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Community detection with nodal information: likelihood and its variational approximation

Community detection is one of the fundamental problems in the study of network data. Most existing community detection approaches only consider edge information as inputs, and the output could be suboptimal when nodal information is available. In …

The Interplay of Demographic Variables and Social Distancing Scores in Deep Prediction of US COVID-19 Cases

With the severity of the COVID-19 outbreak, we characterize the nature of the growth trajectories of counties in the United States using a novel combination of spectral clustering and the correlation matrix. As the US and the rest of the world are …

On the estimation of correlation in a binary sequence model

We consider a probit model without covariates, but the latent Gaussian variables having compound symmetry covariance structure with a single parameter characterizing the common correlation. We study the parameter estimation problem under such …

Spectral clustering via adaptive layer aggregation for multi-layer networks

One of the fundamental problems in network analysis is detecting community structure in multi-layer networks, of which each layer represents one type of edge information among the nodes. We propose integrative spectral clustering approaches based on …

Pairwise Covariates-adjusted Block Model for Community Detection

One of the most fundamental problems in network study is community detection. The stochastic block model (SBM) is one widely used model for network data with different estimation methods developed with their community detection consistency results …

How Many Communities Are There?

Stochastic blockmodels and variants thereof are among the most widely used approaches to community detection for social networks and relational data. A stochastic blockmodel partitions the nodes of a network into disjoint sets, called communities. …