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Exact recovery in stochastic block models (SBMs) is well understood in undirected settings, but remains considerably less developed for directed and sparse networks, particularly when the number of communities diverges. Spectral methods for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-18 Behzad Aalipur , Yichen Qin

An efficient MCMC algorithm is presented to cluster the nodes of a network such that nodes with similar role in the network are clustered together. This is known as block-modelling or block-clustering. The model is the stochastic blockmodel…

Computation · Statistics 2012-11-09 Aaron F. McDaid , Thomas Brendan Murphy , Nial Friel , Neil J Hurley

In the community detection problem, one may have access to additional observations (side information) about the label of each node. This paper studies the effect of the quality and quantity of side information on the phase transition of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Hussein Saad , Ahmed Abotabl , Aria Nosratinia

A sparse stochastic block model (SBM) with two communities is defined by the community probability $\pi_0,\pi_1$, and the connection probability between communities $a,b\in\{0,1\}$, namely $q_{ab} = \frac{\alpha_{ab}}{n}$. When $q_{ab}$ is…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-10-17 Lu Liu

We consider the problem of clustering a graph $G$ into two communities by observing a subset of the vertex correlations. Specifically, we consider the inverse problem with observed variables $Y=B_G x \oplus Z$, where $B_G$ is the incidence…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-06 Emmanuel Abbe , Afonso S. Bandeira , Annina Bracher , Amit Singer

Network clustering reveals the organization of a network or corresponding complex system with elements represented as vertices and interactions as edges in a (directed, weighted) graph. Although the notion of clustering can be somewhat…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-15 Yongjin Park , Joel S. Bader

The stochastic block model (SBM) is a generative model revealing macroscopic structures in graphs. Bayesian methods are used for (i) cluster assignment inference and (ii) model selection for the number of clusters. In this paper, we study…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Kohei Hayashi , Takuya Konishi , Tatsuro Kawamoto

This paper establishes the theoretical limits of graph clustering under the Popularity-Adjusted Block Model (PABM), addressing limitations of existing models. In contrast to the Stochastic Block Model (SBM), which assumes uniform vertex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Maximilien Dreveton , Elaine Siyu Liu , Matthias Grossglauser , Patrick Thiran

New phase transition phenomena have recently been discovered for the stochastic block model, for the special case of two non-overlapping symmetric communities. This gives raise in particular to new algorithmic challenges driven by the…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-04-07 Emmanuel Abbe , Colin Sandon

The stochastic block model (SBM) is a popular model for capturing community structure and interaction within a network. Network data with non-Boolean edge weights is becoming commonplace; however, existing analysis methods convert such data…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-07-20 Matthew Ludkin

Network clustering tackles the problem of identifying sets of nodes (communities) that have similar connection patterns. However, in many scenarios, nodes also have attributes that are correlated with the clustering structure. Thus, network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Maximilien Dreveton , Felipe S. Fernandes , Daniel R. Figueiredo

We consider a blind identification problem in which we aim to recover a statistical model of a network without knowledge of the network's edges, but based solely on nodal observations of a certain process. More concretely, we focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Michael T. Schaub , Santiago Segarra , John N. Tsitsiklis

We consider the community recovery problem on a multilayer variant of the hypergraph stochastic block model (HSBM). Each layer is associated with an independent realization of a d-uniform HSBM on N vertices. Given the similarity matrix…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-06 Kalle Alaluusua , Konstantin Avrachenkov , B. R. Vinay Kumar , Lasse Leskelä

The community detection problem involves making inferences about node labels in a graph, based on observing the graph edges. This paper studies the effect of additional, non-graphical side information on the phase transition of exact…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Hussein Saad , Aria Nosratinia

In this paper, we study the information theoretic bounds for exact recovery in sub-hypergraph models for community detection. We define a general model called the $m-$uniform sub-hypergraph stochastic block model ($m-$ShSBM). Under the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-07 Jiajun Liang , Chuyang Ke , Jean Honorio

We study community detection in multiple networks with jointly correlated node attributes and edges. This setting arises naturally in applications such as social platforms, where a shared set of users may exhibit both correlated friendship…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Joonhyuk Yang , Hye Won Chung

Graph embeddings have emerged as a powerful tool for understanding the structure of graphs. Unlike classical spectral methods, recent methods such as DeepWalk, Node2Vec, etc. are based on solving nonlinear optimization problems on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Christopher Harker , Aditya Bhaskara

This paper investigates fundamental limits of exact recovery in the general d-uniform hypergraph stochastic block model (d-HSBM), wherein n nodes are partitioned into k disjoint communities with relative sizes (p1,..., pk). Each subset of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Qiaosheng Zhang , Vincent Y. F. Tan

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

This paper proposes a novel scalable community-based neural framework for graph learning. The framework learns the graph topology through the task of community detection and link prediction by optimizing with our proposed joint SBM loss…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Zheng Chen , Xinli Yu , Yuan Ling , Xiaohua Hu