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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 (SBM) is a widely used random graph model for networks with communities. Despite the recent burst of interest in recovering communities in the SBM from statistical and computational points of view, there are still…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-12-16 Amin Jalali , Qiyang Han , Ioana Dumitriu , Maryam Fazel

In this paper, we study the problem of exact community recovery in the symmetric stochastic block model, where a graph of $n$ vertices is randomly generated by partitioning the vertices into $K \ge 2$ equal-sized communities and then…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-11 Peng Wang , Huikang Liu , Zirui Zhou , Anthony Man-Cho So

We study the problem of exact community recovery in the Geometric Stochastic Block Model (GSBM), where each vertex has an unknown community label as well as a known position, generated according to a Poisson point process in $\mathbb{R}^d$.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Julia Gaudio , Xiaochun Niu , Ermin Wei

In this paper, we study the exact recovery problem in the Gaussian weighted version of the Stochastic block model with two symmetric communities. We provide the information-theoretic threshold in terms of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Aaradhya Pandey , Sanjeev Kulkarni

In this paper, we consider the soft geometric block model (SGBM) with a fixed number $k \geq 2$ of homogeneous communities in the dense regime, and we introduce a spectral clustering algorithm for community recovery on graphs generated by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Luiz Emilio Allem , Konstantin Avrachenkov , Carlos Hoppen , Hariprasad Manjunath , Lucas Siviero Sibemberg

We consider the problem of partially recovering hidden binary variables from the observation of (few) censored edge weights, a problem with applications in community detection, correlation clustering and synchronization. We describe two…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Alaa Saade , Florent Krzakala , Marc Lelarge , Lenka Zdeborová

Community detection is the problem of identifying community structure in graphs. Often the graph is modeled as a sample from the Stochastic Block Model, in which each vertex belongs to a community. The probability that two vertices are…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-12 Souvik Dhara , Julia Gaudio , Elchanan Mossel , Colin Sandon

We propose and analyze a generic method for community recovery in stochastic block models and degree corrected block models. This approach can exactly recover the hidden communities with high probability when the expected node degrees are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-01 Jing Lei , Lingxue Zhu

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 introduce general tools for designing efficient private estimation algorithms, in the high-dimensional settings, whose statistical guarantees almost match those of the best known non-private algorithms. To illustrate our techniques, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Hongjie Chen , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Tommaso d'Orsi , Alessandro Epasto , Jacob Imola , David Steurer , Stefan Tiegel

We consider the problem of identifying underlying community-like structures in graphs. Towards this end we study the Stochastic Block Model (SBM) on $k$-clusters: a random model on $n=km$ vertices, partitioned in $k$ equal sized clusters,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-10 Naman Agarwal , Afonso S. Bandeira , Konstantinos Koiliaris , Alexandra Kolla

We study the problem of community recovery from coarse measurements of a graph. In contrast to the problem of community recovery of a fully observed graph, one often encounters situations when measurements of a graph are made at…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Nafiseh Ghoroghchian , Gautam Dasarathy , Stark C. Draper

To capture the inherent geometric features of many community detection problems, we propose to use a new random graph model of communities that we call a Geometric Block Model. The geometric block model builds on the random geometric graphs…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Sainyam Galhotra , Arya Mazumdar , Soumyabrata Pal , Barna Saha

We consider the exact recovery problem in the hypergraph stochastic block model (HSBM) with $k$ blocks of equal size. More precisely, we consider a random $d$-uniform hypergraph $H$ with $n$ vertices partitioned into $k$ clusters of size $s…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Sam Cole , Yizhe Zhu

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

We study the vertex classification problem on a graph whose vertices are in $k\ (k\geq 2)$ different communities, edges are only allowed between distinct communities, and the number of vertices in different communities are not necessarily…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-05 Zhongyang Li

We consider the problem of learning latent community structure from multiple correlated networks. We study edge-correlated stochastic block models with two balanced communities, focusing on the regime where the average degree is logarithmic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-30 Julia Gaudio , Miklos Z. Racz , Anirudh Sridhar

We study community detection in the contextual stochastic block model arXiv:1807.09596 [cs.SI], arXiv:1607.02675 [stat.ME]. In arXiv:1807.09596 [cs.SI], the second author studied this problem in the setting of sparse graphs with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Chen Lu , Subhabrata Sen

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…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-31 Jing Lei , Alessandro Rinaldo