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Traditional network analysis focuses on binary edges, while real-world relationships are more nuanced, encompassing cooperation, neutrality, and conflict. The rise of negative edges in social media discussions spurred interest in analyzing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Marc Schalberger , Cornelius Fritz

Community identification in a network is an important problem in fields such as social science, neuroscience, and genetics. Over the past decade, stochastic block models (SBMs) have emerged as a popular statistical framework for this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-02 Min Xu , Varun Jog , Po-Ling Loh

The stochastic block model (SBM) is a random graph model in which the edges are generated according to the underlying cluster structure on the vertices. The (ferromagnetic) Ising model, on the other hand, assigns $\pm 1$ labels to vertices…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-10-15 Min Ye

Signed networks, characterized by edges labeled as either positive or negative, offer nuanced insights into interaction dynamics beyond the capabilities of unsigned graphs. Central to this is the task of identifying the maximum balanced…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Jingbang Chen , Qiuyang Mang , Hangrui Zhou , Richard Peng , Yu Gao , Chenhao Ma

This paper investigates the problem of exact community recovery in the symmetric $d$-uniform $(d \geq 2)$ hypergraph stochastic block model ($d$-HSBM). In this model, a $d$-uniform hypergraph with $n$ nodes is generated by first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Jinxin Wang , Yuen-Man Pun , Xiaolu Wang , Peng Wang , Anthony Man-Cho So

In this paper, we present and analyze a simple and robust spectral algorithm for the stochastic block model with $k$ blocks, for any $k$ fixed. Our algorithm works with graphs having constant edge density, under an optimal condition on the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-25 Peter Chin , Anup Rao , Van Vu

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

In this paper, we obtain new results on the weak and strong consistency of the maximum and integrated conditional likelihood estimators for the community detection problem in the Stochastic Block Model with $k$ communities and unknown…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Andressa Cerqueira , Florencia Leonardi

Community detection is a fundamental problem in network science. In this paper, we consider community detection in hypergraphs drawn from the $hypergraph$ $stochastic$ $block$ $model$ (HSBM), with a focus on exact community recovery. We…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Julia Gaudio , Nirmit Joshi

We consider the problem of clustering a graph $G$ into two communities by observing a subset of the vertex correlations. Specifically, we consider the inverse problem with observed variables $Y=B_G x \oplus Z$, where $B_G$ is the incidence…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-06 Emmanuel Abbe , Afonso S. Bandeira , Annina Bracher , Amit Singer

We consider the problem of graph matching, or learning vertex correspondence, between two correlated stochastic block models (SBMs). The graph matching problem arises in various fields, including computer vision, natural language processing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Joonhyuk Yang , Dongpil Shin , Hye Won Chung

Signed graphs serve as a primary tool for modelling social networks. They can represent relationships between individuals (i.e., nodes) with the use of signed edges. Finding communities in a signed graph is of great importance in many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Ehsan Zahedinejad , Daniel Crawford , Clemens Adolphs , Jaspreet S. Oberoi

The labeled stochastic block model is a random graph model representing networks with community structure and interactions of multiple types. In its simplest form, it consists of two communities of approximately equal size, and the edges…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-02-12 Marc Lelarge , Laurent Massoulié , Jiaming Xu

We consider community detection from multiple correlated graphs sharing the same community structure. The correlated graphs are generated by independent subsampling of a parent graph sampled from the stochastic block model. The vertex…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Joonhyuk Yang , Hye Won Chung

Hidden community problems, such as community detection in the Stochastic Block Model (SBM), submatrix localization, and $\mathbb{Z}_2$ synchronization, have received considerable attention in the probability, statistics, and…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Julia Gaudio , Andrew Jin

In this paper, we study the exact recovery problem in the Gaussian weighted version of the Stochastic block model with two symmetric communities. We provide the information-theoretic threshold in terms of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Aaradhya Pandey , Sanjeev Kulkarni

We consider the problem of identifying underlying community-like structures in graphs. Towards this end we study the Stochastic Block Model (SBM) on $k$-clusters: a random model on $n=km$ vertices, partitioned in $k$ equal sized clusters,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-10 Naman Agarwal , Afonso S. Bandeira , Konstantinos Koiliaris , Alexandra Kolla

This paper investigates fundamental limits of exact recovery in the general d-uniform hypergraph stochastic block model (d-HSBM), wherein n nodes are partitioned into k disjoint communities with relative sizes (p1,..., pk). Each subset of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Qiaosheng Zhang , Vincent Y. F. Tan

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

Social networks and interactions in social media involve both positive and negative relationships. Signed graphs capture both types of relationships: positive edges correspond to pairs of "friends", and negative edges to pairs of "foes".…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Michael Mitzenmacher , Charalampos E. Tsourakakis