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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a predominant method for graph representation learning. However, beyond subgraph frequency estimation, their application to network motif significance-profile (SP) prediction remains under-explored, with no…

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We introduce a method to find network motifs in knowledge graphs. Network motifs are useful patterns or meaningful subunits of the graph that recur frequently. We extend the common definition of a network motif to coincide with a basic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-19 Peter Bloem

We introduce a new family of network models, called hierarchical network models, that allow us to represent in an explicit manner the stochastic dependence among the dyads (random ties) of the network. In particular, each member of this…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-11-27 Kayvan Sadeghi , Alessandro Rinaldo

Link prediction is a cornerstone of the Web ecosystem, powering applications from recommendation and search to knowledge graph completion and collaboration forecasting. However, large-scale networks present unique challenges: they contain…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Zhejian Yang , Songwei Zhao , Zilin Zhao , Hechang Chen

Group-based brain connectivity networks have great appeal for researchers interested in gaining further insight into complex brain function and how it changes across different mental states and disease conditions. Accurately constructing…

Applications · Statistics 2013-03-05 Sean L. Simpson , Malaak N. Moussa , Paul J. Laurienti

Motifs are a fundamental building block and distinguishing feature of networks. While characteristic motif distribution have been found in many networks, very little is known today about the evolution of network motifs. This paper studies…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-02-18 Doris Schiöberg , Fabian Schneider , Stefan Schmid , Steve Uhlig , Anja Feldmann

On signed social networks, balanced and unbalanced triangles are a critical motif due to their role as the foundations of Structural Balance Theory. The uses for these motifs have been extensively explored in networks with known edge signs,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Alexander Zhou , Haoyang Li , Anxin Tian , Zhiyuan Li , Yue Wang

Structural balance theory predicts that triads in networks gravitate towards stable configurations. The theory has been verified for undirected graphs. Since real-world networks are often directed, we introduce a novel method for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Rezvaneh Rezapour , Ly Dinh , Lan Jiang , Jana Diesner

Repeated small dynamic networks are integral to studies in evolutionary game theory, where networked public goods games offer novel insights into human behaviors. Building on these findings, it is necessary to develop a statistical model…

Applications · Statistics 2025-11-26 Hiroyasu Ando , Akihiro Nishi , Mark S. Handcock

There has been a recent surge in learning generative models for graphs. While impressive progress has been made on static graphs, work on generative modeling of temporal graphs is at a nascent stage with significant scope for improvement.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Shubham Gupta , Sahil Manchanda , Srikanta Bedathur , Sayan Ranu

To any inhibition-dominated threshold-linear network (TLN) we can associate a directed graph that captures the pattern of strong and weak inhibition between neurons. Robust motifs are graphs for which the structure of fixed points in the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-12-18 Carina Curto , Christopher Langdon , Katherine Morrison

Random networks are increasingly used to analyse complex transportation networks, such as airline routes, roads and rail networks. So far, this research has been focused on describing the properties of the networks with the help of random…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-09-19 Jürgen Hackl , Bryan T. Adey

Temporal networks are essential for modeling and understanding systems whose behavior varies in time, from social interactions to biological systems. Often, however, real-world data are prohibitively expensive to collect in a large scale or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Antonio Longa , Giulia Cencetti , Sune Lehmann , Andrea Passerini , Bruno Lepri

Network motif analysis is a useful tool for the investigation of complex networks. We study the profiles of tetradic motifs in horizontal visibility graphs (HVGs) converted from multifractal binomial measures, fractional Gaussian noises,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-02-04 Wen-Jie Xie , Rui-Qi Han , Wei-Xing Zhou

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

Exponential-family random graph models (ERGMs) provide a principled way to model and simulate features common in human social networks, such as propensities for homophily and friend-of-a-friend triad closure. We show that, without…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-01-09 Pavel N. Krivitsky , Mark S. Handcock , Martina Morris

Random intersection graphs have received much interest and been used in diverse applications. They are naturally induced in modeling secure sensor networks under random key predistribution schemes, as well as in modeling the topologies of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Jun Zhao , Osman Yağan , Virgil Gligor

Counting the frequencies of 3-, 4-, and 5-node undirected motifs (also know as graphlets) is widely used for understanding complex networks such as social and biology networks. However, it is a great challenge to compute these metrics for a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-12-18 Pinghui Wang , Jing Tao , Junzhou Zhao , Xiaohong Guan

Dynamic networks, a.k.a. graph streams, consist of a set of vertices and a collection of timestamped interaction events (i.e., temporal edges) between vertices. Temporal motifs are defined as classes of (small) isomorphic induced subgraphs…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-02-23 Xiaojing Zhu , Eric D. Kolaczyk

Studying significant network patterns, known as graphlets (or motifs), has been a popular approach to understand the underlying organizing principles of complex networks. Statistical significance is routinely assessed by comparing to null…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-11-08 Bingjie Hao , István A. Kovács