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Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Zhixin Zhou , Arash A. Amini

Identifying edge-dense communities that are also well-connected is an important aspect of understanding community structure. Prior work has shown that community detection methods can produce poorly connected communities, and some can even…

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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…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Zachary M. Boyd , Mason A. Porter , Andrea L. Bertozzi

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

The stochastic block model (SBM) is an important generative model for random graphs in network science and machine learning, useful for benchmarking community detection (or clustering) algorithms. The symmetric SBM generates a graph with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Akshay Gadde , Eyal En Gad , Salman Avestimehr , Antonio Ortega

Multiplex networks have become increasingly more prevalent in many fields, and have emerged as a powerful tool for modeling the complexity of real networks. There is a critical need for developing inference models for multiplex networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Arash A. Amini , Marina S. Paez , Lizhen Lin

The bipartite network appears in various areas, such as biology, sociology, physiology, and computer science. \cite{rohe2016co} proposed Stochastic co-Blockmodel (ScBM) as a tool for detecting community structure of binary bipartite graph…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-31 Huan Qing , Jingli Wang

The stochastic block model (SBM) is a popular framework for studying community detection in networks. This model is limited by the assumption that all nodes in the same community are statistically equivalent and have equal expected degrees.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Yudong Chen , Xiaodong Li , Jiaming Xu

Community detection, which aims to cluster $N$ nodes in a given graph into $r$ distinct groups based on the observed undirected edges, is an important problem in network data analysis. In this paper, the popular stochastic block model (SBM)…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-04 T. Tony Cai , Xiaodong Li

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

Statistical node clustering in discrete time dynamic networks is an emerging field that raises many challenges. Here, we explore statistical properties and frequentist inference in a model that combines a stochastic block model (SBM) for…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-06-23 Catherine Matias , Vincent Miele

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…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-17 Yichao Chen , Weijing Tang , Ji Zhu

Modeling relations between individuals is a classical question in social sciences and clustering individuals according to the observed patterns of interactions allows to uncover a latent structure in the data. Stochastic block model (SBM)…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-01-27 Pierre Barbillon , Sophie Donnet , Emmanuel Lazega , Avner Bar-Hen

One of the most fundamental problems in network study is community detection. The stochastic block model (SBM) is a widely used model, for which various estimation methods have been developed with their community detection consistency…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-10-09 Sihan Huang , Jiajin Sun , Yang Feng

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

Structured data in the form of networks are increasingly common in a number of fields, including the social sciences, biology, physics, computer science, and many others. A key task in network analysis is community detection, which…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-25 Martina Amongero , Pierpaolo De Blasi

Clustering of single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) datasets can give key insights into the biological functions of cells. Therefore, it is not surprising that network-based community detection methods (one of the better clustering…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-17 Chetkar Jha , Mingyao Li , Ian Barnett

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

Spectral clustering is one of the most popular algorithms for community detection in network analysis. Based on this rationale, in this paper we give the convergence rate of eigenvectors for the adjacency matrix in the $l_\infty$ norm,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Yan Liu , Zhiqiang Hou , Zhigang Yao , Zhidong Bai , Jiang Hu , Shurong Zheng

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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