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We study conditional independence relationships for random networks and their interplay with exchangeability. We show that, for finitely exchangeable network models, the empirical subgraph densities are maximum likelihood estimates of their…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-11-22 Steffen Lauritzen , Alessandro Rinaldo , Kayvan Sadeghi

Various kinds of spread of influence occur in real world social and virtual networks. These phenomena are formulated by activation processes and irreversible dynamic monopolies in combinatorial graphs representing the topology of the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Manouchehr Zaker

Sparse exchangeable graphs on $\mathbb{R}_+$, and the associated graphex framework for sparse graphs, generalize exchangeable graphs on $\mathbb{N}$, and the associated graphon framework for dense graphs. We develop the graphex framework as…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-04 Victor Veitch , Daniel M. Roy

Exchangeability is a desired statistical property of network ensembles requiring their invariance upon relabelling of the nodes. However combining sparsity of network ensembles with exchangeability is challenging. Here we propose a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-04-14 Ginestra Bianconi

The generation of random graphs using edge swaps provides a reliable method to draw uniformly random samples of sets of graphs respecting some simple constraints, e.g. degree distributions. However, in general, it is not necessarily…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-02-06 Lionel Tabourier , Camille Roth , Jean-Philippe Cointet

Random graph models have played a dominant role in the theoretical study of networked systems. The Poisson random graph of Erdos and Renyi, in particular, as well as the so-called configuration model, have served as the starting point for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-03 M. E. J. Newman , Travis Martin

We propose generalizations of a number of standard network models, including the classic random graph, the configuration model, and the stochastic block model, to the case of time-varying networks. We assume that the presence and absence of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Xiao Zhang , Cristopher Moore , M. E. J. Newman

Desirable random graph models (RGMs) should (i) reproduce common patterns in real-world graphs (e.g., power-law degrees, small diameters, and high clustering), (ii) generate variable (i.e., not overly similar) graphs, and (iii) remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Fanchen Bu , Ruochen Yang , Paul Bogdan , Kijung Shin

We characterize some asymptotic properties of edge exchangeable random graphs in terms of the measure used to generate them. In particular, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for eventual forever connectedness, a sufficient…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Edward Eriksson

Directed graphs occur throughout statistical modeling of networks, and exchangeability is a natural assumption when the ordering of vertices does not matter. There is a deep structural theory for exchangeable undirected graphs, which…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-12-19 Diana Cai , Nathanael Ackerman , Cameron Freer

Across the sciences, the statistical analysis of networks is central to the production of knowledge on relational phenomena. Because of their ability to model the structural generation of networks, exponential random graph models are a…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-05-27 Bruce A. Desmarais , Skyler J. Cranmer

A projective network model is a model that enables predictions to be made based on a subsample of the network data, with the predictions remaining unchanged if a larger sample is taken into consideration. An exchangeable model is a model…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-13 A. P. Kartun-Giles , D. Krioukov , J. P. Gleeson , Y. Moreno , G. Bianconi

We propose the following model of a random graph on n vertices. Let F be a distribution in R_+^{n(n-1)/2} with a coordinate for every pair i$ with 1 \le i,j \le n. Then G_{F,p} is the distribution on graphs with n vertices obtained by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-08-09 Alan Frieze , Santosh Vempala , Juan Vera

A sequence of random variables is exchangeable if its joint distribution is invariant under variable permutations. We introduce exchangeable variable models (EVMs) as a novel class of probabilistic models whose basic building blocks are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Mathias Niepert , Pedro Domingos

We propose a general framework for modelling network data that is designed to describe aspects of non-exchangeable networks. Conditional on latent (unobserved) variables, the edges of the network are generated by their finite growth history…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-29 Weichi Wu , Sofia Olhede , Patrick Wolfe

We introduce two new bootstraps for exchangeable random graphs. One, the "empirical graphon bootstrap", is based purely on resampling, while the other, the "histogram bootstrap", is a model-based "sieve" bootstrap. We show that both of them…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-01-07 Alden Green , Cosma Rohilla Shalizi

We propose a new Graph Neural Network that combines recent advancements in the field. We give theoretical contributions by proving that the model is strictly more general than the Graph Isomorphism Network and the Gated Graph Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Federico Errica , Davide Bacciu , Alessio Micheli

In 2007 we introduced a general model of sparse random graphs with independence between the edges. The aim of this paper is to present an extension of this model in which the edges are far from independent, and to prove several results…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-05-05 Bela Bollobas , Svante Janson , Oliver Riordan

De Finetti's classical result of [18] identifying the law of an exchangeable family of random variables as a mixture of i.i.d. laws was extended to structure theorems for more complex notions of exchangeability by Aldous [1,2,3], Hoover…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-05-26 Tim Austin

This paper examines a model involving two dynamic Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graphs that evolve in parallel, with edges in each graph alternating between being present and absent according to specified on- and off-time distributions. A key…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Michel Mandjes , Jiesen Wang