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Modeling relations between individuals is a classical question in social sciences, ecology, etc. In order to uncover a latent structure in the data, a popular approach consists in clustering individuals according to the observed patterns of…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-02-28 Avner Bar-Hen , Pierre Barbillon , Sophie Donnet

The evolution of communities in dynamic (time-varying) network data is a prominent topic of interest. A popular approach to understanding these dynamic networks is to embed the dyadic relations into a latent metric space. While methods for…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-03-18 Joshua Daniel Loyal , Yuguo Chen

Networks or graphs can easily represent a diverse set of data sources that are characterized by interacting units or actors. Social networks, representing people who communicate with each other, are one example. Communities or clusters of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-12-14 Karl Rohe , Sourav Chatterjee , Bin Yu

Discovering statistical structure from links is a fundamental problem in the analysis of social networks. Choosing a misspecified model, or equivalently, an incorrect inference algorithm will result in an invalid analysis or even falsely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-06 Cheng Li , Felix Wong , Zhenming Liu , Varun Kanade

We construct a novel class of stochastic blockmodels using Bayesian nonparametric mixtures. These model allows us to jointly estimate the structure of multiple networks and explicitly compare the community structures underlying them, while…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-06-17 Perla Reyes , Abel Rodriguez

The stochastic block model (SBM) is widely studied as a benchmark for graph clustering aka community detection. In practice, graph data often come with node attributes that bear additional information about the communities. Previous works…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-09-12 O. Duranthon , L. Zdeborová

Stochastic block models (SBMs) are often used to find assortative community structures in networks, such that the probability of connections within communities is higher than in between communities. However, classic SBMs are not limited to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Daniel Gribel , Thibaut Vidal , Michel Gendreau

In this paper, we consider the soft geometric block model (SGBM) with a fixed number $k \geq 2$ of homogeneous communities in the dense regime, and we introduce a spectral clustering algorithm for community recovery on graphs generated by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Luiz Emilio Allem , Konstantin Avrachenkov , Carlos Hoppen , Hariprasad Manjunath , Lucas Siviero Sibemberg

This paper presents a novel spectral algorithm with additive clustering designed to identify overlapping communities in networks. The algorithm is based on geometric properties of the spectrum of the expected adjacency matrix in a random…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-07 Emilie Kaufmann , Thomas Bonald , Marc Lelarge

We develop a method to infer community structure in directed networks where the groups are ordered in a latent one-dimensional hierarchy that determines the preferred edge direction. Our nonparametric Bayesian approach is based on a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Tiago P. Peixoto

Understanding both global and layer-specific group structures is useful for uncovering complex patterns in networks with multiple interaction types. In this work, we introduce a new model, the hierarchical multiplex stochastic blockmodel…

Low-dimensional representation and clustering of network data are tasks of great interest across various fields. Latent position models are routinely used for this purpose by assuming that each node has a location in a low-dimensional…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-04 Xian Yao Gwee , Isobel Claire Gormley , Michael Fop

Real-world networks exhibit universal structural properties such as sparsity, small-worldness, heterogeneous degree distributions, high clustering, and community structures. Geometric network models, particularly Random Hyperbolic Graphs…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Stefano Guarino , Davide Torre , Enrico Mastrostefano

We define a latent structure model (LSM) random graph as a random dot product graph (RDPG) in which the latent position distribution incorporates both probabilistic and geometric constraints, delineated by a family of underlying…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-04-20 Avanti Athreya , Minh Tang , Youngser Park , Carey E. Priebe

Mixture models are probabilistic models aimed at uncovering and representing latent subgroups within a population. In the realm of network data analysis, the latent subgroups of nodes are typically identified by their connectivity…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-05-27 Giacomo De Nicola , Benjamin Sischka , Göran Kauermann

We introduce the nested stochastic block model (NSBM) to cluster a collection of networks while simultaneously detecting communities within each network. NSBM has several appealing features including the ability to work on unlabeled…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-17 Nathaniel Josephs , Arash A. Amini , Marina Paez , Lizhen Lin

The stochastic block model (SBM) is a random graph model with different group of vertices connecting differently. It is widely employed as a canonical model to study clustering and community detection, and provides a fertile ground to study…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-26 Emmanuel Abbe

Inference for the stochastic blockmodel is currently of burgeoning interest in the statistical community, as well as in various application domains as diverse as social networks, citation networks, brain connectivity networks…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-02-10 Shakira Suwan , Dominic S. Lee , Runze Tang , Daniel L. Sussman , Minh Tang , Carey E. Priebe

In this paper we address the problem of modeling relational data, which appear in many applications such as social network analysis, recommender systems and bioinformatics. Previous studies either consider latent feature based models but…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-04-13 Sheng Gao , Ludovic Denoyer , Patrick Gallinari

Graph representation learning is a fundamental problem for modeling relational data and benefits a number of downstream applications. Traditional Bayesian-based graph models and recent deep learning based GNN either suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Hanxuan Yang , Qingchao Kong , Wenji Mao