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Networks are useful representations of many systems with interacting entities, such as social, biological and physical systems. Characterizing the meso-scale organization, i.e. the community structure, is an important problem in network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-11-06 Abdullah Karaaslanli , Selin Aviyente

We study community detection in the \emph{symmetric $k$-stochastic block model}, where $n$ nodes are evenly partitioned into $k$ clusters with intra- and inter-cluster connection probabilities $p$ and $q$, respectively. Our main result is a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-21 Jingqiu Ding , Yiding Hua , Kasper Lindberg , David Steurer , Aleksandr Storozhenko

Community detection is one of the most critical problems in modern network science. Its applications can be found in various fields, from protein modeling to social network analysis. Recently, many papers appeared studying the problem of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-12 Fedor Noskov , Maxim Panov

Many real world networks consist of multiple types of nodes with edges that are heterogeneous in nature. However, most of the existing work for community detection only focused on homogeneous network consisting of a single layer. In this…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-09-19 Fan Yang , Fengshuo Zhang

In bipartite networks, community structures are restricted to being disassortative, in that nodes of one type are grouped according to common patterns of connection with nodes of the other type. This makes the stochastic block model (SBM),…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-09-30 Tzu-Chi Yen , Daniel B. Larremore

Community detection approaches resolve complex networks into smaller groups (communities) that are expected to be relatively edge-dense and well-connected. The stochastic block model (SBM) is one of several approaches used to uncover…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Minhyuk Park , Daniel Wang Feng , Siya Digra , The-Anh Vu-Le , George Chacko , Tandy Warnow

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

Blockmodels are a foundational tool for modeling community structure in networks, with the stochastic blockmodel (SBM), degree-corrected blockmodel (DCBM), and popularity-adjusted blockmodel (PABM) forming a natural hierarchy of increasing…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-23 Subhankar Bhadra , Minh Tang , Srijan Sengupta

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

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

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 is a fundamental statistical problem in network data analysis. Many algorithms have been proposed to tackle this problem. Most of these algorithms are not guaranteed to achieve the statistical optimality of the problem,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-10-06 Chao Gao , Zongming Ma , Anderson Y. Zhang , Harrison H. Zhou

A relevant, sometimes overlooked, quality criterion for communities in graphs is that they should be well-connected in addition to being edge-dense. Prior work has shown that leading community detection methods can produce poorly-connected…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-07 The-Anh Vu-Le , Minhyuk Park , Ian Chen , George Chacko , Tandy Warnow

The Degree Corrected Stochastic Block Model (DCSBM) was introduced by \cite{karrer2011stochastic} as a generalization of the stochastic block model in which vertices of the same community are allowed to have distinct degree distributions.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-27 Andressa Cerqueira , Sandro Gallo , Florencia Leonardi , Cristel Vera

The stochastic block model (SBM) is a fundamental tool for community detection in networks, yet the finite-sample performance of inference methods remains underexplored. We evaluate key algorithms-spectral methods, variational inference,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Tianjun Ke , Zhiyu Xu

The stochastic block model (SBM) provides a popular framework for modeling community structures in networks. However, more attention has been devoted to problems concerning estimating the latent node labels and the model parameters than the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-02 Y. X. Rachel Wang , Peter J. Bickel

Community detection algorithms are fundamental tools to understand organizational principles in social networks. With the increasing power of social media platforms, when detecting communities there are two possi- ble sources of information…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-04-14 Yuan Li

We propose a new algorithm to detect the community structure in a network that utilizes both the network structure and vertex attribute data. Suppose we have the network structure together with the vertex attribute data, that is, the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Shun Kataoka , Takuto Kobayashi , Muneki Yasuda , Kazuyuki Tanaka

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

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