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We prove strong consistency of spectral clustering under the degree-corrected hypergraph stochastic block model in the sparse regime where the maximum expected hyperdegree is as small as $\Omega(\log n)$ with $n$ denoting the number of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Chong Deng , Xin-Jian Xu , Shihui Ying

We demonstrate the existence of stochastic resonance (SR) in confined systems arising from entropy variations associated to the presence of irregular boundaries. When the motion of a Brownian particle is constrained to a region with uneven…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-06-05 P. S. Burada , G. Schmid , D. Reguera , J. M. Rubi , P. Hänggi

We considered a stochastic version of the Bak-Sneppen model (SBSM) of ecological evolution where the the number $M$ of sites mutated in a mutation event is restricted to only two. Here the mutation zone consists of only one site and this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-09-16 S. S. Manna

We study the mean-field limit of a model of biological neuron networks based on the so-called stochastic integrate-and-fire (IF) dynamics. Our approach allows to derive a continuous limit for the macroscopic behavior of the system, the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-09-11 Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin , Datong Zhou

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

We study the problem of learning communities in the presence of modeling errors and give robust recovery algorithms for the Stochastic Block Model (SBM). This model, which is also known as the Planted Partition Model, is widely used for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Konstantin Makarychev , Yury Makarychev , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

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

Significant progress has been made recently on theoretical analysis of estimators for the stochastic block model (SBM). In this paper, we consider the multi-graph SBM, which serves as a foundation for many application settings including…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-07-11 Qiuyi Han , Kevin S. Xu , Edoardo M. Airoldi

Sparse Bayesian Learning (SBL) models are extensively used in signal processing and machine learning for promoting sparsity through hierarchical priors. The hyperparameters in SBL models are crucial for the model's performance, but they are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Feng Yu , Lixin Shen , Guohui Song

The analysis of structure-preserving numerical methods for the Poisson--Nernst--Planck (PNP) system has attracted growing interests in recent years. In this work, we provide an optimal rate convergence analysis and error estimate for finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-23 Jie Ding , Cheng Wang , Shenggao Zhou

We propose to estimate the number of communities in degree-corrected stochastic block models based on a pseudo likelihood ratio statistic. To this end, we introduce a method that combines spectral clustering with binary segmentation. This…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-07-31 Shujie Ma , Liangjun Su , Yichong Zhang

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

We consider community detection in Degree-Corrected Stochastic Block Models (DC-SBM). We propose a spectral clustering algorithm based on a suitably normalized adjacency matrix. We show that this algorithm consistently recovers the…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-02-09 Lennart Gulikers , Marc Lelarge , Laurent Massoulié

We discuss the scaling of entanglement entropy in the random singlet phase (RSP) of disordered quantum magnetic chains of general spin-S. Through an analysis of the general structure of the RSP, we show that the entanglement entropy scales…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Saguia , M. S. Sarandy , B. Boechat , M. A. Continentino

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

Mesoscopic pattern extraction (MPE) is the problem of finding a partition of the nodes of a complex network that maximizes some objective function. Many well-known network inference problems fall in this category, including, for instance,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-10-03 Jean-Gabriel Young , Guillaume St-Onge , Patrick Desrosiers , Louis J. Dubé

In this paper, we study the asymptotic behaviour of the number of subtrees and the subtree density for a sequence of trees that converges in the Benjamini-Schramm sense. Benjamini-Schramm convergence, also called local weak convergence,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Stijn Cambie , Stephan Wagner , Ruoyu Wang

Stochastic Block Models (SBMs) are a popular approach to modeling single real-world graphs. The key idea of SBMs is to partition the vertices of the graph into blocks with similar edge densities within, as well as between different blocks.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Iiro Kumpulainen , Sebastian Dalleiger , Jilles Vreeken , Nikolaj Tatti

Diffusion models do not recover semantic structure uniformly over time. Instead, samples transition from semantic ambiguity to class commitment within a narrow regime. Recent theoretical work attributes this transition to dynamical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-11 Florian Handke , Dejan Stančević , Felix Koulischer , Thomas Demeester , Luca Ambrogioni

The Latent Block Model (LBM) is a model-based method to cluster simultaneously the $d$ columns and $n$ rows of a data matrix. Parameter estimation in LBM is a difficult and multifaceted problem. Although various estimation strategies have…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-26 Vincent Brault , Christine Keribin , Mahendra Mariadassou