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We propose a new dynamic stochastic blockmodel that focuses on the analysis of interaction lengths in networks. The model does not rely on a discretization of the time dimension and may be used to analyze networks that evolve continuously…

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Community detection is a fundamental problem in network analysis, with applications in many diverse areas. The stochastic block model is a common tool for model-based community detection, and asymptotic tools for checking consistency of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-18 Yunpeng Zhao , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

Latent stochastic block models are flexible statistical models that are widely used in social network analysis. In recent years, efforts have been made to extend these models to temporal dynamic networks, whereby the connections between…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-03-23 Riccardo Rastelli , Pierre Latouche , Nial Friel

An information theoretic approach inspired by quantum statistical mechanics was recently proposed as a means to optimize network models and to assess their likelihood against synthetic and real-world networks. Importantly, this method does…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-12 Carlo Nicolini , Vladimir Vlasov , Angelo Bifone

The entropy of the codes usually serves as the rate loss in the recent learned lossy image compression methods. Precise estimation of the probabilistic distribution of the codes plays a vital role in the performance. However, existing deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-12 Mu Li , Kai Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo , Radu Timofte , David Zhang

A degree-corrected distribution-free model is proposed for weighted social networks with latent structural information. The model extends the previous distribution-free models by considering variation in node degree to fit real-world…

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In this article the problem of reconstructing the pattern of connection between agents from partial empirical data in a macro-economic model is addressed, given a set of behavioral equations. This systemic point of view puts the focus on…

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Capturing the structured mixing within a population is key to the reliable projection of infectious disease dynamics and hence informed control. Both heterogeneity in the number of contacts and age-structured mixing have been repeatedly…

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Recent work emphasizes that the maximum entropy principle provides a bridge between statistical mechanics models for collective behavior in neural networks and experiments on networks of real neurons. Most of this work has focused on…

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A nonparametric approach to the modeling of social networks using degree-corrected stochastic blockmodels is proposed. The model for static network consists of a stochastic blockmodel using a probit regression formulation and popularity…

Applications · Statistics 2019-08-27 Linda S. L. Tan , Maria De Iorio

Human dynamical social networks encode information and are highly adaptive. To characterize the information encoded in the fast dynamics of social interactions, here we introduce the entropy of dynamical social networks. By analysing a…

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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

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…

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Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Joshua Agterberg , Zachary Lubberts , Jesús Arroyo

We study a recent model of random networks based on the presence of an intrinsic character of the vertices called fitness. The vertices fitnesses are drawn from a given probability distribution density. The edges between pair of vertices…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-22 Vito D. P. Servedio , Guido Caldarelli , Paolo Butta`

Random graph models are used to describe the complex structure of real-world networks in diverse fields of knowledge. Studying their behavior and fitting properties are still critical challenges, that in general, require model specific…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Suzana de Siqueira Santos , André Fujita , Catherine Matias

Complex network null models based on entropy maximization are becoming a powerful tool to characterize and analyze data from real systems. However, it is not easy to extract good and unbiased information from these models: A proper…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-12-09 Oleguer Sagarra , Conrad J. Pérez Vicente , Albert Díaz-Guilera

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

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…

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