Revisiting Instance-Optimal Cluster Recovery in the Labeled Stochastic Block Model

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.12968v2
• Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2025 02:32:16 GMT
• Title: Revisiting Instance-Optimal Cluster Recovery in the Labeled Stochastic Block Model
• Authors: Kaito Ariu, Alexandre Proutiere, Se-Young Yun,
• Abstract summary: We propose IAC (Instance-Adaptive Clustering), the first algorithm whose performance matches the instance-specific lower bounds both in expectation and with high probability. IAC maintains an overall computational complexity of $ mathcalO(n, textpolylog(n) $, making it scalable and practical for large-scale problems.
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• Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the problem of recovering hidden communities in the Labeled Stochastic Block Model (LSBM) with a finite number of clusters whose sizes grow linearly with the total number of nodes. We derive the necessary and sufficient conditions under which the expected number of misclassified nodes is less than $ s $, for any number $ s = o(n) $. To achieve this, we propose IAC (Instance-Adaptive Clustering), the first algorithm whose performance matches the instance-specific lower bounds both in expectation and with high probability. IAC is a novel two-phase algorithm that consists of a one-shot spectral clustering step followed by iterative likelihood-based cluster assignment improvements. This approach is based on the instance-specific lower bound and notably does not require any knowledge of the model parameters, including the number of clusters. By performing the spectral clustering only once, IAC maintains an overall computational complexity of $ \mathcal{O}(n\, \text{polylog}(n)) $, making it scalable and practical for large-scale problems.

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