@inproceedings{MLE_directed_SBM_aistats,
  title={Spectral Clustering for Directed Graphs via Likelihood Estimation on Stochastic Block Models},
  author={Zhang, Ning and Dong, Xiaowen and Cucuringu, Mihai},
  booktitle={Proceedings of The 29th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)},
  year={2026},
  organization={PMLR}
}