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In this work, we are interested in structure learning for a set of spatially distributed dynamical systems, where individual subsystems are coupled via latent variables and observed through a filter. We represent this model as a directed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Oliver M. Cliff , Mikhail Prokopenko , Robert Fitch

Using a maximum entropy principle to assign a statistical weight to any graph, we introduce a model of random graphs with arbitrary degree distribution in the framework of standard statistical mechanics. We compute the free energy and the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Bauer , D. Bernard

Motivated by robotic surveillance applications, this paper studies the novel problem of maximizing the return time entropy of a Markov chain, subject to a graph topology with travel times and stationary distribution. The return time entropy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-29 Xiaoming Duan , Mishel George , Francesco Bullo

Network architecture design is very important for the optimization of industrial networks. The type of network architecture can be divided into small-scale network and large-scale network according to its scale. Graph theory is an efficient…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Chao Dong , Xiaoxiong Xiong , Qiulin Xue , Zhengzhen Zhang , Kai Niu , Ping Zhang

We live in a world increasingly dominated by networks -- communications, social, information, biological etc. A central attribute of many of these networks is that they are dynamic, that is, they exhibit structural changes over time. While…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-12-02 Prithwish Basu , Amotz Bar-Noy , Ram Ramanathan , Matthew P. Johnson

We introduce a graph-signal generalisation of Sample Entropy, denoted SampEn$_{G}$, to quantify irregularity of graph signals on a continuous state space, complementing existing methods on symbolic dynamics. Our approach replaces the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Mei-San Maggie Lei , John Stewart Fabila Carrasco , Javier Escudero

In this paper, we outline a model of graph (or network) dynamics based on two ingredients. The first ingredient is a Markov chain on the space of possible graphs. The second ingredient is a semi-Markov counting process of renewal type. The…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Marco Raberto , Fabio Rapallo , Enrico Scalas

The logarithm of the number of Eulerian orientations, normalised by the number of vertices, is known as the residual entropy in studies of ice-type models on graphs. The spanning tree entropy depends similarly on the number of spanning…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Mikhail Isaev , Brendan D. McKay , Rui-Ray Zhang

We introduce a Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm which samples from the space of spanning trees of complete graphs using local rewiring operations only. The probability distribution of graphs of this kind is shown to depend on the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Neal McBride , John Bulava

We compute the joint large deviation rate functional in the limit of large time for the current flowing through the edges of a finite graph on which a boundary-driven system of stochastic particles evolves with zero-range dynamics.This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-15 Davide Gabrielli , Rosemary J. Harris

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

We analyze the properties of degree-preserving Markov chains based on elementary edge switchings in undirected and directed graphs. We give exact yet simple formulas for the mobility of a graph (the number of possible moves) in terms of its…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-03-12 E. S. Roberts , A. Annibale , A. C. C. Coolen

In this paper, we present a detailed framework to analyze the evolution of the random topology of a time-varying wireless network via the information theoretic notion of entropy rate. We consider a propagation channel varying over time with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Arta Cika , Mihai-Alin Badiu , Justin P. Coon , Shahriar Etemadi Tajbakhsh

Increased attention has been paid over the last four years to dynamic network embedding. Existing dynamic embedding methods, however, consider the problem as limited to the evolution of a topology over a sequence of global, discrete states.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-23 David Bayani

Thermodynamics-informed neural networks employ inductive biases for the enforcement of the first and second principles of thermodynamics. To construct these biases, a metriplectic evolution of the system is assumed. This provides excellent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Alicia Tierz , Iciar Alfaro , David González , Francisco Chinesta , Elías Cueto

Inspired by theories such as Loop Quantum Gravity, a class of stochastic graph dynamics was studied in an attempt to gain a better understanding of discrete relational systems under the influence of local dynamics. Unlabeled graphs in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Hal Finkel

We investigate by random-walk simulations and a mean-field theory how growth by biased addition of nodes affects flow of the current through the emergent conducting graph, representing a digital circuit. In the interior of a large network…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bosiljka Tadic , Vyatcheslav Priezzhev

This paper introduces graphemes for constructing and analyzing stochastic processes that describe the evolution of large dynamic graphs. Unlike graphons, which capture the static properties of dense graphs via exchangeability or subgraph…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Andreas Greven , Frank den Hollander , Anton Klimovsky , Anita Winter

In this work, we investigate the analysis of generators for dynamic graphs, which are defined as graphs whose topology changes over time. We introduce a novel concept, called ''sustainability,'' to qualify the long-term evolution of dynamic…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Yoann Pigné , Vincent Bridonneau , Frédéric Guinand

The entropy of a graph was first introduced by Rashevsky \cite{Rashevsky} and Trucco \cite{Trucco} to interpret as the structural information content of the graph and serve as a complexity measure. In this paper, we first state a number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-20 Xueliang Li , Meiqin Wei