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Poster

Bayesian Hierarchical Community Discovery

Charles Blundell · Yee Whye Teh

Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor

Abstract:

We propose an efficient Bayesian nonparametric model for discovering hierarchical community structure in social networks. Our model is a tree-structured mixture of potentially exponentially many stochastic blockmodels. We describe a family of greedy agglomerative model selection algorithms whose worst case scales quadratically in the number of vertices of the network, but independent of the number of communities. Our algorithms are two orders of magnitude faster than the infinite relational model, achieving comparable or better accuracy.

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