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Network complexity has been studied for over half a century and has found a wide range of applications. Many methods have been developed to characterize and estimate the complexity of networks. However, there has been little research with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-13 Yann Issartel

Optimal paths connecting randomly selected network nodes and fixed routers are studied analytically in the presence of non-linear overlap cost that penalizes congestion. Routing becomes increasingly more difficult as the number of selected…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-05-15 Chi Ho Yeung , David Saad

A complex network is a condensed representation of the relational topological framework of a complex system. A main reason for the existence of such networks is the transmission of items through the entities of these complex systems. Here,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-18 María Pereda , Ernesto Estrada

Networks are mathematical structures that are universally used to describe a large variety of complex systems such as the brain or the Internet. Characterizing the geometrical properties of these networks has become increasingly relevant…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-26 Zhihao Wu , Giulia Menichetti , Christoph Rahmede , Ginestra Bianconi

The connectivity structure of graphs is typically related to the attributes of the nodes. In social networks for example, the probability of a friendship between two people depends on their attributes, such as their age, address, and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Junning Deng , Bo Kang , Jefrey Lijffijt , Tijl De Bie

We demonstrate that the distribution of betweenness centrality (BC), a global structural metric based on network flow, is an invariant quantity in most planar graphs. We confirm this invariance through an empirical analysis of street…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-07-04 Alec Kirkley , Hugo Barbosa , Marc Barthelemy , Gourab Ghoshal

The loss surface of deep neural networks has recently attracted interest in the optimization and machine learning communities as a prime example of high-dimensional non-convex problem. Some insights were recently gained using spin glass…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-05 C. Daniel Freeman , Joan Bruna

The latent space approach to complex networks has revealed fundamental principles and symmetries, enabling geometric methods. However, the conditions under which network topology implies geometricity remain unclear. We provide a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-03 Roya Aliakbarisani , Marián Boguñá , M. Ángeles Serrano

In decentralized optimization, nodes cooperate to minimize an overall objective function that is the sum (or average) of per-node private objective functions. Algorithms interleave local computations with communication among all or a subset…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Angelia Nedić , Alex Olshevsky , Michael G. Rabbat

We study the problem of identifying different behaviors occurring in different parts of a large heterogenous network. We zoom in to the network using lenses of different sizes to capture the local structure of the network. These network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Kshiteesh Hegde , Malik Magdon-Ismail

In complex networks a common task is to identify the most important or "central" nodes. There are several definitions, often called centrality measures, which often lead to different results. Here we study extensively correlations between…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Magnus Jungsbluth , Bernd Burghardt , Alexander K. Hartmann

Social studies researchers use graphs to model group activities in social networks. An important property in this context is the centrality of a vertex: the inverse of the average distance to each other vertex. We describe a randomized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-03-08 David Eppstein , Joseph Wang

A number of recent studies have focused on the statistical properties of networked systems such as social networks and the World-Wide Web. Researchers have concentrated particularly on a few properties which seem to be common to many…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Michelle Girvan , M. E. J. Newman

Network centrality plays an important role in many applications. Central nodes in social networks can be influential, driving opinions and spreading news or rumors.In hyperlinked environments, such as the Web, where users navigate via…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Sourav Medya , Arlei Silva , Ambuj Singh , Prithwish Basu , Ananthram Swami

A very popular class of models for networks posits that each node is represented by a point in a continuous latent space, and that the probability of an edge between nodes is a decreasing function of the distance between them in this latent…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Cosma Rohilla Shalizi , Dena Marie Asta

Subgraph counts - in particular the number of occurrences of small shapes such as triangles - characterize properties of random networks, and as a result have seen wide use as network summary statistics. However, subgraphs are typically…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-30 P-A. Maugis

We introduce a nonparametric way to estimate the global probability density function for a random persistence diagram. Precisely, a kernel density function centered at a given persistence diagram and a given bandwidth is constructed. Our…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-14 Joshua Lee Mike , Vasileios Maroulas

Betweeness centrality is one of the most important concepts in graph analysis. It was recently extended to link streams, a graph generalization where links arrive over time. However, its computation raises non-trivial issues, due in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Frédéric Simard , Clémence Magnien , Matthieu Latapy

In this paper, we study the entropy of a hard random geometric graph (RGG), a commonly used model for spatial networks, where the connectivity is governed by the distances between the nodes. Formally, given a connection range $r$, a hard…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Praneeth Kumar Vippathalla , Justin P. Coon , Mihai-Alin Badiu

Real networks often form interacting parts of larger and more complex systems. Examples can be found in different domains, ranging from the Internet to structural and functional brain networks. Here, we show that these multiplex systems are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-09-11 Kaj-Kolja Kleineberg , Marian Boguna , M. Angeles Serrano , Fragkiskos Papadopoulos