Abstract In this work we show that, using the eigen-decomposition of the adjacencymatrix, we can consistently estimate latent positions for random dot productgraphs provided the latent positions are i.i.d. from some distribution. If classlabels are observed for a number of vertices tending to inﬁnity, then we showthat the remaining vertices can be classiﬁed with error converging to Bayes opti-mal using the k -nearest-neighbors classiﬁcation rule. We evaluate the proposedmethods on simulated data and a graph derived from Wikipedia. 1 Introduction The classical statistical pattern recognition setting involves( X , Y ),( X 1 , Y 1 ),...,( X n , Y n ) i . i˘ . d . F X , Y ,where the X i : 7!R d are observed feature vectors and the Y i : 7!f0,1gare ob-served class labels for some probability space . We deﬁne D=f( X i , Y i )gas the train-ing set. The goal is to learn a classiﬁer h (;D): R d !f0,1gsuch that the probability oferror P[ h ( X ;D)6= Y jD]approaches Bayes optimal as n !1for all distributions
The latent space approach is introduced in @cite_7 . Generally, one posits that the adjacency of two vertices is determined by a Bernoulli trial with parameter depending only on the latent positions associated with each vertex, and edges are independent conditioned on the latent positions of the vertices.
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Network models are widely used to represent relational information among interacting units. In studies of social networks, recent emphasis has been placed on random graph models where the nodes usually represent individual social actors and the edges represent the presence of a specified relation between actors. We develop a class of models where the probability of a relation between actors depends on the positions of individuals in an unobserved “social space.” We make inference for the social space within maximum likelihood and Bayesian frameworks, and propose Markov chain Monte Carlo procedures for making inference on latent positions and the effects of observed covariates. We present analyses of three standard datasets from the social networks literature, and compare the method to an alternative stochastic blockmodeling approach. In addition to improving on model fit for these datasets, our method provides a visual and interpretable model-based spatial representation of social relationships and improv...