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We study the problem of community detection (CD) on Euclidean random geometric graphs where each vertex has two latent variables: a binary community label and a $\mathbb{R}^d$ valued location label which forms the support of a Poisson point…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-20 Emmanuel Abbe , Francois Baccelli , Abishek Sankararaman

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

In this paper, we analyse classical variants of the Spectral Clustering (SC) algorithm in the Dynamic Stochastic Block Model (DSBM). Existing results show that, in the relatively sparse case where the expected degree grows logarithmically…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-11 Nicolas Keriven , Samuel Vaiter

The Popularity Adjusted Block Model (PABM) provides a flexible framework for community detection in network data by allowing heterogeneous node popularity across communities. However, this flexibility increases model complexity and raises…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-10 Quan Yuan , Binghui Liu , Danning Li , Lingzhou Xue

Community detection is an important problem when processing network data. Traditionally, this is done by exploiting the connections between nodes, but connections can be too sparse to detect communities in many real datasets. Node…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-06-29 Yaofang Hu , Wanjie Wang

In this paper, we consider the community detection problem under either the stochastic block model (SBM) assumption or the degree-correlated stochastic block model (DCSBM) assumption. The modularity maximization formulation for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-04 Junyu Zhang , Haoyang Liu , Zaiwen Wen , Shuzhong Zhang

The classical setting of community detection consists of networks exhibiting a clustered structure. To more accurately model real systems we consider a class of networks (i) whose edges may carry labels and (ii) which may lack a clustered…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-06-27 Jiaming Xu , Laurent Massoulié , Marc Lelarge

In this article, we study spectral methods for community detection based on $ \alpha$-parametrized normalized modularity matrix hereafter called $ {\bf L}_\alpha $ in heterogeneous graph models. We show, in a regime where community…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-04 Hafiz Tiomoko Ali , Romain Couillet

We study the classical problem of community recovery in stochastic block models with a fixed number of communities, with a twist: We seek algorithms that are stable with respect to node-wise changes in the graph structure, formally defined…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Laurentiu Marchis , Ethan D'souza , Tomáš Flídr , Po-Ling Loh

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

We propose an efficient meta-algorithm for Bayesian estimation problems that is based on low-degree polynomials, semidefinite programming, and tensor decomposition. The algorithm is inspired by recent lower bound constructions for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Samuel B. Hopkins , David Steurer

We study bipartite community detection in networks, or more generally the network biclustering problem. We present a fast two-stage procedure based on spectral initialization followed by the application of a pseudo-likelihood classifier…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Zhixin Zhou , Arash A. Amini

The stochastic block model (SBM) is a popular framework for studying community detection in networks. This model is limited by the assumption that all nodes in the same community are statistically equivalent and have equal expected degrees.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Yudong Chen , Xiaodong Li , Jiaming Xu

Finding communities in networks is a problem that remains difficult, in spite of the amount of attention it has recently received. The Stochastic Block-Model (SBM) is a generative model for graphs with "communities" for which, because of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-22 Yali Wan , Marina Meila

Traditionally, community detection in graphs can be solved using spectral methods or posterior inference under probabilistic graphical models. Focusing on random graph families such as the stochastic block model, recent research has unified…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-11 Zhengdao Chen , Xiang Li , Joan Bruna

We explicitly quantify the empirically observed phenomenon that estimation under a stochastic block model (SBM) is hard if the model contains classes that are similar. More precisely, we consider estimation of certain functionals of random…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-27 Ismaël Castillo , Peter Orbanz

Consider a network where the nodes split into $K$ different communities. The community labels for the nodes are unknown and it is of major interest to estimate them (i.e., community detection). Degree Corrected Block Model (DCBM) is a…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-12-01 Jiashun Jin

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

Community detection and orthogonal group synchronization are both fundamental problems with a variety of important applications in science and engineering. In this work, we consider the joint problem of community detection and orthogonal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-19 Yifeng Fan , Yuehaw Khoo , Zhizhen Zhao

Spectral clustering is one of the most popular, yet still incompletely understood, methods for community detection on graphs. This article studies spectral clustering based on the Bethe-Hessian matrix $H_r = (r^2-1)I_n + D-rA$ for sparse…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Lorenzo Dall'Amico , Romain Couillet , Nicolas Tremblay