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We show posterior convergence for the community structure in the planted bi-section model, for several interesting priors. Examples include where the label on each vertex is iid Bernoulli distributed, with some parameter $r\in(0,1)$. The…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-08-16 J. van Waaij , B. J. K. Kleijn

Community detection refers to the problem of clustering the nodes of a network into groups. Existing inferential methods for community structure mainly focus on unweighted (binary) networks. Many real-world networks are nonetheless weighted…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-21 Mingao Yuan , Zuofeng Shang

Federated Learning is machine learning in the context of a network of clients whilst maintaining data residency and/or privacy constraints. Community detection is the unsupervised discovery of clusters of nodes within graph-structured data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-15 William Leeney , Ryan McConville

The rise in complexity of network data in neuroscience, social networks, and protein-protein interaction networks has been accompanied by several efforts to model and understand these data at different scales. A key multiscale network…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-04 Al-Fahad Al-Qadhi , Keith Levin , Vincent Lyzinski

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 problem of community detection receives great attention in recent years. Many methods have been proposed to discover communities in networks. In this paper, we propose a Gaussian stochastic blockmodel that uses Gaussian distributions to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Junhao Zhang , Tongfei Chen , Junfeng Hu

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

Community detection is one of the fundamental problems in the study of network data. Most existing community detection approaches only consider edge information as inputs, and the output could be suboptimal when nodal information is…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-12-13 Haolei Weng , Yang Feng

In various data settings, it is necessary to compare observations from disparate data sources. We assume the data is in the dissimilarity representation and investigate a joint embedding method that results in a commensurate representation…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-01-05 Sancar Adali , Carey E. Priebe

The mixed membership stochastic blockmodel is a statistical model for a graph, which extends the stochastic blockmodel by allowing every node to randomly choose a different community each time a decision of whether to form an edge is made.…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-05-15 Patrick Rubin-Delanchy , Carey E. Priebe , Minh Tang

Collective classification models attempt to improve classification performance by taking into account the class labels of related instances. However, they tend not to learn patterns of interactions between classes and/or make the assumption…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-09-26 Leto Peel

The topological information of a network can be retrieved equivalently from its complement consisting of the same nodes but complementary edges. Hence the partition of a network into certain substructures based on given criteria should be…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-08-07 Jiao Wang , C. -H. Lai

Community detection is the task of discovering groups of nodes sharing similar patterns within a network. With recent advancements in deep learning, methods utilizing graph representation learning and deep clustering have shown great…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-14 E. Dmitriev , M. W. Chekol , S. Wang

We review and improve a recently introduced method for the detection of communities in complex networks. This method combines spectral properties of some matrices encoding the network topology, with well known hierarchical clustering…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Donetti , M. A. Munoz

The goal of this paper is to demonstrate the general modeling and practical simulation of random equations with mixture model parameter random variables. Random equations, understood as stationary (non-dynamical) equations with parameters…

Computation · Statistics 2025-07-31 Wolfgang Hoegele

Constrained clustering has been well-studied in the unsupervised learning society. However, how to encode constraints into community structure detection, within complex networks, remains a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-03-25 Zhong-Yuan Zhang

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

Many statistical inference problems correspond to recovering the values of a set of hidden variables from sparse observations on them. For instance, in a planted constraint satisfaction problem such as planted 3-SAT, the clauses are sparse…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Siqi Liu , Sidhanth Mohanty , Prasad Raghavendra

Characterizing the community structure of complex networks is a key challenge in many scientific fields. Very diverse algorithms and methods have been proposed to this end, many working reasonably well in specific situations. However, no…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-01-01 Rodrigo Aldecoa , Ignacio Marín

Joint spectral embeddings facilitate analysis of multiple network data by simultaneously mapping vertices in each network to points in Euclidean space where statistical inference is then performed. In this work, we consider one such joint…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-04 Benjamin Draves , Daniel L. Sussman