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Modeling how networks change under structural perturbations can yield foundational insights into network robustness, which is critical in many real-world applications. The largest connected component is a popular measure of network…

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Topological metrics of graphs provide a natural way to describe the prominent features of various types of networks. Graph metrics describe the structure and interplay of graph edges and have found applications in many scientific fields. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Loukianos Spyrou , Javier Escudero

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful tool for effectively mining and learning from graph-structured data, with applications spanning numerous domains. However, most research focuses on static graphs, neglecting the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yanping Zheng , Lu Yi , Zhewei Wei

How do real graphs evolve over time? What are ``normal'' growth patterns in social, technological, and information networks? Many studies have discovered patterns in static graphs, identifying properties in a single snapshot of a large…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Jure Leskovec , Jon Kleinberg , Christos Faloutsos

One property of networks that has received comparatively little attention is hierarchy, i.e., the property of having vertices that cluster together in groups, which then join to form groups of groups, and so forth, up through all levels of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-04-12 Aaron Clauset , Cristopher Moore , M. E. J. Newman

Recent work on the structure of social networks and the internet has focussed attention on graphs with distributions of vertex degree that are significantly different from the Poisson degree distributions that have been widely studied in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. E. J. Newman , S. H. Strogatz , D. J. Watts

Small disturbances can trigger functional breakdowns in complex systems. A challenging task is to infer the structural cause of a disturbance in a networked system, soon enough to prevent a catastrophe. We present a graph neural network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-06-11 Edward Laurence , Charles Murphy , Guillaume St-Onge , Xavier Roy-Pomerleau , Vincent Thibeault

Driven by growing interest in the sciences, industry, and among the broader public, a large number of empirical studies have been conducted in recent years of the structure of networks ranging from the internet and the world wide web to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-06-08 M. E. J. Newman

As the scale of networked control systems increases and interactions between different subsystems become more sophisticated, questions of the resilience of such networks increase in importance. The need to redefine classical system and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-26 Mohammad Pirani , Aritra Mitra , Shreyas Sundaram

Retrieving cohesive subgraphs in networks is a fundamental problem in social network analysis and graph data management. These subgraphs can be used for marketing strategies or recommendation systems. Despite the introduction of numerous…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Dahee Kim , Song Kim , Jeongseon Kim , Junghoon Kim , Kaiyu Feng , Sungsu Lim , Jungeun Kim

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) trained on low-dimensional tasks have been widely used to model functional biological networks. However, the solutions found by learning and the effect of initial connectivity are not well understood. Here,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-05-17 Friedrich Schuessler , Francesca Mastrogiuseppe , Alexis Dubreuil , Srdjan Ostojic , Omri Barak

Modeling and generating graphs is fundamental for studying networks in biology, engineering, and social sciences. However, modeling complex distributions over graphs and then efficiently sampling from these distributions is challenging due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Jiaxuan You , Rex Ying , Xiang Ren , William L. Hamilton , Jure Leskovec

Graphs are widely used as a popular representation of the network structure of connected data. Graph data can be found in a broad spectrum of application domains such as social systems, ecosystems, biological networks, knowledge graphs, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Feng Xia , Ke Sun , Shuo Yu , Abdul Aziz , Liangtian Wan , Shirui Pan , Huan Liu

A graphical model is a statistical model that is associated to a graph whose nodes correspond to variables of interest. The edges of the graph reflect allowed conditional dependencies among the variables. Graphical models admit…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-06-09 Mathias Drton , Marloes H. Maathuis

Recent theoretical and empirical studies have focused on the structural properties of complex relational networks in social, biological and technological systems. Here we study the basic properties of twenty 1-square-mile samples of street…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 Alessio Cardillo , Salvatore Scellato , Vito Latora , Sergio Porta

Degree heterogeneity and latent geometry, also referred to as popularity and similarity, are key explanatory components underlying the structure of real-world networks. The relationship between these components and the statistical…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Keith Malcolm Smith , Jason P. Smith

Graph Neural Networks operate through bottom-up message-passing, fundamentally differing from human visual perception, which intuitively captures global structures first. We investigate the underappreciated potential of vision models for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Xinjian Zhao , Wei Pang , Zhongkai Xue , Xiangru Jian , Lei Zhang , Yaoyao Xu , Xiaozhuang Song , Shu Wu , Tianshu Yu

Signed networks have been a topic of recent interest in the network control community as they allow studying antagonistic interactions in multi-agent systems. Although dynamical characteristics of signed networks have been well-studied,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-13 Siavash Alemzadeh , Mathias Hudoba de Badyn , Mehran Mesbahi

Complex networks can be understood as graphs whose connectivity deviates from those of regular or near-regular graphs, which are understood as being `simple'. While a great deal of the attention so far dedicated to complex networks has been…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-08-29 Luciano da Fontoura Costa , Francisco A. Rodrigues

This article focuses on the problem of studying shared- and individual-specific structure in replicated networks or graph-valued data. In particular, the observed data consist of $n$ graphs, $G_i, i=1,\ldots,n$, with each graph consisting…

Computation · Statistics 2018-04-13 Lu Wang , Zhengwu Zhang , David Dunson