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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

There has been great interest in recent years on statistical models for dynamic networks. In this paper, I propose a stochastic block transition model (SBTM) for dynamic networks that is inspired by the well-known stochastic block model…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-07-11 Kevin S. Xu

To capture the inherent geometric features of many community detection problems, we propose to use a new random graph model of communities that we call a Geometric Block Model. The geometric block model builds on the random geometric graphs…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Sainyam Galhotra , Arya Mazumdar , Soumyabrata Pal , Barna Saha

The stochastic block model (SBM) is a random graph model with different group of vertices connecting differently. It is widely employed as a canonical model to study clustering and community detection, and provides a fertile ground to study…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-26 Emmanuel Abbe

Motivated by multi-subject experiments in neuroimaging studies, we develop a modeling framework for joint community detection in a group of related networks, which can be considered as a sample from a population of networks. The proposed…

Applications · Statistics 2020-03-24 Subhadeep Paul , Yuguo Chen

In this paper we extend our previous work on the stochastic block model, a commonly used generative model for social and biological networks, and the problem of inferring functional groups or communities from the topology of the network. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-09 Aurelien Decelle , Florent Krzakala , Cristopher Moore , Lenka Zdeborová

The Stochastic Block Model (Holland et al., 1983) is a mixture model for heterogeneous network data. Unlike the usual statistical framework, new nodes give additional information about the previous ones in this model. Thereby the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-11-01 Antoine Channarond , Jean-Jacques Daudin , Stéphane Robin

The stochastic block model is a powerful tool for inferring community structure from network topology. However, it predicts a Poisson degree distribution within each community, while most real-world networks have a heavy-tailed degree…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-06-01 Yaojia Zhu , Xiaoran Yan , Cristopher Moore

Clustering the nodes of a graph allows the analysis of the topology of a network. The stochastic block model is a clustering method based on a probabilistic model. Initially developed for binary networks it has recently been extended to…

Computation · Statistics 2014-02-17 Jean-Benoist Leger

Communities are a common and widely studied structure in networks, typically under the assumption that the network is fully and correctly observed. In practice, network data are often collected by querying nodes about their connections. In…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-03-22 Tianxi Li , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

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

To capture the inherent geometric features of many community detection problems, we propose to use a new random graph model of communities that we call a Geometric Block Model. The geometric block model generalizes the random geometric…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Sainyam Galhotra , Arya Mazumdar , Soumyabrata Pal , Barna Saha

The availability of relational data can offer new insights into the functioning of the economy. Nevertheless, modeling the dynamics in network data with multiple types of relationships is still a challenging issue. Stochastic block models…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-01 Ovielt Baltodano López , Roberto Casarin

We propose a robust, scalable, integrated methodology for community detection and community comparison in graphs. In our procedure, we first embed a graph into an appropriate Euclidean space to obtain a low-dimensional representation, and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-08-29 Vince Lyzinski , Minh Tang , Avanti Athreya , Youngser Park , Carey E. Priebe

Networks are a commonly used mathematical model to describe the rich set of interactions between objects of interest. Many clustering methods have been developed in order to partition such structures, among which several rely on underlying…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-05-13 P. Latouche , E. Birmelé , C. Ambroise

In the present paper we consider a dynamic stochastic network model. The objective is estimation of the tensor of connection probabilities $\Lambda$ when it is generated by a Dynamic Stochastic Block Model (DSBM) or a dynamic graphon. In…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-04-10 Marianna Pensky

An efficient MCMC algorithm is presented to cluster the nodes of a network such that nodes with similar role in the network are clustered together. This is known as block-modelling or block-clustering. The model is the stochastic blockmodel…

Computation · Statistics 2012-11-09 Aaron F. McDaid , Thomas Brendan Murphy , Nial Friel , Neil J Hurley

Stochastic block models (SBMs) are often used to find assortative community structures in networks, such that the probability of connections within communities is higher than in between communities. However, classic SBMs are not limited to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Daniel Gribel , Thibaut Vidal , Michel Gendreau

There have been rapid developments in model-based clustering of graphs, also known as block modelling, over the last ten years or so. We review different approaches and extensions proposed for different aspects in this area, such as the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-01 Clement Lee , Darren J Wilkinson

The latent stochastic block model is a flexible and widely used statistical model for the analysis of network data. Extensions of this model to a dynamic context often fail to capture the persistence of edges in contiguous network…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-04-16 Riccardo Rastelli