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Technology trends will cause data movement to account for the majority of energy expenditure and execution time on emerging computers. Therefore, computational complexity will no longer be a sufficient metric for comparing algorithms, and a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Venmugil Elango , Fabrice Rastello , Louis-Noel Pouchet , J. Ramanujam , P. Sadayappan

This paper considers the problem of security allocation in a networked control system under stealthy attacks. The system is comprised of interconnected subsystems represented by vertices. A malicious adversary selects a single vertex on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-03 Anh Tung Nguyen , André M. H. Teixeira , Alexander Medvedev

Many applications like pointer analysis and incremental compilation require maintaining a topological ordering of the nodes of a directed acyclic graph (DAG) under dynamic updates. All known algorithms for this problem are either only…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-02-08 Deepak Ajwani , Tobias Friedrich

Blockchain and other decentralized databases, known as distributed ledgers, are designed to store information online where all trusted network members can update the data with transparency. The dynamics of ledger's development can be…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Jiewei Feng , Christopher King , Ken R. Duffy

We study a network congestion game of discrete-time dynamic traffic of atomic agents with a single origin-destination pair. Any agent freely makes a dynamic decision at each vertex (e.g., road crossing) and traffic is regulated with given…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Zhigang Cao , Bo Chen , Xujin Chen , Changjun Wang

We propose a method to identify nonlinear acyclic networks in continuous time when the dynamics are located on the edges and all the nodes are excited. We show that it is necessary and sufficient to measure all the sinks to identify any…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Ramachandran Anantharaman , Renato Vizuete , Julien M. Hendrickx , Alexandre Mauroy

Our goal is to infer the topology of a network when (i) we can send probes between sources and receivers at the edge of the network and (ii) intermediate nodes can perform simple network coding operations, i.e., additions. Our key intuition…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-02-07 Pegah Sattari , Christina Fragouli , Athina Markopoulou

Mainly motivated by the problem of modelling directional dependence relationships for multivariate count data in high-dimensional settings, we present a new algorithm, called learnDAG, for learning the structure of directed acyclic graphs…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-06-10 Thi Kim Hue Nguyen , Monica Chiogna , Davide Risso

We present a novel form of Fourier analysis, and associated signal processing concepts, for signals (or data) indexed by edge-weighted directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). This means that our Fourier basis yields an eigendecomposition of a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-29 Bastian Seifert , Chris Wendler , Markus Püschel

Directed acyclic graph (DAG) models, also called Bayesian networks, impose conditional independence constraints on a multivariate probability distribution, and are widely used in probabilistic reasoning, machine learning and causal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-12-20 Robin J. Evans

Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) are central to uncovering causal structure in complex systems, yet learning a single DAG from data is often challenging: model uncertainty, finite samples, and a combinatorially large search space frequently…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-19 Yunan Wu , Yue Wang , Chunlin Li , Chenglong Ye

In this paper we consider the problem of learning the genetic-interaction-map, i.e., the topology of a directed acyclic graph (DAG) of genetic interactions from noisy double knockout (DK) data. Based on a set of well established biological…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2016-09-12 Fabio Nikolay , Marius Pesavento , George Kritikos , Nassos Typas

Estimating the structure of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) from observational data remains a significant challenge in machine learning. Most research in this area concentrates on learning a single DAG for the entire population. This paper…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-21 Ryan Thompson , Edwin V. Bonilla , Robert Kohn

We describe computationally efficient methods for learning mixtures in which each component is a directed acyclic graphical model (mixtures of DAGs or MDAGs). We argue that simple search-and-score algorithms are infeasible for a variety of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Bo Thiesson , Christopher Meek , David Maxwell Chickering , David Heckerman

Viral information like rumors or fake news is spread over a communication network like a virus infection in a unidirectional manner: entity $i$ conveys information to a neighbor $j$, resulting in two equally informed (infected) parties.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Chinthaka Dinesh , Gene Cheung , Fei Chen , Yuejiang Li , H. Vicky Zhao

Directed acyclic graph (DAG) learning is a central task in structure discovery and causal inference. Although the field has witnessed remarkable advances over the past few years, it remains statistically and computationally challenging to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-09 Ryan Thompson , Edwin V. Bonilla , Robert Kohn

Attack graphs (AG) are used to assess pathways availed by cyber adversaries to penetrate a network. State-of-the-art approaches for AG generation focus mostly on deriving dependencies between system vulnerabilities based on network scans…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Azqa Nadeem , Sicco Verwer , Shanchieh Jay Yang

A communication network modelled by a directed acyclic graph (DAG) is considered, over which a source wishes to send a specified number of bits to a destination node. Each node of the DAG is powered by a separate renewable energy source,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Rahul Vaze , Sibi Raj B Pillai

Comparing directed acyclic graphs is essential in various fields such as healthcare, social media, finance, biology, and marketing. DAGs often result from contagion processes over networks, including information spreading, retweet activity,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-31 Kathrin Guckes , Marc Schäpers , Margit Pohl , Andreas Kerren , Tatiana von Landesberger

Technology trends are making the cost of data movement increasingly dominant, both in terms of energy and time, over the cost of performing arithmetic operations in computer systems. The fundamental ratio of aggregate data movement…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-04-21 Venmugil Elango , Fabrice Rastello , Louis-Noël Pouchet , J. Ramanujam , P. Sadayappan