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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Arun M. Saranathan , Mario Parente

In this paper we prove the strong consistency of several methods based on the spectral clustering techniques that are widely used to study the community detection problem in stochastic block models (SBMs). We show that under some weak…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-05-16 Liangjun Su , Wuyi Wang , Yichong Zhang

The stochastic block model (SBM) provides a popular framework for modeling community structures in networks. However, more attention has been devoted to problems concerning estimating the latent node labels and the model parameters than the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-02 Y. X. Rachel Wang , Peter J. Bickel

Graph embedding has been widely applied in areas such as network analysis, social network mining, recommendation systems, and bioinformatics. However, current graph construction methods often require the prior definition of neighborhood…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 S. Peng , L. Hu , W. Zhang , B. Jie , Y. Luo

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

Random graphs have been widely used in statistics, for example in network analysis and graphical models. In some applications, the data may contain an inherent hierarchical ordering among its vertices, which prevents directed edges between…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-08 Clement Lee , Marco Battiston

We discuss a variant of `blind' community detection, in which we aim to partition an unobserved network from the observation of a (dynamical) graph signal defined on the network. We consider a scenario where our observed graph signals are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Michael T. Schaub , Santiago Segarra , Hoi-To Wai

Statistical inference on graphs often proceeds via spectral methods involving low-dimensional embeddings of matrix-valued graph representations, such as the graph Laplacian or adjacency matrix. In this paper, we analyze the asymptotic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-08-16 Joshua Cape , Minh Tang , Carey E. Priebe

Low-dimensional embeddings, from classical spectral embeddings to modern neural-net-inspired methods, are a cornerstone in the modeling and analysis of complex networks. Recent work by Seshadhri et al. (PNAS 2020) suggests that such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Sudhanshu Chanpuriya , Cameron Musco , Konstantinos Sotiropoulos , Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

Community detection in multi-layer networks is a crucial problem in network analysis. In this paper, we analyze the performance of two spectral clustering algorithms for community detection within the framework of the multi-layer…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Huan Qing

Tools to analyze the latent space of deep neural networks provide a step towards better understanding them. In this work, we motivate sparse subspace clustering (SSC) with an aim to learn affinity graphs from the latent structure of a given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Uday Singh Saini , Pravallika Devineni , Evangelos E. Papalexakis

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

Spectral clustering has become one of the most popular algorithms in data clustering and community detection. We study the performance of classical two-step spectral clustering via the graph Laplacian to learn the stochastic block model.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-22 Shaofeng Deng , Shuyang Ling , Thomas Strohmer

Although the computational and statistical trade-off for modeling single graphs, for instance, using block models is relatively well understood, extending such results to sequences of graphs has proven to be difficult. In this work, we take…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-19 Mehrnaz Amjadi , Theja Tulabandhula

We propose a generalized stochastic block model to explore the mesoscopic structures in signed networks by grouping vertices that exhibit similar positive and negative connection profiles into the same cluster. In this model, the group…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Jonathan Q. Jiang

Network embedding has attracted an increasing attention over the past few years. As an effective approach to solve graph mining problems, network embedding aims to learn a low-dimensional feature vector representation for each node of a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Xiao Shen , Fu-Lai Chung

The integration of network information and node attribute information has recently gained significant attention in the community detection literature. In this work, we consider community detection in the Contextual Labeled Stochastic Block…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-28 Dian Jin , Yuqian Zhang , Qiaosheng Zhang

Statistical clustering in dynamic networks aims to identify groups of nodes with similar or distinct internal connectivity patterns as the network evolves over time. While early research primarily focused on static Stochastic Block Models…

Applications · Statistics 2026-01-28 Gabriela Bayolo Soler , Miraine Dávila Felipe , Ghislaine Gayraud

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

Attributed network embedding has attracted plenty of interest in recent years. It aims to learn task-independent, low-dimensional, and continuous vectors for nodes preserving both topology and attribute information. Most of the existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Xueyan Liu , Bo Yang , Wenzhuo Song , Katarzyna Musial , Wanli Zuo , Hongxu Chen , Hongzhi Yin