E Abbe - Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2018 - jmlr.org
The stochastic block model (SBM) is a random graph model with planted clusters. It is widely employed as a canonical model to study clustering and community detection, and provides …
Statistical Foundations of Data Science gives a thorough introduction to commonly used statistical models, contemporary statistical machine learning techniques and algorithms …
TP Peixoto - Advances in network clustering and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter describes the basic variants of the stochastic blockmodel (SBM), and a consistent Bayesian formulation that allows readers to infer them from data. The focus is on …
BS Graham - Econometrica, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
I introduce a model of undirected dyadic link formation which allows for assortative matching on observed agent characteristics (homophily) as well as unrestricted agent‐level …
PJ Bickel, P Sarkar - Journal of the Royal Statistical Society …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Community detection in networks is a key exploratory tool with applications in a diverse set of areas, ranging from finding communities in social and biological networks to identifying …
Core-periphery structure, the arrangement of a network into a dense core and sparse periphery, is a versatile descriptor of various social, biological, and technological networks …
The estimation of probabilities of network edges from the observed adjacency matrix has important applications to the prediction of missing links and to network denoising. It is …