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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 this paper, we consider the soft geometric block model (SGBM) with a fixed number $k \geq 2$ of homogeneous communities in the dense regime, and we introduce a spectral clustering algorithm for community recovery on graphs generated by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Luiz Emilio Allem , Konstantin Avrachenkov , Carlos Hoppen , Hariprasad Manjunath , Lucas Siviero Sibemberg

We consider the problem of community detection or clustering in the labeled Stochastic Block Model (LSBM) with a finite number $K$ of clusters of sizes linearly growing with the global population of items $n$. Every pair of items is labeled…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Se-Young Yun , Alexandre Proutiere

The community detection problem requires to cluster the nodes of a network into a small number of well-connected "communities". There has been substantial recent progress in characterizing the fundamental statistical limits of community…

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 in networks is a fundamental problem in machine learning and statistical inference, with applications in social networks, biological systems, and communication networks. The stochastic block model (SBM) serves as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Amir R. Asadi , Akbar Davoodi , Ramin Javadi , Farzad Parvaresh

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

Complex data in social and natural sciences find effective representation through networks, wherein quantitative and categorical information can be associated with nodes and connecting edges. The internal structure of networks can be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Fabio Morea , Domenico De Stefano

A fundamental problem in network analysis is clustering the nodes into groups which share a similar connectivity pattern. Existing algorithms for community detection assume the knowledge of the number of clusters or estimate it a priori…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-03-30 Junxian Geng , Anirban Bhattacharya , Debdeep Pati

The integration of network information and node attribute information has recently gained significant attention in the community detection literature. In this work, we consider community detection in the Contextual Labeled Stochastic Block…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-28 Dian Jin , Yuqian Zhang , Qiaosheng Zhang

In this paper, we consider the community detection problem under either the stochastic block model (SBM) assumption or the degree-correlated stochastic block model (DCSBM) assumption. The modularity maximization formulation for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-04 Junyu Zhang , Haoyang Liu , Zaiwen Wen , Shuzhong Zhang

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

Community detection is a crucial task in network analysis that can be significantly improved by incorporating subject-level information, i.e. covariates. However, current methods often struggle with selecting tuning parameters and analyzing…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-02-13 Yaofang Hu , Wanjie Wang

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 problem of community detection from observed interactions between individuals, in the context where multiple types of interaction are possible. We use labelled stochastic block models to represent the observed data, where…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-09-14 Simon Heimlicher , Marc Lelarge , Laurent Massoulié

Community detection provides invaluable help for various applications, such as marketing and product recommendation. Traditional community detection methods designed for plain networks may not be able to detect communities with homogeneous…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Peng Wu , Li Pan

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

There exist various types of network block models such as the Stochastic Block Model (SBM), the Degree Corrected Block Model (DCBM), and the Popularity Adjusted Block Model (PABM). While this leads to a variety of choices, the block models…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-16 Majid Noroozi , Marianna Pensky

We analyze the performance of spectral clustering for community extraction in stochastic block models. We show that, under mild conditions, spectral clustering applied to the adjacency matrix of the network can consistently recover hidden…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-31 Jing Lei , Alessandro Rinaldo

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