Paper explores exact recovery of communities in weighted graphs using Gaussian and exponential distributions.
problem Exact recovery of communities in weighted graphs with Gaussian and exponential distributions.
method Introduces a new semi-metric to describe conditions for exact recovery and analyzes conditions for both complete and incomplete graphs.
result Necessary and sufficient conditions for exact recovery are asymptotically tight and applicable to both complete and incomplete graphs.
We propose and analyze a generic method for community recovery in stochastic block models and degree corrected block models. This approach can exactly recover the hidden communities with high probability when the expected node degrees are of order logn or higher. Starting from a roughly correct community partition …
New findings on community recovery in SBM with many communities.
problem Determining community recovery conditions in SBM with more than sqrt(n) communities.
method Constructing motifs and counting them to prove community recovery above the proposed threshold.
result Proving community recovery above the proposed threshold in SBM with K >= sqrt(n) communities.
Study recovers community structure from coarse graph measurements.
problem Community recovery from low-resolution graph measurements.
method Formalized coarsening process of graph measurements, developed conditions for perfect recovery.
result Simple and closed-form asymptotic conditions for perfect recovery of coarse graph communities.
New model for community detection with side information improves recovery accuracy.
problem Community detection in networks with additional node data.
method Data Block Model (DBM) with Chernoff--TV divergence for threshold characterization and efficient algorithm.
result Sharp exact recovery threshold and efficient algorithm for DBM.
Paper finds exact recovery threshold in general hypergraph model.
problem Exact recovery of communities in general hypergraph model.
method Developed a two-stage polynomial-time algorithm for exact recovery.
result Sharp threshold for exact recovery in terms of generalized Chernoff-Hellinger divergence.
Improved graph embedding through refined linear transformation and community recovery.
problem Identifying meaningful latent communities in graph data.
method Refined graph encoder embedding via linear transformation, self-training, and latent community recovery.
result Improved vertex embedding and better decision boundaries for vertex classification.
Bottom-up algorithms outperform top-down in hierarchical community detection at intermediate levels.
problem Finding the optimal hierarchical community structure in networks.
method A bottom-up algorithm for hierarchical clustering of networks.
result Bottom-up algorithms achieve the information-theoretic threshold for exact recovery at intermediate levels of the hierarchy.
Study exact community recovery in noisy SBM with limited queries.
problem Community recovery in noisy stochastic block models with limited queries.
method Balanced uniform querying, two-stage adaptive strategy, sublinear queries, subsampled graph.
result Adaptive querying can improve exact recovery limits in noisy SBM.
New findings support a new community recovery threshold for Stochastic Block Model with many communities.
problem Recovering communities in Stochastic Block Model with more than sqrt(n) communities.
method Counting specific motifs to achieve polynomial-time community recovery above a new threshold.
result LDP fails below the new threshold, but polynomial-time recovery is possible above it.
Study exact community detection in k-community Gaussian mixtures with different intensities.
problem Community detection in k-community Gaussian mixtures with varying intensities.
method Explicitly find the threshold for exact recovery of maximum likelihood estimation.
result Threshold for exact recovery of maximum likelihood estimation is identified.
Paper tackles community recovery in binary symmetric SBM graphs.
problem Community detection in binary symmetric SBM graphs.
method Proposes a two-stage iterative method using projected power iterations and orthogonal iterations.
result Proposed method can exactly recover communities with high probability in logarithmic sparsity regime.
Exact recovery method for community detection in Gaussian mixtures with dependent noise.
problem Community detection in Gaussian mixtures with dependent and heterogeneous noise.
method Maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) for constrained quadratic optimization problem, using Σ-whitened separation and local inequalities. result Sharp exact-recovery threshold and no-gap mechanism in the unknown-size setting.
Paper models graph edge dependencies using latent variables for community detection.
problem Graphs' edge dependencies not fully explained by community membership.
method Introduces auxiliary latent variables to model edge dependencies and analyzes conditions for exact recovery.
result Exact recovery possible by semidefinite programming down to maximum likelihood threshold.
SDP approach recovers communities in multilayer hypergraphs from aggregated similarity matrices.
problem Community recovery in multilayer hypergraphs using aggregated similarity matrices.
method Semidefinite programming (SDP) approach.
result Information-theoretic conditions for exact recovery in both assortative and disassortative cases.
