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We study the properties of several proximity measures for the vertices of weighted multigraphs and multidigraphs. Unlike the classical distance for the vertices of connected graphs, these proximity measures are applicable to weighted…

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We study the problem of graph coarsening within the Gromov-Wasserstein geometry. Specifically, we propose two algorithms that leverage a novel representation of the distortion induced by merging pairs of nodes. The first method, termed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Carlos A. Taveras , Santiago Segarra , César A. Uribe

Pose Graph Optimization involves the estimation of a set of poses from pairwise measurements and provides a formalization for many problems arising in mobile robotics and geometric computer vision. In this paper, we consider the case in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Luca Carlone , Giuseppe C. Calafiore

Sequential lateration is a class of methods for multidimensional scaling where a suitable subset of nodes is first embedded by some method, e.g., a clique embedded by classical scaling, and then the remaining nodes are recursively embedded…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Ery Arias-Castro , Siddharth Vishwanath

Closeness is an important measure of network centrality. In this article we will calculate the closeness of graphs, created by using operations on graphs. We will prove a formula for the closeness of shadow graphs. We will calculate the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Chavdar Dangalchev

Centrality describes the importance of nodes in a graph and is modeled by various measures. Its global analogue, called centralization, is a general formula for calculating a graph-level centrality score based on the node-level centrality…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Jose Mari E. Ortega , Rolito G. Eballe

In recent years, networks with higher-order interactions have emerged as a powerful tool to model complex systems. Comparing these higher-order systems remains however a challenge. Traditional similarity measures designed for pairwise…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-24 Cosimo Agostinelli , Marco Mancastroppa , Alain Barrat

We introduce in this paper a new summarization method for large graphs. Our summarization approach retains only a user-specified proportion of the neighbors of each node in the graph. Our main aim is to simplify large graphs so that they…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Abd Errahmane Kiouche , Julien Baste , Mohammed Haddad , Hamida Seba

Understanding and developing a correlation measure that can detect general dependencies is not only imperative to statistics and machine learning, but also crucial to general scientific discovery in the big data age. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-27 Cencheng Shen , Carey E. Priebe , Joshua T. Vogelstein

Geometric graphs appear in many real-world data sets, such as road networks, sensor networks, and molecules. We investigate the notion of distance between embedded graphs and present a metric to measure the distance between two geometric…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Erin Wolf Chambers , Elizabeth Munch , Sarah Percival , Xinyi Wang

Network-valued data are encountered in a wide range of applications and pose challenges in learning due to their complex structure and absence of vertex correspondence. Typical examples of such problems include classification or grouping of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Mahalakshmi Sabanayagam , Leena Chennuru Vankadara , Debarghya Ghoshdastidar

This paper proposes a metric to measure the dissimilarity between graphs that may have a different number of nodes. The proposed metric extends the generalised optimal subpattern assignment (GOSPA) metric, which is a metric for sets, to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Jinhao Gu , Ángel F. García-Fernández , Robert E. Firth , Lennart Svensson

Long-range graph tasks -- those dependent on interactions between distant nodes -- are an open problem in graph neural network research. Real-world benchmark tasks, especially the Long Range Graph Benchmark, have become popular for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Jacob Bamberger , Benjamin Gutteridge , Scott le Roux , Michael M. Bronstein , Xiaowen Dong

We give a generalized definition of stretch that simplifies the efficient construction of low-stretch embeddings suitable for graph algorithms. The generalization, based on discounting highly stretched edges by taking their $p$-th power for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-07 Michael B. Cohen , Gary L. Miller , Jakub W. Pachocki , Richard Peng , Shen Chen Xu

Networks and graphs provide a simple but effective model to a vast set of systems which building blocks interact throughout pairwise interactions. Unfortunately, such models fail to describe all those systems which building blocks interact…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-09-21 Mauro Faccin

In this work, we consider learning over multitask graphs, where each agent aims to estimate its own parameter vector. Although agents seek distinct objectives, collaboration among them can be beneficial in scenarios where relationships…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yara Zgheib , Luca Calatroni , Marc Antonini , Roula Nassif

In this paper, we investigate the behavior of the family of graph-based splitting algorithms specialized to the problem of finding a point in the intersection of linear subspaces. The algorithms in this family, which encompasses several…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Francisco J. Aragón-Artacho , César López-Pastor

This paper proposes a family of graph metrics for measuring distances between graphs of different sizes. The proposed metric family defines a general form of the graph generalised optimal sub-pattern assignment (GOSPA) metric and is also…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Jinhao Gu , Ángel F. García-Fernández , Robert E. Firth , Lennart Svensson

Centrality measures for simple graphs are well-defined and several main-memory algorithms exist for each. Simple graphs are not adequate for modeling complex data sets with multiple entities and relationships. Multilayer networks (MLNs)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Hamza Reza Pavel , Abhishek Santra , Sharma Chakravarthy