Anthony Man-Cho So

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

Real-world networks usually have community structure, that is, nodes are grouped into densely connected communities. Community detection is one of the most popular and best-studied research topics in network science and has attracted…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Yunpeng Zhao

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

Community detection, also known as graph partitioning, is a well-known NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem with applications in diverse fields such as complex network theory, transportation, and smart power grids. The problem's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Wei Li , Yi-Lun Du , Nan Su , Konrad Tywoniuk , Kyle Godbey , Horst Stöcker

Spectral clustering is a widely used method for community detection in networks. We focus on a semi-supervised community detection scenario in the Partially Labeled Stochastic Block Model (PL-SBM) with two balanced communities, where a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-16 Nicolas Fraiman , Michael Nisenzon

Community detection is a fundamental task in data analysis, and block models provide an approach for identifying a wide variety of community structures while offering high interpretability. The degree-corrected block model (DCBM) is an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Alexandra Dache , Arnaud Vandaele , Nicolas Gillis

With invaluable theoretical and practical benefits, the problem of partitioning networks for community structures has attracted significant research attention in scientific and engineering disciplines. In literature, Newman's modularity…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Wenye Li

We consider the community detection problem in sparse random hypergraphs under the non-uniform hypergraph stochastic block model (HSBM), a general model of random networks with community structure and higher-order interactions. When the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-11 Ioana Dumitriu , Haixiao Wang , Yizhe Zhu

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…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-26 Emmanuel Abbe

The stochastic block model (SBM) and degree-corrected block model (DCBM) are network models often selected as the fundamental setting in which to analyze the theoretical properties of community detection methods. We consider the problem of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-19 Jonathan Hehir , Aleksandra Slavkovic , Xiaoyue Niu

Modularity maximization has been a fundamental tool for understanding the community structure of a network, but the underlying optimization problem is nonconvex and NP-hard to solve. State-of-the-art algorithms like the Louvain or Leiden…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Po-Wei Wang , J. Zico Kolter

Community detection is one of the most critical problems in modern network science. Its applications can be found in various fields, from protein modeling to social network analysis. Recently, many papers appeared studying the problem of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-12 Fedor Noskov , Maxim Panov

We study community detection in the \emph{symmetric $k$-stochastic block model}, where $n$ nodes are evenly partitioned into $k$ clusters with intra- and inter-cluster connection probabilities $p$ and $q$, respectively. Our main result is a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-21 Jingqiu Ding , Yiding Hua , Kasper Lindberg , David Steurer , Aleksandr Storozhenko

The stochastic block model (SBM) is an important generative model for random graphs in network science and machine learning, useful for benchmarking community detection (or clustering) algorithms. The symmetric SBM generates a graph with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Akshay Gadde , Eyal En Gad , Salman Avestimehr , Antonio Ortega

Community detection is a fundamental statistical problem in network data analysis. Many algorithms have been proposed to tackle this problem. Most of these algorithms are not guaranteed to achieve the statistical optimality of the problem,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-10-06 Chao Gao , Zongming Ma , Anderson Y. Zhang , Harrison H. Zhou

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…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-11-06 Arash A. Amini , Aiyou Chen , Peter J. Bickel , Elizaveta Levina

Community identification in a network is an important problem in fields such as social science, neuroscience, and genetics. Over the past decade, stochastic block models (SBMs) have emerged as a popular statistical framework for this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-02 Min Xu , Varun Jog , Po-Ling Loh