Aurelien Decelle 1, Florent Krzakala 2, Cristopher Moore 3, 4, Lenka Zdeborová 5
Physical Review E 84 (2011) 066106
In this paper we extend our previous work on the stochastic block model, a commonly used generative model for social and biological networks, and the problem of inferring functional groups or communities from the topology of the network. We use the cavity method of statistical physics to obtain an asymptotically exact analysis of the phase diagram. We describe in detail properties of the detectability/undetectability phase transition and the easy/hard phase transition for the community detection problem. Our analysis translates naturally into a belief propagation algorithm for inferring the group memberships of the nodes in an optimal way, i.e., that maximizes the overlap with the underlying group memberships, and learning the underlying parameters of the block model. Finally, we apply the algorithm to two examples of real-world networks and discuss its performance.
- 1. Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques (LPTMS),
CNRS : UMR8626 – Université Paris XI – Paris Sud - 2. Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Théorique (LPCT),
CNRS : UMR7083 – ESPCI ParisTech - 3. Department of Computer Science – UNM,
University of New Mexico - 4. Sante Fe Institute (SFI),
– - 5. Institut de Physique Théorique (ex SPhT) (IPHT),
CNRS : URA2306 – CEA : DSM/IPHT