missSBM: An R Package for Handling Missing Values in the Stochastic Block Model release_qx4ax7vg6reljkftjnepklng64

by Pierre Barbillon, Julien Chiquet, Timothée Tabouy

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2021  

Abstract

The Stochastic Block Model (SBM) is a popular probabilistic model for random graphs. It is commonly used for clustering network data by aggregating nodes that share similar connectivity patterns into blocks. When fitting an SBM to a network which is partially observed, it is important to take into account the underlying process that generates the missing values, otherwise the inference may be biased. This paper introduces missSBM, an R-package fitting the SBM when the network is partially observed, i.e., the adjacency matrix contains not only 1's or 0's encoding presence or absence of edges but also NA's encoding missing information between pairs of nodes. This package implements a set of algorithms for fitting the binary SBM, possibly in the presence of external covariates, by performing variational inference adapted to several observation processes. Our implementation automatically explores different block numbers to select the most relevant model according to the Integrated Classification Likelihood (ICL) criterion. The ICL criterion can also help determine which observation process better corresponds to a given dataset. Finally, missSBM can be used to perform imputation of missing entries in the adjacency matrix. We illustrate the package on a network data set consisting of interactions between political blogs sampled during the French presidential election in 2007.
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Type  article
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Date   2021-05-27
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arXiv  1906.12201v3
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