Spectral analysis in bipartite biregular graphs and community detection

Series
Stochastics Seminar
Time
Thursday, September 14, 2017 - 3:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Gerandy Brito – Georgia Institute of Technology – gerandy@uw.edu
Organizer
Michael Damron
This talk concerns to spectral gap of random regular graphs. First, we prove that almost all bipartite biregular graphs are almost Ramanujan by providing a tight upper bound for the non trivial eigenvalues of its adjacency operator, proving Alon's Conjecture for this family of graphs. Also, we use a spectral algorithm to recover hidden communities in a random network model we call regular stochastic block model. Our proofs rely on a technique introduced recently by Massoullie, which we developed for random regular graphs.