Estimating the number of communities by spectral methods

CM Le, E Levina - Electronic Journal of Statistics, 2022 - projecteuclid.org
Community detection is a fundamental problem in network analysis with many methods
available to estimate communities. Most of these methods assume that the number of …

Estimating the number of communities in networks by spectral methods

CM Le, E Levina - arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.00827, 2015 - arxiv.org
Community detection is a fundamental problem in network analysis with many methods
available to estimate communities. Most of these methods assume that the number of …

Special invited paper: The SCORE normalization, especially for heterogeneous network and text data

ZT Ke, J Jin - Stat, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
SCORE was introduced as a spectral approach to network community detection. Since many
networks have severe degree heterogeneity, the ordinary spectral clustering (OSC) …

Regularized spectral clustering under the mixed membership stochastic block model

H Qing, J Wang - Neurocomputing, 2023 - Elsevier
Mixed membership community detection is a challenging problem in network analysis.
Previous spectral clustering algorithms for this problem are developed based on the …

Optimal estimation of the number of network communities

J Jin, ZT Ke, S Luo, M Wang - Journal of the American Statistical …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In network analysis, how to estimate the number of communities K is a fundamental problem.
We consider a broad setting where we allow severe degree heterogeneity and a wide range …

Privacy-preserving community detection for locally distributed multiple networks

X Guo, X Li, X Chang, S Ma - arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.15709, 2023 - arxiv.org
Modern multi-layer networks are commonly stored and analyzed in a local and distributed
fashion because of the privacy, ownership, and communication costs. The literature on the …

Estimating graph dimension with cross-validated eigenvalues

F Chen, S Roch, K Rohe, S Yu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.03336, 2021 - arxiv.org
In applied multivariate statistics, estimating the number of latent dimensions or the number of
clusters is a fundamental and recurring problem. One common diagnostic is the scree plot …

Statistical Network Analysis: Past, Present, and Future

S Sengupta - arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.00122, 2023 - arxiv.org
This article provides a brief overview of statistical network analysis, a rapidly evolving field of
statistics, which encompasses statistical models, algorithms, and inferential methods for …

Randomized spectral clustering in large-scale stochastic block models

H Zhang, X Guo, X Chang - Journal of Computational and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Spectral clustering has been one of the widely used methods for community detection in
networks. However, large-scale networks bring computational challenges to the eigenvalue …

Joint spectral clustering in multilayer degree-corrected stochastic blockmodels

J Agterberg, Z Lubberts, J Arroyo - arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.05053, 2022 - arxiv.org
Modern network datasets are often composed of multiple layers, either as different views,
time-varying observations, or independent sample units, resulting in collections of networks …