Wednesday, July 11, 2012

1207.2328 (Pan Zhang et al.)

Comparative Study for Inference of Hidden Classes in Stochastic Block
Models
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Pan Zhang, Florent Krzakala, Jörg Reichardt, Lenka Zdeborová
Inference of hidden classes in stochastic block model is a classical problem with important applications. Most commonly used methods for this problem involve na\"{\i}ve mean field approaches or heuristic spectral methods. Recently, belief propagation was proposed for this problem. In this contribution we perform a comparative study between the three methods on synthetically created networks. We show that belief propagation shows much better performance when compared to na\"{\i}ve mean field and spectral approaches. This applies to accuracy, computational efficiency and the tendency to overfit the data.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.2328

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