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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have recently become increasingly popular due to their ability to learn complex systems of relations or interactions arising in a broad spectrum of problems ranging from biology and particle physics to social…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Emanuele Rossi , Ben Chamberlain , Fabrizio Frasca , Davide Eynard , Federico Monti , Michael Bronstein

Many graph algorithms can be viewed as sets of rules that are iteratively applied, with the number of iterations dependent on the size and complexity of the input graph. Existing machine learning architectures often struggle to represent…

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Network science has become an essential interdisciplinary tool for understanding complex biological systems. However, because these systems undergo continuous, often stimulus-driven changes in both structure and function, traditional static…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-19 Abir Khazaal , Fatemeh Vafaee

Dynamic gene-regulatory networks are complex since the number of potential components involved in the system is very large. Estimating dynamic networks is an important task because they compromise valuable information about interactions…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-05-15 Antonino Abbruzzo , Ernst Wit

Network structures in various backgrounds play important roles in social, technological, and biological systems. However, the observable network structures in real cases are often incomplete or unavailable due to measurement errors or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Mengyuan Chen , Jiang Zhang , Zhang Zhang , Lun Du , Qiao Hu , Shuo Wang , Jiaqi Zhu

A social choice procedure is modeled as a repeated Nash game between the social agents, who are communicating with each other through a social communication network modeled by an undirected graph. The agents' criteria for this game are…

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We review modeling attempts for the paradigmatic contact process (or SIS model) on adaptive networks. Elaborating on one particular proposed mechanism of topology change (rewiring) and its mean field analysis, we obtain a coarse-grained…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2013-03-05 Stefan Wieland , Andrea Parisi , Ana Nunes

In recent years, significant efforts have been made to refine the design of Graph Neural Network (GNN) layers, aiming to overcome diverse challenges, such as limited expressive power and oversmoothing. Despite their widespread adoption, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Moshe Eliasof , Beatrice Bevilacqua , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Haggai Maron

Understanding the training dynamics of deep neural networks (DNNs) is important as it can lead to improved training efficiency and task performance. Recent works have demonstrated that representing the wirings of static graph cannot capture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Fatemeh Vahedian , Ruiyu Li , Puja Trivedi , Di Jin , Danai Koutra

Network dynamics offers critical insights into the behavior and evolution of complex systems. Here, we focus on the topological dynamics of networks to explore a unique process for reducing the average distance: topological compression. The…

General Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Jian-Hui Li , Zu-Guo Yu , Yu-Chu Tian

We analyze a model of interacting agents (e.g. prebiotic chemical species) which are represended by nodes of a network, whereas their interactions are mapped onto directed links between these nodes. On a fast time scale, each agent follows…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-13 Adrian M. Seufert , Frank Schweitzer

Graph structure learning is a well-established problem that aims at optimizing graph structures adaptive to specific graph datasets to help message passing neural networks (i.e., GNNs) to yield effective and robust node embeddings. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Wentao Zhao , Qitian Wu , Chenxiao Yang , Junchi Yan

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have received considerable attention on graph-structured data learning for a wide variety of tasks. The well-designed propagation mechanism which has been demonstrated effective is the most fundamental part of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Meiqi Zhu , Xiao Wang , Chuan Shi , Houye Ji , Peng Cui

We introduce a novel training principle for probabilistic models that is an alternative to maximum likelihood. The proposed Generative Stochastic Networks (GSN) framework is based on learning the transition operator of a Markov chain whose…

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Adaptive networks model social, physical, technical, or biological systems as attributed graphs evolving at the level of both their topology and data. They are naturally described by graph transformation, but the majority of authors take an…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Nicolas Behr , Bello Shehu Bello , Sebastian Ehmes , Reiko Heckel

Recently, graph-based models designed for downstream tasks have significantly advanced research on graph neural networks (GNNs). GNN baselines based on neural message-passing mechanisms such as GCN and GAT perform worse as the network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Jiayuan Chen , Xiang Zhang , Yinfei Xu , Tianli Zhao , Renjie Xie , Wei Xu

Graph Neural Networks operate through bottom-up message-passing, fundamentally differing from human visual perception, which intuitively captures global structures first. We investigate the underappreciated potential of vision models for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Xinjian Zhao , Wei Pang , Zhongkai Xue , Xiangru Jian , Lei Zhang , Yaoyao Xu , Xiaozhuang Song , Shu Wu , Tianshu Yu

This paper introduces a convex optimization framework for identifying switched network systems, in which both the node dynamics and the underlying graph topology switch between a finite number of configurations. Building on our recent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Kaito Iwasaki , Anthony Bloch , Maani Ghaffari

We investigate structural transitions in adaptive networks where node states remain fixed and only the connections evolve via state-dependent rewiring. Using a general framework characterized by probabilistic rules for disconnection and…

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