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We develop a method to infer community structure in directed networks where the groups are ordered in a latent one-dimensional hierarchy that determines the preferred edge direction. Our nonparametric Bayesian approach is based on a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Tiago P. Peixoto

Identifying edge-dense communities that are also well-connected is an important aspect of understanding community structure. Prior work has shown that community detection methods can produce poorly connected communities, and some can even…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Minhyuk Park , Daniel Wang Feng , Siya Digra , The-Anh Vu-Le , Lahari Anne , George Chacko , Tandy Warnow

Recently network analysis has gained more and more attentions in statistics, as well as in computer science, probability, and applied mathematics. Community detection for the stochastic block model (SBM) is probably the most studied topic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-17 Anderson Y. Zhang , Harrison H. Zhou

We derive rigorous bounds for well-defined community structure in complex networks for a stochastic block model (SBM) benchmark. In particular, we analyze the effect of inter-community "noise" (inter-community edges) on any "community…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-14 Richard K. Darst , David R. Reichman , Peter Ronhovde , Zohar Nussinov

In the model-based clustering of networks, blockmodelling may be used to identify roles in the network. We identify a special case of the Stochastic Block Model (SBM) where we constrain the cluster-cluster interactions such that the density…

Computation · Statistics 2012-10-30 Aaron F. McDaid , Brendan Thomas Murphy , Nial Friel , Neil J. Hurley

A principled approach to characterize the hidden structure of networks is to formulate generative models, and then infer their parameters from data. When the desired structure is composed of modules or "communities", a suitable choice for…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-08-23 Tiago P. Peixoto

Higher-order motif structures and multi-vertex interactions are becoming increasingly important in studies that aim to improve our understanding of functionalities and evolution patterns of networks. To elucidate the role of higher-order…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-18 Subhadeep Paul , Olgica Milenkovic , Yuguo Chen

This paper proposes a novel scalable community-based neural framework for graph learning. The framework learns the graph topology through the task of community detection and link prediction by optimizing with our proposed joint SBM loss…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Zheng Chen , Xinli Yu , Yuan Ling , Xiaohua Hu

The labeled stochastic block model is a random graph model representing networks with community structure and interactions of multiple types. In its simplest form, it consists of two communities of approximately equal size, and the edges…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-02-12 Marc Lelarge , Laurent Massoulié , Jiaming Xu

We consider the problem of community detection from observed interactions between individuals, in the context where multiple types of interaction are possible. We use labelled stochastic block models to represent the observed data, where…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-09-14 Simon Heimlicher , Marc Lelarge , Laurent Massoulié

Stochastic Block Models (SBMs) are a popular approach to modeling single real-world graphs. The key idea of SBMs is to partition the vertices of the graph into blocks with similar edge densities within, as well as between different blocks.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Iiro Kumpulainen , Sebastian Dalleiger , Jilles Vreeken , Nikolaj Tatti

We introduce the nested stochastic block model (NSBM) to cluster a collection of networks while simultaneously detecting communities within each network. NSBM has several appealing features including the ability to work on unlabeled…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-17 Nathaniel Josephs , Arash A. Amini , Marina Paez , Lizhen Lin

The increasing prevalence of network data in a vast variety of fields and the need to extract useful information out of them have spurred fast developments in related models and algorithms. Among the various learning tasks with network…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-04-10 Luyi Shen , Arash Amini , Nathaniel Josephs , Lizhen Lin

The stochastic block model (SBM) provides a popular framework for modeling community structures in networks. However, more attention has been devoted to problems concerning estimating the latent node labels and the model parameters than the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-02 Y. X. Rachel Wang , Peter J. Bickel

We consider the two-sample testing problem for networks, where the goal is to determine whether two sets of networks originated from the same stochastic model. Assuming no vertex correspondence and allowing for different numbers of nodes,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Chung Kyong Nguen , Oscar Hernan Madrid Padilla , Arash A. Amini

A common method for delineating urban and suburban boundaries is to identify clusters of spatial units that are highly interconnected in a network of commuting flows, each cluster signaling a cohesive economic submarket. It is critical that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-05-09 Sebastian Morel-Balbi , Alec Kirkley

The community detection problem requires to cluster the nodes of a network into a small number of well-connected "communities". There has been substantial recent progress in characterizing the fundamental statistical limits of community…

We propose a novel family of model-free algorithms for node clustering and parameter inference in graphs generated from the Stochastic Block Model (SBM), a fundamental framework in community detection. Drawing inspiration from the Lloyd…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-22 Bertrand Cloez , Adrien Cotil , Jean-Baptiste Menassol , Nicolas Verzelen

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

Community detection for large networks poses challenges due to the high computational cost as well as heterogeneous community structures. In this paper, we consider widely existing real-world networks with ``grouped communities'' (or ``the…

Computation · Statistics 2024-11-04 Sheng Zhang , Rui Song , Wenbin Lu , Ji Zhu