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Main Authors: Mao, Cheng, Wein, Alexander S., Zhang, Shenduo
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00305
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author Mao, Cheng
Wein, Alexander S.
Zhang, Shenduo
author_facet Mao, Cheng
Wein, Alexander S.
Zhang, Shenduo
contents We study a random graph model for small-world networks which are ubiquitous in social and biological sciences. In this model, a dense cycle of expected bandwidth $n τ$, representing the hidden one-dimensional geometry of vertices, is planted in an ambient random graph on $n$ vertices. For both detection and recovery of the planted dense cycle, we characterize the information-theoretic thresholds in terms of $n$, $τ$, and an edge-wise signal-to-noise ratio $λ$. In particular, the information-theoretic thresholds differ from the computational thresholds established in a recent work for low-degree polynomial algorithms, thereby justifying the existence of statistical-to-computational gaps for this problem.
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spellingShingle Information-Theoretic Thresholds for Planted Dense Cycles
Mao, Cheng
Wein, Alexander S.
Zhang, Shenduo
Statistics Theory
Information Theory
Social and Information Networks
Machine Learning
94A15, 62B10, 68Q87, 05C80, 05C60
We study a random graph model for small-world networks which are ubiquitous in social and biological sciences. In this model, a dense cycle of expected bandwidth $n τ$, representing the hidden one-dimensional geometry of vertices, is planted in an ambient random graph on $n$ vertices. For both detection and recovery of the planted dense cycle, we characterize the information-theoretic thresholds in terms of $n$, $τ$, and an edge-wise signal-to-noise ratio $λ$. In particular, the information-theoretic thresholds differ from the computational thresholds established in a recent work for low-degree polynomial algorithms, thereby justifying the existence of statistical-to-computational gaps for this problem.
title Information-Theoretic Thresholds for Planted Dense Cycles
topic Statistics Theory
Information Theory
Social and Information Networks
Machine Learning
94A15, 62B10, 68Q87, 05C80, 05C60
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00305