03 May 2025 Avec Paula Mürmann, Robin Jaccard, Aryan Alavi Razavi Ravari, Patrick Thiran Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS), 2025
Source localization in graphs involves identifying the origin of a phenomenon or event, such as an epidemic outbreak or a misinformation source, by leveraging structural graph properties. One key concept in this context is the metric dimension, which quantifies the minimum number of strategically placed sensors needed to uniquely identify all vertices based…
02 May 2025 Avec Martijn Gösgens
We analyze community recovery in the planted partition model (PPM) in regimes where the number of communities is arbitrarily large. We examine the three standard recovery regimes: exact recovery, almost exact recovery, and weak recovery. When communities vary in size, traditional accuracy- or alignment-based metrics become unsuitable for assessing the correctness of a…
28 January 2025 Avec Konstantin Avrachenkov Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, 2025
Graph-based semi-supervised learning methods combine the graph structure and labeled data to classify unlabeled data. In this work, we study the effect of a noisy oracle on classification. In particular, we derive the maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimator for clustering a degree corrected stochastic block model when a noisy oracle reveals a fraction…
06 November 2024 Avec Charbel Chucri, Matthias Grossglauser, and Patrick Thiran NeurIPS, 2024
The metric backbone of a weighted graph is the union of all-pairs shortest paths. It is obtained by removing all edges (u,v) that are not the shortest path between u and v. In networks with well-separated communities, the metric backbone tends to preserve many inter-community edges, because these edges serve as bridges connecting…
01 July 2024 Avec Alperen Gözeten, Matthias Grossglauser, Patrick Thiran Conference on Learning Theory (COLT), 2024
Clustering is a pivotal challenge in unsupervised machine learning and is often investigated through the lens of mixture models. The optimal error rate for recovering cluster labels in Gaussian and sub-Gaussian mixture models involves ad hoc signal-to-noise ratios. Simple iterative algorithms, such as Lloyd’s algorithm, attain this optimal error rate. In this paper,…
30 November 2023 Avec Konstantin Avrachenkov, Lasse Leskelä IEEE Transactions On Network Science And Engineering, 2023
This article focuses on spectral methods for recovering communities in temporal networks. In the case of fixed communities, spectral clustering on the simple time-aggregated graph (i.e., the weighted graph formed by the sum of the interactions over all temporal snapshots) does not always produce satisfying results. To utilise information carried by temporal correlations,…