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Stochastics and Statistics Seminar

Consistency of Co-clustering exchangeable graph data

November 8, 2013 @ 11:00 am

David Choi (Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University)

E62-587

We analyze the problem of partitioning a 0-1 array or bipartite graph into subgroups (also known as co-clustering), under a relatively mild assumption that the data is generated by a general nonparametric process. This problem can be thought of as co-clustering under model misspecification; we show that the additional error due to misspecification can be bounded by O(n^(-1/4)). Our result suggests that under certain sparsity regimes, community detection algorithms may be robust to modeling assumptions, and that their usage is analogous to the usage of histograms in exploratory data analysis. The result also has connections to the recent literature on exchangeable graph models, graph limits, and graphons.


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