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arxiv 0705.4485 v1 pith:B3S44ACS submitted 2007-05-30 stat.ME cs.LGmath.STphysics.soc-phstat.MLstat.TH

Mixed membership stochastic blockmodels

classification stat.ME cs.LGmath.STphysics.soc-phstat.MLstat.TH
keywords datamembershipmixednetworksblockmodelsinferenceinteractionlatent
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Observations consisting of measurements on relationships for pairs of objects arise in many settings, such as protein interaction and gene regulatory networks, collections of author-recipient email, and social networks. Analyzing such data with probabilisic models can be delicate because the simple exchangeability assumptions underlying many boilerplate models no longer hold. In this paper, we describe a latent variable model of such data called the mixed membership stochastic blockmodel. This model extends blockmodels for relational data to ones which capture mixed membership latent relational structure, thus providing an object-specific low-dimensional representation. We develop a general variational inference algorithm for fast approximate posterior inference. We explore applications to social and protein interaction networks.

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