Stochastic block models (SBMs) serve as a fundamental probabilistic framework for generating and analysing network data with inherent community or modular structure. In these models, nodes are ...

With the advent of structured data in the form of social networks, genetic circuits and protein interaction networks, statistical analysis of networks has gained popularity over recent years. The ...

With increasing amounts of information available, modeling and predicting user preferences—for books or articles, for example—are becoming more important. We present a collaborative filtering model, ...