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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

In graph signal processing, the graph adjacency matrix or the graph Laplacian commonly define the shift operator. The spectral decomposition of the shift operator plays an important role in that the eigenvalues represent frequencies and the…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-11-09 Stephen Kruzick , Jose M. F. Moura

Inductive Recommender Systems are capable of recommending for new users and with new items thus avoiding the need to retrain after new data reaches the system. However, these methods are still trained on all the data available, requiring…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Theis E. Jendal , Matteo Lissandrini , Peter Dolog , Katja Hose

The basic inverse problem in spectral graph theory consists in determining the graph given its eigenvalue spectrum. In this paper, we are interested in a network of technological agents whose graph is unknown, communicating by means of a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-08-20 Enzo Fioriti , Stefano Chiesa , Fabio Fratichini

The study of complex networks has been one of the most active fields in science in recent decades. Spectral properties of networks (or graphs that represent them) are of fundamental importance. Researchers have been investigating these…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Daniel Montealegre , Van Vu

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…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Sebastián Brzovic , Cristóbal Rojas , Andrés Abeliuk

Many processes of spreading and diffusion take place on temporal networks, and their outcomes are influenced by correlations in the times of contact. These correlations have a particularly strong influence on processes where the spreading…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-09-19 Mikko Kivelä , Jordan Cambe , Jari Saramäki , Márton Karsai

Recently it has been demonstrated that the connectivity transition from microscopic connectivity to macroscopic connectedness, known as percolation, is generically announced by a cascade of microtransitions of the percolation order…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-01-25 Malte Schröder , Wei Chen , Jan Nagler

Jigsaw percolation is a model for the process of solving puzzles within a social network, which was recently proposed by Brummitt, Chatterjee, Dey and Sivakoff. In the model there are two graphs on a single vertex set (the `people' graph…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-06-28 Béla Bollobás , Oliver Riordan , Erik Slivken , Paul Smith

We give an efficient perfect sampling algorithm for weighted, connected induced subgraphs (or graphlets) of rooted, bounded degree graphs. Our algorithm utilizes a vertex-percolation process with a carefully chosen rejection filter and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Antonio Blanca , Sarah Cannon , Will Perkins

Social media has transformed global communication, yet its network structure can systematically distort perceptions through effects like the majority illusion and echo chambers. We introduce the perception gap index, a graph-based measure…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Hemant Kumar Gehlot , Mohammad Shirzadi , Junhao Gan , Ahad N. Zehmakan

The currently most efficient algorithm for inference with a probabilistic network builds upon a triangulation of a network's graph. In this paper, we show that pre-processing can help in finding good triangulations forprobabilistic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-14 Hans L. Bodlaender , Arie M. C. A. Koster , Frank van den Eijkhof , Linda C. van der Gaag

We perform a massive evaluation of neural networks with architectures corresponding to random graphs of various types. We investigate various structural and numerical properties of the graphs in relation to neural network test accuracy. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Romuald A. Janik , Aleksandra Nowak

We study the spectral properties of the process of explosive percolation. In particular, we explore how the maximum eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix of a network which governs the spreading efficiency evolves as the density of connection…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-12 Ning Ning Chung , Lock Yue Chew , Choy Heng Lai

The use of degree-degree correlations to model realistic networks which are characterized by their Pearson's coefficient, has become widespread. However the effect on how different correlation algorithms produce different results on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-12-30 L. D. Valdez , C. Buono , L. A. Braunstein , P. A. Macri

We study the problem of wireless network resilience to node failures from a percolation-based perspective. In practical wireless networks, it is often the case that the failure probability of a node depends on its degree (number of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-08-28 Zhenning Kong , Edmund M. Yeh

We study random graphs with arbitrary distributions of expected degree and derive expressions for the spectra of their adjacency and modularity matrices. We give a complete prescription for calculating the spectra that is exact in the limit…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-02-04 Raj Rao Nadakuditi , M. E. J. Newman

Link prediction is a paradigmatic and challenging problem in network science, which aims to predict missing links, future links and temporal links based on known topology. Along with the increasing number of link prediction algorithms, a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Yilin Bi , Xinshan Jiao , Yan-Li Lee , Tao Zhou

Scale-free percolation is a percolation model on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ which can be used to model real-world networks. We prove bounds for the graph distance in the regime where vertices have infinite degrees. We fully characterize transience vs.…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-01-11 Markus Heydenreich , Tim Hulshof , Joost Jorritsma

We consider vertex percolation on pseudo-random $d-$regular graphs. The previous study by the second author established the existence of phase transition from small components to a linear (in $\frac{n}{d}$) sized component, at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Sahar Diskin , Michael Krivelevich