Latent structure blockmodels for Bayesian spectral graph clustering
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Sanna Passino, F
Heard, N
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Spectral embedding of network adjacency matrices often produces node representations living approximately around low-dimensional submanifold structures. In particular, hidden substructure is expected to arise when the graph is generated from a latent position model. Furthermore, the presence of communities within the network might generate community-specific submanifold structures in the embedding, but this is not explicitly accounted for in most statistical models for networks. In this article, a class of models called latent structure block models (LSBM) is proposed to address such scenarios, allowing for graph clustering when community-specific one dimensional manifold structure is present. LSBMs focus on a specific class of latent space model, the random dot product graph (RDPG), and assign a latent submanifold to the latent positions of each community. A Bayesian model for the embeddings arising from LSBMs is discussed, and shown to have a good performance on simulated and real world network data. The model is able to correctly recover the underlying communities living in a one-dimensional manifold, even when the parametric form of the underlying curves is unknown, achieving remarkable results on a variety of real data.
Date Issued
2022-02-16
Online Publication Date
2022-03-16T10:30:24Z
Date Acceptance
2022-01-20
ISSN
0960-3174
Publisher
Springer
Journal / Book Title
Statistics and Computing
Volume
32
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http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.01734
Subjects
stat.ML
stat.ML
cs.LG
Statistics & Probability
0104 Statistics
0802 Computation Theory and Mathematics
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 22