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It is difficult to detect and evaluate the number of communities in complex networks, especially when the situation involves with an ambiguous boundary between the inner- and inter-community densities. In this paper, Discrete Nodal Domain…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-03 Bian He , Lei Gu , Xiao-Dong Zhang

Massive network datasets are becoming increasingly common in scientific applications. Existing community detection methods encounter significant computational challenges for such massive networks due to two reasons. First, the full network…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-24 Subhankar Bhadra , Marianna Pensky , Srijan Sengupta

We analyze the performance of spectral clustering for community extraction in stochastic block models. We show that, under mild conditions, spectral clustering applied to the adjacency matrix of the network can consistently recover hidden…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-31 Jing Lei , Alessandro Rinaldo

This paper presents a novel spectral algorithm with additive clustering designed to identify overlapping communities in networks. The algorithm is based on geometric properties of the spectrum of the expected adjacency matrix in a random…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-07 Emilie Kaufmann , Thomas Bonald , Marc Lelarge

Clustering is a fundamental analysis tool aiming at classifying data points into groups based on their similarity or distance. It has found successful applications in all natural and social sciences, including biology, physics, economics,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Wen-Bo Xie , Yan-Li Lee , Cong Wang , Duan-Bing Chen , Tao Zhou

The paper investigates the problem of finding communities in complex network systems, the detection of which allows a better understanding of the laws of their functioning. To solve this problem, two approaches are proposed based on the use…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-02-23 Olexandr Polishchuk

While there have been numerous sequential algorithms developed to estimate community structure in networks, there is little available guidance and study of what significance level or stopping parameter to use in these sequential testing…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-09-19 Riddhi Pratim Ghosh , Ian Barnett

Community detection and orthogonal group synchronization are both fundamental problems with a variety of important applications in science and engineering. In this work, we consider the joint problem of community detection and orthogonal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-19 Yifeng Fan , Yuehaw Khoo , Zhizhen Zhao

Network-based clustering methods frequently require the number of communities to be specified \emph{a priori}. Moreover, most of the existing methods for estimating the number of communities assume the number of communities to be fixed and…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-01-14 Chetkar Jha , Mingyao Li , Ian Barnett

A precise definition of what constitutes a community in networks has remained elusive. Consequently, network scientists have compared community detection algorithms on benchmark networks with a particular form of community structure and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Martin Rosvall , Jean-Charles Delvenne , Michael T. Schaub , Renaud Lambiotte

In this article, we advance divide-and-conquer strategies for solving the community detection problem in networks. We propose two algorithms which perform clustering on a number of small subgraphs and finally patches the results into a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-21 Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee , Purnamrita Sarkar , Peter J. Bickel

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

Complex networks constitute the backbones of many complex systems such as social networks. Detecting the community structure in a complex network is both a challenging and a computationally expensive task. In this paper, we present the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Eduar Castrillo , Elizabeth León , Jonatan Gómez

Community detection is a fundamental problem in network analysis, with applications in many diverse areas. The stochastic block model is a common tool for model-based community detection, and asymptotic tools for checking consistency of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-18 Yunpeng Zhao , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

We study how to detect groups in a complex network each of which consists of component nodes sharing a similar connection pattern. Based on the mixture models and the exploratory analysis set up by Newman and Leicht (Newman and Leicht 2007…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-12-17 J. Wang , C. -H. Lai

In this paper, we introduce a hierarchical extension of the stochastic blockmodel to identify multilevel community structures in networks. We also present a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and a variational Bayes algorithm to fit the model…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-10-07 Pedro Regueiro , Abel Rodríguez , Juan Sosa

Social relationships can be divided into different classes based on the regularity with which they occur and the similarity among them. Thus, rare and somewhat similar relationships are random and cause noise in a social network, thus…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Jeancarlo Campos Leão , Michele Amaral Brandão , Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo , Alberto H. F. Laender

The paper tackles the problem of clustering multiple networks, directed or not, that do not share the same set of vertices, into groups of networks with similar topology. A statistical model-based approach based on a finite mixture of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Tabea Rebafka

Community detection is considered as a fundamental task in analyzing social networks. Even though many techniques have been proposed for community detection, most of them are based exclusively on the connectivity structures. However, there…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-12-25 Hadi Zare , Mahdi Hajiabadi , Mahdi Jalili

In principle, higher-order networks that have multiple edge types are more informative than their lower-order counterparts. In practice, however, excessively rich information may be algorithmically infeasible to extract. It requires an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Tatsuro Kawamoto