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We delve into the challenge of semi-supervised node classification on the Contextual Stochastic Block Model (CSBM) dataset. Here, nodes from the two-cluster Stochastic Block Model (SBM) are coupled with feature vectors, which are derived…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Hai-Xiao Wang , Zhichao Wang

We study graph clustering in the Stochastic Block Model (SBM) in the presence of both large clusters and small, unrecoverable clusters. Previous convex relaxation approaches achieving exact recovery do not allow any small clusters of size…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Matthew Zurek , Yudong Chen

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

Community detection in networks is a fundamental problem in machine learning and statistical inference, with applications in social networks, biological systems, and communication networks. The stochastic block model (SBM) serves as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Amir R. Asadi , Akbar Davoodi , Ramin Javadi , Farzad Parvaresh

The stochastic block model is a natural model for studying community detection in random networks. Its clustering properties have been extensively studied in the statistics, physics and computer science literature. Recently this area has…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Gerandy Brito , Ioana Dumitriu , Shirshendu Ganguly , Christopher Hoffman , Linh V. Tran

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

Signed graphs encode similarity and dissimilarity relationships among different entities with positive and negative edges. In this paper, we study the problem of community recovery over signed graphs generated by the signed stochastic block…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Xiaolu Wang , Peng Wang , Anthony Man-Cho So

We consider the problem of exact community recovery in the Labeled Stochastic Block Model (LSBM) with $k$ communities, where each pair of vertices is associated with a label from the set $\{0,1, \dots, L\}$. A pair of vertices from…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-26 Julia Gaudio , Heming Liu

In this paper, we consider the problem of estimating the underlying graph associated with an Ising model given a number of independent and identically distributed samples. We adopt an \emph{approximate recovery} criterion that allows for a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-11 Jonathan Scarlett , Volkan Cevher

The stochastic block model (SBM) is a flexible probabilistic tool that can be used to model interactions between clusters of nodes in a network. However, it does not account for interactions of time varying intensity between clusters. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-11 Marco Corneli , Pierre Latouche , Fabrice Rossi

We establish sufficient conditions of exact and almost full recovery of the node partition in Bipartite Stochastic Block Model (BSBM) using polynomial time algorithms. First, we improve upon the known conditions of almost full recovery by…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-26 Mohamed Ndaoud , Suzanne Sigalla , Alexandre B. Tsybakov

The stochastic blockmodel (SBM) models the connectivity within and between disjoint subsets of nodes in networks. Prior work demonstrated that the rows of an SBM's adjacency spectral embedding (ASE) and Laplacian spectral embedding (LSE)…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-05-04 Zachary M. Pisano , Joshua S. Agterberg , Carey E. Priebe , Daniel Q. Naiman

Motivated by the prevalent data science applications of processing large-scale graph data such as social networks and biological networks, this paper investigates lossless compression of data in the form of a labeled graph. Particularly, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Alankrita Bhatt , Ziao Wang , Chi Wang , Lele Wang

The Stochastic Block Model (SBM) is a popular probabilistic model for random graphs. It is commonly used for clustering network data by aggregating nodes that share similar connectivity patterns into blocks. When fitting an SBM to a network…

Computation · Statistics 2021-05-28 Pierre Barbillon , Julien Chiquet , Timothée Tabouy

In this paper, we investigate the problem of recovering hidden communities in the Labeled Stochastic Block Model (LSBM) with a finite number of clusters whose sizes grow linearly with the total number of nodes. We derive the necessary and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Kaito Ariu , Alexandre Proutiere , Se-Young Yun

It is now widely accepted that knowledge can be acquired from networks by clustering their vertices according to connection profiles. Many methods have been proposed and in this paper we concentrate on the Stochastic Block Model (SBM). The…

Applications · Statistics 2010-07-27 Pierre Latouche , Etienne Birmele , Christophe Ambroise

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

This paper considers the problem of community detection on multiple potentially correlated graphs from an information-theoretical perspective. We first put forth a random graph model, called the multi-view stochastic block model (MVSBM),…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Yexin Zhang , Zhongtian Ma , Qiaosheng Zhang , Zhen Wang , Xuelong Li

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

In this work, we focus on the Bipartite Stochastic Block Model (BiSBM), a popular model for bipartite graphs with a community structure. We consider the high dimensional setting where the number $n_1$ of type I nodes is far smaller than the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-28 Guillaume Braun