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Graph is a universe data structure that is widely used to organize data in real-world. Various real-word networks like the transportation network, social and academic network can be represented by graphs. Recent years have witnessed the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Xueyi Liu , Jie Tang

Sampling methods (e.g., node-wise, layer-wise, or subgraph) has become an indispensable strategy to speed up training large-scale Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). However, existing sampling methods are mostly based on the graph structural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Weilin Cong , Rana Forsati , Mahmut Kandemir , Mehrdad Mahdavi

Temporal networks representing a stream of timestamped edges are seemingly ubiquitous in the real-world. However, the massive size and continuous nature of these networks make them fundamentally challenging to analyze and leverage for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Nesreen K. Ahmed , Nick Duffield , Ryan A. Rossi

Many systems comprising entities in interactions can be represented as graphs, whose structure gives significant insights about how these systems work. Network theory has undergone further developments, in particular in relation to…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-06-14 Ronan Hamon , Pierre Borgnat , Patrick Flandrin , Céline Robardet

Most sampling techniques for online social networks (OSNs) are based on a particular sampling method on a single graph, which is referred to as a statistics. However, various realizing methods on different graphs could possibly be used in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-12-21 Xin Wang , Richard T. B. Ma , Yinlong Xu , Zhipeng Li

In this paper, we consider the problem of subsampling and reconstruction of signals that reside on the vertices of a product graph, such as sensor network time series, genomic signals, or product ratings in a social network. Specifically,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-03 Guillermo Ortiz-Jiménez , Mario Coutino , Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri , Geert Leus

Network-topology inference from (vertex) signal observations is a prominent problem across data-science and engineering disciplines. Most existing schemes assume that observations from all nodes are available, but in many practical…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-11-11 Andrei Buciulea , Samuel Rey , Antonio G. Marques

With the growing amount of available temporal real-world network data, an important question is how to efficiently study these data. One can simply model a temporal network as either a single aggregate static network, or as a series of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-12-15 Yuriy Hulovatyy , Huili Chen , Tijana Milenkovic

(Hyper)Graph decomposition is a family of problems that aim to break down large (hyper)graphs into smaller sub(hyper)graphs for easier analysis. The importance of this lies in its ability to enable efficient computation on large and complex…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Marcelo Fonseca Faraj

Modern communication networks are inherently complex in nature. First of all, they have a large number of heterogeneous components. Secondly, their connectivity is extremely dynamic. Nodes can come and go, links can be removed and added…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Bisma S. Khan , Muaz A. Niazi

The interactions between the components of complex networks are often directed. Proper modeling of such systems frequently requires the construction of ensembles of digraphs with a given sequence of in- and out-degrees. As the number of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-30 H. Kim , C. I. Del Genio , K. E. Bassler , Z. Toroczkai

We propose a unified framework for adaptive connection sampling in graph neural networks (GNNs) that generalizes existing stochastic regularization methods for training GNNs. The proposed framework not only alleviates over-smoothing and…

Dynamic networks are ubiquitous for modelling sequential graph-structured data, e.g., brain connectome, population flows and messages exchanges. In this work, we consider dynamic networks that are temporal sequences of graph snapshots, and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-30 Deborah Sulem , Henry Kenlay , Mihai Cucuringu , Xiaowen Dong

Graph neural networks (GNNs) learn to represent nodes by aggregating information from their neighbors. As GNNs increase in depth, their receptive field grows exponentially, leading to high memory costs. Several existing methods address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Taraneh Younesian , Daniel Daza , Emile van Krieken , Thiviyan Thanapalasingam , Peter Bloem

We consider the problem of selecting important nodes in a random network, where the nodes connect to each other randomly with certain transition probabilities. The node importance is characterized by the stationary probabilities of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-01-14 Haidong Li , Xiaoyun Xu , Yijie Peng , Chun-Hung Chen

Graph learning is the fundamental task of estimating unknown graph connectivity from available data. Typical approaches assume that not only is all information available simultaneously but also that all nodes can be observed. However, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Andrei Buciulea , Madeline Navarro , Samuel Rey , Santiago Segarra , Antonio G. Marques

Graph analytics can lead to better quantitative understanding and control of complex networks, but traditional methods suffer from high computational cost and excessive memory requirements associated with the high-dimensionality and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Mengjia Xu

The volume of data generated by internet and social networks is increasing every day, and there is a clear need for efficient ways of extracting useful information from them. As those data can take different forms, it is important to use…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-25 Bertrand Lebichot , Marco Saerens

Sampling random graphs with given properties is a key step in the analysis of networks, as random ensembles represent basic null models required to identify patterns such as communities and motifs. An important requirement is that the…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-02-23 Tiziano Squartini , Rossana Mastrandrea , Diego Garlaschelli

We introduce a graph-signal generalisation of Sample Entropy, denoted SampEn$_{G}$, to quantify irregularity of graph signals on a continuous state space, complementing existing methods on symbolic dynamics. Our approach replaces the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Mei-San Maggie Lei , John Stewart Fabila Carrasco , Javier Escudero