We study the problem of recovering a hidden community of cardinality K from an n×n symmetric data matrix A, where for distinct indices i,j, Aij∼P if i,j both belong to the community and Aij∼Q otherwise, for two known probability distributions P and Q depending on n. If $P={\r…
New method for community detection in sparse directed SBMs with exact recovery guarantees.
problem Exact recovery in sparse directed SBMs, especially with growing communities.
method Two-stage procedure: neighborhood-smoothing followed by K-means clustering. result Exact recovery of all community labels with probability tending to one under mild sparsity and separation conditions.
Neural node embeddings have recently emerged as a powerful representation for supervised learning tasks involving graph-structured data. We leverage this recent advance to develop a novel algorithm for unsupervised community discovery in graphs. Through extensive experimental studies on simulated and real-world data, w…
The Stochastic Block Model (SBM) is a widely used random graph model for networks with communities. Despite the recent burst of interest in recovering communities in the SBM from statistical and computational points of view, there are still gaps in understanding the fundamental information theoretic and computational l…
Spectral clustering for geometric graphs achieves strong consistency in community recovery.
problem Community recovery in dense geometric graphs.
method Spectral clustering algorithm using eigenvectors of adjacency matrix.
result Strong consistency in community recovery proved.
Paper uses SDP for community detection with side information.
problem Community detection in graphs with additional non-graph data.
method Formulates SDP relaxation for maximum likelihood node labeling with side information.
result SDP achieves same exact recovery threshold as maximum likelihood with side information.
Sharp threshold for exact recovery in non-uniform hypergraph stochastic block model.
problem Community detection in random hypergraphs with non-uniform hyperedge probabilities.
method Sharp threshold established; two efficient algorithms for exact recovery.
result Sharp threshold for exact recovery; information-theoretic lower bound on misclassification.
Study information limits for community detection in sub-hypergraphs.
problem Identify limits for exact community detection in sub-hypergraphs.
method Use Fano's inequality to define model parameters and identify success and failure regions.
result Identify regions where algorithms succeed or fail in exact recovery.
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 the information-theoretic and computational tradeoffs that arise in combinatori…
Federated learning supports exact support recovery with minimal communication.
problem Learning the exact support of sparse linear regression in federated learning.
method One-shot communication algorithm for exact support recovery without optimization.
result Polynomial sample complexity and logarithmic number of clients required.
Distributed-OMP recovers sparse vectors with low communication costs.
problem High-dimensional sparse linear regression with limited computation and communication.
method Distributed orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) scheme.
result Support of the regression vector can be recovered with linear communication per machine and logarithmic in dimension.
Spectral method for joint community detection and group synchronization.
problem Jointly detecting communities and synchronizing orthogonal groups in graphs.
method Spectral decomposition followed by CPQR factorization.
result Near-optimal guarantees for exact and stable recovery of cluster memberships and orthogonal transforms.
This paper advances FL algorithms for composite optimization and statistical recovery.
problem Federated learning optimization and statistical recovery in composite settings.
method Proposes Fast Federated Dual Averaging for strongly convex and smooth loss, and Multi-stage Federated Dual Averaging for restricted strongly convex and smooth loss.
result Establishes state-of-the-art iteration and communication complexity, and high probability complexity bound with linear speedup.
This work tackles community detection in networks with node attributes, achieving exact recovery.
problem Community detection in networks with correlated node attributes.
method Information-theoretic criterion and iterative clustering algorithm maximizing joint likelihood.
result Exact recovery of community labels under a general model for network and node attributes.
Solves complex clustering and rotation synchronization problem.
problem Challenges in classifying and synchronizing rotated objects into multiple categories.
method Semidefinite programming relaxations to solve the joint problem of community detection and synchronization.
result Exact recovery of community detection and synchronization when extending stochastic block model.
Optimizes network sampling for efficient community detection.
problem Prohibitive cost of observing entire network for community detection.
method Chernoff-optimal dynamic sampling scheme for stochastic blockmodel.
result Significant resource savings while maintaining block structure recovery.
