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We introduce a new centrality measure that characterizes the participation of each node in all subgraphs in a network. Smaller subgraphs are given more weight than larger ones, which makes this measure appropriate for characterizing network…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ernesto Estrada , Juan A. Rodriguez-Velazquez

The recurrence properties of random walks can be characterized by P\'{o}lya number, i.e., the probability that the walker has returned to the origin at least once. In this paper, we consider recurrence properties for a general 1D random…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Xiao-Kun Zhang , Jing Wan , Jing-Ju Lu , Xin-Ping Xu

The degree centrality of a node, defined as the number of nodes adjacent to it, is often used as a measure of importance of a node to the structure of a network. This metric can be extended to paths in a network, where the degree centrality…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Johnson Phosavanh , Dmytro Matsypura

Computing classical centrality measures such as betweenness and closeness is computationally expensive on large-scale graphs. In this work, we introduce an efficient force layout algorithm that embeds a graph into a low-dimensional space,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Alexander Kolpakov , Igor Rivin

Random walk can be used as a centrality measure of a directed graph. However, if the graph is reducible the random walk will be absorbed in some subset of nodes and will never visit the rest of the graph. In Google PageRank the problem was…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-04-17 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Vivek Borkar , Danil Nemirovsky

Using the replica method, we develop an analytical approach to compute the characteristic function for the probability $\mathcal{P}_N(K,\lambda)$ that a large $N \times N$ adjacency matrix of sparse random graphs has $K$ eigenvalues below a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-04 Fernando L. Metz , Daniel A. Stariolo

In this work we investigate the problem of estimating the percolation centrality of every vertex in a graph. This centrality measure quantifies the importance of each vertex in a graph going through a contagious process. It is an open…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Alane M. de Lima , Murilo V. G. da Silva , André L. Vignatti

We introduce the P\'olya threshold graph model and derive its stochastic and algebraic properties. This random threshold graph is generated sequentially via a two-color P\'olya urn process. Starting from an empty graph, each time step…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Jinghan Yu , Fady Alajaji , Bahman Gharesifard

Network metrics form a fundamental part of the network analysis toolbox. Used to quantitatively measure different aspects of the network, these metrics can give insights into the underlying network structure and function. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-04 Harold Soh

We study the influence of network topology on retrieval properties of recurrent neural networks, using replica techniques for diluted systems. The theory is presented for a network with an arbitrary degree distribution $p(k)$ and applied to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-08-16 I. Pérez Castillo , B. Wemmenhove , J. P. L. Hatchett , A. C. C. Coolen , N. S. Skantzos , T. Nikoletopoulos

The pseudo-inverse of a graph Laplacian matrix, denoted as $L^\dagger$, finds extensive application in various graph analysis tasks. Notable examples include the calculation of electrical closeness centrality, determination of Kemeny's…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Meihao Liao , Rong-Hua Li , Qiangqiang Dai , Hongyang Chen , Guoren Wang

Random walks are used for modeling various dynamics in, for example, physical, biological, and social contexts. Furthermore, their characteristics provide us with useful information on the phase transition and critical phenomena of even…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Naoki Masuda , Norio Konno

We present a new algorithm for estimating the Personalized PageRank (PPR) between a source and target node on undirected graphs, with sublinear running-time guarantees over the worst-case choice of source and target nodes. Our work builds…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-16 Peter Lofgren , Siddhartha Banerjee , Ashish Goel

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a $d$-regular graph on $n$ vertices and let $\mu_0$ be a probability measure on $V$. The act of moving to a randomly chosen neighbor leads to a sequence of probability measures supported on $V$ given by $\mu_{k+1} = A…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Stefan Steinerberger , Rekha R. Thomas

Graph-structured data arise in wide applications, such as computer vision, bioinformatics, and social networks. Quantifying similarities among graphs is a fundamental problem. In this paper, we develop a framework for computing graph…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-11 Zhen Zhang , Mianzhi Wang , Yijian Xiang , Yan Huang , Arye Nehorai

Measures of node centrality that describe the importance of a node within a network are crucial for understanding the behavior of social networks and graphs. In this paper, we address the problems of distributed estimation and control of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Eduardo Montijano , Gabriele Oliva , Andrea Gasparri

Exponential random graph models are an important tool in the statistical analysis of data. However, Bayesian parameter estimation for these models is extremely challenging, since evaluation of the posterior distribution typically involves…

Computation · Statistics 2017-05-05 Lampros Bouranis , Nial Friel , Florian Maire

We analyse the recovery of different roles in a network modelled by a directed graph, based on the so-called Neighbourhood Pattern Similarity approach. Our analysis uses results from random matrix theory to show that when assuming the graph…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-04 Giovanni Barbarino , Vanni Noferini , Paul Van Dooren

Closeness centrality, first considered by Bavelas (1948), is an importance measure of a node in a network which is based on the distances from the node to all other nodes. The classic definition, proposed by Bavelas (1950), Beauchamp…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-09-02 Edith Cohen , Daniel Delling , Thomas Pajor , Renato F. Werneck

Finding the important nodes in complex networks by topological structure is of great significance to network invulnerability. Several centrality measures have been proposed recently to evaluate the performance of nodes based on their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Pengli Lu , Chen Dong , Yuhong Guo