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Graph drawing is a fundamental task in information visualization, with the Fruchterman--Reingold (FR) force model being one of the most popular choices. We can interpret this visualization task as a continuous optimization problem, which…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Hiroki Hamaguchi , Naoki Marumo , Akiko Takeda

Graph layout is the process of creating a visual representation of a graph through a node-link diagram. Node-attribute graphs have additional data stored on the nodes which describe certain properties of the nodes called attributes. Typical…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-12-18 Helen Gibson , Paul Vickers

Visual rendering of graphs is a key task in the mapping of complex network data. Although most graph drawing algorithms emphasize aesthetic appeal, certain applications such as travel-time maps place more importance on visualization of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-01-20 Brian Baingana , Georgios B. Giannakis

Motivated by performance optimization of large-scale graph processing systems that distribute the graph across multiple machines, we consider the balanced graph partitioning problem. Compared to the previous work, we study the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Dmitrii Avdiukhin , Sergey Pupyrev , Grigory Yaroslavtsev

Topological metrics of graphs provide a natural way to describe the prominent features of various types of networks. Graph metrics describe the structure and interplay of graph edges and have found applications in many scientific fields. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Loukianos Spyrou , Javier Escudero

We study methods to manipulate weights in stress-graph embeddings to improve convex straight-line planar drawings of 3-connected planar graphs. Stress-graph embeddings are weighted versions of Tutte embeddings, where solving a linear system…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Alvin Chiu , David Eppstein , Michael T. Goodrich

Many real-world networks are intrinsically directed. Such networks include activation of genes, hyperlinks on the internet, and the network of followers on Twitter among many others. The challenge, however, is to create a network model that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Jesse Michel , Sushruth Reddy , Rikhav Shah , Sandeep Silwal , Ramis Movassagh

Graphs can be used to represent and reason about systems and a variety of metrics have been devised to quantify their global characteristics. However, little is currently known about how to construct a graph or improve an existing one given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Victor-Alexandru Darvariu , Stephen Hailes , Mirco Musolesi

This paper proposes a new method for converting a time-series into a weighted graph (complex network), which builds on the electrostatic conceptualization originating from physics. The proposed method conceptualizes a time-series as a…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-12-04 Dimitrios Tsiotas , Lykourgos Magafas , Panos Argyrakis

Drawing large graphs appropriately is an important step for the visual analysis of data from real-world networks. Here we present a novel multilevel algorithm to compute a graph layout with respect to a recently proposed metric that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-08-11 Henning Meyerhenke , Martin Nöllenburg , Christian Schulz

We present a general model for the growth of weighted networks in which the structural growth is coupled with the edges' weight dynamical evolution. The model is based on a simple weight-driven dynamics and a weights' reinforcement…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alain Barrat , Marc Barthelemy , Alessandro Vespignani

Sampling technique has become one of the recent research focuses in the graph-related fields. Most of the existing graph sampling algorithms tend to sample the high degree or low degree nodes in the complex networks because of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Junpeng Zhu , Hui Li , Mei Chen , Zhenyu Dai , Ming Zhu

A random intersection graph is constructed by assigning independently to each vertex a subset of a given set and drawing an edge between two vertices if and only if their respective subsets intersect. In this paper a model is developed in…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-09-24 Maria Deijfen , Willemien Kets

We propose a possible relation between complex networks and gravity. Our guide in our proposal is the power-law distribution of the node degree in network theory and the information approach to gravity. The established bridge may allow us…

General Physics · Physics 2012-11-30 J. A. Nieto

We introduce an approach for imposing physically motivated inductive biases on graph networks to learn interpretable representations and improved zero-shot generalization. Our experiments show that our graph network models, which implement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Miles D. Cranmer , Rui Xu , Peter Battaglia , Shirley Ho

Consider the setting of \emph{randomly weighted graphs}, namely, graphs whose edge weights are chosen independently according to probability distributions with finite support over the non-negative reals. Under this setting, properties of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-03-30 Yuval Emek , Amos Korman , Yuval Shavitt

In this paper, we develop the idea to partition the edges of a weighted graph in order to uncover overlapping communities of its nodes. Our approach is based on the construction of different types of weighted line graphs, i.e. graphs whose…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2010-10-22 T. S. Evans , R. Lambiotte

In this letter, we study distributed optimization, where a network of agents, abstracted as a directed graph, collaborates to minimize the average of locally-known convex functions. Most of the existing approaches over directed graphs are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-08 Ran Xin , Usman A. Khan

A graph embedding algorithm embeds a graph into a low-dimensional space such that the embedding preserves the inherent properties of the graph. While graph embedding is fundamentally related to graph visualization, prior work did not…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Md. Khaledur Rahman , Majedul Haque Sujon , Ariful Azad

Graph Visualization, also known as Graph Drawing, aims to find geometric embeddings of graphs that optimize certain criteria. Stress is a widely used metric; stress is minimized when every pair of nodes is positioned at their shortest path…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Florian Grötschla , Joël Mathys , Robert Veres , Roger Wattenhofer