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This paper revisits two classical distributed problems in anonymous networks, namely spanning tree construction and topology recognition, from the point of view of graph covering theory. For both problems, we characterize necessary and…

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This paper considers the problem of network coding for multiple unicast connections in networks represented by directed acyclic graphs. The concept of interference alignment, traditionally used in interference networks, is extended to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-03 Abhik Das , Sriram Vishwanath , Syed Jafar , Athina Markopoulou

The ability to reroute and control flow is vital to the function of venation networks across a wide range of organisms. By modifying individual edges in these networks, either by adjusting edge conductances or creating and destroying edges,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-14 Jason W. Rocks , Andrea J. Liu , Eleni Katifori

Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) and associated probability models are widely used to model neural connectivity and communication channels. In many experiments, data are collected from multiple subjects whose connectivities may differ but are…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-11-17 Chris J. Oates , Lilia Carneiro da Costa , Tom Nichols

In this work, we study the topological transition on the associated networks in a model proposed by Saeedian et al. (Scientific Reports 2019 9:9726), which considers a coupled dynamics of node and link states. Our goal was to better…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-04-05 Paulo Freitas Gomes , Henrique Almeida Fernandes , Ariadne de Andrade Costa

We study a distributed learning problem in which learning agents are embedded in a directed acyclic graph (DAG). There is a fixed and arbitrary distribution over feature/label pairs, and each agent or vertex in the graph is able to directly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Michael Kearns , Aaron Roth , Emily Ryu

Network classification aims to group networks (or graphs) into distinct categories based on their structure. We study the connection between classification of a network and of its constituent nodes, and whether nodes from networks in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Saray Shai , Isaac Jacobs , Peter J. Mucha

Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) are used for modeling causal relationships, dependencies, and flows in various systems. However, spectral analysis becomes impractical in this setting because the eigendecomposition of the adjacency matrix…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Ljubisa Stankovic , Milos Dakovic , Ali Bagheri Bardi , Milos Brajovic , Isidora Stankovic

Directed acyclic graph (DAG) has been widely employed to represent directional relationships among a set of collected nodes. Yet, the available data in one single study is often limited for accurate DAG reconstruction, whereas heterogeneous…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-17 Mingyang Ren , Xin He , Junhui Wang

Optimization of directed acyclic graph (DAG) structures has many applications, such as neural architecture search (NAS) and probabilistic graphical model learning. Encoding DAGs into real vectors is a dominant component in most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Zehao Dong , Muhan Zhang , Fuhai Li , Yixin Chen

Biomolecular networks have already found great utility in characterizing complex biological systems arising from pair-wise interactions amongst biomolecules. Here, we review how graph theoretical approaches can be applied not only for a…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2018-12-03 Heeralal Janwa , Steven E. Massey , Julian Velev , Bud Mishra

One practice of employing deep neural networks is to apply the same architecture to all the input instances. However, a fixed architecture may not be representative enough for data with high diversity. To promote the model capacity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Kun Yuan , Quanquan Li , Dapeng Chen , Aojun Zhou , Junjie Yan

An encoding of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) on labeled vertices is proposed, which is a generalisation of the Pr\"ufer code for labeled trees, if a certain orienation on the edges of the tree is introduced. Hence it is shown that the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Zsófia Juhász

The network topology can be described by the number of nodes and the interconnections among them. The degree of a node in a network is the number of connections it has to other nodes and the degree distribution is the probability…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-09-19 Bin Zhou , Bing-Hong Wang , He Zhe

This paper explores the conditions for determining fixed nodes in structured networks, specifically focusing on directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). We introduce several necessary and sufficient conditions for determining fixed nodes in…

General Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Nam-jin Park , Yeong-Ung Kim , Hyo-Sung Ahn

Attention networks have proven to be an effective approach for embedding categorical inference within a deep neural network. However, for many tasks we may want to model richer structural dependencies without abandoning end-to-end training.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-17 Yoon Kim , Carl Denton , Luong Hoang , Alexander M. Rush

Learning a faithful directed acyclic graph (DAG) from samples of a joint distribution is a challenging combinatorial problem, owing to the intractable search space superexponential in the number of graph nodes. A recent breakthrough…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Yue Yu , Jie Chen , Tian Gao , Mo Yu

We consider fair network topology inference from nodal observations. Real-world networks often exhibit biased connections based on sensitive nodal attributes. Hence, different subpopulations of nodes may not share or receive information…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Madeline Navarro , Samuel Rey , Andrei Buciulea , Antonio G. Marques , Santiago Segarra

We consider the dynamics of a reaction-diffusion system on a multigraph. The species share the same set of nodes but can access different links to explore the embedding spatial support. By acting on the topology of the networks we can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-21 Malbor Asllani , Timoteo Carletti , Duccio Fanelli

We present graph attention networks (GATs), novel neural network architectures that operate on graph-structured data, leveraging masked self-attentional layers to address the shortcomings of prior methods based on graph convolutions or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-06 Petar Veličković , Guillem Cucurull , Arantxa Casanova , Adriana Romero , Pietro Liò , Yoshua Bengio