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This work deals with undirected graphs that have the same betweenness centrality for each vertex, so-called betweenness uniform graphs (or BUGs). The class of these graphs is not trivial and its classification is still an open problem.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-02 Babak Ghanbari , David Hartman , Vít Jelínek , Aneta Pokorná , Robert Šámal , Pavel Valtr

Graph matching aims at finding the vertex correspondence between two unlabeled graphs that maximizes the total edge weight correlation. This amounts to solving a computationally intractable quadratic assignment problem. In this paper we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-23 Zhou Fan , Cheng Mao , Yihong Wu , Jiaming Xu

Spanning Centrality is a measure used in network analysis to determine the importance of an edge in a graph based on its contribution to the connectivity of the entire network. Specifically, it quantifies how critical an edge is in terms of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Gökhan Göktürk , Kamer Kaya

Computing classical centrality measures such as betweenness and closeness is computationally expensive on large-scale graphs. In this work, we introduce an efficient force layout algorithm that embeds a graph into a low-dimensional space,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Alexander Kolpakov , Igor Rivin

In this paper, we hope to bring closer graph theory and consensus algorithms. Firstly, we give a brief introduction to graph theory by listing a concise definition. Then we analyze and visualize some commonly used graphs. Secondly, we…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Shen Zheng

Graph representations offer powerful and intuitive ways to describe data in a multitude of application domains. Here, we consider stochastic processes generating graphs and propose a methodology for detecting changes in stationarity of such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Daniele Zambon , Cesare Alippi , Lorenzo Livi

Attention mechanism is a significant part of Transformer models. It helps extract features from embedded vectors by adding global information and its expressivity has been proved to be powerful. Nevertheless, the quadratic complexity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hanwen Liu , Yixuan Ma , Shi Jin , Yuguang Wang

Betweenness centrality (BC) is one of the most used centrality measures for network analysis, which seeks to describe the importance of nodes in a network in terms of the fraction of shortest paths that pass through them. It is key to many…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Changjun Fan , Li Zeng , Yuhui Ding , Muhao Chen , Yizhou Sun , Zhong Liu

The betweenness centrality (BC) of a node in a network (or graph) is a measure of its importance in the network. BC is widely used in a large number of environments such as social networks, transport networks, security/mobile networks and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Matteo Pontecorvi , Vijaya Ramachandran

Graph databases have been the subject of significant research and development. Problems such as modularity, centrality, alignment, and clustering have been formalized and solved in various application contexts. In this paper, we focus on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Vikram Ravindra , Huda Nassar , David F. Gleich , Ananth Grama

This paper presents the development of a new class of algorithms that accurately implement the preferential attachment mechanism of the Barab\'asi-Albert (BA) model to generate scale-free graphs. Contrary to existing approximate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Giorgos Stamatelatos , Pavlos S. Efraimidis

The betweenness centrality (BC) is an important quantity for understanding the structure of complex large networks. However, its calculation is in general difficult and known in simple cases only. In particular, the BC has been exactly…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-05-18 Vincent Verbavatz , Marc Barthelemy

Inference and optimization of real-value edge variables in sparse graphs are studied using the Bethe approximation and replica method of statistical physics. Equilibrium states of general energy functions involving a large set of real…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Y. Michael Wong , D. Saad

We study the blind centrality ranking problem, where our goal is to infer the eigenvector centrality ranking of nodes solely from nodal observations, i.e., without information about the topology of the network. We formalize these nodal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-25 T. Mitchell Roddenberry , Santiago Segarra

Betweenness Centrality (BC) is steadily growing in popularity as a metrics of the influence of a vertex in a graph. The BC score of a vertex is proportional to the number of all-pairs-shortest-paths passing through it. However, complete and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Flavio Vella , Giancarlo Carbone , Massimo Bernaschi

Consider any random graph model where potential edges appear independently, with possibly different probabilities, and assume that the minimum expected degree is omega(ln n). We prove that the adjacency matrix and the Laplacian of that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-02-10 Roberto Imbuzeiro Oliveira

The problem of computing the Betweenness Centrality (BC) is important in analyzing graphs in many practical applications like social networks, biological networks, transportation networks, electrical circuits, etc. Since this problem is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Saad Quader

Centrality measures are used in network science to identify the most important vertices for transmission of information and dynamics on a graph. One of these measures, introduced by Estrada and collaborators, is the $\beta$-subgraph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Francesco Ballini , Nikita Deniskin

Stochastic optimization naturally appear in many application areas, including machine learning. Our goal is to go further in the analysis of the Stochastic Average Gradient Accelerated (SAGA) algorithm. To achieve this, we introduce a new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Luis Fredes , Bernard Bercu , Eméric Gbaguidi

The emergence of massive graph data sets requires fast mining algorithms. Centrality measures to identify important vertices belong to the most popular analysis methods in graph mining. A measure that is gaining attention is forest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Alexander van der Grinten , Eugenio Angriman , Maria Predari , Henning Meyerhenke