3 papers
stat.ME2026
Ordering Stochastic Block Models via prior transitivity
Lapo Santi, Nial Friel, Pierpaolo De Blasi
In directed networks, nodes may form groups with similar interaction patterns, while these groups may themselves follow an ordered structure. Existing methods typically treat these…
stat.ME2026
Speeding up the ordered allocation sampler
Maria F. Gil-Leyva, Fidel Selva, Pierpaolo De Blasi
The ordered allocation sampler is a Gibbs sampler designed to explore the posterior distribution in nonparametric mixture models. It encompasses both infinite mixtures and finite m…
stat.ME2025
Bayesian nonparametric community detection in assortative stochastic block models
Martina Amongero, Pierpaolo De Blasi
Structured data in the form of networks are increasingly common in a number of fields, including the social sciences, biology, physics, computer science, and many others. A key tas…