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Stochastic block models (SBMs) are a very commonly studied network model for community detection algorithms. In the standard form of an SBM, the $n$ vertices (or nodes) of a graph are generally divided into multiple pre-determined…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Dung Nguyen , Anil Vullikanti

Stochastic block models (SBMs) have been playing an important role in modeling clusters or community structures of network data. But, it is incapable of handling several complex features ubiquitously exhibited in real-world networks, one of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Maoying Qiao , Jun Yu , Wei Bian , Qiang Li , Dacheng Tao

The community detection problem requires to cluster the nodes of a network into a small number of well-connected "communities". There has been substantial recent progress in characterizing the fundamental statistical limits of community…

The concept of community detection has long been used as a key device for handling the mesoscale structures in networks. Suitably conducted community detection reveals various embedded informative substructures of network topology. However,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-05-28 Daekyung Lee , Sang Hoon Lee , Beom Jun Kim , Heetae Kim

Most recent developments on the stochastic block model (SBM) rely on the knowledge of the model parameters, or at least on the number of communities. This paper introduces efficient algorithms that do not require such knowledge and yet…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Emmanuel Abbe , Colin Sandon

In this short note, we address the identifiability issues inherent in the Degree-Corrected Stochastic Block Model (DCSBM). We provide a rigorous proof demonstrating that the parameters of the DCSBM are identifiable up to a scaling factor…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-12 John Park , Yunpeng Zhao , Ning Hao

We propose a streamlined spectral algorithm for community detection in the two-community stochastic block model (SBM) under constant edge density assumptions. By reducing algorithmic complexity through the elimination of non-essential…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Sie Hendrata Dharmawan , Peter Chin

In this paper, we obtain new results on the weak and strong consistency of the maximum and integrated conditional likelihood estimators for the community detection problem in the Stochastic Block Model with $k$ communities and unknown…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Andressa Cerqueira , Florencia Leonardi

We consider the spectral properties of balanced stochastic block models of which the average degree grows slower than the number of nodes (sparse regime) or proportional to it (dense regime). For both regimes, we prove a phase transition of…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-09-18 Yoochan Han , Ji Oon Lee , Wooseok Yang

In this paper, we consider the community detection problem under either the stochastic block model (SBM) assumption or the degree-correlated stochastic block model (DCSBM) assumption. The modularity maximization formulation for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-04 Junyu Zhang , Haoyang Liu , Zaiwen Wen , Shuzhong Zhang

In a paper that initiated the modern study of the stochastic block model, Decelle et al., backed by Mossel et al., made the following conjecture: Denote by $k$ the number of balanced communities, $a/n$ the probability of connecting inside…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-16 Emmanuel Abbe , Colin Sandon

We introduce the nested stochastic block model (NSBM) to cluster a collection of networks while simultaneously detecting communities within each network. NSBM has several appealing features including the ability to work on unlabeled…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-17 Nathaniel Josephs , Arash A. Amini , Marina Paez , Lizhen Lin

Mesoscopic pattern extraction (MPE) is the problem of finding a partition of the nodes of a complex network that maximizes some objective function. Many well-known network inference problems fall in this category, including, for instance,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-10-03 Jean-Gabriel Young , Guillaume St-Onge , Patrick Desrosiers , Louis J. Dubé

Stochastic blockmodels (SBM) and their variants, $e.g.$, mixed-membership and overlapping stochastic blockmodels, are latent variable based generative models for graphs. They have proven to be successful for various tasks, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Nikhil Mehta , Lawrence Carin , Piyush Rai

We consider graphs with two communities and analyze an algorithm for learning the community labels when the edges of the graph and only a small fraction of the labels are known in advance. The algorithm is based on the Glauber dynamics for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Diego Goldsztajn

The maximization of generalized modularity performs well on networks in which the members of all communities are statistically indistinguishable from each other. However, there is no theory bounding the maximization performance in more…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Xiaoyan Lu , Brendan Cross , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

Community detection is one of the fundamental problems of network analysis, for which a number of methods have been proposed. Most model-based or criteria-based methods have to solve an optimization problem over a discrete set of labels to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-12 Can M. Le , Elizaveta Levina , Roman Vershynin

The bipartite network appears in various areas, such as biology, sociology, physiology, and computer science. \cite{rohe2016co} proposed Stochastic co-Blockmodel (ScBM) as a tool for detecting community structure of binary bipartite graph…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-31 Huan Qing , Jingli Wang

A valued stochastic blockmodel (SBM) is a general way to view networked data in which nodes are grouped into blocks and links between them are measured by counts or labels. This family allows for varying dyad sampling schemes, thereby…

The Stochastic Block Model (Holland et al., 1983) is a mixture model for heterogeneous network data. Unlike the usual statistical framework, new nodes give additional information about the previous ones in this model. Thereby the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-11-01 Antoine Channarond , Jean-Jacques Daudin , Stéphane Robin