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We propose a robust, scalable, integrated methodology for community detection and community comparison in graphs. In our procedure, we first embed a graph into an appropriate Euclidean space to obtain a low-dimensional representation, and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-08-29 Vince Lyzinski , Minh Tang , Avanti Athreya , Youngser Park , Carey E. Priebe

The most widely used techniques for community detection in networks, including methods based on modularity, statistical inference, and information theoretic arguments, all work by optimizing objective functions that measure the quality of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Maria A. Riolo , M. E. J. Newman

Clustering of single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) datasets can give key insights into the biological functions of cells. Therefore, it is not surprising that network-based community detection methods (one of the better clustering…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-17 Chetkar Jha , Mingyao Li , Ian Barnett

Mixed membership community detection is a challenging problem. In this paper, to detect mixed memberships, we propose a new method Mixed-SLIM which is a spectral clustering method on the symmetrized Laplacian inverse matrix under the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-08 Huan Qing , Jingli Wang

Statistical estimates can often be improved by fusion of data from several different sources. One example is so-called ensemble methods which have been successfully applied in areas such as machine learning for classification and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-09-03 Johan Dahlin , Pontus Svenson

The stochastic block model (SBM) is a random graph model with different group of vertices connecting differently. It is widely employed as a canonical model to study clustering and community detection, and provides a fertile ground to study…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-26 Emmanuel Abbe

Community detection is an important task in network analysis. A community (also referred to as a cluster) is a set of cohesive vertices that have more connections inside the set than outside. In many social and information networks, these…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-04-06 Joyce Jiyoung Whang , David F. Gleich , Inderjit S. Dhillon

Higher-order structures of networks, namely, small subgraphs of networks (also called network motifs), are widely known to be crucial and essential to the organization of networks. There has been a few work studying the community detection…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-04-14 Xiao Guo , Hai Zhang , Xiangyu Chang

Community detection in network analysis is an attractive research area recently. Here, under the degree-corrected mixed membership (DCMM) model, we propose an efficient approach called mixed regularized spectral clustering (Mixed-RSC for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Huan Qing , Jingli Wang

Community detection is of considerable importance for analyzing the structure and function of complex networks. Many real-world networks may possess community structures at multiple scales, and recently, various multi-resolution methods…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-09-01 Ju Xiang , Yan-Ni Tang , Yuan-Yuan Gao , Yan Zhang , Ke Deng , Xiao-Ke Xu , Ke Hu

Community structure is prevalent in real-world networks, with empirical studies revealing heterogeneous distributions where a few dominant majority communities coexist with many smaller groups. These small-scale groups, which we term…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jiaze Li , Leto Peel

Spectral analysis has been successfully applied at the detection of community structure of networks, respectively being based on the adjacency matrix, the standard Laplacian matrix, the normalized Laplacian matrix, the modularity matrix,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-10-21 Hua-Wei Shen , Xue-Qi Cheng

Consider a network where the nodes split into $K$ different communities. The community labels for the nodes are unknown and it is of major interest to estimate them (i.e., community detection). Degree Corrected Block Model (DCBM) is a…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-12-01 Jiashun Jin

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

Community detection has been one of the central problems in network studies and directed network is particularly challenging due to asymmetry among its links. In this paper, we found that incorporating the direction of links reveals new…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-09-24 Sungmin Kim , Tao Shi

Detecting communities in large-scale networks is a challenging task when each vertex may belong to multiple communities, as is often the case in social networks. The multiple memberships of vertices and thus the strong overlaps among…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Elvis H. W. Xu , P. M. Hui

Exact recovery in stochastic block models (SBMs) is well understood in undirected settings, but remains considerably less developed for directed and sparse networks, particularly when the number of communities diverges. Spectral methods for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-18 Behzad Aalipur , Yichen Qin

We study networks that display community structure -- groups of nodes within which connections are unusually dense. Using methods from random matrix theory, we calculate the spectra of such networks in the limit of large size, and hence…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-05-10 Raj Rao Nadakuditi , M. E. J. Newman

We investigate how to select the number of communities for weighted networks without a full likelihood modeling. First, we propose a novel weighted degree-corrected stochastic block model (DCSBM), where the mean adjacency matrix is modeled…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-12 Yucheng Liu , Xiaodong Li

Community detection can reveal the underlying structure and patterns of complex networks, identify sets of nodes with specific functions or similar characteristics, and study the evolution process and development trends of networks. Despite…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Jiaqi Yao , Lewis Mitchell