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Spatio-temporal prediction is a pivotal task with broad applications in traffic management, climate monitoring, energy scheduling, etc. However, existing methodologies often struggle to balance model expressiveness and computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jiawen Chen , Qi Shao , Duxin Chen , Wenwu Yu

To model time series accurately is important within a wide range of fields. As the world is generally too complex to be modelled exactly, it is often meaningful to assess the probability of a dynamical system to be in a specific state. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Mari Dahl Eggen , Alise Danielle Midtfjord

An algorithm for efficiently calculating the expected size of single-seed cascade dynamics on networks is proposed and tested. The expected size is a time-dependent quantity and so enables the identification of nodes who are the most…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-01 James P. Gleeson , Ailbhe Cassidy , Daniel Giles , Ali Faqeeh

Burstiness, the tendency of interaction events to be heterogeneously distributed in time, is critical to information diffusion in physical and social systems. However, an analytical framework capturing the effect of burstiness on generic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-07-14 Samuel Unicomb , Gerardo Iñiguez , James P. Gleeson , Márton Karsai

In order to maintain consistent quality of service, computer network engineers face the task of monitoring the traffic fluctuations on the individual links making up the network. However, due to resource constraints and limited access, it…

Applications · Statistics 2010-05-26 Joel Vaughan , Stilian A. Stoev , George Michailidis

To support reliable and low-latency communication, Time-Sensitive Networking introduced protocols and interfaces for resource allocation in Ethernet. However, the implementation of these allocation algorithms has not yet been covered by the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Lisa Maile , Kai-Steffen Hielscher , Reinhard German

The evolution of many dynamical systems that describe relationships or interactions between objects can be effectively modeled by temporal networks, which are typically represented as a sequence of static network snapshots. In this paper,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Filip Blašković , Tim O. F. Conrad , Stefan Klus , Nataša Djurdjevac Conrad

We describe a novel method for modeling non-stationary multivariate time series, with time-varying conditional dependencies represented through dynamic networks. Our proposed approach combines traditional multi-scale modeling and network…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-12-25 Xinyu Kang , Apratim Ganguly , Eric D. Kolaczyk

Knowing the structure of an offline social network facilitates a variety of analyses, including studying the rate at which infectious diseases may spread and identifying a subset of actors to immunize in order to reduce, as much as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Naghmeh Momeni , Michael Rabbat

Network moments--rescaled counts of motifs such as stars and triangles--are fundamental summaries of network structure, widely used in goodness-of-fit testing, model selection, and network comparison. While the univariate distribution of a…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-14 Mingyu Qi , Chen-Wei Hua , Tianxi Li , Wen Zhou

This paper is concerned by the problem of selecting an optimal sampling set of sensors over a network of time series for the purpose of signal recovery at non-observed sensors with a minimal reconstruction error. The problem is motivated by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-27 Yiye Jiang , Jérémie Bigot , Sofian Maabout

We propose a non-parametric link prediction algorithm for a sequence of graph snapshots over time. The model predicts links based on the features of its endpoints, as well as those of the local neighborhood around the endpoints. This allows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Purnamrita Sarkar , Deepayan Chakrabarti , Michael Jordan

We present a principled approach for detecting overlapping temporal community structure in dynamic networks. Our method is based on the following framework: find the overlapping temporal community structure that maximizes a quality function…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-03-29 Yudong Chen , Vikas Kawadia , Rahul Urgaonkar

To learn (statistical) dependencies among random variables requires exponentially large sample size in the number of observed random variables if any arbitrary joint probability distribution can occur. We consider the case that sparse data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Dominik Janzing , Daniel Herrmann

We study dynamic network formation from a centralized perspective. In each period, the social planner builds a single link to connect previously unlinked pairs. The social planner is forward-looking, with instantaneous utility monotonic in…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-11-26 Yang Sun , Wei Zhao , Junjie Zhou

Different measures have been proposed to predict whether individuals will adopt a new behavior in online social networks, given the influence produced by their neighbors. In this paper, we show one can achieve significant improvement over…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Ericsson Marin , Ruocheng Guo , Paulo Shakarian

It is well known that opportunistic scheduling algorithms are throughput optimal under dynamic channel and network conditions. However, these algorithms achieve a hypothetical rate region which does not take into account the overhead…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Mehmet Karaca , Tansu Alpcan , Ozgur Ercetin

Motivated by the increasing importance of providing delay-guaranteed services in general computing and communication systems, and the recent wide adoption of learning and prediction in network control, in this work, we consider a general…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Kun Chen , Longbo Huang

There is a fast-growing body of research on predicting future links in dynamic networks, with many new algorithms. Some benchmark data exists, and performance evaluations commonly rely on comparing the scores of observed network events…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Raphaël Romero , Tijl De Bie , Jefrey Lijffijt

This paper proposes a flexible framework for inferring large-scale time-varying and time-lagged correlation networks from multivariate or high-dimensional non-stationary time series with piecewise smooth trends. Built on a novel and unified…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-02-13 Lujia Bai , Weichi Wu