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Community detection is the task of detecting hidden communities from observed interactions. Guaranteed community detection has so far been mostly limited to models with non-overlapping communities such as the stochastic block model. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-10-28 Anima Anandkumar , Rong Ge , Daniel Hsu , Sham M. Kakade

Community detection in large social networks is affected by degree heterogeneity of nodes. The D-SCORE algorithm for directed networks was introduced to reduce this effect by taking the element-wise ratios of the singular vectors of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-01 Zhe Wang , Yingbin Liang , Pengsheng Ji

We investigate the widely encountered problem of detecting communities in multiplex networks, such as social networks, with an unknown arbitrary heterogeneous structure. To improve detectability, we propose a generative model that leverages…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Yuming Huang , Ashkan Panahi , Hamid Krim , Liyi Dai

The stochastic block model (SBM) is a widely used framework for community detection in networks, where the network structure is typically represented by an adjacency matrix. However, conventional SBMs are not directly applicable to an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-18 Jie Jian , Mu Zhu , Peijun Sang

Community structure in networks has been investigated from many viewpoints, usually with the same end result: a community detection algorithm of some kind. Recent research offers methods for combining the results of such algorithms into…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-01-10 James P. Ferry , J. Oren Bumgarner

Among community detection methods, spectral clustering enjoys two desirable properties: computational efficiency and theoretical guarantees of consistency. Most studies of spectral clustering consider only the edges of a network as input to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-18 Jonathan Hehir , Xiaoyue Niu , Aleksandra Slavkovic

Grouping objects into clusters based on similarities or weights between them is one of the most important problems in science and engineering. In this work, by extending message passing algorithms and spectral algorithms proposed for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-04 Cheng Shi , Yanchen Liu , Pan Zhang

We study the problem of community detection in multi-layer networks, where pairs of nodes can be related in multiple modalities. We introduce a general framework, i.e., mixture multi-layer stochastic block model (MMSBM), which includes many…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Bing-Yi Jing , Ting Li , Zhongyuan Lyu , Dong Xia

Community detection in multi-layer networks is a fundamental task in complex network analysis across various areas like social, biological, and computer sciences. However, most existing algorithms assume that the number of communities is…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-26 Huan Qing

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

Modern multi-layer networks are commonly stored and analyzed in a local and distributed fashion because of the privacy, ownership, and communication costs. The literature on the model-based statistical methods for community detection based…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Xiao Guo , Xiang Li , Xiangyu Chang , Shujie Ma

The stochastic block model (SBM) and degree-corrected block model (DCBM) are network models often selected as the fundamental setting in which to analyze the theoretical properties of community detection methods. We consider the problem of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-19 Jonathan Hehir , Aleksandra Slavkovic , Xiaoyue Niu

In our recent works, we developed a probabilistic framework for structural analysis in undirected networks. The key idea of that framework is to sample a network by a symmetric bivariate distribution and then use that bivariate distribution…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-10-19 Cheng-Shang Chang , Duan-Shin Lee , Li-Heng Liou , Sheng-Min Lu , Mu-Huan Wu

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

Identifying significant community structures in networks with incomplete data is a challenging task, as the reliability of solutions diminishes with increasing levels of missing information. However, in many empirical contexts, some…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Nicola Pedreschi , Renaud Lambiotte , Alexandre Bovet

Community detection, which aims to cluster $N$ nodes in a given graph into $r$ distinct groups based on the observed undirected edges, is an important problem in network data analysis. In this paper, the popular stochastic block model (SBM)…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-04 T. Tony Cai , Xiaodong Li

Identifying edge-dense communities that are also well-connected is an important aspect of understanding community structure. Prior work has shown that community detection methods can produce poorly connected communities, and some can even…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Minhyuk Park , Daniel Wang Feng , Siya Digra , The-Anh Vu-Le , Lahari Anne , George Chacko , Tandy Warnow

A dynamic factor model with a mixture distribution of the loadings is introduced and studied for multivariate, possibly high-dimensional time series. The correlation matrix of the model exhibits a block structure, reminiscent of correlation…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-07-20 Shankar Bhamidi , Dhruv Patel , Vladas Pipiras , Guorong Wu

This paper proposes a distributed pseudo-likelihood method (DPL) to conveniently identify the community structure of large-scale networks. Specifically, we first propose a block-wise splitting method to divide large-scale network data into…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-11-05 Jiayi Deng , Danyang Huang , Bo Zhang

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