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We prove that the diameter of threshold (zero temperature) Geometric Inhomogeneous Random Graphs (GIRG) is $\Theta(\log n)$. This has strong implications for the runtime of many distributed protocols on those graphs, which often have…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Zylan Benjert , Kostas Lakis , Johannes Lengler , Raghu Raman Ravi

In the last decades, the study of models for large real-world networks has been a very popular and active area of research. A reasonable model should not only replicate all the structural properties that are observed in real world networks…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-05-08 Luca Gugelmann , Konstantinos Panagiotou , Ueli Peter

The introduction of geometry has proven instrumental in the efforts towards more realistic models for real-world networks. In Geometric Inhomogeneous Random Graphs (GIRGs), Euclidean Geometry induces clustering of the vertices, which is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Marc Kaufmann , Raghu Raman Ravi , Ulysse Schaller

Many real-world networks of interest are embedded in physical space. We present a new random graph model aiming to reflect the interplay between the geometries of the graph and of the underlying space. The model favors configurations with…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-06-14 Jean-Christophe Mourrat , Daniel Valesin

In this paper we study the component structure of random graphs with independence between the edges. Under mild assumptions, we determine whether there is a giant component, and find its asymptotic size when it exists. We assume that the…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-06-29 Bela Bollobas , Svante Janson , Oliver Riordan

The discovery and analysis of network patterns are central to the scientific enterprise. In the present work, we developed and evaluated a new approach that learns the building blocks of graphs that can be used to understand and generate…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Salvador Aguinaga , David Chiang , Tim Weninger

In most domains of network analysis researchers consider networks that arise in nature with weighted edges. Such networks are routinely dichotomized in the interest of using available methods for statistical inference with networks. The…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-11-10 James D. Wilson , Matthew J. Denny , Shankar Bhamidi , Skyler Cranmer , Bruce Desmarais

Graph generation is an important area in network science. Traditional approaches focus on replicating specific properties of real-world graphs, such as small diameters or power-law degree distributions. Recent advancements in deep learning,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Rodrigo Tuna , Carlos Soares

Large graphs are present in a variety of domains, including social networks, civil infrastructure, and the physical sciences to name a few. Graph generation is similarly widespread, with applications in drug discovery, network analysis and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Alex O. Davies , Nirav S. Ajmeri , Telmo M. Silva Filho

The assortative behavior of a network is the tendency of similar (or dissimilar) nodes to connect to each other. This tendency can have an influence on various properties of the network, such as its robustness or the dynamics of spreading…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Marc Kaufmann , Ulysse Schaller , Thomas Bläsius , Johannes Lengler

The intricate relations between elements in natural and human-made systems sustain the complex processes that shape our world, forming multiscale networks of interactions. These networks can be represented as graphs composed of nodes…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-20 M. Ángeles Serrano

Most real-world graphs exhibit a hierarchical structure, which is often overlooked by existing graph generation methods. To address this limitation, we propose a novel graph generative network that captures the hierarchical nature of graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Mahdi Karami

Random geometric graphs (RGG) can be formalized as hidden-variables models where the hidden variables are the coordinates of the nodes. Here we develop a general approach to extract the typical configurations of a generic hidden-variables…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-04-28 Massimo Ostilli , Ginestra Bianconi

We consider the problem of graph generation guided by network statistics, i.e., the generation of graphs which have given values of various numerical measures that characterize networks, such as the clustering coefficient and the number of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Jérôme Kunegis , Jun Sun , Eiko Yoneki

Recent work in graph models has found that probabilistic hyperedge replacement grammars (HRGs) can be extracted from graphs and used to generate new random graphs with graph properties and substructures close to the original. In this paper,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Xinyi Wang , Salvador Aguinaga , Tim Weninger , David Chiang

We show that Geometric Inhomogeneous Random Graphs (GIRGs) with power law weights may either have or not have separators of linear size, depending on the underlying geometry. While it was known that for Euclidean geometry it is possible to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-13 Johannes Lengler , Lazar Todorovic

In this paper, we propose a multilayer inhomogeneous random graph model (MIRG), whose layers may consist of both single-edge and multi-edge graphs. In the single layer case, it has been shown that the regular variation of the weight…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Daniel Cirkovic , Tiandong Wang , Daren B. H. Cline

Discovering the underlying structures present in large real world graphs is a fundamental scientific problem. In this paper we show that a graph's clique tree can be used to extract a hyperedge replacement grammar. If we store an ordering…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Salvador Aguiñaga , Rodrigo Palacios , David Chiang , Tim Weninger

Inhomogeneous random graphs are fundamental models for real-world networks, where prescribed degrees are imposed as soft constraints. A common assumption in such models is that the degree distribution follows a power-law, capturing the…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Riccardo Michielan , Clara Stegehuis , Bert Zwart

This work addresses a modification of the random geometric graph (RGG) model by considering a set of points uniformly and independently distributed on the surface of a $(d-1)$-sphere with radius $r$ in a $d-$dimensional Euclidean space,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-10-03 Alfonso Allen-Perkins