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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are an emerging research field. This specialized Deep Neural Network (DNN) architecture is capable of processing graph structured data and bridges the gap between graph processing and Deep Learning (DL). As…

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Scale-free networks are characterized by a degree distribution with power-law behavior and have been shown to arise in many areas, ranging from the World Wide Web to transportation or social networks. Degree distributions of observed…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-11 C. C. Leary , M. Schwehm , M. Eichner , H. P. Duerr

In random graph models, the degree distribution of an individual node should be distinguished from the (empirical) degree distribution of the graph that records the fractions of nodes with given degree. We introduce a general framework to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Siddharth Pal , Armand M. Makowski

The structure of many real networks is not locally tree-like and hence, network analysis fails to characterise their bond percolation properties. In a recent paper [P. Mann, V. A. Smith, J. B. O. Mitchell, and S. Dobson, Percolation in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-01-27 Peter Mann , V. Anne Smith , John B. O. Mitchell , Simon Dobson

Complex network theory has been used to study complex systems. However, many real-life systems involve multiple kinds of objects . They can't be described by simple graphs. In order to provide complete information of these systems, we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-11-10 Jin-Li Guo , Xin-Yun Zhu

Many networks contain correlations and often conventional analysis is incapable of incorporating this often essential feature. In arXiv:0708.2176, we introduced the link-space formalism for analysing degree-degree correlations in evolving…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-02-06 David M. D. Smith , Chiu Fan Lee , Neil F. Johnson , Jukka-Pekka Onnela

Graph learning (GL) can dynamically capture the distribution structure (graph structure) of data based on graph convolutional networks (GCN), and the learning quality of the graph structure directly influences GCN for semi-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Guangfeng Lin , Xiaobing Kang , Kaiyang Liao , Fan Zhao , Yajun Chen

The proliferation of models for networks raises challenging problems of model selection: the data are sparse and globally dependent, and models are typically high-dimensional and have large numbers of latent variables. Together, these…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-06-25 Xiaoran Yan , Cosma Rohilla Shalizi , Jacob E. Jensen , Florent Krzakala , Cristopher Moore , Lenka Zdeborova , Pan Zhang , Yaojia Zhu

In this paper, we use a partition of the links of a network in order to uncover its community structure. This approach allows for communities to overlap at nodes, so that nodes may be in more than one community. We do this by making a node…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-07-24 T. S. Evans , R. Lambiotte

Graph-structured data are pervasive in the real-world such as social networks, molecular graphs and transaction networks. Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved great success in representation learning on graphs, facilitating various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Zhimeng Guo , Teng Xiao , Zongyu Wu , Charu Aggarwal , Hui Liu , Suhang Wang

Understanding the subgraph distribution in random networks is important for modelling complex systems. In classic Erdos networks, which exhibit a Poissonian degree distribution, the number of appearances of a subgraph G with n nodes and g…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Itzkovitz , R. Milo , N. Kashtan , G. Ziv , U. Alon

The growing complexity of the power grid, driven by increasing share of distributed energy resources and by massive deployment of intelligent internet-connected devices, requires new modelling tools for planning and operation. Physics-based…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-26 Francesco Fusco

The degrees are a classical and relevant way to study the topology of a network. They can be used to assess the goodness-of-fit for a given random graph model. In this paper we introduce goodness-of-fit tests for two classes of models.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Sarah Ouadah , Stéphane Robin , Pierre Latouche

Network analysis has played a key role in knowledge discovery and data mining. In many real-world applications in recent years, we are interested in mining multilayer networks, where we have a number of edge sets called layers, which encode…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Yasushi Kawase , Atsushi Miyauchi , Hanna Sumita

Graph neural network (GNN) is effective to model graphs for distributed representations of nodes and an entire graph. Recently, research on the expressive power of GNN attracted growing attention. A highly-expressive GNN has the ability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Chengsheng Mao , Yuan Luo

Despite much research, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) still do not display the favorable scaling properties of other deep neural networks such as Convolutional Neural Networks and Transformers. Previous work has identified issues such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Ameen Ali , Hakan Cevikalp , Lior Wolf

This work establishes a novel link between the problem of PAC-learning high-dimensional graphical models and the task of (efficient) counting and sampling of graph structures, using an online learning framework. We observe that if we apply…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Arnab Bhattacharyya , Sutanu Gayen , Philips George John , Sayantan Sen , N. V. Vinodchandran

State-space models (SSMs) are a powerful statistical tool for modelling time-varying systems via a latent state. In these models, the latent state is never directly observed. Instead, a sequence of observations related to the state is…

Computation · Statistics 2025-03-25 Benjamin Cox , Emilie Chouzenoux , Victor Elvira

This work introduces a method for fitting to the degree distributions of complex network datasets, such that the most appropriate distribution from a set of candidate distributions is chosen while maximizing the portion of the distribution…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-02-09 Shane Mannion , Pádraig MacCarron

Mobile phone data have been extensively used in the recent years to study social behavior. However, most of these studies are based on only partial data whose coverage is limited both in space and time. In this paper, we point to an…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-09-30 Adeline Decuyper , Arnaud Browet , Vincent Traag , Vincent D. Blondel , Jean-Charles Delvenne