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We give exact relations which are valid for small-world networks (SWN's) with a general `degree distribution', i.e the distribution of nearest-neighbor connections. For the original SWN model, we illustrate how these exact relations can be…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Almaas , R. V. Kulkarni , D. Stroud

Robertson and Seymour's celebrated Graph Minor Theorem states that graphs are well-quasi-ordered by the minor relation. Unlike the minor relation, the topological minor relation does not well-quasi-order graphs in general. Among all known…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Chun-Hung Liu , Robin Thomas

We consider the problem of estimating the graph size, where one is given only local access to the graph. We formally define a query model in which one starts with a \emph{seed} node and is allowed to make queries about neighbours of nodes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-15 Varun Kanade , Frederik Mallmann-Trenn , Victor Verdugo

Navigation process is studied on a variant of the Watts-Strogatz small world network model embedded on a square lattice. With probability $p$, each vertex sends out a long range link, and the probability of the other end of this link…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Jian-Zhen Chen , Wei Liu , Jian-Yang Zhu

In this paper we prove that if a pair of graphs G,H have senders, then they necessarily have connected minimal senders; we also prove that given two fixed graphs that are either 3-connected or triangles there are minimal (G,H)-senders with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-04 Nerio Borges

We present a new notion of limits of weighted directed graphs of growing size based on convergence of their random quotients. These limits are specified in terms of random exchangeable measures on the unit square. We call our limits…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Eitan Levin , Venkat Chandrasekaran

Specify a randomized algorithm that, given a very large graph or network, extracts a random subgraph. What can we learn about the input graph from a single subsample? We derive laws of large numbers for the sampler output, by relating…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-13 Peter Orbanz

Recently, Watts and Strogatz introduced the so-called small-world networks in order to describe systems which combine simultaneously properties of regular and of random lattices. In this work we study diffusion processes defined on such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Jespersen , I. M. Sokolov , A. Blumen

We compare two link analysis ranking methods of web pages in a site. The first, called Site Rank, is an adaptation of PageRank to the granularity of a web site and the second, called Popularity Rank, is based on the frequencies of user…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jose Borges , Mark Levene

Two new classes of networks are introduced that resemble small-world properties. These networks are recursively constructed but retain a fixed, regular degree. They consist of a one-dimensional lattice backbone overlayed by a hierarchical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-05-29 S. Boettcher , B. Goncalves , H. Guclu

We consider a class of growing random graphs obtained by creating vertices sequentially one by one: at each step, we choose uniformly the neighbours of the newly created vertex; its degree is a random variable with a fixed but arbitrary…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-11-13 Svante Janson , Simone Severini

PageRank has numerous applications in information retrieval, reputation systems, machine learning, and graph partitioning.In this paper, we study PageRank in undirected random graphs with expansion property. The Chung-Lu random graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Arun Kadavankandy , Liudmila Ostroumova , Andrei Raigorodskii

The Small World phenomenon has inspired researchers across a number of fields. A breakthrough in its understanding was made by Kleinberg who introduced Rank Based Augmentation (RBA): add to each vertex independently an arc to a random…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-21 Dimitris Achlioptas , Paris Siminelakis

The cover time of random walks on a graph has found wide practical applications in different fields of computer science, such as crawling and searching on the World Wide Web and query processing in sensor networks, with the application…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Wanyue Xu , Zhongzhi Zhang

We find that the simple coupling of network growth to the position of a random walker on the network generates a traveling wave in the probability distribution of nodes visited by the walker. We argue that the entropy of this probability…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-06-26 Robert J. H. Ross , Charlotte Strandkvist , Walter Fontana

We study the dynamics of an epidemic-like model for the spread of a rumor on a small-world network. It has been shown that this model exhibits a transition between regimes of localization and propagation at a finite value of the network…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Damian H. Zanette

Theoretical analyses for graph learning methods often assume a complete observation of the input graph. Such an assumption might not be useful for handling any-size graphs due to the scalability issues in practice. In this work, we develop…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Takanori Maehara , Hoang NT

We analyze a minimal model of a growing network. At each time step, a new vertex is added; then, with probability delta, two vertices are chosen uniformly at random and joined by an undirected edge. This process is repeated for t time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Duncan S. Callaway , John E. Hopcroft , Jon M. Kleinberg , M. E. J. Newman , Steven H. Strogatz

We study separating systems of the edges of a graph where each member of the separating system is a path. We conjecture that every $n$-vertex graph admits a separating path system of size $O(n)$ and prove this in certain interesting special…

The topology of the Internet has typically been measured by sampling traceroutes, which are roughly shortest paths from sources to destinations. The resulting measurements have been used to infer that the Internet's degree distribution is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-05-29 Aaron Clauset , Cristopher Moore