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We study the distribution of the number of (non-backtracking) periodic walks on large regular graphs. We propose a formula for the ratio between the variance of the number of $t$-periodic walks and its mean, when the cardinality of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Idan Oren , Uzy Smilansky

Random walk is an explainable approach for modeling natural processes at the molecular level. The Random Permutation Set Theory (RPST) serves as a framework for uncertainty reasoning, extending the applicability of Dempster-Shafer Theory.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Jiefeng Zhou , Zhen Li , Yong Deng

We consider random walks in which the walk originates in one set of nodes and then continues until it reaches one or more nodes in a target set. The time required for the walk to reach the target set is of interest in understanding the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Andrew Clark , Basel Alomair , Linda Bushnell , Radha Poovendran

Graph partition is a fundamental problem of parallel computing for big graph data. Many graph partition algorithms have been proposed to solve the problem in various applications, such as matrix computations and PageRank, etc., but none has…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-05 Xiaoming Liu , Yadong Zhou , Xiaohong Guan

Random walk on the set of irreducible representations of a finite group is investigated. For the symmetric and general linear groups, a sharp convergence rate bound is obtained and a cutoff phenomenon is proved. As related results, an…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jason Fulman

We establish scaling limits for the random walk whose state space is the range of a simple random walk on the four-dimensional integer lattice. These concern the asymptotic behaviour of the graph distance from the origin and the spatial…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-12-08 David A. Croydon , Daisuke Shiraishi

Consider a family of random ordered graph trees $(T_n)_{n\geq 1}$, where $T_n$ has $n$ vertices. It has previously been established that if the associated search-depth processes converge to the normalised Brownian excursion when rescaled…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-24 David A. Croydon

Random walks are a fundamental primitive used in many machine learning algorithms with several applications in clustering and semi-supervised learning. Despite their relevance, the first efficient parallel algorithm to compute random walks…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Michael Kapralov , Silvio Lattanzi , Navid Nouri , Jakab Tardos

Random walk spaces are a general framework for the study of PDEs. They include as particular cases locally finite weighted connected graphs and nonlocal settings involving symmetric integrable kernels on $\mathbb{R}^N$. We are interested in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-18 W. Górny , J. M. Mazón , J. Toledo

Graphs are useful structures that can model several important real-world problems. Recently, learning graphs have drawn considerable attention, leading to the proposal of new methods for learning these data structures. One of these studies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Amir Jalilifard , Vinicius Caridá , Alex Mansano , Rogers Cristo

We present a novel quasi-Monte Carlo mechanism to improve graph-based sampling, coined repelling random walks. By inducing correlations between the trajectories of an interacting ensemble such that their marginal transition probabilities…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-27 Isaac Reid , Eli Berger , Krzysztof Choromanski , Adrian Weller

Estimating characteristics of large graphs via sampling is a vital part of the study of complex networks. Current sampling methods such as (independent) random vertex and random walks are useful but have drawbacks. Random vertex sampling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-09-08 Bruno Ribeiro , Don Towsley

Hypergraph has been selected as a powerful candidate for characterizing higher-order networks and has received increasing attention in recent years. In this article, we study random walks with resetting on hypergraph by utilizing spectral…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Fei Ma , Xincheng Hu , Haobin Shi , Wei Pan , Ping Wang

We propose random walks on suitably defined graphs as a framework for finescale modeling of particle motion in an obstructed environment where the particle may have interactions with the obstructions and the mean path length of the particle…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-10-25 Preston Donovan , Muruhan Rathinam

We study an extended dynamical system on the non-negative real line with piecewise linear non-uniformly expanding local dynamics. With a uniformly distributed initial state, the distribution of successive states coincides with that of a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Juho Leppänen

We prove a general large sieve statement in the context of random walks on subgraphs of a given graph. This can be seen as a generalization of previously known results where one performs a random walk on a group enjoying a strong spectral…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-01-09 Florent Jouve , Jean-Sébastien Sereni

Expander graphs are among the most useful combinatorial objects in theoretical computer science. A line of work studies random walks on expander graphs for their pseudorandomness against various classes of test functions, including…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Emile Anand

We study using large deviation theory the fluctuations of time-integrated functionals or observables of the unbiased random walk evolving on Erd\"os-R\'enyi random graphs, and construct a modified, biased random walk that explains how these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-06 Francesco Coghi , Jules Morand , Hugo Touchette

We investigate network exploration by random walks defined via stationary and adaptive transition probabilities on large graphs. We derive an exact formula valid for arbitrary graphs and arbitrary walks with stationary transition…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 A. Asztalos , Z. Toroczkai

For a finite graph $G=(V,E)$ let $G^*$ be obtained by considering a random perfect matching of $V$ and adding the corresponding edges to $G$ with weight $\varepsilon$, while assigning weight 1 to the original edges of $G$. We consider…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Zsuzsanna Baran , Jonathan Hermon , Anđela Šarković , Perla Sousi