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We consider a variant of so called power-law random graph. A sequence of expected degrees corresponds to a power-law degree distribution with finite mean and infinite variance. In previous works the asymptotic picture with number of nodes…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-12-12 Hannu Reittu , Ilkka Norros

Random walk neural networks (RWNNs) have emerged as a promising approach for graph representation learning, leveraging recent advances in sequence models to process random walks. However, under realistic sampling constraints, RWNNs often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Michael Ito , Danai Koutra , Jenna Wiens

The irreducible complexity of natural phenomena has led Graph Neural Networks to be employed as a standard model to perform representation learning tasks on graph-structured data. While their capacity to capture local and global patterns is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Lorenzo Giusti

We present a greedy-based approach to construct an efficient single hidden layer neural network with the ReLU activation that approximates a target function. In our approach we obtain a shallow network by utilizing a greedy algorithm with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Anton Dereventsov , Armenak Petrosyan , Clayton Webster

To explore the relation between network structure and function, we studied the computational performance of Hopfield-type attractor neural nets with regular lattice, random, small-world and scale-free topologies. The random net is the most…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Patrick N. Mcgraw , Michael Menzinger

Small-world networks, known for high local clustering and short path lengths, are a fundamental structure in many real-world systems, including social, biological, and technological networks. We apply the theory of (marked) local…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Yeganeh Alimohammadi , Senem Işık , Amin Saberi

Spatial networks are networks where nodes are located in a space equipped with a metric. Typically, the space is two-dimensional and until recently and traditionally, the metric that was usually considered was the Euclidean distance. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho

Random search processes are instrumental in studying and understanding navigation properties of complex networks, food search strategies of animals, diffusion control of molecular processes in biological cells, and improving web search…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-01-27 Igor Trpevski , Ljupco Kocarev

In the 1960s, the social scientist Stanley Milgram performed his famous "small-world" experiments where he found that people in the US who are far apart geographically are nevertheless connected by remarkably short chains of acquaintances.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Ofek Gila , Michael T. Goodrich , Abraham M. Illickan , Vinesh Sridhar

We propose a novel Bayesian methodology which uses random walks for rapid inference of statistical properties of undirected networks with weighted or unweighted edges. Our formalism yields high-accuracy estimates of the probability…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-07-25 Willow B. Kion-Crosby , Alexandre V. Morozov

In this work we investigate the dynamics of random walk processes on scale-free networks in a short to moderate time scale. We perform extensive simulations for the calculation of the mean squared displacement, the network coverage and the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Lazaros K. Gallos

We consider random walks that start and are absorbed on the leaves of random networks and study the length of such walks. For the networks we investigate, Erdos-Renyi random graphs and Barabasi-Albert scale free networks, these walks are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-07-11 David Lancaster

Inspired by studies on the airports' network and the physical Internet, we propose a general model of weighted networks via an optimization principle. The topology of the optimal network turns out to be a spanning tree that minimizes a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 Marc Barthelemy , Alessandro Flammini

We define the crossing graph of a given embedded graph (such as a road network) to be a graph with a vertex for each edge of the embedding, with two crossing graph vertices adjacent when the corresponding two edges of the embedding cross…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-20 David Eppstein , Siddharth Gupta

By introducing a simple model based on two-dimensional cellular automata, we reveal the relationship between the routing strategies of individual vehicles and the global behavior of transportation networks. Specifically, we characterize the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-07-31 Tak Shing Tai , Chi Ho Yeung

In this letter, we propose a simple rule that generates scale-free networks with very large clustering coefficient and very small average distance. These networks are called {\bf Random Apollonian Networks}(RANs) as they can be considered…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Tao Zhou , Gang Yan , Pei-Ling Zhou , Zhong-Qian Fu , Bing-Hong Wang

The small-world phenomenon in complex networks has been identified as being due to the presence of long-range links, i.e., links connecting nodes that would otherwise be separated by a long node-to-node distance. We find, surprisingly, that…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Adilson E. Motter , Takashi Nishikawa , Ying-Cheng Lai

We analyze the process of informational exchange through complex networks by measuring network efficiencies. Aiming to study non-clustered systems, we propose a modification of this measure on the local level. We apply this method to an…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 I. Vragović , E. Louis , A. Díaz-Guilera

We investigate interaction networks that we derive from multivariate time series with methods frequently employed in diverse scientific fields such as biology, quantitative finance, physics, earth and climate sciences, and the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2012-01-10 Stephan Bialonski , Martin Wendler , Klaus Lehnertz

We present an analytical approach to calculating the distribution of shortest paths lengths (also called intervertex distances, or geodesic paths) between nodes in unweighted undirected networks. We obtain very accurate results for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-04-20 Sergey Melnik , James P. Gleeson