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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

Designing effective algorithms for community detection is an important and challenging problem in {\em large-scale} graphs, studied extensively in the literature. Various solutions have been proposed, but many of them are centralized with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Reza Fathi , Anisur Rahaman Molla , Gopal Pandurangan

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

Stochastic block models (SBMs) are often used to find assortative community structures in networks, such that the probability of connections within communities is higher than in between communities. However, classic SBMs are not limited to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Daniel Gribel , Thibaut Vidal , Michel Gendreau

Motivated by social network analysis and network-based recommendation systems, we study a semi-supervised community detection problem in which the objective is to estimate the community label of a new node using the network topology and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Yicong Jiang , Tracy Ke

We propose a novel family of model-free algorithms for node clustering and parameter inference in graphs generated from the Stochastic Block Model (SBM), a fundamental framework in community detection. Drawing inspiration from the Lloyd…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-22 Bertrand Cloez , Adrien Cotil , Jean-Baptiste Menassol , Nicolas Verzelen

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

Characterizing large-scale organization in networks, including multilayer networks, is one of the most prominent topics in network science and is important for many applications. One type of mesoscale feature is community structure, in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-12-10 A. Roxana Pamfil , Sam D. Howison , Renaud Lambiotte , Mason A. Porter

Recognizing number of communities and detecting community structures of complex network are discussed in this paper. As a visual and feasible algorithm, block model has been successfully applied to detect community structures in complex…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-03-20 Hongjue Wang , Tao Wang

Community detection, a fundamental task for network analysis, aims to partition a network into multiple sub-structures to help reveal their latent functions. Community detection has been extensively studied in and broadly applied to many…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Di Jin , Zhizhi Yu , Pengfei Jiao , Shirui Pan , Dongxiao He , Jia Wu , Philip S. Yu , Weixiong Zhang

This paper considers the problem of algorithm selection for community detection. The aim of community detection is to identify sets of nodes in a network which are more interconnected relative to their connectivity to the rest of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2010-10-27 Leto Peel

The stochastic block model (SBM) is a popular model for capturing community structure and interaction within a network. Network data with non-Boolean edge weights is becoming commonplace; however, existing analysis methods convert such data…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-07-20 Matthew Ludkin

Consider the community detection problem in random hypergraphs under the non-uniform hypergraph stochastic block model (HSBM), where each hyperedge appears independently with some given probability depending only on the labels of its…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-29 Ioana Dumitriu , Haixiao Wang

Over the past decade, community detection in overlapping un-weighted networks, where nodes can belong to multiple communities, has been one of the most popular topics in modern network science. However, community detection in overlapping…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Huan Qing

We consider the problem of recovering a binary rating matrix as well as clusters of users and items based on a partially observed matrix together with side-information in the form of social and item similarity graphs. These two graphs are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Qiaosheng Zhang , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Changho Suh

In the present paper we study a sparse stochastic network enabled with a block structure. The popular Stochastic Block Model (SBM) and the Degree Corrected Block Model (DCBM) address sparsity by placing an upper bound on the maximum…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-08 Majid Noroozi , Marianna Pensky , Ramchandra Rimal

The stochastic block model is one of the oldest and most ubiquitous models for studying clustering and community detection. In an exciting sequence of developments, motivated by deep but non-rigorous ideas from statistical physics, Decelle…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Ankur Moitra , William Perry , Alexander S. Wein

In this paper we prove the strong consistency of several methods based on the spectral clustering techniques that are widely used to study the community detection problem in stochastic block models (SBMs). We show that under some weak…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-05-16 Liangjun Su , Wuyi Wang , Yichong Zhang

This chapter provides a self-contained introduction to the use of Bayesian inference to extract large-scale modular structures from network data, based on the stochastic blockmodel (SBM), as well as its degree-corrected and overlapping…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-23 Tiago P. Peixoto

Signed network structure discovery has received extensive attention and has become a research focus in the field of network science. However, most of the existing studies are focused on the networks with a single structure, e.g., community…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Yang Li , Bo Yang , Xuehua Zhao , Zhejian Yang , Hechang Chen