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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

Multiplex networks have become increasingly more prevalent in many fields, and have emerged as a powerful tool for modeling the complexity of real networks. There is a critical need for developing inference models for multiplex networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Arash A. Amini , Marina S. Paez , Lizhen Lin

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

The paper tackles the problem of clustering multiple networks, directed or not, that do not share the same set of vertices, into groups of networks with similar topology. A statistical model-based approach based on a finite mixture of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Tabea Rebafka

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

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

Community detection is the task of clustering objects based on their pairwise relationships. Most of the model-based community detection methods, such as the stochastic block model and its variants, are designed for networks with binary…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-06 Xiang Li , Yunpeng Zhao , Qing Pan , Ning Hao

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

Delineating areas within metropolitan regions stands as an important focus among urban researchers, shedding light on the urban perimeters shaped by evolving population dynamics. Applications to urban science are numerous, from facilitating…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Devashish Khulbe , Stanislav Sobolevsky

Accurate forecasting of bus ridership (passengers numbers) is crucial for efficient management and optimization of public transport systems. Traditional forecasting models often fail to capture the unique and localized dynamics of different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Daniel Azenkot , Michael Fire , Eran Ben Elia

A central problem in analyzing networks is partitioning them into modules or communities. One of the best tools for this is the stochastic block model, which clusters vertices into blocks with statistically homogeneous pattern of links.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-24 Xiaoran Yan

Community detection is an important task in network analysis, in which we aim to learn a network partition that groups together vertices with similar community-level connectivity patterns. By finding such groups of vertices with similar…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-25 Christopher Aicher , Abigail Z. Jacobs , Aaron Clauset

Spectral clustering is a popular method for community detection in network graphs: starting from a matrix representation of the graph, the nodes are clustered on a low dimensional projection obtained from a truncated spectral decomposition…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-10 Francesco Sanna Passino , Nicholas A. Heard , Patrick Rubin-Delanchy

The stochastic block model (SBM) is a widely used framework for community detection in networks, where the network structure is typically represented by an adjacency matrix. However, conventional SBMs are not directly applicable to an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-18 Jie Jian , Mu Zhu , Peijun Sang

We consider spectral clustering algorithms for community detection under a general bipartite stochastic block model (SBM). A modern spectral clustering algorithm consists of three steps: (1) regularization of an appropriate adjacency or…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Zhixin Zhou , Arash A. Amini

Urban structure detection is a basic task in urban geography. Clustering is a core technology to detect the patterns of urban spatial structure, urban functional region, and so on. In big data era, diverse urban sensing datasets recording…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-13 Xin Lin , Haifeng Li , Yan Zhang , Lei Gao , Ling Zhao , Min Deng

In this paper, we focus on the stochastic block model (SBM),a probabilistic tool describing interactions between nodes of a network using latent clusters. The SBM assumes that the networkhas a stationary structure, in which connections of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-09-09 Marco Corneli , Pierre Latouche , Fabrice Rossi

The bipartite network appears in various areas, such as biology, sociology, physiology, and computer science. \cite{rohe2016co} proposed Stochastic co-Blockmodel (ScBM) as a tool for detecting community structure of binary bipartite graph…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-31 Huan Qing , Jingli Wang

Motivated by the prevalent data science applications of processing large-scale graph data such as social networks and biological networks, this paper investigates lossless compression of data in the form of a labeled graph. Particularly, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Alankrita Bhatt , Ziao Wang , Chi Wang , Lele Wang

We introduce the Markov Stochastic Block Model (MSBM): a growth model for community based networks where node attributes are assigned through a Markovian dynamic. We rely on HMMs' literature to design prediction methods that are robust to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Quentin Duchemin