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Learning the community structure of a large-scale graph is a fundamental problem in machine learning, computer science and statistics. We study the problem of exactly recovering the communities in a graph generated from the Stochastic Block…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Zelin Li , Pan Peng , Xianbin Zhu

We study the problem of learning latent community structure from multiple correlated networks, focusing on edge-correlated stochastic block models with two balanced communities. Recent work of Gaudio, R\'acz, and Sridhar (COLT 2022)…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-05 Miklós Z. Rácz , Jifan Zhang

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 propose a streamlined spectral algorithm for community detection in the two-community stochastic block model (SBM) under constant edge density assumptions. By reducing algorithmic complexity through the elimination of non-essential…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Sie Hendrata Dharmawan , Peter Chin

We consider the community detection problem in sparse random hypergraphs under the non-uniform hypergraph stochastic block model (HSBM), a general model of random networks with community structure and higher-order interactions. When the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-11 Ioana Dumitriu , Haixiao Wang , Yizhe Zhu

We consider the community recovery problem on a multilayer variant of the hypergraph stochastic block model (HSBM). Each layer is associated with an independent realization of a d-uniform HSBM on N vertices. Given the similarity matrix…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-06 Kalle Alaluusua , Konstantin Avrachenkov , B. R. Vinay Kumar , Lasse Leskelä

In this paper, we propose a family of label recovery problems on weighted Euclidean random graphs. The vertices of a graph are embedded in $\mathbb{R}^d$ according to a Poisson point process, and are assigned to a discrete community label.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Julia Gaudio , Charlie Guan , Xiaochun Niu , Ermin Wei

Spectral clustering is one of the most popular algorithms for community detection in network analysis. Based on this rationale, in this paper we give the convergence rate of eigenvectors for the adjacency matrix in the $l_\infty$ norm,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Yan Liu , Zhiqiang Hou , Zhigang Yao , Zhidong Bai , Jiang Hu , Shurong Zheng

We establish sufficient conditions of exact and almost full recovery of the node partition in Bipartite Stochastic Block Model (BSBM) using polynomial time algorithms. First, we improve upon the known conditions of almost full recovery by…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-26 Mohamed Ndaoud , Suzanne Sigalla , Alexandre B. Tsybakov

We study the problem of learning communities in the presence of modeling errors and give robust recovery algorithms for the Stochastic Block Model (SBM). This model, which is also known as the Planted Partition Model, is widely used for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Konstantin Makarychev , Yury Makarychev , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

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

This paper investigates fundamental limits of exact recovery in the general d-uniform hypergraph stochastic block model (d-HSBM), wherein n nodes are partitioned into k disjoint communities with relative sizes (p1,..., pk). Each subset of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Qiaosheng Zhang , Vincent Y. F. Tan

This paper considers the problem of label recovery in random graphs and matrices. Motivated by transitive behavior in real-world networks (i.e., ``the friend of my friend is my friend''), a recent line of work considers spatially-embedded…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Julia Gaudio , Charlie K. Guan

Spectral algorithms are an important building block in machine learning and graph algorithms. We are interested in studying when such algorithms can be applied directly to provide optimal solutions to inference tasks. Previous works by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Souvik Dhara , Julia Gaudio , Elchanan Mossel , Colin Sandon

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

Empirical observations suggest that in practice, community membership does not completely explain the dependency between the edges of an observation graph. The residual dependence of the graph edges are modeled in this paper, to first…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Mohammad Esmaeili , Aria Nosratinia

We study the problem of community detection (CD) on Euclidean random geometric graphs where each vertex has two latent variables: a binary community label and a $\mathbb{R}^d$ valued location label which forms the support of a Poisson point…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-20 Emmanuel Abbe , Francois Baccelli , Abishek Sankararaman

We consider the problem of clustering a graph $G$ into two communities by observing a subset of the vertex correlations. Specifically, we consider the inverse problem with observed variables $Y=B_G x \oplus Z$, where $B_G$ is the incidence…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-06 Emmanuel Abbe , Afonso S. Bandeira , Annina Bracher , Amit Singer

The emerging problem of joint community detection and group synchronization, with applications in signal processing and machine learning, has been extensively studied in recent years. Previous research has predominantly focused on a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Yifeng Fan , Zhizhen Zhao

The binary symmetric stochastic block model deals with a random graph of $n$ vertices partitioned into two equal-sized clusters, such that each pair of vertices is connected independently with probability $p$ within clusters and $q$ across…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-01-07 Bruce Hajek , Yihong Wu , Jiaming Xu