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Social networks are often associated with rich side information, such as texts and images. While numerous methods have been developed to identify communities from pairwise interactions, they usually ignore such side information. In this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Guillaume Braun , Masashi Sugiyama

We consider community detection in Degree-Corrected Stochastic Block Models (DC-SBM). We propose a spectral clustering algorithm based on a suitably normalized adjacency matrix. We show that this algorithm consistently recovers the…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-02-09 Lennart Gulikers , Marc Lelarge , Laurent Massoulié

Community detection seeks to recover mesoscopic structure from network data that may be binary, count-valued, signed, directed, weighted, or multilayer. The stochastic block model (SBM) explains such structure by positing a latent partition…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Marios Papamichalis , Regina Ruane

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

Stochastic Block Models (SBMs) are a fundamental tool for community detection in network analysis. But little theoretical work exists on the statistical performance of Bayesian SBMs, especially when the community count is unknown. This…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Sheng Jiang , Surya Tokdar

Structured data in the form of networks are increasingly common in a number of fields, including the social sciences, biology, physics, computer science, and many others. A key task in network analysis is community detection, which…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-25 Martina Amongero , Pierpaolo De Blasi

We investigate the widely encountered problem of detecting communities in multiplex networks, such as social networks, with an unknown arbitrary heterogeneous structure. To improve detectability, we propose a generative model that leverages…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Yuming Huang , Ashkan Panahi , Hamid Krim , Liyi Dai

The stochastic block model (SBM) is an important generative model for random graphs in network science and machine learning, useful for benchmarking community detection (or clustering) algorithms. The symmetric SBM generates a graph with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Akshay Gadde , Eyal En Gad , Salman Avestimehr , Antonio Ortega

Community detection in multi-layer networks is a crucial problem in network analysis. In this paper, we analyze the performance of two spectral clustering algorithms for community detection within the framework of the multi-layer…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Huan Qing

Detecting communities in high-dimensional graphs can be achieved by applying random matrix theory where the adjacency matrix of the graph is modeled by a Stochastic Block Model (SBM). However, the SBM makes an unrealistic assumption that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-08 Robert Malinas , Dogyoon Song , Alfred O. Hero

The stochastic block model (SBM) is a fundamental model for studying graph clustering or community detection in networks. It has received great attention in the last decade and the balanced case, i.e., assuming all clusters have large size,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Chandra Sekhar Mukherjee , Pan Peng , Jiapeng Zhang

The stochastic block model (SBM) is a popular framework for studying community detection in networks. This model is limited by the assumption that all nodes in the same community are statistically equivalent and have equal expected degrees.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Yudong Chen , Xiaodong Li , Jiaming Xu

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

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

The stochastic block model (SBM) is a probabilistic model for community structure in networks. Typically, only the adjacency matrix is used to perform SBM parameter inference. In this paper, we consider circumstances in which nodes have an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Natalie Stanley , Thomas Bonacci , Roland Kwitt , Marc Niethammer , Peter J. Mucha

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

Networks, which represent agents and interactions between them, arise in myriad applications throughout the sciences, engineering, and even the humanities. To understand large-scale structure in a network, a common task is to cluster a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Zachary M. Boyd , Mason A. Porter , Andrea L. Bertozzi

Spectral clustering is a widely used method for community detection in networks. We focus on a semi-supervised community detection scenario in the Partially Labeled Stochastic Block Model (PL-SBM) with two balanced communities, where a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-16 Nicolas Fraiman , Michael Nisenzon

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

Community detection is a fundamental task in graph analysis, with methods often relying on fitting models like the Stochastic Block Model (SBM) to observed networks. While many algorithms can accurately estimate SBM parameters when the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-05 Leonardo Martins Bianco , Christine Keribin , Zacharie Naulet