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We live in a world increasingly dominated by networks -- communications, social, information, biological etc. A central attribute of many of these networks is that they are dynamic, that is, they exhibit structural changes over time. While…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-12-02 Prithwish Basu , Amotz Bar-Noy , Ram Ramanathan , Matthew P. Johnson

We investigate the interrelation between graph searching games and games with imperfect information. As key consequence we obtain that parity games with bounded imperfect information can be solved in PTIME on graphs of bounded DAG-width…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Bernd Puchala , Roman Rabinovich

A growing number of applications like probabilistic machine learning, sparse linear algebra, robotic navigation, etc., exhibit irregular data flow computation that can be modeled with directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). The irregularity arises…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Nimish Shah , Wannes Meert , Marian Verhelst

In this article, we propose a new hypothesis testing method for directed acyclic graph (DAG). While there is a rich class of DAG estimation methods, there is a relative paucity of DAG inference solutions. Moreover, the existing methods…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-25 Chengchun Shi , Yunzhe Zhou , Lexin Li

We consider the problem of aggregating data in a dynamic graph, that is, aggregating the data that originates from all nodes in the graph to a specific node, the sink. We are interested in giving lower bounds for this problem, under…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-10-10 Quentin Bramas , Toshimitsu Masuzawa , Sébastien Tixeuil

The following optimal stopping problem is considered. The vertices of a graph $G$ are revealed one by one, in a random order, to a selector. He aims to stop this process at a time $t$ that maximizes the expected number of connected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Fabrício Siqueira Benevides , Małgorzata Sulkowska

The combinatorial search space presents a significant challenge to learning causality from data. Recently, the problem has been formulated into a continuous optimization framework with an acyclicity constraint, allowing for the exploration…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Hristo Petkov , Colin Hanley , Feng Dong

A class of models describing the flow of information within networks via routing processes is proposed and investigated, concentrating on the effects of memory traces on the global properties. The long-term flow of information is governed…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-13 Dimitrije Markovic , Claudius Gros

The paper formalizes a version of parallel online directed acyclic graph (DAG) exploration, general enough to be readily mapped to many computational scenarios. In both the offline and online versions, vertices are weighted with the work…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Rahul Prabhu , Amit Verma , Meera Sitharam

We consider the PC-algorithm Spirtes et. al. (2000) for estimating the skeleton of a very high-dimensional acyclic directed graph (DAG) with corresponding Gaussian distribution. The PC-algorithm is computationally feasible for sparse…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Markus Kalisch , Peter Buehlmann

Modern threats have emerged from the prevalence of social networks. Hostile actors, such as extremist groups or foreign governments, utilize these networks to run propaganda campaigns with different aims. For extremists, these campaigns are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Fanyu Que , Krishnan Rajagopalan , Tauhid Zaman

We study reachability and shortest paths problems in dynamic directed graphs. Whereas algebraic dynamic data structures supporting edge updates and reachability/distance queries have been known for quite a long time, they do not, in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Adam Karczmarz , Anish Mukherjee , Piotr Sankowski

We consider the following modification of annihilation game called node blocking. Given a directed graph, each vertex can be occupied by at most one token. There are two types of tokens, each player can move his type of tokens. The players…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Dariusz Dereniowski

Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) are commonly used to represent causal relationships among random variables in graphical models. Applications of these models arise in the study of physical, as well as biological systems, where directed edges…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2009-12-01 Ali Shojaie , George Michailidis

We consider a class of jump games in which agents of different types occupy the nodes of a graph aiming to maximize the variety of types in their neighborhood. In particular, each agent derives a utility equal to the number of types…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Lata Narayanan , Jaroslav Opatrny , Shanmukha Tummala , Alexandros A. Voudouris

In this paper we study graph problems in dynamic streaming model, where the input is defined by a sequence of edge insertions and deletions. As many natural problems require $\Omega(n)$ space, where $n$ is the number of vertices, existing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Zengfeng Huang , Pan Peng

We establish a new framework for statistical estimation of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) when data are generated from a linear, possibly non-Gaussian structural equation model. Our framework consists of two parts: (1) inferring the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-11-15 Po-Ling Loh , Peter Bühlmann

This paper studies a stochastic dynamic game between two competing teams, each consisting of a network of collaborating agents. Unlike fully cooperative settings, where all agents share a common objective, each team in this game aims to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Yike Zhao , Haoyuan Cai , Ali H. Sayed

Random directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) based on imposing an order on Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi and scale free random graphs are widely used for evaluating causal discovery algorithms. We show that in such DAGs, the set of nodes reachable via open…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-08 Alexander G. Reisach , Antoine Chambaz , Gilles Blanchard , Sebastian Weichwald

A directed acyclic graph (DAG) is the most common graphical model for representing causal relationships among a set of variables. When restricted to using only observational data, the structure of the ground truth DAG is identifiable only…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-12 AmirEmad Ghassami , Saber Salehkaleybar , Negar Kiyavash , Kun Zhang