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For community detection problem, spectral clustering is a widely used method for detecting clusters in networks. In this paper, we propose an improved spectral clustering (ISC) approach under the degree corrected stochastic block model…

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The stochastic block model (SBM) is a fundamental model for studying graph clustering or community detection in networks. It has received great attention in the last decade and the balanced case, i.e., assuming all clusters have large size,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Chandra Sekhar Mukherjee , Pan Peng , Jiapeng Zhang

Finding communities in networks is a problem that remains difficult, in spite of the amount of attention it has recently received. The Stochastic Block-Model (SBM) is a generative model for graphs with "communities" for which, because of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-22 Yali Wan , Marina Meila

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…

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Latent class models are widely used for identifying unobserved subgroups from multivariate categorical data in social sciences, with binary data as a particularly popular example. However, accurately recovering individual latent class…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-25 Zhongyuan Lyu , Yuqi Gu

Stochastic blockmodels and variants thereof are among the most widely used approaches to community detection for social networks and relational data. A stochastic blockmodel partitions the nodes of a network into disjoint sets, called…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-09-16 Diego Franco Saldana , Yi Yu , Yang Feng

In this paper, we consider networks consisting of a finite number of non-overlapping communities. To extract these communities, the interaction between pairs of nodes may be sampled from a large available data set, which allows a given node…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-02-20 Se-Young Yun , Alexandre Proutiere

We analyze the performance of spectral clustering for community extraction in stochastic block models. We show that, under mild conditions, spectral clustering applied to the adjacency matrix of the network can consistently recover hidden…

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In this paper we address imbalanced binary classification (IBC) tasks. Applying resampling strategies to balance the class distribution of training instances is a common approach to tackle these problems. Many state-of-the-art methods find…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Vitor Cerqueira , Luis Torgo , Paula Branco , Colin Bellinger

In this paper, we obtain new results on the weak and strong consistency of the maximum and integrated conditional likelihood estimators for the community detection problem in the Stochastic Block Model with $k$ communities and unknown…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Andressa Cerqueira , Florencia Leonardi

The stochastic block model (SBM) is an important generative model for random graphs in network science and machine learning, useful for benchmarking community detection (or clustering) algorithms. The symmetric SBM generates a graph with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Akshay Gadde , Eyal En Gad , Salman Avestimehr , Antonio Ortega

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

The stochastic block model (SBM) is a random graph model in which the edges are generated according to the underlying cluster structure on the vertices. The (ferromagnetic) Ising model, on the other hand, assigns $\pm 1$ labels to vertices…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-10-15 Min Ye

We study the classical problem of community recovery in stochastic block models with a fixed number of communities, with a twist: We seek algorithms that are stable with respect to node-wise changes in the graph structure, formally defined…

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We propose In-Context Clustering (ICC), a flexible LLM-based procedure for clustering data from diverse distributions. Unlike traditional clustering algorithms constrained by predefined similarity measures, ICC flexibly captures complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Ying Wang , Mengye Ren , Andrew Gordon Wilson

We consider community detection in Degree-Corrected Stochastic Block Models (DC-SBM). We propose a spectral clustering algorithm based on a suitably normalized adjacency matrix. We show that this algorithm consistently recovers the…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-02-09 Lennart Gulikers , Marc Lelarge , Laurent Massoulié

Most recent developments on the stochastic block model (SBM) rely on the knowledge of the model parameters, or at least on the number of communities. This paper introduces efficient algorithms that do not require such knowledge and yet…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Emmanuel Abbe , Colin Sandon

The Popularity Adjusted Block Model (PABM) provides a flexible framework for community detection in network data by allowing heterogeneous node popularity across communities. However, this flexibility increases model complexity and raises…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-10 Quan Yuan , Binghui Liu , Danning Li , Lingzhou Xue

We establish sufficient conditions of exact and almost full recovery of the node partition in Bipartite Stochastic Block Model (BSBM) using polynomial time algorithms. First, we improve upon the known conditions of almost full recovery by…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-26 Mohamed Ndaoud , Suzanne Sigalla , Alexandre B. Tsybakov
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