We study the stochastic block model with two communities where vertices contain side information in the form of a vertex label. These vertex labels may have arbitrary label distributions, depending on the community memberships. We analyze a linearized version of the popular belief propagation algorithm. We show that th…
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A main task in data analysis is to organize data points into coherent groups or clusters. The stochastic block model is a probabilistic model for the cluster structure. This model prescribes different probabilities for the presence of edges within a cluster and between different clusters. We assume that the cluster ass…
The labeled stochastic block model is a random graph model representing networks with community structure and interactions of multiple types. In its simplest form, it consists of two communities of approximately equal size, and the edges are drawn and labeled at random with probability depending on whether their two en…
We study the misclassification error for community detection in general heterogeneous stochastic block models (SBM) with noisy or partial label information. We establish a connection between the misclassification rate and the notion of minimum energy on the local neighborhood of the SBM. We develop an optimally weighte…
We study the community detection and recovery problem in partially-labeled stochastic block models (SBM). We develop a fast linearized message-passing algorithm to reconstruct labels for SBM (with nodes, blocks, intra and inter block connectivity) when proportion of node labels are revealed. The signa…
Study how noisy labels affect semi-supervised learning.
New algorithm IAC recovers hidden communities in labeled SBM with optimal performance.
Study community detection in multi-view data with various types of information.
Paper models graph edge dependencies using latent variables for community detection.
We analyze the information-theoretic limits for the recovery of node labels in several network models. This includes the Stochastic Block Model, the Exponential Random Graph Model, the Latent Space Model, the Directed Preferential Attachment Model, and the Directed Small-world Model. For the Stochastic Block Model, the…
The geometric block model is a recently proposed generative model for random graphs that is able to capture the inherent geometric properties of many community detection problems, providing more accurate characterizations of practical community structures compared with the popular stochastic block model. Galhotra et al…
New algorithms detect communities in sparse graphs with labeled data.
New method improves community detection for large networks.
Signed graphs encode positive (attractive) and negative (repulsive) relations between nodes. We extend spectral clustering to signed graphs via the one-parameter family of Signed Power Mean Laplacians, defined as the matrix power mean of normalized standard and signless Laplacians of positive and negative edges. We pro…
New algorithm detects community labels in networks using unlabeled data.
There has been a recent interest in understanding the power of local algorithms for optimization and inference problems on sparse graphs. Gamarnik and Sudan (2014) showed that local algorithms are weaker than global algorithms for finding large independent sets in sparse random regular graphs. Montanari (2015) showed t…
This paper tackles exact recovery of clusters in a stochastic Ising model on a SBM graph.
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 and respectively. We consider the sparse setting, in which and do not scale with , and…
Study optimal spectral estimator for semi-supervised node classification.
Power of network tests degrades when vertices are misaligned.
Suppose that a graph is realized from a stochastic block model where one of the blocks is of interest, but many or all of the vertices' block labels are unobserved. The task is to order the vertices with unobserved block labels into a ``nomination list'' such that, with high probability, vertices from the interesting b…
We consider the problem of community detection or clustering in the labeled Stochastic Block Model (LSBM) with a finite number of clusters of sizes linearly growing with the global population of items . Every pair of items is labeled independently at random, and label appears with probability $p(i,j,\ell)…
A test for comparing networks using stochastic block models.
The stochastic block model (SBM) is a probabilistic model for community structure in networks. Typically, only the adjacency matrix is used to perform SBM parameter inference. In this paper, we consider circumstances in which nodes have an associated vector of continuous attributes that are also used to learn the node-…
New model for community detection with side information improves recovery accuracy.
Sharp threshold for exact recovery in non-uniform hypergraph stochastic block model.
A new SBM for non-negative zero-inflated edge weights in networks.
Suppose that one particular block in a stochastic block model is of interest, but block labels are only observed for a few of the vertices in the network. Utilizing a graph realized from the model and the observed block labels, the vertex nomination task is to order the vertices with unobserved block labels into a rank…
Model clusters networks and their communities simultaneously.
New algorithm achieves strong consistency in binary non-uniform hypergraph classification.
Spectral clustering is a standard approach to label nodes on a graph by studying the (largest or lowest) eigenvalues of a symmetric real matrix such as e.g. the adjacency or the Laplacian. Recently, it has been argued that using instead a more complicated, non-symmetric and higher dimensional operator, related to the n…
Efficient algorithm for CLSBM reduces misclassification rate.
Multiplex networks have become increasingly more prevalent in many fields, and have emerged as a powerful tool for modeling the complexity of real networks. There is a critical need for developing inference models for multiplex networks that can take into account potential dependencies across different layers, particul…
A central problem in analyzing networks is partitioning them into modules or communities. One of the best tools for this is the stochastic block model, which clusters vertices into blocks with statistically homogeneous pattern of links. Despite its flexibility and popularity, there has been a lack of principled statist…
We generalize the stochastic block model to the important case in which edges are annotated with weights drawn from an exponential family distribution. This generalization introduces several technical difficulties for model estimation, which we solve using a Bayesian approach. We introduce a variational algorithm that …
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 probability of connections between any pair of nodes. As a result, sparsity describes o…
New model for detecting communities in weighted bipartite networks.
New algorithms detect categorical structures in high-dimensional data.
New method for community detection in sparse directed SBMs with exact recovery guarantees.
The tree reconstruction problem is to collect and analyze massive data at the th level of the tree, to identify whether there is non-vanishing information of the root, as goes to infinity. Its connection to the clustering problem in the setting of the stochastic block model, which has wide applications in machin…
Polynomial-time algorithm for near-optimal community detection in graphs.
Spectral clustering achieves strong consistency in the stochastic block model under certain conditions.
Gradient descent and its many variants, including mini-batch stochastic gradient descent, form the algorithmic foundation of modern large-scale machine learning. Due to the size and scale of modern data, gradient computations are often distributed across multiple compute nodes. Unfortunately, such distributed implement…
Novel neural framework for scalable community detection and link prediction.
Paper introduces a new edge exchangeable block model for complex networks.
Tests if vertices in graphs have the same latent positions.
Efficient algorithm for robust recovery in stochastic block models.
The proliferation of models for networks raises challenging problems of model selection: the data are sparse and globally dependent, and models are typically high-dimensional and have large numbers of latent variables. Together, these issues mean that the usual model-selection criteria do not work properly for networks…