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Any finite configuration of curves with minimal intersections on a surface is a configuration of shortest geodesics for some Riemannian metric on the surface. The metric can be chosen to make the lengths of these geodesics equal to the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Max Neumann-Coto

This paper presents a spectral framework for quantifying the differentiation between graph data samples by introducing a novel metric named Graph Geodesic Distance (GGD). For two different graphs with the same number of nodes, our framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Soumen Sikder Shuvo , Ali Aghdaei , Zhuo Feng

The shortest path problem is related to many dynamic processes on networks, ranging from routing in communication networks to signaling in molecular interaction networks. When the network is fully known, the shortest path problem can be…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-05 Zhihao Qiu , Sámuel G. Balogh , Xinhan Liu , Piet Van Mieghem , Maksim Kitsak

Geodesic distance serves as a reliable means of measuring distance in nonlinear spaces, and such nonlinear manifolds are prevalent in the current multimodal learning. In these scenarios, some samples may exhibit high similarity, yet they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Shibin Mei , Hang Wang , Bingbing Ni

A geodesic cycle in a graph is a cycle with no shortcuts, so that the shortest path between any two nodes in the cycle is the path along the cycle itself. A recently published paper used random graph models to investigate the geodesic cycle…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Alex Stivala

We present GeGnn, a learning-based method for computing the approximate geodesic distance between two arbitrary points on discrete polyhedra surfaces with constant time complexity after fast precomputation. Previous relevant methods either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Bo Pang , Zhongtian Zheng , Guoping Wang , Peng-Shuai Wang

We introduce several novel and computationally efficient methods for detecting "core--periphery structure" in networks. Core--periphery structure is a type of mesoscale structure that includes densely-connected core vertices and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Mihai Cucuringu , Puck Rombach , Sang Hoon Lee , Mason A. Porter

Many statistical and machine learning approaches rely on pairwise distances between data points. The choice of distance metric has a fundamental impact on performance of these procedures, raising questions about how to appropriately…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-20 Didong Li , David B Dunson

Graph theoretical problems based on shortest paths are at the core of research due to their theoretical importance and applicability. This paper deals with the geodetic number which is a global measure for simple connected graphs and it…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Ahmad T. Anaqreh , Boglarka G. -Toth , Tamas Vinko

A graph $G$ is geodetic if between any two vertices there exists a unique shortest path. In 1962 Ore raised the challenge to characterize geodetic graphs, but despite many attempts, such characterization still seems well beyond reach. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Asaf Etgar , Nati Linial

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

Metric graph properties lie in the heart of the analysis of complex networks, while in this paper we study their convexity through mathematical definition of a convex subgraph. A subgraph is convex if every geodesic path between the nodes…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Tilen Marc , Lovro Šubelj

Geodesic problems involve computing trajectories between prescribed initial and final states to minimize a user-defined measure of distance, cost, or energy. They arise throughout physics and engineering -- for instance, in determining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Conor Rowan

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a connected graph, let $v\in V$ be a vertex and let $e=uw\in E$ be an edge. The distance between the vertex $v$ and the edge $e$ is given by $d_G(e,v)=\min\{d_G(u,v),d_G(w,v)\}$. A vertex $w\in V$ distinguishes two edges…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-02 Aleksander Kelenc , Niko Tratnik , Ismael G. Yero

A maximal geodesic in a graph is a geodesic (alias shortest path) which is not a subpath of a longer geodesic. The geodesic-transversal problem in a graph $G$ is introduced as the task to find a smallest set $S$ of vertices of $G$ such that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-21 Paul Manuel , Boštjan Brešar , Sandi Klavžar

In this work we investigate the betweenness centrality in geographical networks and its relationship with network communities. We show that vertices with large betweenness define what we call characteristic betweenness paths in both modeled…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-02-26 Henrique Ferraz de Arruda , Cesar Henrique Comin , Luciano da Fontoura Costa

Real networks are finite metric spaces. Yet the geometry induced by shortest path distances in a network is definitely not its only geometry. Other forms of network geometry are the geometry of latent spaces underlying many networks, and…

Lexico-semantic networks represent words as nodes and their semantic relatedness as edges. While such networks are traditionally constructed using embeddings from encoder-based models or static vectors, embeddings from decoder-only large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zhu Liu , Ying Liu , KangYang Luo , Cunliang Kong , Maosong Sun

Random geometric graphs are a popular choice for a latent points generative model for networks. Their definition is based on a sample of $n$ points $X_1,X_2,\cdots,X_n$ on the Euclidean sphere~$\mathbb{S}^{d-1}$ which represents the latent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-17 Ernesto Araya , Yohann De Castro

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