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While degree correlations are known to play a crucial role for spreading phenomena in networks, their impact on the propagation speed has hardly been understood. Here we investigate a tunable spreading model on scale-free networks and show…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-05-30 Markus Schläpfer , Lubos Buzna

Decentralized optimization strategies are helpful for various applications, from networked estimation to distributed machine learning. This paper studies finite-sum minimization problems described over a network of nodes and proposes a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-06 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Zulfiya R. Gabidullina , Hamid R. Rabiee

This paper studies a fundamental algorithmic problem related to the design of demand-aware networks: networks whose topologies adjust toward the traffic patterns they serve, in an online manner. The goal is to strike a tradeoff between the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Chen Avin , Kaushik Mondal , Stefan Schmid

A network of coupled dynamical systems is represented by a graph whose vertices represent individual cells and whose edges represent couplings between cells. Motivated by the impact of synchronization results of the Kuramoto networks, we…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Tiago Amorim , Miriam Manoel

In a recent work [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108, 3838 (2011)], Schneider et al. proposed a new measure for network robustness and investigated optimal networks with respect to this quantity. For networks with a power-law degree…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-08-10 Zhi-Xi Wu , Petter Holme

This paper is concerned with the characterization of the relationship between topology and traffic dynamics. We use a model of network generation that allows the transition from random to scale free networks. Specifically, we consider three…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 David Arrowsmith , Mario di Bernardo , Francesco Sorrentino

From the flashes of fireflies to Josephson junctions and power infrastructure, networks of coupled phase oscillators provide a powerful framework to describe synchronization phenomena in many natural and engineered systems. Most real-world…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-03-02 Sherwood Martineau , Tim Saffold , Timothy T. Chang , Henrik Ronellenfitsch

A new family of graphs, {\it entangled networks}, with optimal properties in many respects, is introduced. By definition, their topology is such that optimizes synchronizability for many dynamical processes. These networks are shown to have…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Luca Donetti , Pablo I. Hurtado , Miguel A. Munoz

Network science has traditionally examined how structure determines dynamics. Here we invert this paradigm: we ask how functional dynamics and resource constraints shape network architecture. We introduce GradNet, an AI-enabled optimization…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-11 Guram Mikaberidze , Beso Mikaberidze , Dane Taylor

The understanding of synchronization ranging from natural to social systems has driven the interests of scientists from different disciplines. Here, we have investigated the synchronization dynamics of the Kuramoto dynamics departing from…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-09-29 Jie Ren , Huijie Yang

Complex systems in the real world can be modeled as a network of connected components. The human brain, as a network of neurons among which the interactions cause perception, is a complex network. Synchronization is a dynamical phenomenon…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-04-30 Arefeh Mazarei , Mohammad Amirian Matlob , Gholamhossein Riazi , Yousef Jamali

Recent works have highlighted scale invariance or symmetry that is present in the weight space of a typical deep network and the adverse effect that it has on the Euclidean gradient based stochastic gradient descent optimization. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Vijay Badrinarayanan , Bamdev Mishra , Roberto Cipolla

A tight alignment between the degree vector and the leading eigenvector arises naturally in networks with neutral degree mixing and the absence of local structures. Many real-world networks, however, violate both conditions. We derive…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Sreerag Puravankara , Vipin P. Veetil

Networks are often interconnected, with one system wielding greater influence over another. However, the effects of such asymmetry on self-organized phenomena (e.g., consensus and synchronization) are not well understood. Here, we study…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-17 Zhao Song , Dane Taylor

Relational data are ubiquitous in real-world data applications, e.g., in social network analysis or biological modeling, but networks are nearly always incompletely observed. The state-of-the-art for predicting missing links in the hard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Bisman Singh , Lucy Van Kleunen , Aaron Clauset

We investigate the degree-degree correlations in the Erdos-Renyi networks, the growing exponential networks and the scale-free networks. We demonstrate that these correlations are the largest for the exponential networks. We calculate also…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-08-24 Anna Manka-Krason , Krzysztof Kulakowski

Recently there have been a tremendous interest in models of networks with a power-law distribution of degree -- so called "scale-free networks." It has been observed that such networks, normally, have extremely short path-lengths, scaling…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Petter Holme

We introduce and study the general problem of finding a most "scale-free-like" spanning tree of a connected graph. It is motivated by a particular problem in epidemiology, and may be useful in studies of various dynamical processes in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-12 Yury Orlovich , Kirill Kukharenko , Volker Kaibel , Pavel Skums

We find that traditional statistics for measuring degree mixing are strongly affected by superrich nodes. To counteract and measure the effect of superrich nodes, we propose a paradigm to quantify the mixing pattern of a real network in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-14 Xiao-Ke Xu , Jie Zhang , Junfeng Sun , Michael Small

The analysis of networks characterized by links with heterogeneous intensity or weight suffers from two long-standing problems of arbitrariness. On one hand, the definitions of topological properties introduced for binary graphs can be…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2014-04-28 Diego Garlaschelli , Sebastian E. Ahnert , Thomas M. A. Fink , Guido Caldarelli