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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…

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Real-world networks usually have community structure, that is, nodes are grouped into densely connected communities. Community detection is one of the most popular and best-studied research topics in network science and has attracted…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Yunpeng Zhao

We introduce a novel model for multilayer weighted networks that accounts for global noise in addition to local signals. The model is similar to a multilayer stochastic blockmodel (SBM), but the key difference is that between-block…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Mark He , Dylan Lu , Jason Xu , Rose Mary Xavier

The stochastic block model (SBM) is a probabilistic model for community structure in networks. Typically, only the adjacency matrix is used to perform SBM parameter inference. In this paper, we consider circumstances in which nodes have an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Natalie Stanley , Thomas Bonacci , Roland Kwitt , Marc Niethammer , Peter J. Mucha

The stochastic block model (SBM) is a widely used framework for community detection in networks, where the network structure is typically represented by an adjacency matrix. However, conventional SBMs are not directly applicable to an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-18 Jie Jian , Mu Zhu , Peijun Sang

We develop a method to infer community structure in directed networks where the groups are ordered in a latent one-dimensional hierarchy that determines the preferred edge direction. Our nonparametric Bayesian approach is based on a…

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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

In this paper, we focus on the stochastic block model (SBM),a probabilistic tool describing interactions between nodes of a network using latent clusters. The SBM assumes that the networkhas a stationary structure, in which connections of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-09-09 Marco Corneli , Pierre Latouche , Fabrice Rossi

We introduce a community detection method that finds clusters in network time-series by introducing an algorithm that finds significantly interconnected nodes across time. These connections are either increasing, decreasing, or constant…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-04-07 Mark He , Joseph Glasser , Shankar Bhamidi , Nikhil Kaza

Block modeling is widely used in studies on complex networks. The cornerstone model is the stochastic block model (SBM), widely used over the past decades. However, the SBM is limited in analyzing complex networks as the model is, in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Wenning Zhang , Ryohei Hisano , Takaaki Ohnishi , Takayuki Mizuno

The paper develops models for modeling the availability of bikes in the San Francisco Bay Area Bike Share System applying machine learning at two levels: network and station. Investigating BSSs at the station-level is the full problem that…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Huthaifa I. Ashqar , Mohammed Elhenawy , Hesham A. Rakha , Mohammed Almannaa , Leanna House

Multilayer networks are a useful data structure for simultaneously capturing multiple types of relationships between a set of nodes. In such networks, each relational definition gives rise to a layer. While each layer provides its own set…

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Stochastic block models (SBMs) are often used to find assortative community structures in networks, such that the probability of connections within communities is higher than in between communities. However, classic SBMs are not limited to…

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Networks, which represent agents and interactions between them, arise in myriad applications throughout the sciences, engineering, and even the humanities. To understand large-scale structure in a network, a common task is to cluster a…

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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…

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Stochastic blockmodels have been proposed as a tool for detecting community structure in networks as well as for generating synthetic networks for use as benchmarks. Most blockmodels, however, ignore variation in vertex degree, making them…

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A framework based on generalized hierarchical random graphs (GHRGs) for the detection of change points in the structure of temporal networks has recently been developed by Peel and Clauset [1]. We build on this methodology and extend it to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Simon De Ridder , Benjamin Vandermarliere , Jan Ryckebusch

As an economical and healthy mode of shared transportation, Bike Sharing System (BSS) develops quickly in many big cities. An accurate prediction method can help BSS schedule resources in advance to meet the demands of users, and definitely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Weiguo Pian , Yingbo Wu , Ziyi Kou

Community detection seeks to recover mesoscopic structure from network data that may be binary, count-valued, signed, directed, weighted, or multilayer. The stochastic block model (SBM) explains such structure by positing a latent partition…

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