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Latent stochastic block models are flexible statistical models that are widely used in social network analysis. In recent years, efforts have been made to extend these models to temporal dynamic networks, whereby the connections between…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-03-23 Riccardo Rastelli , Pierre Latouche , Nial Friel

Real-world networks often come with side information that can help to improve the performance of network analysis tasks such as clustering. Despite a large number of empirical and theoretical studies conducted on network clustering methods…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-29 Guillaume Braun , Hemant Tyagi , Christophe Biernacki

We construct a novel class of stochastic blockmodels using Bayesian nonparametric mixtures. These model allows us to jointly estimate the structure of multiple networks and explicitly compare the community structures underlying them, while…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-06-17 Perla Reyes , Abel Rodriguez

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

As more and more network-structured data sets are available, the statistical analysis of valued graphs has become common place. Looking for a latent structure is one of the many strategies used to better understand the behavior of a…

Applications · Statistics 2010-11-09 Mahendra Mariadassou , Stéphane Robin , Corinne Vacher

Our concern is selecting the concentration matrix's nonzero coefficients for a sparse Gaussian graphical model in a high-dimensional setting. This corresponds to estimating the graph of conditional dependencies between the variables. We…

Methodology · Statistics 2010-04-05 Christophe Ambroise , Julien Chiquet , Catherine Matias

Community detection is an important task in network analysis, in which we aim to learn a network partition that groups together vertices with similar community-level connectivity patterns. By finding such groups of vertices with similar…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-25 Christopher Aicher , Abigail Z. Jacobs , Aaron Clauset

The stochastic block model is a canonical random graph model for clustering and community detection on network-structured data. Decades of extensive study on the problem have established many profound results, among which the phase…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-29 Junda Sheng , Thomas Strohmer

Community detection, discovering the underlying communities within a network from observed connections, is a fundamental problem in network analysis, yet it remains underexplored for signed networks. In signed networks, both edge connection…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-17 Yichao Chen , Weijing Tang , Ji Zhu

This chapter provides a comprehensive and self-contained discussion of the most recent developments of information theory of networks. Maximum entropy models of networks are the least biased ensembles enforcing a set of constraints and are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-06-14 Ginestra Bianconi

Network data are increasingly common in the social sciences and infectious disease epidemiology. Analyses often link network structure to node-level covariates, but existing methods falter with sparse networks and high-dimensional node…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-05 Emma G Crenshaw , Yuhua Zhang , Jukka-Pekka Onnela

Linear regression on network-linked observations has been an essential tool in modeling the relationship between response and covariates with additional network structures. Previous methods either lack inference tools or rely on restrictive…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-08-22 Can M. Le , Tianxi Li

Networks and data supported on graphs have become ubiquitous in the sciences and engineering. This paper studies the 'blind' community detection problem, where we seek to infer the community structure of a graph model given the observation…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-28 T. Mitchell Roddenberry , Michael T. Schaub , Hoi-To Wai , Santiago Segarra

We consider the challenging problem of statistical inference for exponential-family random graph models based on a single observation of a random graph with complex dependence. To facilitate statistical inference, we consider random graphs…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-13 Michael Schweinberger

Graphical modelling techniques based on sparse selection have been applied to infer complex networks in many fields, including biology and medicine, engineering, finance, and social sciences. One structural feature of some of the networks…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Annaliza McGillivray , Abbas Khalili , David A. Stephens

In community detection on graphs, the semi-supervised learning problem entails inferring the ground-truth membership of each node in a graph, given the connectivity structure and a limited number of revealed node labels. Different subsets…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-03-22 Hugo Cui , Luca Saglietti , Lenka Zdeborová

A new method for analyzing high-dimensional categorical data, Linear Latent Structure (LLS) analysis, is presented. LLS models belong to the family of latent structure models, which are mixture distribution models constrained to satisfy the…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Mikhail Kovtun , Igor Akushevich , Kenneth G. Manton , H. Dennis Tolley

We consider the problem of recovering the community structure in the stochastic block model with two communities. We aim to describe the mutual information between the observed network and the actual community structure in the sparse…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Tomas Dominguez , Jean-Christophe Mourrat

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

This paper considers the problem of community detection on multiple potentially correlated graphs from an information-theoretical perspective. We first put forth a random graph model, called the multi-view stochastic block model (MVSBM),…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Yexin Zhang , Zhongtian Ma , Qiaosheng Zhang , Zhen Wang , Xuelong Li