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The stochastic block model is a natural model for studying community detection in random networks. Its clustering properties have been extensively studied in the statistics, physics and computer science literature. Recently this area has…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Gerandy Brito , Ioana Dumitriu , Shirshendu Ganguly , Christopher Hoffman , Linh V. Tran

Community detection in multi-layer undirected networks has attracted considerable attention in recent years. However, multi-layer directed networks are common in the real world, and existing community detection methods often either ignore…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Huan Qing

We consider the problem of community detection in the Stochastic Block Model with a finite number $K$ of communities of sizes linearly growing with the network size $n$. This model consists in a random graph such that each pair of vertices…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-12-24 Se-Young Yun , Alexandre Proutiere

We show that a simple community detection algorithm originated from stochastic blockmodel literature achieves consistency, and even optimality, for a broad and flexible class of sparse latent space models. The class of models includes…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-05 Fengnan Gao , Zongming Ma , Hongsong Yuan

Community detection is a very active field in complex networks analysis, consisting in identifying groups of nodes more densely interconnected relatively to the rest of the network. The existing algorithms are usually tested and compared on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-08-16 Günce Orman , Vincent Labatut , Hocine Cherifi

Community detection, discovering the underlying communities within a network from observed connections, is a fundamental problem in network analysis, yet it remains underexplored for signed networks. In signed networks, both edge connection…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-17 Yichao Chen , Weijing Tang , Ji Zhu

Stochastic block models (SBMs) are a very commonly studied network model for community detection algorithms. In the standard form of an SBM, the $n$ vertices (or nodes) of a graph are generally divided into multiple pre-determined…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Dung Nguyen , Anil Vullikanti

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

Multi-layer networks are networks on a set of entities (nodes) with multiple types of relations (edges) among them where each type of relation/interaction is represented as a network layer. As with single layer networks, community detection…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-12-10 Subhadeep Paul , Yuguo Chen

Community detection in networks is the process of identifying unusually well-connected sub-networks and is a central component of many applied network analyses. The paradigm of modularity optimization stipulates a partition of the network's…

Applications · Statistics 2017-08-16 Weston D. Viles , A. James O'Malley

Community detection algorithms have been widely used to study the organization of complex systems like the brain. A principal appeal of these techniques is their ability to identify a partition of brain regions (or nodes) into communities,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-04-20 Arian Ashourvan , Qawi K. Telesford , Timothy Verstynen , Jean M. Vettel , Danielle S. Bassett

We present a unified statistical framework for characterizing community structure of brain functional networks that captures variation across individuals and evolution over time. Existing methods for community detection focus only on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Chee-Ming Ting , S. Balqis Samdin , Meini Tang , Hernando Ombao

Multi-layer networks arise naturally in various domains including biology, finance and sociology, among others. The multi-layer stochastic block model (multi-layer SBM) is commonly used for community detection in the multi-layer networks.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Wenqing Su , Xiao Guo , Ying Yang

Recent years have seen a surge of interest in the analysis of complex networks, facilitated by the availability of relational data and the increasingly powerful computational resources that can be employed for their analysis. Naturally, the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-08-08 Jean-Charles Delvenne , Michael T. Schaub , Sophia N. Yaliraki , Mauricio Barahona

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

Local network community detection aims to find a single community in a large network, while inspecting only a small part of that network around a given seed node. This is much cheaper than finding all communities in a network. Most methods…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Twan van Laarhoven

We propose a semidefinite programming (SDP) algorithm for community detection in the stochastic block model, a popular model for networks with latent community structure. We prove that our algorithm achieves exact recovery of the latent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Amelia Perry , Alexander S. Wein

Community detection algorithms attempt to find the best clusters of nodes in an arbitrary complex network. Multi-scale ("multiresolution") community detection extends the problem to identify the best network scale(s) for these clusters. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-11 Peter Ronhovde , Zohar Nussinov

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Joonhyuk Yang , Hye Won Chung

Neural node embeddings have recently emerged as a powerful representation for supervised learning tasks involving graph-structured data. We leverage this recent advance to develop a novel algorithm for unsupervised community discovery in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Weicong Ding , Christy Lin , Prakash Ishwar