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Understanding the structural complexity and predictability of complex networks is a central challenge in network science. Although recent studies have revealed a relationship between compression-based entropy and link prediction…

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The interaction between transitivity and sparsity, two common features in empirical networks, implies that there are local regions of large sparse networks that are dense. We call this the blessing of transitivity and it has consequences…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-08-02 Karl Rohe , Tai Qin

The network properties of a graph ensemble subject to the constraints imposed by the expected degree sequence are studied. It is found that the linear preferential attachment is a fundamental rule, as it keeps the maximal entropy in sparse…

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We investigate structural properties of large, sparse random graphs through the lens of "sampling convergence" (Borgs et. al. (2017)). Sampling convergence generalizes left convergence to sparse graphs, and describes the limit in terms of a…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-07-04 Christian Borgs , Jennifer T. Chayes , Souvik Dhara , Subhabrata Sen

Graphical modelling techniques based on sparse selection have been applied to infer complex networks in many fields, including biology and medicine, engineering, finance, and social sciences. One structural feature of some of the networks…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Annaliza McGillivray , Abbas Khalili , David A. Stephens

The notion of bounded expansion captures uniform sparsity of graph classes and renders various algorithmic problems that are hard in general tractable. In particular, the model-checking problem for first-order logic is fixed-parameter…

The structure of many real networks is not locally tree-like and hence, network analysis fails to characterise their bond percolation properties. In a recent paper [P. Mann, V. A. Smith, J. B. O. Mitchell, and S. Dobson, Percolation in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-01-27 Peter Mann , V. Anne Smith , John B. O. Mitchell , Simon Dobson

A wide variety of complex networks (social, biological, information etc.) exhibit local clustering with substantial variation in the clustering coefficient (the probability of neighbors being connected). Existing models of large graphs…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Samantha Petti , Santosh Vempala

Previous work has suggested that the structural restrictions of graphs from classes of bounded expansion--locally dense pockets in a globally sparse graph--naturally coincide with common properties of real-world networks such as clustering…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Michael P. O'Brien , Blair D. Sullivan

Complex systems, ranging from soft materials to wireless communication, are often organised as random geometric networks in which nodes and edges evenly fill up the volume of some space. Studying such networks is difficult because they…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Ivan Kryven , Rik Versendaal

Barab\'asi-Albert's `Scale Free' model is the starting point for much of the accepted theory of the evolution of real world communication networks. Careful comparison of the theory with a wide range of real world networks, however,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-09-11 Philip Tee , Ian Wakeman , George Parisis , Jonathan Dawes , István Z. Kiss

Many natural and social systems develop complex networks, that are usually modelled as random graphs. The eigenvalue spectrum of these graphs provides information about their structural properties. While the semi-circle law is known to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Illes J. Farkas , Imre Derenyi , Albert-Laszlo Barabasi , Tamas Vicsek

Real-world networks tend to be scale free, having heavy-tailed degree distributions with more hubs than predicted by classical random graph generation methods. Preferential attachment and growth are the most commonly accepted mechanisms…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Josh Johnston , Tim Andersen

Large real-world graphs tend to be sparse, but they often contain many densely connected subgraphs and exhibit high clustering coefficients. While recent random graph models can capture this sparsity, they ignore the local density, or vice…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-07-18 Sinead A. Williamson , Mauricio Tec

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the degree index and clustering index in random graphs. The degree index in our setup is a certain measure of degree irregularity whose basic properties are well studied in the literature, and the…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Ümit Işlak , Barış Yeşiloğlu

In this paper we consider the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph in the sparse regime in the limit as the number of vertices $n$ tends to infinity. We are interested in what this graph looks like when it contains many triangles, in two…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Suman Chakraborty , Remco van der Hofstad , Frank den Hollander

Link prediction is a fundamental problem in graph theory with diverse applications, including recommender systems, community detection, and identifying spurious connections. While feature-based methods achieve high accuracy, their reliance…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Mehrdad Rafiepour , S. Mehdi Vahidipour

To a considerable extent, the continuing importance and popularity of complex networks as models of real-world structures has been motivated by scale free degree distributions as well as the respectively implied hubs. Being related to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-11-20 Luciano da Fontoura Costa

Among all characteristics exhibited by natural and man-made networks the small-world phenomenon is surely the most relevant and popular. But despite its significance, a reliable and comparable quantification of the question `how small is a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-11-27 Gorka Zamora-López , Romain Brasselet

Link prediction systems (e.g. recommender systems) typically use graph topology as one of their main sources of information. However, automorphisms and related properties of graphs beget inherent limits in predictability. We calculate hard…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Justus I. Hibshman , Tim Weninger