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Scalable Inference of Overlapping Communities
Prem Gopalan · David Mimno · Sean Gerrish · Michael Freedman · David Blei

Wed Dec 05 05:40 PM -- 05:44 PM (PST) @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
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We develop a scalable algorithm for posterior inference of overlapping communities in large networks. Our algorithm is based on stochastic variational inference in the mixed-membership stochastic blockmodel. It naturally interleaves subsampling the network with estimating its community structure. We apply our algorithm on ten large, real-world networks with up to 60,000 nodes. It converges several orders of magnitude faster than the state-of-the-art algorithm for MMSB, finds hundreds of communities in large real-world networks, and detects the true communities in 280 benchmark networks with equal or better accuracy compared to other scalable algorithms.

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Prem Gopalan (The Voleon Group)
David Mimno (Cornell University)
Sean Gerrish (Princeton University)
Michael Freedman (Princeton University)
David Blei (Columbia University)

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