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Community detection in graphs often relies on ad hoc algorithms with no clear specification about the node partition they define as the best, which leads to uninterpretable communities. Stochastic block models (SBM) offer a framework to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Louis Duvivier , Rémy Cazabet , Céline Robardet

Stochastic block models (SBMs) are a very commonly studied network model for community detection algorithms. In the standard form of an SBM, the $n$ vertices (or nodes) of a graph are generally divided into multiple pre-determined…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Dung Nguyen , Anil Vullikanti

Graph embedding methods are becoming increasingly popular in the machine learning community, where they are widely used for tasks such as node classification and link prediction. Embedding graphs in geometric spaces should aid the…

Stochastic blockmodels have been proposed as a tool for detecting community structure in networks as well as for generating synthetic networks for use as benchmarks. Most blockmodels, however, ignore variation in vertex degree, making them…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-03-02 Brian Karrer , M. E. J. Newman

Graph clustering and community detection are central problems in modern data mining. The increasing need for analyzing billion-scale data calls for faster and more scalable algorithms for these problems. There are certain trade-offs between…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Jessica Shi , Laxman Dhulipala , David Eisenstat , Jakub Łącki , Vahab Mirrokni

Finding groups of connected individuals in large graphs with tens of thousands or more nodes has received considerable attention in academic research. In this paper, we analyze three main issues with respect to the recent influx of papers…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Pieter Leyman , Patrick De Causmaecker

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

Communities are a common and widely studied structure in networks, typically under the assumption that the network is fully and correctly observed. In practice, network data are often collected by querying nodes about their connections. In…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-03-22 Tianxi Li , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

Community detection refers to finding densely connected groups of nodes in graphs. In important applications, such as cluster analysis and network modelling, the graph is sparse but outliers and heavy-tailed noise may obscure its structure.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-19 Aylin Tastan , Michael Muma , Abdelhak M. Zoubir

Modeling relations between individuals is a classical question in social sciences and clustering individuals according to the observed patterns of interactions allows to uncover a latent structure in the data. Stochastic block model (SBM)…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-01-27 Pierre Barbillon , Sophie Donnet , Emmanuel Lazega , Avner Bar-Hen

The methodology of community detection can be divided into two principles: imposing a network model on a given graph, or optimizing a designed objective function. The former provides guarantees on theoretical detectability but falls short…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-06 Pin-Yu Chen , Lingfei Wu

To capture the inherent geometric features of many community detection problems, we propose to use a new random graph model of communities that we call a Geometric Block Model. The geometric block model builds on the random geometric graphs…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Sainyam Galhotra , Arya Mazumdar , Soumyabrata Pal , Barna Saha

In recent years there has been an increased interest in statistical analysis of data with multiple types of relations among a set of entities. Such multi-relational data can be represented as multi-layer graphs where the set of vertices…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-27 Subhadeep Paul , Yuguo Chen

This paper proposes a novel scalable community-based neural framework for graph learning. The framework learns the graph topology through the task of community detection and link prediction by optimizing with our proposed joint SBM loss…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Zheng Chen , Xinli Yu , Yuan Ling , Xiaohua Hu

A canonical problem in graph mining is the detection of dense communities. This problem is exacerbated for a graph with a large order and size -- the number of vertices and edges -- as many community detection algorithms scale poorly. In…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Heng Wang , Da Zheng , Randal Burns , Carey Priebe

Scoring patent documents is very useful for technology management. However, conventional methods are based on static models and, thus, do not reflect the growth potential of the technology cluster of the patent. Because even if the cluster…

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

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 modern science of networks has brought significant advances to our understanding of complex systems. One of the most relevant features of graphs representing real systems is community structure, or clustering, i. e. the organization of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-09-17 Santo Fortunato

Generating high-quality synthetic networks with realistic community structure is vital to effectively evaluate community detection algorithms. In this study, we propose a new synthetic network generator called the Edge-Connected Stochastic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-06 The-Anh Vu-Le , Lahari Anne , George Chacko , Tandy Warnow