This paper employs the extrinsic information transfer (EXIT) method, a technique imported from the analysis of the iterative decoding of error control codes, to study the performance of belief propagation in community detection in the presence of side information. We consider both the detection of a single (hidden) com…
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VEC-SBM detects communities using side information like texts and images.
problem Community detection in social networks with side information.
method Proposes a novel algorithm based on iterative refinement techniques.
result Optimally recovers latent communities with side information.
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.
Information Theoretic Limits of Exact Recovery in Sub-hypergraph Models for Community Detectionstat.ML
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.
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.
ComEx protocol reduces communication costs in cooperative bandits.
problem Minimizing communication costs in cooperative bandits while maintaining optimal performance.
method Developed ComEx protocol to reduce communication from to messages.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance with significantly reduced communication cost.
Paper studies community detection in censored hypergraphs using information theory.
problem Community detection in censored hypergraphs with missing values.
method Information-theoretic approach, polynomial-time algorithm, spectral algorithm with refinement.
result Derives information-theoretic threshold for exact recovery of community structure.
Algorithm ensures fair information spread in social networks with community structure.
problem Disparities in information coverage between communities in social networks.
method Fits a model to the social network, uses community structure, and determines optimal seed allocations for fair coverage.
result Empirical accuracy demonstrated on simulated and real networks.
We present a scalable nonparametric Bayesian method to perform network reconstruction from observed functional behavior that at the same time infers the communities present in the network. We show that the joint reconstruction with community detection has a synergistic effect, where the edge correlations used to inform…
Many methods have been proposed for community detection in networks, but most of them do not take into account additional information on the nodes that is often available in practice. In this paper, we propose a new joint community detection criterion that uses both the network edge information and the node features to…
The paper argues that normalized mutual information is biased in clustering and community detection.
problem Bias in normalized mutual information for clustering and community detection.
method Introducing a modified version of mutual information to correct for information content and spurious dependence.
result The modified mutual information leads to different conclusions about which algorithms are best for community detection.
Stochastic blockmodels allow us to represent networks in terms of a latent community structure, often yielding intuitions about the underlying social structure. Typically, this structure is inferred based only on a binary network representing the presence or absence of interactions between nodes, which limits the amoun…
This study analyzes communication constraints in MoE architectures using information theory.
problem Communication constraints in Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures.
method Developed a rate-distortion characterization of finite-rate gating in MoE architectures using information theory.
result Yielded capacity-aware limits for communication-constrained MoE systems.
New model improves community detection in networks with strong assortativity.
problem Classic SBMs fail to recover assortative communities in networks with reduced information.
method Introduced a constrained SBM with strong assortativity constraints and efficient algorithms.
result Significant boost in community recovery capabilities, especially close to information-theoretic threshold.
New approach uses SPG for semantic communication without a known channel model.
problem Designing efficient semantic communication systems without a known channel model.
method Applying Stochastic Policy Gradient (SPG) for reinforcement learning.
result Achieves comparable performance to model-aware approaches with a decreased convergence rate.
In distributed optimization and machine learning, multiple nodes coordinate to solve large problems. To do this, the nodes need to compress important algorithm information to bits so that it can be communicated over a digital channel. The communication time of these algorithms follows a complex interplay between a) the…
With the help of transfer entropy, we analyze information flows between communities of complex networks. We show that the transfer entropy provides a coherent description of interactions between communities, including non-linear interactions. To put some flesh on the bare bones, we analyze transfer entropies between co…
How technology affects growth or employment has long been debated. With a hiatus, the debate revived once again in the form of how Information and Communications Technology, as a form of new technology, exerts on productivity and employment. Information and Communications Technology perceived as General Purpose Technol…
Community detection algorithms are fundamental tools to understand organizational principles in social networks. With the increasing power of social media platforms, when detecting communities there are two possi- ble sources of information one can use: the structure of social network and node attributes. However struc…
Proposes GNAN model for detecting various network structures.
problem Detecting traditional communities in networks.
method GNAN model combining topology and node-attribute information.
result GNAN detects a broader range of network structures.
The Mixed-Membership Stochastic Blockmodel~(MMSB) is proposed as one of the state-of-the-art Bayesian relational methods suitable for learning the complex hidden structure underlying the network data. However, the current formulation of MMSB suffers from the following two issues: (1), the prior information~(e.g. entiti…
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.
Private Languagesecon.TH
Private anchors affect how information is communicated and can improve or distort transmission.
problem How private anchors influence strategic communication and information transmission.
method Analyzed a sender-receiver game with costly reports and privately observed anchors.
result Small positive reporting costs can lead to full revelation, even with zero costs.
New model of vague knowledge without strict partitions or transitivity.
problem Standard economic models of information fail to capture real-world vague knowledge.
method Relaxing assumptions of transitivity and partition structure to formalize vague knowledge.
result Vague knowledge can distinguish some states but not partition the state space.
New method combines hypergraph structure and node attributes for better community detection.
problem Improving community detection in hypergraphs with node attributes.
method Developed a principled model that learns from data to combine higher-order interactions and node attributes.
result Strong performance in hyperedge prediction and community detection, especially when attributes are informative.
