Sampling and estimation for (sparse) exchangeable graphs

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Abstract: Sparse exchangeable graphs on mathbbR+, and the associated graphex framework for sparse graphs, generalize exchangeable graphs on mathbbN, and the associated graphon framework for dense graphs. We develop the graphex framework as a tool for statistical network analysis by identifying the sampling scheme that is naturally associated with the models of the framework, and by introducing a general consistent estimator for the parameter (the graphex) underlying these models. The sampling scheme is a modification of independent vertex sampling that throws away vertices that are isolated in the sampled subgraph. The estimator is a dilation of the empirical graphon estimator, which is known to be a consistent estimator for dense exchangeable graphs; both can be understood as graph analogues to the empirical distribution in the i.i.d. sequence setting. Our results may be viewed as a generalization of consistent estimation via the empirical graphon from the dense graph regime to also include sparse graphs.





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