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A common method for delineating urban and suburban boundaries is to identify clusters of spatial units that are highly interconnected in a network of commuting flows, each cluster signaling a cohesive economic submarket. It is critical that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-05-09 Sebastian Morel-Balbi , Alec Kirkley

Community detection is a fundamental problem in network analysis which is made more challenging by overlaps between communities which often occur in practice. Here we propose a general, flexible, and interpretable generative model for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-16 Yuan Zhang , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

A network is a composition of many communities, i.e., sets of nodes and edges with stronger relationships, with distinct and overlapping properties. Community detection is crucial for various reasons, such as serving as a functional unit of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Isa Inuwa-Dutse , Mark Liptrott , Yannis Korkontzelos

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

We consider community detection in Degree-Corrected Stochastic Block Models (DC-SBM). We propose a spectral clustering algorithm based on a suitably normalized adjacency matrix. We show that this algorithm consistently recovers the…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-02-09 Lennart Gulikers , Marc Lelarge , Laurent Massoulié

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

Community structure is one of the most important features of complex networks. Modularity-based methods for community detection typically rely on heuristic algorithms to optimize a specific community quality function. Such methods are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-09-02 Kun Gao , Xuezao Ren , Lei Zhou , Junfang Zhu

Social communities extraction and their dynamics are one of the most important problems in today's social network analysis. During last few years, many researchers have proposed their own methods for group discovery in social networks.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-09-27 Piotr Bródka , Tomasz Filipowski , Przemysław Kazienko

Our interest is in multiplex network data with multiple network samples observed across the same set of nodes. Examples originate from a variety of fields, including brain connectivity, international trade networks, and social networks,…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-21 Yuren Zhou , Yuqi Gu , David B. Dunson

The goal of community detection over graphs is to recover underlying labels/attributes of users (e.g., political affiliation) given the connectivity between users (represented by adjacency matrix of a graph). There has been significant…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Mohamed Seif , Dung Nguyen , Anil Vullikanti , Ravi Tandon

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

Networks with node covariates offer two advantages to community detection methods, namely, (i) exploit covariates to improve the quality of communities, and more importantly, (ii) explain the discovered communities by identifying the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Shubham Gupta , Gururaj K. , Ambedkar Dukkipati , Rui M. Castro

We propose a model for network community detection using topological data analysis, a branch of modern data science that leverages theory from algebraic topology to statistical analysis and machine learning. Specifically, we use cellular…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Arne Wolf , Anthea Monod

Community structure in networks is observed in many different domains, and unsupervised community detection has received a lot of attention in the literature. Increasingly the focus of network analysis is shifting towards using network…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-03-02 Jesús Arroyo , Elizaveta Levina

An efficient and relatively fast algorithm for the detection of communities in complex networks is introduced. The method exploits spectral properties of the graph Laplacian-matrix combined with hierarchical-clustering techniques, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Luca Donetti , Miguel A. Munoz

Networks are a commonly used mathematical model to describe the rich set of interactions between objects of interest. Many clustering methods have been developed in order to partition such structures, among which several rely on underlying…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-05-13 P. Latouche , E. Birmelé , C. Ambroise

Many systems can be described using graphs, or networks. Detecting communities in these networks can provide information about the underlying structure and functioning of the original systems. Yet this detection is a complex task and a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-02-06 Erwan Le Martelot , Chris Hankin

Hierarchical organization is an important, prevalent characteristic of complex systems; in order to understand their organization, the study of the underlying (generally complex) networks that describe the interactions between their…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-11-22 Zhao Yang , Juan I. Perotti , Claudio J. Tessone

We study the problem of community detection in multi-layer networks, where pairs of nodes can be related in multiple modalities. We introduce a general framework, i.e., mixture multi-layer stochastic block model (MMSBM), which includes many…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Bing-Yi Jing , Ting Li , Zhongyuan Lyu , Dong Xia

Hierarchical clustering of networks consists in finding a tree of communities, such that lower levels of the hierarchy reveal finer-grained community structures. There are two main classes of algorithms tackling this problem. Divisive…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Maximilien Dreveton , Daichi Kuroda , Matthias Grossglauser , Patrick Thiran