We study the problem of identifying correlations in multivariate data, under information constraints: Either on the amount of memory that can be used by the algorithm, or the amount of communication when the data is distributed across several machines. We prove a tight trade-off between the memory/communication complex…
Community detection improves stock market portfolio optimization.
problem Improving portfolio optimization in financial markets.
method Community detection in correlation-based networks of worldwide stock markets.
result Portfolios constructed using community detection outperform traditional methods.
Efficient algorithm for CLSBM reduces misclassification rate.
problem Reducing misclassification in community detection for CLSBM.
method Spectral-based algorithm for CLSBM, with theoretical misclassification bounds.
result Upper bound on misclassification rate of efficient algorithm.
Much of the community detection literature studies structural communities, communities defined solely by the connectivity patterns of the network. Often, networks contain additional metadata which can inform community detection such as the grade and gender of students in a high school social network. In this work, we i…
Mechanisms of information communication and market price movements. The case of SP 500 marketq-fin.ST
The paper analyzes how market prices respond to information processing and non-linear dynamics.
problem Understanding how market prices change in response to information.
method Logistic Continuous Wavelet Transformation method applied to SP 500 market data.
result Identifies patterns in market dynamics and describes them using a new theory of reflexive communication.
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.
We provide the first information theoretic tight analysis for inference of latent community structure given a sparse graph along with high dimensional node covariates, correlated with the same latent communities. Our work bridges recent theoretical breakthroughs in the detection of latent community structure without no…
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.
A new algorithm reduces regret in multi-player bandits without collision info.
problem Decentralized multi-player multi-armed bandits with no collision info.
method EC-SIC algorithm using optimal error correction coding for reward statistics.
result Regret approaches that of centralized with collision info.
Study neural communication systems with bandwidth-limited channels.
problem Reliable message transmission despite noisy channels.
method Jointly model compression and error correction with neural networks; introduce prior for missing information; use auxiliary latent variables.
result Joint neural communication systems outperform separate models under expected information loss.
The study extends stochastic block models to geometric settings, focusing on community detection and information flow.
problem Generalizing community detection and information flow models to geometric settings.
method Considered a geometric random graph over a homogeneous metric space, defined a geometric counterpart of flow of information on trees.
result Sufficient conditions for recovering locations and for percolation of information in geometric settings.
In standard graph clustering/community detection, one is interested in partitioning the graph into more densely connected subsets of nodes. In contrast, the "search" problem of this paper aims to only find the nodes in a "single" such community, the target, out of the many communities that may exist. To do so , we are …
PAC Guarantees for Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Restricted Communicationcs.LG
We develop model free PAC performance guarantees for multiple concurrent MDPs, extending recent works where a single learner interacts with multiple non-interacting agents in a noise free environment. Our framework allows noisy and resource limited communication between agents, and develops novel PAC guarantees in this…
We study the problem of community detection when there is covariate information about the node labels and one observes multiple correlated networks. We provide an asymptotic upper bound on the per-node mutual information as well as a heuristic analysis of a multivariate performance measure called the MMSE matrix. These…
Finding meaningful communities in social network has attracted the attentions of many researchers. The community structure of complex networks reveals both their organization and hidden relations among their constituents. Most of the researches in the field of community detection mainly focus on the topological structu…
Bipartite networks are a common type of network data in which there are two types of vertices, and only vertices of different types can be connected. While bipartite networks exhibit community structure like their unipartite counterparts, existing approaches to bipartite community detection have drawbacks, including im…
One of the most fundamental problems in network study is community detection. The stochastic block model (SBM) is a widely used model, for which various estimation methods have been developed with their community detection consistency results unveiled. However, the SBM is restricted by the strong assumption that all no…
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 consider the issue of multiple agents learning to communicate through reinforcement learning within partially observable environments, with a focus on information asymmetry in the second part of our work. We provide a review of the recent algorithms developed to improve the agents' policy by allowing the sharing of …
End-to-end learning of codes for secure BPSK communication in Gaussian wiretap channel.
problem Secure communication in the presence of an adversary for BPSK modulation.
method Learning finite-length codes using deep neural networks (DNNs) with mutual information estimation.
result Learned codes achieve near-optimal security performance, as demonstrated by numerical results.
Study on limits of LLM-based multi-agent planning reliability.
problem Reliability limits of LLM-based multi-agent planning.
method Modeling LLM-based multi-agent architecture as a decision network, showing dominance by centralized Bayes decision maker.
result Optimizing multi-agent directed acyclic graphs under communication budget is equivalent to choosing a constrained experiment.
Figures are an important channel for scientific communication, used to express complex ideas, models and data in ways that words cannot. However, this visual information is mostly ignored in analyses of the scientific literature. In this paper, we demonstrate the utility of using scientific figures as markers of knowle…
Paper proposes SCALLION and SCAFCOM for compressed FL with reduced communication.
problem Reducing communication overhead in Federated Learning with data heterogeneity and partial participation.
method Revisit and simplify stochastic controlled averaging, proposing SCALLION and SCAFCOM for unbiased and biased compression.
result SCALLION and SCAFCOM outperform existing methods in communication and computation complexities.