Uniqueness of communities in regular stochastic block models

Abstract

This paper studies the regular stochastic block model comprising \emph{several} communities: each of the $k$ non-overlapping communities, for $k⩾3$, possesses $n$ vertices, each of which has total degree $d$. The values of the intra-cluster degrees (i.e.\ the number of neighbours of a vertex inside the cluster it belongs to) and the inter-cluster degrees (i.e.\ the number of neighbours of a vertex inside a cluster different from its own) are allowed to vary across clusters. We discuss two main results: the first compares the probability measure induced by our model with the uniform measure on the space of $d$-regular graphs on $kn$ vertices, and the second establishes that the clusters, under rather weak assumptions, are unique asymptotically almost surely as $n\to \infty$.

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