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We investigate the widely encountered problem of detecting communities in multiplex networks, such as social networks, with an unknown arbitrary heterogeneous structure. To improve detectability, we propose a generative model that leverages…

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Researchers theorize that many real-world networks exhibit community structure where within-community edges are more likely than between-community edges. While numerous methods exist to cluster nodes into different communities, less work…

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We equip the edges of a deterministic graph $H$ with independent but not necessarily identically distributed weights and study a generalized version of matchings (i.e. a set of vertex disjoint edges) in $H$ satisfying the property that…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-08-18 Ghurumuruhan Ganesan

Community detection in networks is a key exploratory tool with applications in a diverse set of areas, ranging from finding communities in social and biological networks to identifying link farms in the World Wide Web. The problem of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-05 Peter J. Bickel , Purnamrita Sarkar

We present a simple and flexible method to prove consistency of semidefinite optimization problems on random graphs. The method is based on Grothendieck's inequality. Unlike the previous uses of this inequality that lead to constant…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-12-23 Olivier Guédon , Roman Vershynin

Community detection plays a key role in understanding graph structure. However, several recent studies showed that community detection is vulnerable to adversarial structural perturbation. In particular, via adding or removing a small…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Jinyuan Jia , Binghui Wang , Xiaoyu Cao , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

We propose a robust, scalable, integrated methodology for community detection and community comparison in graphs. In our procedure, we first embed a graph into an appropriate Euclidean space to obtain a low-dimensional representation, and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-08-29 Vince Lyzinski , Minh Tang , Avanti Athreya , Youngser Park , Carey E. Priebe

Community detection in social networks is a problem with considerable interest, since, discovering communities reveals hidden information about networks. There exist many algorithms to detect inherent community structures and recently few…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Waqas Nawaz

We study the problem of finding a copy of a specific induced subgraph on inhomogeneous random graphs with infinite variance power-law degrees. We provide a fast algorithm that finds a copy of any connected graph $H$ on a fixed number of $k$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Ellen Cardinaels , Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden , Clara Stegehuis

How can researchers test for heterogeneity in the local structure of a network? In this paper, we present a framework that utilizes random sampling to give subgraphs which are then used in a goodness of fit test to test for heterogeneity.…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-12-04 Jonathan Tuke , Matthew Roughan

Community structure is of paramount importance for the understanding of complex networks. Consequently, there is a tremendous effort in order to develop efficient community detection algorithms. Unfortunately, the issue of a fair assessment…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Jebabli Malek , Cherifi Hocine , Cherifi Chantal , Hamouda Atef

The study of networks has received increased attention recently not only from the social sciences and statistics but also from physicists, computer scientists and mathematicians. One of the principal problem in networks is community…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-01-27 Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya , Peter J. Bickel

Motivated by an application in community detection, we consider an \ER random graph conditioned on the rare event that all connected components are fully connected. Such graphs can be considered as partitions of vertices into cliques.…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-19 Martijn Gösgens , Lukas Lüchtrath , Elena Magnanini , Marc Noy , Élie de Panafieu

We study the problem of detecting local geometry in random graphs. We introduce a model $\mathcal{G}(n, p, d, k)$, where a hidden community of average size $k$ has edges drawn as a random geometric graph on $\mathbb{S}^{d-1}$, while all…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Jinho Bok , Shuangping Li , Sophie H. Yu

Correlation analysis is a fundamental step in uncovering meaningful insights from complex datasets. In this paper, we study the problem of detecting correlations between two random graphs following the Gaussian Wigner model with unlabeled…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Dong Huang , Pengkun Yang

We propose a new procedure for testing whether two networks are edge-correlated through some latent vertex correspondence. The test statistic is based on counting the co-occurrences of signed trees for a family of non-isomorphic trees. When…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Cheng Mao , Yihong Wu , Jiaming Xu , Sophie H. Yu

Graph data has a unique structure that deviates from standard data assumptions, often necessitating modifications to existing methods or the development of new ones to ensure valid statistical analysis. In this paper, we explore the notion…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-07-09 Cencheng Shen , Jesüs Arroyo , Junhao Xiong , Joshua T. Vogelstein

Network community detection is usually considered as an unsupervised learning problem. Given a network, the aim is to partition it using some general purpose algorithm. In this paper we instead treat community detection as a hypothesis…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Rudy Arthur

Community detection in a complex network is an important problem of much interest in recent years. In general, a community detection algorithm chooses an objective function and captures the communities of the network by optimizing the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-08-27 Suman Saha , Satya P. Ghrera

In this paper, we use a partition of the links of a network in order to uncover its community structure. This approach allows for communities to overlap at nodes, so that nodes may be in more than one community. We do this by making a node…

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