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We give a sharp lower bound on the number of matchings of a given size in a bipartite graph. When specialized to regular bipartite graphs, our results imply Friedland's Lower Matching Conjecture and Schrijver's theorem proven by Gurvits and…

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The aim of the current work is to prove a law of large numbers for the range size of recurrent rotor walks with random initial configuration on a general class of trees, called periodic trees or directed covers of graphs.

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We prove almost sure convergence of the maximum degree in an evolving tree model combining local choice and preferential attachment. At each step in the growth of the graph, a new vertex is introduced. A fixed, finite number of possible…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-03-19 Yury Malyshkin , Elliot Paquette

We study a model of random $\mathcal{R}$-enriched trees that is based on weights on the $\mathcal{R}$-structures and allows for a unified treatment of a large family of random discrete structures. We establish distributional limits…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-12-12 Benedikt Stufler

Various real-life networks of current interest are simultaneously scale-free and modular. Here we study analytically the average distance in a class of deterministically growing scale-free modular networks. By virtue of the recursive…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-12-09 Zhongzhi Zhang , Yuan Lin , Shuigeng Zhou , Zhigang Wang , Jihong Guan

We present convincing empirical evidence for an effective and general strategy for building accurate small models. Such models are attractive for interpretability and also find use in resource-constrained environments. The strategy is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Abhishek Ghose

A network is said to have the properties of a small world if a suitably defined average distance between any two nodes is proportional to the logarithm of the number of nodes, $N$. In this paper, we present a novel derivation of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-26 Andrew D. Jackson , Subodh P. Patil

We consider the problem of testing properties of graphs underlying high-dimensional graphical models. We adopt the model of covariance queries introduced by Lugosi, Truszkowski, Velona, and Zwiernik (2021). We study the case when the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-18 Sofiya Burova , Francisco Calvillo , Gábor Lugosi , Piotr Zwiernik

Many real-world networks exhibit the so-called small-world phenomenon: their typical distances are much smaller than their sizes. One mathematical model for this phenomenon is a long-range percolation graph on a $d$-dimensional box $\{0, 1,…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Tianqi Wu

This paper proposes an attributed network growth model. Despite the knowledge that individuals use limited resources to form connections to similar others, we lack an understanding of how local and resource-constrained mechanisms explain…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Harshay Shah , Suhansanu Kumar , Hari Sundaram

In order to better understand dynamical functions on amounts of natural and man-made complex systems, lots of researchers from a wide range of disciplines, covering statistic physics, mathematics, theoretical computer science, and so on,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Fei Ma , Ding Wang , Ping Wang , Bing Yao

"Small worlds" are large systems in which any given node has only a few connections to other points, but possessing the property that all pairs of points are connected by a short path, typically logarithmic in the number of nodes. The use…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-01-19 Louigi Addario-Berry , Tao Lei

Detecting the dimensionality of graphs is a central topic in machine learning. While the problem has been tackled empirically as well as theoretically, existing methods have several drawbacks. On the one hand, empirical tools are…

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We prove several new tight distributed lower bounds for classic symmetry breaking graph problems. As a basic tool, we first provide a new insightful proof that any deterministic distributed algorithm that computes a $\Delta$-coloring on…

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We establish a relationship between the Small-World behavior found in complex networks and a family of Random Walks trajectories using, as a linking bridge, a maze iconography. Simple methods to generate mazes using Random Walks are…

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Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-11-27 Yong Gao

We significantly improve known time bounds for solving the minimum cut problem on undirected graphs. We use a ``semi-duality'' between minimum cuts and maximum spanning tree packings combined with our previously developed random sampling…

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Small-world networks, which combine randomized and structured elements, are seen as prevalent in nature. Several random graph models have been given for small-world networks, with one of the most fruitful, introduced by Jon Kleinberg,…

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