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[Background]Discovering key nodes plays a significant role in Social Network Analysis(SNA). Effective and accurate mining of key nodes promotes more successful applications in fields like advertisement and recommendation. [Methods] With…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Jinshuo Liu , Chenghao Mou , Donghong Ji

We study the problem of community detection in a random hypergraph model which we call the stochastic block model for $k$-uniform hypergraphs ($k$-SBM). We investigate the exact recovery problem in $k$-SBM and show that a sharp phase…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-07-10 Chiheon Kim , Afonso S. Bandeira , Michel X. Goemans

The stochastic block model (SBM) is a mixture model used for the clustering of nodes in networks. It has now been employed for more than a decade to analyze very different types of networks in many scientific fields such as Biology and…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-05-12 E. Côme , P. Latouche

We present a Markov chain Monte Carlo scheme based on merges and splits of groups that is capable of efficiently sampling from the posterior distribution of network partitions, defined according to the stochastic block model (SBM). We…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-07-14 Tiago P. Peixoto

Stochastic blockmodels (SBM) and their variants, $e.g.$, mixed-membership and overlapping stochastic blockmodels, are latent variable based generative models for graphs. They have proven to be successful for various tasks, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Nikhil Mehta , Lawrence Carin , Piyush Rai

We give upper and lower bounds on the information-theoretic threshold for community detection in the stochastic block model. Specifically, let $k$ be the number of groups, $d$ be the average degree, the probability of edges between vertices…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-04-25 Jess Banks , Cristopher Moore

Blockmodels are a foundational tool for modeling community structure in networks, with the stochastic blockmodel (SBM), degree-corrected blockmodel (DCBM), and popularity-adjusted blockmodel (PABM) forming a natural hierarchy of increasing…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-23 Subhankar Bhadra , Minh Tang , Srijan Sengupta

Variational inference has been widely used in machine learning literature to fit various Bayesian models. In network analysis, this method has been successfully applied to solve the community detection problems. Although these results are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-22 Xuezhen Li , Can M. Le

We study the fundamental limits on learning latent community structure in dynamic networks. Specifically, we study dynamic stochastic block models where nodes change their community membership over time, but where edges are generated…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-07-20 Amir Ghasemian , Pan Zhang , Aaron Clauset , Cristopher Moore , Leto Peel

Sparse Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as powerful tools for efficient feature selection. Leveraging the dynamic sparse training (DST) algorithms within SNNs has demonstrated promising feature selection capabilities while drastically…

This article explores and analyzes the unsupervised clustering of large partially observed graphs. We propose a scalable and provable randomized framework for clustering graphs generated from the stochastic block model. The clustering is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Mostafa Rahmani , Andre Beckus , Adel Karimian , George Atia

This paper proposes a distributed pseudo-likelihood method (DPL) to conveniently identify the community structure of large-scale networks. Specifically, we first propose a block-wise splitting method to divide large-scale network data into…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-11-05 Jiayi Deng , Danyang Huang , Bo Zhang

Signed graphs encode similarity and dissimilarity relationships among different entities with positive and negative edges. In this paper, we study the problem of community recovery over signed graphs generated by the signed stochastic block…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Xiaolu Wang , Peng Wang , Anthony Man-Cho So

The streaming bipartite graph is widely used to model the dynamic relationship between two types of entities in various real-world applications, including movie recommendations, location-based services, and online shopping. Since it…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Nan Zhang , Yutong Ye , Xiang Lian , Qi Wen , Mingsong Chen

Social networks are often associated with rich side information, such as texts and images. While numerous methods have been developed to identify communities from pairwise interactions, they usually ignore such side information. In this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Guillaume Braun , Masashi Sugiyama

The stochastic block model (SBM) with two communities, or equivalently the planted bisection model, is a popular model of random graph exhibiting a cluster behaviour. In the symmetric case, the graph has two equally sized clusters and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-10-29 Emmanuel Abbe , Afonso S. Bandeira , Georgina Hall

Given a limited number of entries from the superposition of a low-rank matrix plus the product of a known fat compression matrix times a sparse matrix, recovery of the low-rank and sparse components is a fundamental task subsuming…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Morteza Mardani , Gonzalo Mateos , Georgios B. Giannakis

We study the problem of community detection (CD) on Euclidean random geometric graphs where each vertex has two latent variables: a binary community label and a $\mathbb{R}^d$ valued location label which forms the support of a Poisson point…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-20 Emmanuel Abbe , Francois Baccelli , Abishek Sankararaman

A growing number of systems are represented as networks whose architecture conveys significant information and determines many of their properties. Examples of network architecture include modular, bipartite, and core-periphery structures.…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2016-06-29 Paolo Barucca , Fabrizio Lillo

We give upper and lower bounds on the information-theoretic threshold for community detection in the stochastic block model. Specifically, consider the symmetric stochastic block model with $q$ groups, average degree $d$, and connection…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-07-07 Jess Banks , Cristopher Moore , Joe Neeman , Praneeth Netrapalli