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We propose a new hierarchy of semidefinite programming relaxations for inference problems. As test cases, we consider the problem of community detection in block models. The vertices are partitioned into $k$ communities, and a graph is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Jess Banks , Sidhanth Mohanty , Prasad Raghavendra

Detecting communities in networks and graphs is an important task across many disciplines such as statistics, social science and engineering. There are generally three different kinds of mixing patterns for the case of two communities:…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-10-10 Xiancheng Lin , Hao Chen

Exact recovery in stochastic block models (SBMs) is well understood in undirected settings, but remains considerably less developed for directed and sparse networks, particularly when the number of communities diverges. Spectral methods for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-18 Behzad Aalipur , Yichen Qin

Clustering has long been a popular unsupervised learning approach to identify groups of similar objects and discover patterns from unlabeled data in many applications. Yet, coming up with meaningful interpretations of the estimated clusters…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-05-26 Minjie Wang , Tianyi Yao , Genevera I. Allen

This paper considers the parameter estimation problem in Mixed Membership Stochastic Block Model (MMSB), which is a quite general instance of random graph model allowing for overlapping community structure. We present the new algorithm…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-24 Maxim Panov , Konstantin Slavnov , Roman Ushakov

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

Link prediction is a cornerstone of the Web ecosystem, powering applications from recommendation and search to knowledge graph completion and collaboration forecasting. However, large-scale networks present unique challenges: they contain…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Zhejian Yang , Songwei Zhao , Zilin Zhao , Hechang Chen

Statistical clustering in dynamic networks aims to identify groups of nodes with similar or distinct internal connectivity patterns as the network evolves over time. While early research primarily focused on static Stochastic Block Models…

Applications · Statistics 2026-01-28 Gabriela Bayolo Soler , Miraine Dávila Felipe , Ghislaine Gayraud

Last years have seen a regain of interest for the use of stochastic block modeling (SBM) in recommender systems. These models are seen as a flexible alternative to tensor decomposition techniques that are able to handle labeled data. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Gaël Poux-Médard , Julien Velcin , Sabine Loudcher

New phase transition phenomena have recently been discovered for the stochastic block model, for the special case of two non-overlapping symmetric communities. This gives raise in particular to new algorithmic challenges driven by the…

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Communities are a common and widely studied structure in networks, typically under the assumption that the network is fully and correctly observed. In practice, network data are often collected by querying nodes about their connections. In…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-03-22 Tianxi Li , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

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

Graph clustering is a central topic in unsupervised learning with a multitude of practical applications. In recent years, multi-view graph clustering has gained a lot of attention for its applicability to real-world instances where one has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Tommaso d'Orsi , Silvio Lattanzi , Rajai Nasser

We analyze the bootstrap percolation process on the stochastic block model (SBM), a natural extension of the Erd\"{o}s--R\'{e}nyi random graph that allows representing the "community structure" observed in many real systems. In the SBM,…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-09-25 Giovanni Luca Torrisi , Michele Garetto , Emilio Leonardi

In a graph bisection problem, we are given a graph $G$ with two equally-sized unlabeled communities, and the goal is to recover the vertices in these communities. A popular heuristic, known as spectral clustering, is to output an estimated…

Heterogeneity is a fundamental characteristic of cancer. To accommodate heterogeneity, subgroup identification has been extensively studied and broadly categorized into unsupervised and supervised analysis. Compared to unsupervised…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-25 Xing Qin , Xu Liu , Shuangge Ma , Mengyun Wu

We prove strong consistency of spectral clustering under the degree-corrected hypergraph stochastic block model in the sparse regime where the maximum expected hyperdegree is as small as $\Omega(\log n)$ with $n$ denoting the number of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Chong Deng , Xin-Jian Xu , Shihui Ying

Traditionally, community detection in graphs can be solved using spectral methods or posterior inference under probabilistic graphical models. Focusing on random graph families such as the stochastic block model, recent research has unified…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-11 Zhengdao Chen , Xiang Li , Joan Bruna

The stochastic block model (SBM) is one of the most widely used generative models for network data. Many continuous-time dynamic network models are built upon the same assumption as the SBM: edges or events between all pairs of nodes are…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-07-08 Hadeel Soliman , Lingfei Zhao , Zhipeng Huang , Subhadeep Paul , Kevin S. Xu

We introduce a spatial graph and hypergraph model that smoothly interpolates between a graph with purely pairwise edges and a graph where all connections are in large hyperedges. The key component is a spatial clustering resolution…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Omar Eldaghar , Yu Zhu , David F. Gleich