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Community structure identification has been an important research topic in complex networks and there has been many algorithms proposed so far to detect community structures in complex networks, where most of the algorithms are not suitable…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-01-04 Mursel Tasgin , Haluk Bingol

The stochastic block model (SBM) and degree-corrected block model (DCBM) are network models often selected as the fundamental setting in which to analyze the theoretical properties of community detection methods. We consider the problem of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-19 Jonathan Hehir , Aleksandra Slavkovic , Xiaoyue Niu

We study the problem of testing for community structure in networks using relations between the observed frequencies of small subgraphs. We propose a simple test for the existence of communities based only on the frequencies of three-node…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-10-17 Chao Gao , John Lafferty

Communities of vertices within a giant network such as the World-Wide Web are likely to be vastly smaller than the network itself. However, Fortunato and Barth\'{e}lemy have proved that modularity maximization algorithms for community…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-05-29 Jonathan W. Berry , Bruce Hendrickson , Randall A. LaViolette , Cynthia A. Phillips

In applications of group testing in networks, e.g. identifying individuals who are infected by a disease spread over a network, exploiting correlation among network nodes provides fundamental opportunities in reducing the number of tests…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Hesam Nikpey , Jungyeol Kim , Xingran Chen , Saswati Sarkar , Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti

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 relevant, sometimes overlooked, quality criterion for communities in graphs is that they should be well-connected in addition to being edge-dense. Prior work has shown that leading community detection methods can produce poorly-connected…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-07 The-Anh Vu-Le , Minhyuk Park , Ian Chen , George Chacko , Tandy Warnow

The problem of detecting communities in a graph is maybe one the most studied inference problems, given its simplicity and widespread diffusion among several disciplines. A very common benchmark for this problem is the stochastic block…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-04-08 Adel Javanmard , Andrea Montanari , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi

Many complex networks in real world can be formulated as hypergraphs where community detection has been widely used. However, the fundamental question of whether communities exist or not in an observed hypergraph still remains unresolved.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-07 Mingao Yuan , Ruiqi Liu , Yang Feng , Zuofeng Shang

Studies of community structure and evolution in large social networks require a fast and accurate algorithm for community detection. As the size of analyzed communities grows, complexity of the community detection algorithm needs to be kept…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jierui Xie , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

Complex networks can be typically broken down into groups or modules. Discovering this "community structure" is an important step in studying the large-scale structure of networks. Many algorithms have been proposed for community detection…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-12-19 Jan Dreier , Philipp Kuinke , Rafael Przybylski , Felix Reidl , Peter Rossmanith , Somnath Sikdar

A community reveals the features and connections of its members that are different from those in other communities in a network. Detecting communities is of great significance in network analysis. Despite the classical spectral clustering…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Xing Su , Shan Xue , Fanzhen Liu , Jia Wu , Jian Yang , Chuan Zhou , Wenbin Hu , Cecile Paris , Surya Nepal , Di Jin , Quan Z. Sheng , Philip S. Yu

Network community detection is usually considered as an unsupervised learning problem. Given a network, the aim is to partition it using some general purpose algorithm. In this paper we instead treat community detection as a hypothesis…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Rudy Arthur

We consider the sparse stochastic block model in the case where the degrees are uninformative. The case where the two communities have approximately the same size has been extensively studied and we concentrate here on the community…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-04-04 Francesco Caltagirone , Marc Lelarge , Léo Miolane

Chernoff coefficient is an upper bound of Bayes error probability in classification problem. In this paper, we will develop sharp Chernoff type bound on Bayes error probability. The new bound is not only an upper bound but also a lower…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-01-01 Zhixin Zhou , Ping Li

The stochastic block model is a canonical random graph model for clustering and community detection on network-structured data. Decades of extensive study on the problem have established many profound results, among which the phase…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-29 Junda Sheng , Thomas Strohmer

The integration of network information and node attribute information has recently gained significant attention in the community detection literature. In this work, we consider community detection in the Contextual Labeled Stochastic Block…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-28 Dian Jin , Yuqian Zhang , Qiaosheng Zhang

We propose a goodness-of-fit test for degree-corrected stochastic block models (DCSBM). The test is based on an adjusted chi-square statistic for measuring equality of means among groups of $n$ multinomial distributions with $d_1,\dots,d_n$…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-23 Linfan Zhang , Arash A. Amini

Community detection is a fundamental problem in network analysis which is made more challenging by overlaps between communities which often occur in practice. Here we propose a general, flexible, and interpretable generative model for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-16 Yuan Zhang , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

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