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We propose a semidefinite programming (SDP) algorithm for community detection in the stochastic block model, a popular model for networks with latent community structure. We prove that our algorithm achieves exact recovery of the latent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Amelia Perry , Alexander S. Wein

We present new results on community recovery based on the PageRank Nibble algorithm on a sparse directed stochastic block model (dSBM). Our results are based on a characterization of the local weak limit of the dSBM and the limiting…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Sayan Banerjee , Prabhanka Deka , Mariana Olvera-Cravioto

Extending community detection from pairwise networks to hypergraphs introduces fundamental theoretical challenges. Hypergraphs exhibit structural heterogeneity with no direct graph analogue: hyperedges of varying orders can connect nodes…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Jiaze Li , Michael T. Schaub , Leto Peel

We study the problem of identifying macroscopic structures in networks, characterizing the impact of introducing link directions on the detectability phase transition. To this end, building on the stochastic block model, we construct a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-05-01 Mateusz Wilinski , Piero Mazzarisi , Daniele Tantari , Fabrizio Lillo

As a fundamental structure in real-world networks, in addition to graph topology, communities can also be reflected by abundant node attributes. In attributed community detection, probabilistic generative models (PGMs) have become the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Ren Ren , Jinliang Shao , Adrian N. Bishop , Wei Xing Zheng

We consider spectral methods that uncover hidden structures in directed networks. We establish and exploit connections between node reordering via (a) minimizing an objective function and (b) maximizing the likelihood of a random graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Xue Gong , Desmond John Higham , Konstantinos Zygalakis

Many real world systems or web services can be represented as a network such as social networks and transportation networks. In the past decade, many algorithms have been developed to detect the communities in a network using connections…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-21 Zhi Liu , Yan Huang

To identify communities in directed networks, we propose a generalized form of modularity in directed networks by introducing a new quantity LinkRank, which can be considered as the PageRank of links. This generalization is consistent with…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-01-11 Youngdo Kim , Seung-Woo Son , Hawoong Jeong

The concept of community detection has long been used as a key device for handling the mesoscale structures in networks. Suitably conducted community detection reveals various embedded informative substructures of network topology. However,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-05-28 Daekyung Lee , Sang Hoon Lee , Beom Jun Kim , Heetae Kim

This paper proposes a dynamic network framework for uncovering latent community paths in high-dimensional VAR-type models. By embedding a degree-corrected stochastic co-blockmodel (ScBM) into the transition matrices of VAR-type systems, we…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-15 Younghoon Kim , Changryong Baek

Community detection in networks is the process of identifying unusually well-connected sub-networks and is a central component of many applied network analyses. The paradigm of modularity optimization stipulates a partition of the network's…

Applications · Statistics 2017-08-16 Weston D. Viles , A. James O'Malley

We investigate how to select the number of communities for weighted networks without a full likelihood modeling. First, we propose a novel weighted degree-corrected stochastic block model (DCSBM), where the mean adjacency matrix is modeled…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-12 Yucheng Liu , Xiaodong Li

Complex data in social and natural sciences find effective representation through networks, wherein quantitative and categorical information can be associated with nodes and connecting edges. The internal structure of networks can be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Fabio Morea , Domenico De Stefano

Let a collection of networks represent interactions within several (social or ecological) systems. We pursue two objectives: identifying similarities in the topological structures that are held in common between the networks and clustering…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-04-09 Saint-Clair Chabert-Liddell , Pierre Barbillon , Sophie Donnet

Networks with node covariates offer two advantages to community detection methods, namely, (i) exploit covariates to improve the quality of communities, and more importantly, (ii) explain the discovered communities by identifying the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Shubham Gupta , Gururaj K. , Ambedkar Dukkipati , Rui M. Castro

The study of networks has received increased attention recently not only from the social sciences and statistics but also from physicists, computer scientists and mathematicians. One of the principal problem in networks is community…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-01-27 Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya , Peter J. Bickel

Multiplex networks have emerged as a promising approach for modeling complex systems, where each layer represents a different mode of interaction among entities of the same type. A core task in analyzing these networks is to identify the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Meiby Ortiz-Bouza , Selin Aviyente

We present a method based on the orthogonal symmetric non-negative matrix tri-factorization of the normalized Laplacian matrix for community detection in complex networks. While the exact factorization of a given order may not exist and is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-19 Subhadeep Paul , Yuguo Chen

We propose a generalized stochastic block model to explore the mesoscopic structures in signed networks by grouping vertices that exhibit similar positive and negative connection profiles into the same cluster. In this model, the group…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Jonathan Q. Jiang

We present a novel active learning algorithm for community detection on networks. Our proposed algorithm uses a Maximal Expected Model Change (MEMC) criterion for querying network nodes label assignments. MEMC detects nodes that maximally…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Dan Kushnir , Benjamin Mirabelli