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Random walks can be used to search complex networks for a desired resource. To reduce search lengths, we propose a mechanism based on building random walks connecting together partial walks (PW) previously computed at each network node.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-04-19 Víctor M. López Millán , Vicent Cholvi , Luis López , Antonio Fernández Anta

In the study of small and large networks it is customary to perform a simple random walk, where the random walker jumps from one node to one of its neighbours with uniform probability. The properties of this random walk are intimately…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-09-18 Jean-Charles Delvenne , Anne-Sophie Libert

The random walk is one of the most basic dynamic properties of complex networks, which has gradually become a research hotspot in recent years due to its many applications in actual networks. An important characteristic of the random walk…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-11-21 Zhizhuo Zhang , Bo Wu , Zuguo Yu

We propose the first return time distribution (FRTD) of a random walk as an interpretable and mathematically grounded node embedding. The FRTD assigns a probability mass function to each node, allowing us to define a distance between any…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Vedanta Thapar , Renaud Lambiotte , George T. Cantwell

We present analytical results for the distribution of first hitting times of random walkers (RWs) on directed Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi (ER) networks. Starting from a random initial node, a random walker hops randomly along directed edges between…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-04-05 Ido Tishby , Ofer Biham , Eytan Katzav

Random walks constitute a fundamental mechanism for many dynamics taking place on complex networks. Besides, as a more realistic description of our society, multiplex networks have been receiving a growing interest, as well as the dynamical…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-05-25 Quantong Guo , Emanuele Cozzo , Zhiming Zheng , Yamir Moreno

An efficient and accurate iterative scheme for the computation of the mean first passage times (MFPTs) of ergodic Markov chains has been presented. Firstly, the computation problem of MFPTs is transformed into a set of linear equations. It…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Yaming Chen

We investigate multitarget search on complex networks and derive an exact expression for the mean random cover time that quantifies the expected time a walker needs to visit multiple targets. Based on this, we recover and extend some…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-09-13 Tongfeng Weng , Jie Zhang , Michael Small , Ji Yang , Farshid Hassani Bijarbooneh , Pan Hui

In this paper, we consider continuous-time quantum walks (CTQWs) on one-dimension ring lattice of N nodes in which every node is connected to its 2m nearest neighbors (m on either side). In the framework of the Bloch function ansatz, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xinping Xu , Feng Liu

Tracking the movement of tracer particles has long been a strategy for uncovering complex structures. Here, we study discrete-time random walks on finite Cayley trees to infer key parameters such as tree depth and geometric bias toward the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-01 Fabian H. Kreten , Ludger Santen , Reza Shaebani

Analytical results for the distribution of first hitting times of random walks on Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi networks are presented. Starting from a random initial node, a random walker hops between adjacent nodes until it hits a node which it has…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-02-22 Ido Tishby , Ofer Biham , Eytan Katzav

We present analytical results for the distribution of first hitting times of non-backtracking random walks on finite Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi networks of $N$ nodes. The walkers hop randomly between adjacent nodes on the network, without stepping…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-04-28 Ido Tishby , Ofer Biham , Eytan Katzav

We present a semi-Markov model of random walk on complex networks in discrete and continuous-time scenario. In the general setting of the semi-Markov chains, the duration of stay at given node - the sojourn time - is random, and the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-20 Lasko Basnarkov

Recent studies have established a connection between the macroscopic mechanical response of polymeric materials and the statistics of the shortest path (SP) length between distant nodes in the polymer network. Since these statistics can be…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 Zhenyuan Zhang , Shaswat Mohanty , Jose Blanchet , Wei Cai

We study the classical and quantum transport processes on some finite networks and model them by continuous-time random walks (CTRW) and continuous-time quantum walks (CTQW), respectively. We calculate the classical and quantum transition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-05 S. Salimi , R. Radgohar , M. M. Soltanzadeh

We study unbiased discrete random walks on the FSFT based on the its self-similar structure and the relations between random walks and electrical networks. First, we provide new methods to derive analytic solutions of the MFPT for any pair…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-18 Junhao Peng , Guoai Xu

A new mechanism for efficiently solving the Markov decision processes (MDPs) is proposed in this paper. We introduce the notion of reachability landscape where we use the Mean First Passage Time (MFPT) as a means to characterize the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Shoubhik Debnath , Lantao Liu , Gaurav Sukhatme

Continuous-time random walks (CTRWs) on discrete state spaces, ranging from regular lattices to complex networks, are ubiquitous across physics, chemistry, and biology. Models with coarse-grained states, for example those employed in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-03 Michael Manhart , Willow Kion-Crosby , Alexandre V. Morozov

An intense research on financial market microstructure is presently in progress. Continuous time random walks (CTRWs) are general models capable to capture the small-scale properties that high frequency data series show. The use of CTRW…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-12-02 Miquel Montero , Jaume Masoliver

We introduce a set of techniques that allow for efficiently generating many independent random walks in the Massive Parallel Computation (MPC) model with space per machine strongly sublinear in the number of vertices. In this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Jakub Łącki , Slobodan Mitrović , Krzysztof Onak , Piotr Sankowski