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This paper describes an application, called Medici, designed to produce synthetic data for social network graphs, which can be used for analysis, hypothesis testing and application development by researchers and practitioners in the field.…

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Generating graph-structured data is crucial in applications such as molecular generation, knowledge graphs, and network analysis. However, their discrete, unordered nature makes them difficult for traditional generative models, leading to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ole Petersen , Marcel Kollovieh , Marten Lienen , Stephan Günnemann

Generative adversarial networks constitute a powerful approach to generative modeling. While generated samples often are indistinguishable from real data, there is no guarantee that they will follow the true data distribution. For…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-09 Philipp Pilar , Niklas Wahlström

Graph generation is a crucial task in many fields, including network science and bioinformatics, as it enables the creation of synthetic graphs that mimic the properties of real-world networks for various applications. Graph Generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Salvatore Romano , Marco Grassia , Giuseppe Mangioni

Recent advancements in graph representation learning have shifted attention towards dynamic graphs, which exhibit evolving topologies and features over time. The increased use of such graphs creates a paramount need for generative models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Ryien Hosseini , Filippo Simini , Venkatram Vishwanath , Henry Hoffmann

As the field of Graph Neural Networks (GNN) continues to grow, it experiences a corresponding increase in the need for large, real-world datasets to train and test new GNN models on challenging, realistic problems. Unfortunately, such graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Minji Yoon , Yue Wu , John Palowitch , Bryan Perozzi , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

We study dynamic graph algorithms in the Massively Parallel Computation model, which was inspired by practical data processing systems. Our goal is to provide algorithms that can efficiently handle large batches of edge insertions and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Krzysztof Nowicki , Krzysztof Onak

Graph is a prevalent discrete data structure, whose generation has wide applications such as drug discovery and circuit design. Diffusion generative models, as an emerging research focus, have been applied to graph generation tasks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Zhe Xu , Ruizhong Qiu , Yuzhong Chen , Huiyuan Chen , Xiran Fan , Menghai Pan , Zhichen Zeng , Mahashweta Das , Hanghang Tong

Diffusion-based generative graph models have been proven effective in generating high-quality small graphs. However, they need to be more scalable for generating large graphs containing thousands of nodes desiring graph statistics. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Xiaohui Chen , Jiaxing He , Xu Han , Li-Ping Liu

Graph sampling allows mining a small representative subgraph from a big graph. Sampling algorithms deploy different strategies to replicate the properties of a given graph in the sampled graph. In this study, we provide a comprehensive…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Muhammad Irfan Yousuf , Izza Anwer , Raheel Anwar

Data generation is a fundamental research problem in data management due to its diverse use cases, ranging from testing database engines to data-specific applications. However, real-world entities often involve complex interactions that…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Fan Li , Xiaoyang Wang , Dawei Cheng , Cong Chen , Ying Zhang , Xuemin Lin

We propose and study a hierarchical algorithm to generate graphs having a predetermined distribution of cliques, the fully connected subgraphs. The construction mechanism may be either random or incorporate preferential attachment. We…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Gregor Kaczor , Claudius Gros

Random graphs (or networks) have gained a significant increase of interest due to its popularity in modeling and simulating many complex real-world systems. Degree sequence is one of the most important aspects of these systems. Random…

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We present a new, systematic approach for analyzing network topologies. We first introduce the dK-series of probability distributions specifying all degree correlations within d-sized subgraphs of a given graph G. Increasing values of d…

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It appeared recently that the classical random graph model used to represent real-world complex networks does not capture their main properties. Since then, various attempts have been made to provide accurate models. We study here a model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-22 Jean-Loup Guillaume , Matthieu Latapy

In the field of complex networks and graph theory, new results are typically tested on graphs generated by a variety of algorithms such as the Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi model or the Barab\'{a}si-Albert model. Unfortunately, most graph generating…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-16 Isaac Klickstein , Francesco Sorrentino

We present an approach to synthesizing new graph structures from empirically specified distributions. The generative model is an auto-decoder that learns to synthesize graphs from latent codes. The graph synthesis model is learned jointly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Sohil Atul Shah , Vladlen Koltun

Massive power-law graphs drive many fields: metagenomics, brain mapping, Internet-of-things, cybersecurity, and sparse machine learning. The development of novel algorithms and systems to process these data requires the design, generation,…

Graphs may be used to represent many different problem domains -- a concrete example is that of detecting communities in social networks, which are represented as graphs. With big data and more sophisticated applications becoming widespread…

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