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This paper develops a unified estimation framework, the Maximum Ideal Likelihood Estimation (MILE), for general parametric models with latent variables. Unlike traditional approaches relying on the marginal likelihood of the observed data,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Yizhou Cai , Ting Fung Ma

The information-theoretic limits of community detection have been studied extensively for network models with high levels of symmetry or homogeneity. The contribution of this paper is to study a broader class of network models that allow…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Galen Reeves , Vaishakhi Mayya , Alexander Volfovsky

Motivated by collaborative localization in robotic sensor networks, we consider the problem of large-scale network localization where location estimates are derived from inter-node radio signals. Well-established methods for network…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-30 Lillian Clark , Sampad Mohanty , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

A variety of complex systems exhibit different types of relationships simultaneously that can be modeled by multiplex networks. A typical problem is to determine the community structure of such systems that, in general, depend on one or…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2018-01-31 Giuseppe Mangioni , Giuseppe Jurman , Manlio De Domenico

In computational mechanics, multiple models are often present to describe a physical system. While Bayesian model selection is a helpful tool to compare these models using measurement data, it requires the computationally expensive…

Computation · Statistics 2025-04-14 Subhayan De , Reza Farzad , Patrick T. Brewick , Erik A. Johnson , Steven F. Wojtkiewicz

This letter investigates target position estimation in integrated sensing and communication networks composed of multiple cooperating monostatic base stations (BSs). Each BS employs a MIMO-orthogonal time-frequency space (OTFS) scheme,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-05 Lorenzo Pucci , Tommaso Bacchielli , Andrea Giorgetti

This paper presents a novel approach to estimating community membership probabilities for network vertices generated by the Degree Corrected Mixed Membership Stochastic Block Model while preserving individual edge privacy. Operating within…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-26 Abhinav Chakraborty , Sayak Chatterjee , Sagnik Nandy

Network reliability is the probability that a dynamical system composed of discrete elements interacting on a network will be found in a configuration that satisfies a particular property. We introduce a new reliability property, Ising…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-23 Yihui Ren , Stephen Eubank , Madhurima Nath

We introduce a new method for predicting the formation of links in real-world networks, which we refer to as the method of effective transitions. This method relies on the theory of isospectral matrix reductions to compute the probability…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Bryn Balls-Barker , Benjamin Webb

In the standard stochastic block model for networks, the probability of a connection between two nodes, often referred to as the edge probability, depends on the unobserved communities each of these nodes belongs to. We consider a flexible…

Econometrics · Economics 2024-02-27 Yuichi Kitamura , Louise Laage

To unravel the driving patterns of networks, the most popular models rely on community detection algorithms. However, these approaches are generally unable to reproduce the structural features of the network. Therefore, attempts are always…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Martina Contisciani , Hadiseh Safdari , Caterina De Bacco

The development of models for multiple heterogeneous network data is of critical importance both in statistical network theory and across multiple application domains. Although single-graph inference is well-studied, multiple graph…

Matrix completion based collaborative filtering is considered scalable and effective for online service link prediction (e.g., movie recommendation) but does not meet the challenges of link prediction in ecological networks. A unique…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Xiao Fu , Eugene Seo , Justin Clarke , Rebecca A. Hutchinson

Link prediction problem has increasingly become prominent in many domains such as social network analyses, bioinformatics experiments, transportation networks, criminal investigations and so forth. A variety of techniques has been developed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Safiye Ghasemi , Amin Zarei

Modeling complex systems that consist of different types of objects leads to multilayer networks, in which vertices are connected by both inter-layer and intra-layer edges. In this paper, we investigate multiplex networks, in which vertices…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Silvia Noschese , Lothar Reichel

Community detection in multilayer networks, which aims to identify groups of nodes exhibiting similar connectivity patterns across multiple network layers, has attracted considerable attention in recent years. Most existing methods are…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-26 Dapeng Shi , Haoran Zhang , Tiandong Wang , Junhui Wang

One of the major issues in signed networks is to use network structure to predict the missing sign of an edge. In this paper, we introduce a novel probabilistic approach for the sign prediction problem. The main characteristic of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Amin Javari , HongXiang Qiu , Elham Barzegaran , Mahdi Jalili , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang

The characterization of various properties of real-world systems requires the knowledge of the underlying network of connections among the system's components. Unfortunately, in many situations the complete topology of this network is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-20 Valerio Gemmetto , Diego Garlaschelli

Stacked intelligent metasurface (SIM) is a promising enabler for next-generation high-capacity networks that exhibit better performance compared to its single-layer counterpart by means of just wave propagation. However, the study of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Pandelis Kourtessis , Dimitra I. Kaklamani , Iakovos S. Venieris

Using the maximum entropy method, we derive the "adaptive cluster expansion" (ACE), which can be trained to estimate probability density functions in high dimensional spaces. The main advantage of ACE over other Bayesian networks is its…

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