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We study the community detection problem in the non-uniform hypergraph stochastic block model (HSBM), where hyperedges of varying sizes coexist. This setting captures higher-order and multi-view interactions and raises a fundamental…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-24 Manuel Fernandez , Ludovic Stephan , Yizhe Zhu

Many inference problems, notably the stochastic block model (SBM) that generates a random graph with a hidden community structure, undergo phase transitions as a function of the signal-to-noise ratio, and can exhibit hard phases in which…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-04-09 Federico Ricci-Tersenghi , Guilhem Semerjian , Lenka Zdeborova

We consider the community detection problem in a sparse $q$-uniform hypergraph $G$, assuming that $G$ is generated according to the Hypergraph Stochastic Block Model (HSBM). We prove that a spectral method based on the non-backtracking…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-29 Ludovic Stephan , Yizhe Zhu

The Degree Corrected Stochastic Block Model (DCSBM) was introduced by \cite{karrer2011stochastic} as a generalization of the stochastic block model in which vertices of the same community are allowed to have distinct degree distributions.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-27 Andressa Cerqueira , Sandro Gallo , Florencia Leonardi , Cristel Vera

We investigate implications of the (extended) low-degree conjecture (recently formalized in [MW23]) in the context of the symmetric stochastic block model. Assuming the conjecture holds, we establish that no polynomial-time algorithm can…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Jingqiu Ding , Yiding Hua , Lucas Slot , David Steurer

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

The problem of detecting communities in a graph is maybe one the most studied inference problems, given its simplicity and widespread diffusion among several disciplines. A very common benchmark for this problem is the stochastic block…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-04-08 Adel Javanmard , Andrea Montanari , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi

In recent years there has been an increased interest in statistical analysis of data with multiple types of relations among a set of entities. Such multi-relational data can be represented as multi-layer graphs where the set of vertices…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-27 Subhadeep Paul , Yuguo Chen

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

Community detection is a fundamental task in graph analysis, with methods often relying on fitting models like the Stochastic Block Model (SBM) to observed networks. While many algorithms can accurately estimate SBM parameters when the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-05 Leonardo Martins Bianco , Christine Keribin , Zacharie Naulet

We propose a semidefinite programming (SDP) algorithm for community detection in the stochastic block model, a popular model for networks with latent community structure. We prove that our algorithm achieves exact recovery of the latent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Amelia Perry , Alexander S. Wein

Semidefinite programs have recently been developed for the problem of community detection, which may be viewed as a special case of the stochastic blockmodel. Here, we develop a semidefinite program that can be tailored to other instances…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-17 David Choi

Recently network analysis has gained more and more attentions in statistics, as well as in computer science, probability, and applied mathematics. Community detection for the stochastic block model (SBM) is probably the most studied topic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-17 Anderson Y. Zhang , Harrison H. Zhou

We study robust community detection in the context of node-corrupted stochastic block model, where an adversary can arbitrarily modify all the edges incident to a fraction of the $n$ vertices. We present the first polynomial-time algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Jingqiu Ding , Tommaso d'Orsi , Yiding Hua , David Steurer

We consider the problem of community detection in the Stochastic Block Model with a finite number $K$ of communities of sizes linearly growing with the network size $n$. This model consists in a random graph such that each pair of vertices…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-12-24 Se-Young Yun , Alexandre Proutiere

Denote by $A$ the adjacency matrix of an Erdos-Renyi graph with bounded average degree. We consider the problem of maximizing $\langle A-E\{A\},X\rangle$ over the set of positive semidefinite matrices $X$ with diagonal entries $X_{ii}=1$.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-12-25 Andrea Montanari , Subhabrata Sen

Traditionally, community detection in graphs can be solved using spectral methods or posterior inference under probabilistic graphical models. Focusing on random graph families such as the stochastic block model, recent research has unified…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-11 Zhengdao Chen , Xiang Li , Joan Bruna

The present work is concerned with community detection. Specifically, we consider a random graph drawn according to the stochastic block model~: its vertex set is partitioned into blocks, or communities, and edges are placed randomly and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Ludovic Stephan , Laurent Massoulié

Community detection in graphs often relies on ad hoc algorithms with no clear specification about the node partition they define as the best, which leads to uninterpretable communities. Stochastic block models (SBM) offer a framework to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Louis Duvivier , Rémy Cazabet , Céline Robardet

The stochastic block model (SBM) is widely studied as a benchmark for graph clustering aka community detection. In practice, graph data often come with node attributes that bear additional information about the communities. Previous works…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-09-12 O. Duranthon , L. Zdeborová