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The maximization of generalized modularity performs well on networks in which the members of all communities are statistically indistinguishable from each other. However, there is no theory bounding the maximization performance in more…

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\cite{bickel2009nonparametric} developed a general framework to establish consistency of community detection in stochastic block model (SBM). In most applications of this framework, the community label is discrete. For example, in…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-10-17 Lu Liu , Lili Wang , Qingsong Xu

We develop an information-theoretic view of the stochastic block model, a popular statistical model for the large-scale structure of complex networks. A graph $G$ from such a model is generated by first assigning vertex labels at random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-03 Yash Deshpande , Emmanuel Abbe , Andrea Montanari

Finding communities in networks is a problem that remains difficult, in spite of the amount of attention it has recently received. The Stochastic Block-Model (SBM) is a generative model for graphs with "communities" for which, because of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-22 Yali Wan , Marina Meila

We investigate how to select the number of communities for weighted networks without a full likelihood modeling. First, we propose a novel weighted degree-corrected stochastic block model (DCSBM), where the mean adjacency matrix is modeled…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-12 Yucheng Liu , Xiaodong Li

Let $k,d $ be positive integers. We determine a sequence of constants that are asymptotic to the probability that the cluster at the origin in a $d$-dimensional Poisson Boolean model with balls of fixed radius is of order $k$, as the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-04-10 Mathew D. Penrose , Xiaochuan Yang

Clustering and community detection with multiple graphs have typically focused on aligned graphs, where there is a mapping between nodes across the graphs (e.g., multi-view, multi-layer, temporal graphs). However, there are numerous…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Guilherme Gomes , Vinayak Rao , Jennifer Neville

We study community detection in the contextual stochastic block model arXiv:1807.09596 [cs.SI], arXiv:1607.02675 [stat.ME]. In arXiv:1807.09596 [cs.SI], the second author studied this problem in the setting of sparse graphs with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Chen Lu , Subhabrata Sen

We consider spectral clustering algorithms for community detection under a general bipartite stochastic block model (SBM). A modern spectral clustering algorithm consists of three steps: (1) regularization of an appropriate adjacency or…

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

We count the asymptotic number of triangles in uniform random graphs where the degree distribution follows a power law with degree exponent $\tau\in(2,3)$. We also analyze the local clustering coefficient $c(k)$, the probability that two…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-12-12 Pu Gao , Remco van der Hofstad , Angus Southwell , Clara Stegehuis

Community detection in multi-layer networks has emerged as a crucial area of modern network analysis. However, conventional approaches often assume that nodes belong exclusively to a single community, which fails to capture the complex…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Huan Qing

Breaking of equivalence between the microcanonical ensemble and the canonical ensemble, describing a large system subject to hard and soft constraints, respectively, was recently shown to occur in large random graphs. Hard constraints must…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-06-06 Diego Garlaschelli , Frank den Hollander , Andrea Roccaverde

We consider the problem of detecting whether a power-law inhomogeneous random graph contains a geometric community, and we frame this as an hypothesis testing problem. More precisely, we assume that we are given a sample from an unknown…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Gianmarco Bet , Riccardo Michielan , Clara Stegehuis

The modern science of networks has brought significant advances to our understanding of complex systems. One of the most relevant features of graphs representing real systems is community structure, or clustering, i. e. the organization of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-09-17 Santo Fortunato

We study the frequentist properties of Bayesian statistical inference for the stochastic block model, with an unknown number of classes of varying sizes. We equip the space of vertex labellings with a prior on the number of classes and,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-05-05 J. van Waaij , B. J. K. Kleijn

In network inference applications, it is often desirable to detect community structure, namely to cluster vertices into groups, or blocks, according to some measure of similarity. Beyond mere adjacency matrices, many real networks also…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Cong Mu , Angelo Mele , Lingxin Hao , Joshua Cape , Avanti Athreya , Carey E. Priebe

Although the inference of global community structure in networks has recently become a topic of great interest in the physics community, all such algorithms require that the graph be completely known. Here, we define both a measure of local…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-04-12 Aaron Clauset

Motivated by multi-subject experiments in neuroimaging studies, we develop a modeling framework for joint community detection in a group of related networks, which can be considered as a sample from a population of networks. The proposed…

Applications · Statistics 2020-03-24 Subhadeep Paul , Yuguo Chen

The modularity of a graph is a parameter that measures its community structure; the higher its value (between $0$ and $1$), the more clustered the graph is. In this paper we show that the modularity of a random $3$-regular graph is at least…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-07-24 Lyuben Lichev , Dieter Mitsche

This paper presents a novel approach to estimating community membership probabilities for network vertices generated by the Degree Corrected Mixed Membership Stochastic Block Model while preserving individual edge privacy. Operating within…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-26 Abhinav Chakraborty , Sayak Chatterjee , Sagnik Nandy