Treffer: A robust Bayesian latent position approach for community detection in networks with continuous attributes.

The increasing prevalence of multiplex networks has spurred a critical need to take into account potential dependencies across different layers, especially when the goal is community detection, which is a fundamental learning task in network analysis. We propose a full Bayesian mixture model for community detection in both single-layer and multi-layer networks. A key feature of our model is the joint modeling of the nodal attributes that often come with the network data as a spatial process over the latent space. In addition, our model for multi-layer networks allows layers to have different strengths of dependency in the unique latent position structure and assumes that the probability of a relation between two actors (in a layer) depends on the distances between their latent positions (multiplied by a layer-specific factor) and the difference between their nodal attributes. Under our prior specifications, the actors' positions in the latent space arise from a finite mixture of Gaussian distributions, each corresponding to a cluster. Simulated examples show that our model outperforms existing benchmark models and exhibits significantly greater robustness when handling datasets with missing values. The model is also applied to a real-world three-layer network of employees in a law firm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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