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We analyze the performance of spectral clustering for community extraction in stochastic block models. We show that, under mild conditions, spectral clustering applied to the adjacency matrix of the network can consistently recover hidden…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-31 Jing Lei , Alessandro Rinaldo

We propose a streamlined spectral algorithm for community detection in the two-community stochastic block model (SBM) under constant edge density assumptions. By reducing algorithmic complexity through the elimination of non-essential…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Sie Hendrata Dharmawan , Peter Chin

Networks are commonly used to model complex systems. The different entities in the system are represented by nodes of the network and their interactions by edges. In most real life systems, the different entities may interact in different…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Meiby Ortiz-Bouza , Selin Aviyente

The community detection problem for graphs asks one to partition the n vertices V of a graph G into k communities, or clusters, such that there are many intracluster edges and few intercluster edges. Of course this is equivalent to finding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Ming-Jun Lai , Daniel Mckenzie

This article considers spectral community detection in the regime of sparse networks with heterogeneous degree distributions, for which we devise an algorithm to efficiently retrieve communities. Specifically, we demonstrate that a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-12 Lorenzo Dall'Amico , Romain Couillet , Nicolas Tremblay

We consider the problem of estimating overlapping community memberships in a network, where each node can belong to multiple communities. More than a few communities per node are difficult to both estimate and interpret, so we focus on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Jesús Arroyo , Elizaveta Levina

Detecting communities in large-scale networks is a challenging task when each vertex may belong to multiple communities, as is often the case in social networks. The multiple memberships of vertices and thus the strong overlaps among…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Elvis H. W. Xu , P. M. Hui

Spectral algorithms are classic approaches to clustering and community detection in networks. However, for sparse networks the standard versions of these algorithms are suboptimal, in some cases completely failing to detect communities even…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-01-20 Florent Krzakala , Cristopher Moore , Elchanan Mossel , Joe Neeman , Allan Sly , Lenka Zdeborová , Pan Zhang

Community detection, also known as graph partitioning, is a well-known NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem with applications in diverse fields such as complex network theory, transportation, and smart power grids. The problem's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Wei Li , Yi-Lun Du , Nan Su , Konrad Tywoniuk , Kyle Godbey , Horst Stöcker

Community detection is a central problem of network data analysis. Given a network, the goal of community detection is to partition the network nodes into a small number of clusters, which could often help reveal interesting structures. The…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-26 Chao Gao , Zongming Ma , Anderson Y. Zhang , Harrison H. Zhou

Clustering and community detection with multiple graphs have typically focused on aligned graphs, where there is a mapping between nodes across the graphs (e.g., multi-view, multi-layer, temporal graphs). However, there are numerous…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Guilherme Gomes , Vinayak Rao , Jennifer Neville

Community detection remains an important problem in data mining, owing to the lack of scalable algorithms that exploit all aspects of available data - namely the directionality of flow of information and the dynamics thereof. Most existing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Rajagopal Venkatesaramani , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

A simple but efficient spectral approach for analyzing the community structure of complex networks is introduced. It works the same way for all types of networks, by spectrally splitting the adjacency matrix into a "unipartite" and a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-02-05 Bogdan Danila

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

This article considers the problem of community detection in sparse dynamical graphs in which the community structure evolves over time. A fast spectral algorithm based on an extension of the Bethe-Hessian matrix is proposed, which benefits…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Lorenzo Dall'Amico , Romain Couillet , Nicolas Tremblay

Community detection in a complex network is an important problem of much interest in recent years. In general, a community detection algorithm chooses an objective function and captures the communities of the network by optimizing the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-08-27 Suman Saha , Satya P. Ghrera

Community detection is a central task in graph analytics. Given the substantial growth in graph size, scalability in community detection continues to be an unresolved challenge. Recently, alongside established methods like Louvain and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Tianyi Chen , Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

Detecting clusters or communities in large real-world graphs such as large social or information networks is a problem of considerable interest. In practice, one typically chooses an objective function that captures the intuition of a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-04-21 Jure Leskovec , Kevin J. Lang , Michael W. Mahoney

Community detection approaches resolve complex networks into smaller groups (communities) that are expected to be relatively edge-dense and well-connected. The stochastic block model (SBM) is one of several approaches used to uncover…

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

We propose and analyze a generic method for community recovery in stochastic block models and degree corrected block models. This approach can exactly recover the hidden communities with high probability when the expected node degrees are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-01 Jing Lei , Lingxue Zhu