Consistency of Maximum Likelihood for Continuous-Space Network Models I
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| author | Shalizi, Cosma Rohilla Asta, Dena Marie |
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| contents | A very popular class of models for networks posits that each node is represented by a point in a continuous latent space, and that the probability of an edge between nodes is a decreasing function of the distance between them in this latent space. We study the embedding problem for these models, of recovering the latent positions from the observed graph. Assuming certain natural symmetry and smoothness properties, we establish the uniform convergence of the log-likelihood of latent positions as the number of nodes grows. A consequence is that the maximum likelihood embedding converges on the true positions in a certain information-theoretic sense. Extensions of these results, to recovering distributions in the latent space, and so distributions over arbitrarily large graphs, will be treated in the sequel. |
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| spellingShingle | Consistency of Maximum Likelihood for Continuous-Space Network Models I Shalizi, Cosma Rohilla Asta, Dena Marie Statistics Theory Social and Information Networks Physics and Society A very popular class of models for networks posits that each node is represented by a point in a continuous latent space, and that the probability of an edge between nodes is a decreasing function of the distance between them in this latent space. We study the embedding problem for these models, of recovering the latent positions from the observed graph. Assuming certain natural symmetry and smoothness properties, we establish the uniform convergence of the log-likelihood of latent positions as the number of nodes grows. A consequence is that the maximum likelihood embedding converges on the true positions in a certain information-theoretic sense. Extensions of these results, to recovering distributions in the latent space, and so distributions over arbitrarily large graphs, will be treated in the sequel. |
| title | Consistency of Maximum Likelihood for Continuous-Space Network Models I |
| topic | Statistics Theory Social and Information Networks Physics and Society |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.02123 |