Contextual Stochastic Block Models

© 2018 Curran Associates Inc.All rights reserved. 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 b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Deshpande, Yash, Montanari, Andrea, Mossel, Elchanan, Sen, Subhabrata
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/138073
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Summary:© 2018 Curran Associates Inc.All rights reserved. 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 nodes covariates and a large body of empirical work using diverse heuristics for combining node covariates with graphs for inference. The tightness of our analysis implies in particular, the information theoretical necessity of combining the different sources of information. Our analysis holds for networks of large degrees as well as for a Gaussian version of the model.