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Random graph models are used to describe the complex structure of real-world networks in diverse fields of knowledge. Studying their behavior and fitting properties are still critical challenges, that in general, require model specific…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Suzana de Siqueira Santos , André Fujita , Catherine Matias

Sparsity-constrained optimization is an important and challenging problem that has wide applicability in data mining, machine learning, and statistics. In this paper, we focus on sparsity-constrained optimization in cases where the cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Feng Chen , Baojian Zhou

Hypergraph is a general way of representing high-order relations on a set of objects. It is a generalization of graph, in which only pairwise relations can be represented. It finds applications in various domains where relationships of more…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-19 Canh Hao Nguyen , Hiroshi Mamitsuka

A sparsifier of a graph $G$ (Bencz\'ur and Karger; Spielman and Teng) is a sparse weighted subgraph $\tilde G$ that approximately retains the cut structure of $G$. For general graphs, non-trivial sparsification is possible only by using…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Nikhil Bansal , Ola Svensson , Luca Trevisan

In the Network Inference problem, one seeks to recover the edges of an unknown graph from the observations of cascades propagating over this graph. In this paper, we approach this problem from the sparse recovery perspective. We introduce a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Jean Pouget-Abadie , Thibaut Horel

The thickness $\theta(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of planar spanning subgraphs into which the graph $G$ can be decomposed. As a topological invariant of a graph, it is a measurement of the closeness to planarity of a graph, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-01 Yan Yang , Xiangheng Kong

The ability to share social network data at the level of individual connections is beneficial to science: not only for reproducing results, but also for researchers who may wish to use it for purposes not foreseen by the data releaser.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Daniele Romanini , Sune Lehmann , Mikko Kivelä

In wireless networks characterized by dense connectivity, the significant signaling overhead generated by distributed link scheduling algorithms can exacerbate issues like congestion, energy consumption, and radio footprint expansion. To…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zhongyuan Zhao , Gunjan Verma , Ananthram Swami , Santiago Segarra

The coexistence of sparsity and clustering (non-vanishing average fraction of triangles per node) is one of the few structural features that, irrespective of finer details, are ubiquitously observed across large real-world networks. This…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Alessio Catanzaro , Remco van der Hofstad , Diego Garlaschelli

We propose novel recommendation algorithms to improve fairness in networks. Fairness is measured by how close different nodes are to influencers in the network. To allow for easy comparison of fairness across graphs of different sizes, our…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Naisha Agarwal

Sparsification aims at extracting a reduced core of associations that best preserves both the dynamics and topology of networks while reducing the computational cost of simulations. We show that the semi-metric topology of complex networks…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-06-05 David Soriano Paños , Felipe Xavier Costa , Luis M. Rocha

For a set $S$ of vertices of a graph $G$, we define its density $0 \leq \sigma(S) \leq 1$ as the ratio of the number of edges of $G$ spanned by the vertices of $S$ to ${|S| \choose 2}$. We show that, given a graph $G$ with $n$ vertices and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-06 Alexander Barvinok , Anthony Della Pella

Recent works have impressively demonstrated that there exists a subnetwork in randomly initialized convolutional neural networks (CNNs) that can match the performance of the fully trained dense networks at initialization, without any…

Node features of graph neural networks (GNNs) tend to become more similar with the increase of the network depth. This effect is known as over-smoothing, which we axiomatically define as the exponential convergence of suitable similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 T. Konstantin Rusch , Michael M. Bronstein , Siddhartha Mishra

Degree heterogeneity and latent geometry, also referred to as popularity and similarity, are key explanatory components underlying the structure of real-world networks. The relationship between these components and the statistical…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Keith Malcolm Smith , Jason P. Smith

Measuring similarity between IP addresses is an important task in the daily operations of any enterprise network. Applications that depend on an IP similarity measure include measuring correlation between security alerts, building baselines…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Hazem M. Soliman , Geoff Salmon , Dusan Sovilij , Mohan Rao

Measuring similarity between complex objects is a fundamental task in many scientific fields. When objects are represented as graphs, graph similarity/distance measures offer a powerful framework for quantifying structural resemblance.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Matthias Dehmer , Izudin Redžepović , Niko Tratnik , Petra Žigert Pleteršek

The MIT/IEEE/Amazon GraphChallenge.org encourages community approaches to developing new solutions for analyzing graphs and sparse data. Sparse AI analytics present unique scalability difficulties. The proposed Sparse Deep Neural Network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Jeremy Kepner , Simon Alford , Vijay Gadepally , Michael Jones , Lauren Milechin , Ryan Robinett , Sid Samsi

Entropy is being used in physics, mathematics, informatics and in related areas to describe equilibration, dissipation, maximal probability states and optimal compression of information. The Gini index on the other hand is an established…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-07-19 Tamás S. Biró , Zoltán Néda

Geometric graph models of systems as diverse as proteins, robots, and mechanical structures from DNA assemblies to architected materials point towards a unified way to represent and control them in space and time. While much work has been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Siheng Chen , Fabio Giardina , Gary P. T. Choi , L. Mahadevan