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The knowledge of the topology of a wired network is often of fundamental importance. For instance, in the context of Power Line Communications (PLC) networks it is helpful to implement data routing strategies, while in power distribution…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Federico Passerini , Andrea M. Tonello

In this paper, we aim to find a robust network formation strategy that can adaptively evolve the network topology against network dynamics in a distributed manner. We consider a network coding deployed wireless ad hoc network where source…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Minhae Kwon , Hyunggon Park

We develop a novel convolutional architecture tailored for learning from data defined over directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). DAGs can be used to model causal relationships among variables, but their nilpotent adjacency matrices pose unique…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Samuel Rey , Hamed Ajorlou , Gonzalo Mateos

Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) are a class of graphs commonly used in practice, with examples that include electronic circuits, Bayesian networks, and neural architectures. While many effective encoders exist for DAGs, it remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Michael Sun , Orion Foo , Gang Liu , Wojciech Matusik , Jie Chen

Seeking effective neural networks is a critical and practical field in deep learning. Besides designing the depth, type of convolution, normalization, and nonlinearities, the topological connectivity of neural networks is also important.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Kun Yuan , Quanquan Li , Jing Shao , Junjie Yan

Learning embeddings from large-scale networks is an open challenge. Despite the overwhelming number of existing methods, is is unclear how to exploit network structure in a way that generalizes easily to unseen nodes, edges or graphs. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Nurudin Alvarez-Gonzalez , Andreas Kaltenbrunner , Vicenç Gómez

Estimating the structure of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) from observational data remains a significant challenge in machine learning. Most research in this area concentrates on learning a single DAG for the entire population. This paper…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-21 Ryan Thompson , Edwin V. Bonilla , Robert Kohn

Network embedding, which aims to learn low-dimensional representations of nodes, has been used for various graph related tasks including visualization, link prediction and node classification. Most existing embedding methods rely solely on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Palash Goyal , Homa Hosseinmardi , Emilio Ferrara , Aram Galstyan

Directed acyclic graph (DAG) models are widely used to represent causal relationships among random variables in many application domains. This paper studies a special class of non-Gaussian DAG models, where the conditional variance of each…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-03 Wei Zhou , Xin He , Wei Zhong , Junhui Wang

We present a method to generate directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) using deep reinforcement learning, specifically deep Q-learning. Generating graphs with specified structures is an important and challenging task in various application fields,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Laura D'Arcy , Padraig Corcoran , Alun Preece

Recent progress in large language models has renewed interest in how multi-step reasoning is represented internally. While prior work often treats reasoning as a linear chain, many reasoning problems are more naturally modeled as directed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Tianjun Zhong , Linyang He , Nima Mesgarani

Memory is an important cognitive function for humans. How a brain with such a small power can complete such a complex memory function, the working mechanism behind this is undoubtedly fascinating. Engram theory views memory as the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Hui Wei , Weihua Miao , Fushun Li

Network tomography, a classic research problem in the realm of network monitoring, refers to the methodology of inferring unmeasured network attributes using selected end-to-end path measurements. In the research community, network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Liang Ma , Ziyao Zhang , Mudhakar Srivatsa

Inferring topological and geometrical information from data can offer an alternative perspective on machine learning problems. Methods from topological data analysis, e.g., persistent homology, enable us to obtain such information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Christoph Hofer , Roland Kwitt , Marc Niethammer , Andreas Uhl

Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) are directed graphs in which there is no path from a vertex to itself. DAGs are an omnipresent data structure in computer science and the problem of counting the DAGs of given number of vertices and to sample…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Martin Pépin , Alfredo Viola

We study the problem of broadcasting packets in wireless networks. At each time slot, a network controller activates non-interfering links and forwards packets to all nodes at a common rate; the maximum rate is referred to as the broadcast…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Abhishek Sinha , Georgios Paschos , Chih-ping Li , Eytan Modiano

Leveraging labelled data from multiple domains to enable prediction in another domain without labels is a significant, yet challenging problem. To address this problem, we introduce the framework DAPDAG (\textbf{D}omain \textbf{A}daptation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Yanke Li , Hatt Tobias , Ioana Bica , Mihaela van der Schaar

The state-of-the-art coding schemes for topological interference management (TIM) problems are usually handcrafted for specific families of network topologies, relying critically on experts' domain knowledge. This inevitably restricts the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Zhiwei Shan , Xinping Yi , Han Yu , Chung-Shou Liao , Shi Jin

Causal discovery, the learning of causality in a data mining scenario, has been of strong scientific and theoretical interest as a starting point to identify "what causes what?" Contingent on assumptions and a proper learning algorithm, it…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-05-23 Gabriel Ruiz , Oscar Hernan Madrid Padilla , Qing Zhou

We study clustering properties of networks of single integrator nodes over a directed graph, in which the nodes converge to steady-state values. These values define clustering groups of nodes, which depend on interaction topology, edge…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Jeong-Min Ma , Hyung-Gon Lee , Kevin L. Moore , Hyo-Sung Ahn , Kwang-Kyo Oh