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The stochastic block model (SBM) and degree-corrected block model (DCBM) are network models often selected as the fundamental setting in which to analyze the theoretical properties of community detection methods. We consider the problem of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-19 Jonathan Hehir , Aleksandra Slavkovic , Xiaoyue Niu

We consider the problem of identifying underlying community-like structures in graphs. Towards this end we study the Stochastic Block Model (SBM) on $k$-clusters: a random model on $n=km$ vertices, partitioned in $k$ equal sized clusters,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-10 Naman Agarwal , Afonso S. Bandeira , Konstantinos Koiliaris , Alexandra Kolla

A relevant, sometimes overlooked, quality criterion for communities in graphs is that they should be well-connected in addition to being edge-dense. Prior work has shown that leading community detection methods can produce poorly-connected…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-07 The-Anh Vu-Le , Minhyuk Park , Ian Chen , George Chacko , Tandy Warnow

This paper considers a joint multi-graph inference and clustering problem for simultaneous inference of node centrality and association of graph signals with their graphs. We study a mixture model of filtered low pass graph signals with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-15 Yiran He , Hoi-To Wai

We derive rigorous bounds for well-defined community structure in complex networks for a stochastic block model (SBM) benchmark. In particular, we analyze the effect of inter-community "noise" (inter-community edges) on any "community…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-14 Richard K. Darst , David R. Reichman , Peter Ronhovde , Zohar Nussinov

Recent advances in machine learning research have produced powerful neural graph embedding methods, which learn useful, low-dimensional vector representations of network data. These neural methods for graph embedding excel in graph machine…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-11-05 Sadamori Kojaku , Filippo Radicchi , Yong-Yeol Ahn , Santo Fortunato

Clustering a graph means identifying internally dense subgraphs which are only sparsely interconnected. Formalizations of this notion lead to measures that quantify the quality of a clustering and to algorithms that actually find…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-12-12 Robert Görke , Andrea Schumm , Dorothea Wagner

We introduce the Markov Stochastic Block Model (MSBM): a growth model for community based networks where node attributes are assigned through a Markovian dynamic. We rely on HMMs' literature to design prediction methods that are robust to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Quentin Duchemin

We consider the problem of providing nonparametric confidence guarantees for undirected graphs under weak assumptions. In particular, we do not assume sparsity, incoherence or Normality. We allow the dimension $D$ to increase with the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-09-27 Larry Wasserman , Mladen Kolar , Alessandro Rinaldo

Detecting communities in high-dimensional graphs can be achieved by applying random matrix theory where the adjacency matrix of the graph is modeled by a Stochastic Block Model (SBM). However, the SBM makes an unrealistic assumption that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-08 Robert Malinas , Dogyoon Song , Alfred O. Hero

Simultaneously performing variable selection and inference in high-dimensional models is an open challenge in statistics and machine learning. The increasing availability of vast amounts of variables requires the adoption of specific…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-02 Marco Molinari , Magne Thoresen

While data-driven confounder selection requires careful consideration, it is frequently employed in observational studies. Widely recognized criteria for confounder selection include the minimal-set approach, which involves selecting…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-21 Kazuharu Harada , Masataka Taguri

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

False discovery rate (FDR) is a cornerstone of modern multiple testing. However, it often fails to guarantee the reliability of "marginal" discoveries that lie at the boundary of the rejection set, which are often crucial in high-precision…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-12 Yifan Zhang , Wentao Zhang , Changliang Zou , Haojie Ren

We attempt to recover an $n$-dimensional vector observed in white noise, where $n$ is large and the vector is known to be sparse, but the degree of sparsity is unknown. We consider three different ways of defining sparsity of a vector:…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Felix Abramovich , Yoav Benjamini , David L. Donoho , Iain M. Johnstone

The stochastic block model is able to generate different network partitions, ranging from traditional assortative communities to disassortative structures. Since the degree-corrected stochastic block model does not specify which mixing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Xiaoyan Lu , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

Large time-varying graphs are increasingly common in financial, social and biological settings. Feature extraction that efficiently encodes the complex structure of sparse, multi-layered, dynamic graphs presents computational and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Umar Islambekov , Hasani Pathirana , Omid Khormali , Cuneyt Akcora , Ekaterina Smirnova

High dimensional Gaussian graphical models provide a rigorous framework to describe a network of statistical dependencies between entities, such as genes in genomic regulation studies or species in ecology. Penalized methods, including the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-04 Jeanne Tous , Julien Chiquet

The stochastic block model (SBM) is a probabilistic model de- signed to describe heterogeneous directed and undirected graphs. In this paper, we address the asymptotic inference on SBM by use of maximum- likelihood and variational…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-10-02 Alain Celisse , J. -J. Daudin , Laurent Pierre

Most existing graph clustering methods primarily focus on exploiting topological structure, often neglecting the ``missing-half" node feature information, especially how these features can enhance clustering performance. This issue is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Xuanting Xie , Bingheng Li , Erlin Pan , Zhaochen Guo , Zhao Kang , Wenyu Chen