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The stochastic block model (SBM) is an important generative model for random graphs in network science and machine learning, useful for benchmarking community detection (or clustering) algorithms. The symmetric SBM generates a graph with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Akshay Gadde , Eyal En Gad , Salman Avestimehr , Antonio Ortega

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

Community detection is one of the most important problems in network analysis. Among many algorithms proposed for this task, methods based on statistical inference are of particular interest: they are mathematically sound and were shown to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Liudmila Prokhorenkova , Alexey Tikhonov

Community detection in multilayer networks, which aims to identify groups of nodes exhibiting similar connectivity patterns across multiple network layers, has attracted considerable attention in recent years. Most existing methods are…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-26 Dapeng Shi , Haoran Zhang , Tiandong Wang , Junhui Wang

Community detection in directed networks is a central task in network analysis. Unlike undirected networks, directed networks encode inherently asymmetric relationships, giving rise to sender and receiver roles that may each follow distinct…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-21 Huan Qing

Dynamic networks, especially those representing social networks, undergo constant evolution of their community structure over time. Nodes can migrate between different communities, communities can split into multiple new communities,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Timothy La Fond , Geoffrey Sanders , Christine Klymko , Van Emden Henson

Multiplex networks have become increasingly more prevalent in many fields, and have emerged as a powerful tool for modeling the complexity of real networks. There is a critical need for developing inference models for multiplex networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Arash A. Amini , Marina S. Paez , Lizhen Lin

Complex networks considering both positive and negative links have gained considerable attention during the past several years. Community detection is one of the main challenges for complex network analysis. Most of the existing algorithms…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-03-28 Yi Chen , Xiao-long Wang , Bo Yuan , Bu-zhou Tang

We propose efficient algorithms for two key tasks in the analysis of large nonuniform networks: uniform node sampling and cluster detection. Our sampling technique is based on augmenting a simple, but slowly mixing uniform MCMC sampler with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Pekka Orponen , Satu Elisa Schaeffer

In the model-based clustering of networks, blockmodelling may be used to identify roles in the network. We identify a special case of the Stochastic Block Model (SBM) where we constrain the cluster-cluster interactions such that the density…

Computation · Statistics 2012-10-30 Aaron F. McDaid , Brendan Thomas Murphy , Nial Friel , Neil J. Hurley

This article explores and analyzes the unsupervised clustering of large partially observed graphs. We propose a scalable and provable randomized framework for clustering graphs generated from the stochastic block model. The clustering is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Mostafa Rahmani , Andre Beckus , Adel Karimian , George Atia

Detecting communities in high-dimensional graphs can be achieved by applying random matrix theory where the adjacency matrix of the graph is modeled by a Stochastic Block Model (SBM). However, the SBM makes an unrealistic assumption that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-08 Robert Malinas , Dogyoon Song , Alfred O. Hero

Weighted networks encode not only the presence of interactions but also their strength. Existing methods for weighted network community detection often rely on Poisson models, which can be restrictive for overdispersed data and make…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-28 Fumiya Iwashige

The Degree Corrected Stochastic Block Model (DCSBM) was introduced by \cite{karrer2011stochastic} as a generalization of the stochastic block model in which vertices of the same community are allowed to have distinct degree distributions.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-27 Andressa Cerqueira , Sandro Gallo , Florencia Leonardi , Cristel Vera

One of the most widely used methods for community detection in networks is the maximization of the quality function known as modularity. Of the many maximization techniques that have been used in this context, some of the most conceptually…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-11-24 Xiao Zhang , M. E. J. Newman

The stochastic block model (SBM) is a popular model for capturing community structure and interaction within a network. Network data with non-Boolean edge weights is becoming commonplace; however, existing analysis methods convert such data…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-07-20 Matthew Ludkin

In economics and social science, network data are regularly observed, and a thorough understanding of the network community structure facilitates the comprehension of economic patterns and activities. Consider an undirected network with $n$…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-12-23 Jiashun Jin , Zheng Tracy Ke , Shengming Luo

We propose a new hierarchy of semidefinite programming relaxations for inference problems. As test cases, we consider the problem of community detection in block models. The vertices are partitioned into $k$ communities, and a graph is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Jess Banks , Sidhanth Mohanty , Prasad Raghavendra

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

Bipartite networks are a common type of network data in which there are two types of vertices, and only vertices of different types can be connected. While bipartite networks exhibit community structure like their unipartite counterparts,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-07-14 Daniel B. Larremore , Aaron Clauset , Abigail Z. Jacobs