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Graph dynamic random walks (GDRWs) have recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for graph analytics and learning applications, including graph embedding and graph neural networks. Despite the fact that many existing studies optimize the…

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We present analytical results for the distribution of first return (FR) times of random walks (RWs) on random regular graphs (RRGs) consisting of $N$ nodes of degree $c \ge 3$. Starting from a random initial node $i$ at time $t=0$, at each…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-13 Ido Tishby , Ofer Biham , Eytan Katzav

Random walks have wide application in real lives, ranging from target search, reaction kinetics, polymer chains, to the forecast of the arrive time of extreme events, diseases or opinions. In this paper, we consider discrete random walks on…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Junhao Peng , Renxiang Shao , Huoyun Wang

For predicting the kinetics of nucleic acid reactions, continuous-time Markov chains (CTMCs) are widely used. The rate of a reaction can be obtained through the mean first passage time (MFPT) of its CTMC. However, a typical issue in CTMCs…

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In recent years a huge interdisciplinary field has emerged which is devoted to the complex dynamics of anomalous transport with long-time memory and non-markovian features. It was found that the framework of fractional calculus and its…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-04-27 Thomas M. Michelitsch , Federico Polito , Alejandro P. Riascos

Human close-range proximity interactions are the key determinant for spreading processes like knowledge diffusion, norm adoption, and infectious disease transmission. These dynamical processes can be modeled with time-respecting paths on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-28 Silvia Guerrini , Ciro Cattuto , Lorenzo Dall'Amico

Continuous-time quantum walk describes the propagation of a quantum particle (or an excitation) evolving continuously in time on a graph. As such, it provides a natural framework for modeling transport processes, e.g., in light-harvesting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-02 Luca Razzoli , Matteo G. A. Paris , Paolo Bordone

Wireless network applications, such as, searching, routing, self stabilization and query processing can be modeled as random walks on graphs. Stateless Opportunistic routing technique is a robust distributed routing technique based on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-12-11 Sateeshkrishna Dhuli , Yatindra Nath Singh

We develop a time domain random walk approach for conservative solute transport in heterogeneous media where medium properties vary over a distribution of length scales. The spatial transition lengths are equal to the heterogeneity length…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-09-05 Tomás Aquino , Marco Dentz

Networks are a powerful tool to model the structure and dynamics of complex systems across scales. Direct connections between system components are often represented as edges, while paths and walks capture indirect interactions. This…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-01-15 Rohit Sahasrabuddhe , Renaud Lambiotte , Martin Rosvall

Analyzing the temporal behavior of nodes in time-varying graphs is useful for many applications such as targeted advertising, community evolution and outlier detection. In this paper, we present a novel approach, STWalk, for learning…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Supriya Pandhre , Himangi Mittal , Manish Gupta , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Reinforced random walks (RRWs), including vertex-reinforced random walks (VRRWs) and edge-reinforced random walks (ERRWs), model random walks where the transition probabilities evolve based on prior visitation history~\cite{mgr, fmk,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-22 Qinghua , Ding , Venkat Anantharam

It is a well known fact that subdiffusion equations in terms of fractional derivatives can be obtained from Continuous Time Random Walk (CTRW) models with long-tailed waiting time distributions. Over the last years various authors have…

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Random walks are ubiquitous in the sciences, and they are interesting from both theoretical and practical perspectives. They are one of the most fundamental types of stochastic processes; can be used to model numerous phenomena, including…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-04-13 Naoki Masuda , Mason A. Porter , Renaud Lambiotte

It is well known that the weak limit of a suitably scaled continuous-time random walk (CTRW) is the Brownian motion. We investigate the convergence of certain patterned random matrices whose entries are independent CTRWs and their…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Arup Bose , Pradeep Vishwakarma

Logarithmic aging phenomena are prevalent in various systems, including electronic materials and biological structures. This study utilizes a generalized continuous time random walk (CTRW) framework to investigate the mechanisms behind the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-24 Chunyan Li , Haiwen Liu , X. C. Xie

Recently, graph neural network (GNN) has emerged as a powerful representation learning tool for graph-structured data. However, most approaches are tailored for undirected graphs, neglecting the abundant information in the edges of directed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Daohan Su , Xunkai Li , Zhenjun Li , Yinping Liao , Rong-Hua Li , Guoren Wang

We develop a probabilistic characterisation of trajectorial expansion rates in non-autonomous stochastic dynamical systems that can be defined over a finite time interval and used for the subsequent uncertainty quantification in Lagrangian…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-12-24 Michal Branicki , Kenneth Uda

We study an intermittent random walk on a random network of scale-free degree distribution. The walk is a combination of simple random walks of duration $t_w$ and random long-range jumps. While the time the walker needs to cover all the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-25 A. Ramezanpour

We investigate the role of stochastic resetting in non-Markovian systems, where memory effects arise due to slow relaxation, rugged energy landscapes, disordered environments, and molecular crowding. Using the celebrated continuous-time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-13 Suvam Pal , Rahul Das , Arnab Pal