Community detection is considered for a stochastic block model graph of n vertices, with K vertices in the planted community, edge probability p for pairs of vertices both in the community, and edge probability q for other pairs of vertices. The main focus of the paper is on weak recovery of the community based on the …
Polynomial-time algorithm for near-optimal community detection in graphs.
problem Node-private community estimation in stochastic block models.
method Explicit Lipschitz surrogate and accept-reject algorithm for sampling community labels.
result Achieves minimax rates for exact recovery with polynomial-time runtime and logarithmic privacy parameter.
New system preserves message meaning in wireless networks, improving data rate.
problem Efficiently transmitting message meaning in wireless networks.
method Modeling semantics as hidden random variables, using Information Bottleneck for compression.
result 20 dB SNR improvement for semantic communication.
Community recovery is a central problem that arises in a wide variety of applications such as network clustering, motion segmentation, face clustering and protein complex detection. The objective of the problem is to cluster data points into distinct communities based on a set of measurements, each of which is associat…
Study community detection in multi-view data with various types of information.
problem Community detection in multi-view data with different types of information.
method Unified theoretical framework, mutual information analysis, sharp thresholds, iterative algorithms.
result Sharp thresholds for community recovery in various multi-view settings.
Spectral clustering achieves strong consistency in the stochastic block model under certain conditions.
problem Achieving strong consistency in spectral clustering for the stochastic block model.
method Entrywise analysis of the Fielder eigenvector of graph Laplacians.
result Spectral clustering achieves exact recovery of hidden communities under matching information-theoretic limits.
New spectral clustering method handles discrete covariates for better community detection.
problem Community detection in networks with discrete covariates.
method Spectral algorithm that separates latent network structure from observed covariates.
result Achieves perfect clustering with high probability in large, sparse networks.
Efficiently recovers network community structure from clients' small subgraphs.
problem Recovering community structure in federated myopic learning settings.
method Developed an algorithm to compute consensus signed weighted graph from clients' evidence.
result Exact recovery of network structure is possible in polynomial time under certain conditions.
Optimal joint separation condition for radar and communications channels in dual-blind deconvolution.
problem Recovering information from overlaid radar and communications signals with unknown channels.
method Extremal functions from Beurling-Selberg interpolation theory for joint separation, nuclear norm minimization for matrix retrieval, and MUSIC for parameter estimation.
result Guaranteed well-conditioned Vandermonde matrix for MUSIC, validating theoretical findings.
In this paper, we study the information-theoretic limits of community detection in the symmetric two-community stochastic block model, with intra-community and inter-community edge probabilities na and nb respectively. We consider the sparse setting, in which a and b do not scale with n, and…
We study the effect of the quality and quantity of side information on the recovery of a hidden community of size K=o(n) in a graph of size n. Side information for each node in the graph is modeled by a random vector with the following features: either the dimension of the vector is allowed to vary with n, while …
New algorithms for community detection in graphs with privacy constraints.
problem Community recovery in stochastic block models with node-wise privacy.
method Spectral clustering with privacy mechanisms, including privatized PCA, convex optimization, and matrix estimation.
result Developed algorithms that are computable in polynomial-time and achieve consistent community estimation under node differential privacy.
Study examines equity in post-Snow Uri recovery, finds disparities.
problem Disproportionate impacts on vulnerable populations during recovery.
method County and census tract level data analysis, satellite imagery, statistical procedures.
result Negative associations between non-Hispanic whites and outages, positive associations with certain demographic variables.
The paper analyzes DeepWalk and node2vec for community detection in stochastic blockmodels.
problem Theoretical understanding of community detection in stochastic blockmodels.
method Matrix factorization perspective on DeepWalk and node2vec.
result Node2vec and DeepWalk can perfectly recover community memberships in sparse graphs.
Semidefinite programs have recently been developed for the problem of community detection, which may be viewed as a special case of the stochastic blockmodel. Here, we develop a semidefinite program that can be tailored to other instances of the blockmodel, such as non-assortative networks and overlapping communities. …
New method recovers radar and communication signals from overlaid data.
problem Recover radar and communication signals from overlaid data with unknown parameters.
method Propose minimizing the sum of multivariate atomic norms (SoMAN) for multi-antenna receiver.
result Minimum number of samples and antennas required for perfect recovery is logarithmically dependent on the maximum of radar targets and communications paths.
Community detection is a fundamental problem in machine learning. While deep learning has shown great promise in many graphrelated tasks, developing neural models for community detection has received surprisingly little attention. The few existing approaches focus on detecting disjoint communities, even though communit…