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Network inference is the process of deciding what is the true unknown graph underlying a set of interactions between nodes. There is a vast literature on the subject, but most known methods have an important drawback: the inferred graph is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Effrosyni Papanastasiou , Anastasios Giovanidis

Networks are a powerful tool to model the structure and dynamics of complex systems across scales. Direct connections between system components are often represented as edges, while paths and walks capture indirect interactions. This…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-01-15 Rohit Sahasrabuddhe , Renaud Lambiotte , Martin Rosvall

The graph reconstruction conjecture states that all graphs on at least three vertices are determined up to isomorphism by their deck. In this paper, a general framework for this problem is proposed to simply explain the reconstruction of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-26 Ameneh Farhadian

In the Network Inference problem, one seeks to recover the edges of an unknown graph from the observations of cascades propagating over this graph. In this paper, we approach this problem from the sparse recovery perspective. We introduce a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Jean Pouget-Abadie , Thibaut Horel

The graph identification problem consists of discovering the interactions among nodes in a network given their state/feature trajectories. This problem is challenging because the behavior of a node is coupled to all the other nodes by the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Eduardo Sebastian , Thai Duong , Nikolay Atanasov , Eduardo Montijano , Carlos Sagues

We consider the problem of estimating the topology of multiple networks from nodal observations, where these networks are assumed to be drawn from the same (unknown) random graph model. We adopt a graphon as our random graph model, which is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-21 Madeline Navarro , Santiago Segarra

Learning graphs from sets of nodal observations represents a prominent problem formally known as graph topology inference. However, current approaches are limited by typically focusing on inferring single networks, and they assume that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Samuel Rey , Andrei Buciulea , Madeline Navarro , Santiago Segarra , Antonio G. Marques

This paper leverages the framework of algorithms-with-predictions to design data structures for two fundamental dynamic graph problems: incremental topological ordering and cycle detection. In these problems, the input is a directed graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Samuel McCauley , Benjamin Moseley , Aidin Niaparast , Shikha Singh

It is known that the stationary distribution of the random walk process is dependent on the structure of the network. This could provide us a solution of the network reconstruction. However, the stationary distribution of the random walk…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-03-17 Zhe He , Ming Li , Rui-Jie Xu , Bing-Hong Wang

Inferring network topology from smooth signals is a significant problem in data science and engineering. A common challenge in real-world scenarios is the availability of only partially observed nodes. While some studies have considered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Chuansen Peng , Hanning Tang , Zhiguo Wang , Xiaojing Shen

We consider the problem of estimating the topology of multiple networks from nodal observations, where these networks are assumed to be drawn from the same (unknown) random graph model. We adopt a graphon as our random graph model, which is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-14 Madeline Navarro , Santiago Segarra

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

We investigate the increasingly prominent task of jointly inferring multiple networks from nodal observations. While most joint inference methods assume that observations are available at all nodes, we consider the realistic and more…

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Graph reconstruction can efficiently detect the underlying topology of massive networks such as the Internet. Given a query oracle and a set of nodes, the goal is to obtain the edge set by performing as few queries as possible. An algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Clara Stegehuis , Lotte Weedage

A graph is reconstructible if it is determined up to isomorphism by the multiset of its proper induced subgraphs. The reconstruction conjecture postulates that every graph of order at least 3 is reconstructible. We show that interval graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Irene Heinrich , Masashi Kiyomi , Yota Otachi , Pascal Schweitzer

Given a subset of active nodes in a network can we re- construct the cascade that has generated these observa- tions? This is a problem that has been studied in the literature, but here we focus in the case that tempo- ral information is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Han Xiao , Polina Rozenshtein , Nikolaj Tatti , Aristides Gionis

The network reconstruction task aims to estimate a complex system's structure from various data sources such as time series, snapshots, or interaction counts. Recent work has examined this problem in networks whose relationships involve…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Simon Lizotte , Jean-Gabriel Young , Antoine Allard

How efficiently can we find an unknown graph using distance queries between its vertices? We assume that the unknown graph is connected, unweighted, and has bounded degree. The goal is to find every edge in the graph. This problem admits a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Claire Mathieu , Hang Zhou

The goal of graph inference is to design algorithms for learning properties of a hidden graph using queries to an oracle that returns information about the graph. Graph reconstruction, verification, and property testing are all types of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Huck Bennett , Mitchell Black , Amir Nayyeri , Evelyn Warton