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Graph-based semi-supervised learning usually involves two separate stages, constructing an affinity graph and then propagating labels for transductive inference on the graph. It is suboptimal to solve them independently, as the correlation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Qilin Li , Senjian An , Ling Li , Wanquan Liu

We study a two-person game played on graphs based on the widely studied chip-firing game. Players Max and Min alternately place chips on the vertices of a graph. When a vertex accumulates as many chips as its degree, it fires, sending one…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-05-09 A. Bonato , W. Kinnersley , P. Pralat

In 1992, Bitar and Goles introduced the parallel chip-firing game on undirected graphs. Two years later, Prisner extended the game to directed graphs. While the properties of parallel chip-firing games on undirected graphs have been…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-10 David Ji , Michael Li , Daniel Wang

We investigate fast diffusions on finite directed graphs. We prove results in a way dual to presented in Bobrowski, A. Ann. Henri Poincar\'e (2012) 13(6): 1501-1510 and Bobrowski, A., Morawska, K. DCDS-B (2012), 17(7): 2313-2327, and obtain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Adam Gregosiewicz

We study the randomized rumor spreading algorithm \emph{pull} on complete graphs with $n$ vertices. Starting with one informed vertex and proceeding in rounds, each vertex yet uninformed connects to a neighbor chosen uniformly at random and…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Konstantinos Panagiotou , Simon Reisser

We consider a patrolling game on a graph recently introduced by Alpern et al. (2011) where the Patroller wins if he is at the attacked node while the attack is taking place. This paper studies the periodic patrolling game in the case that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-31 Steve Alpern , Thomas Lidbetter , Katerina Papadaki

Chip-firing is a combinatorial game on a graph, in which chips are placed and dispersed among its vertices until a stable configuration is achieved. We specifically study a chip-firing variant on an infinite, rooted, directed $k$-ary tree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Ryota Inagaki , Tanya Khovanova , Austin Luo

A limit theorem for a sequence of diffusion processes on graphs is proved in a case when vary both parameters of the processes (the drift and diffusion coefficients on every edge and the asymmetry coefficients in every vertex), and…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexey M. Kulik

We study feature propagation on graph, an inference process involved in graph representation learning tasks. It's to spread the features over the whole graph to the $t$-th orders, thus to expand the end's features. The process has been…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Biao Xiang , Ziqi Liu , Jun Zhou , Xiaolong Li

Graph burning studies how fast a contagion, modeled as a set of fires, spreads in a graph. The burning process takes place in synchronous, discrete rounds. In each round, a fire breaks out at a vertex, and the fire spreads to all vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Anthony Bonato , Sean English , Bill Kay , Daniel Moghbel

We introduce the \emph{temporal graphlet kernel} for classifying dissemination processes in labeled temporal graphs. Such dissemination processes can be spreading (fake) news, infectious diseases, or computer viruses in dynamic networks.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Lutz Oettershagen , Nils M. Kriege , Claude Jordan , Petra Mutzel

We consider diffusion processes on metric graphs with semipermeable sticky membranes in each vertex. We prove that the process is governed by a Feller semigroup and find its asymptotic behavior as diffusion's speed increases to infinity…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Adam Gregosiewicz

We study the stable configurations of the labeled chip-firing game on an infinitely subdivided $k$-star graph starting with $km$ chips on the center vertex. We prove a sorting property of this game and analyze special stable configurations…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Annika Gonzalez-Zugasti , Ryan Lynch , Dylan Snustad

We consider a synchronous process of particles moving on the vertices of a graph $G$, introduced by Cooper, McDowell, Radzik, Rivera and Shiraga (2018). Initially, $M$ particles are placed on a vertex of $G$. In subsequent time steps, all…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-04-25 Umberto De Ambroggio , Tamás Makai , Konstantinos Panagiotou , Annika Steibel

We consider the general problem of the first passage distribution of particles whose displacements are subject to time delays. We show that this problem gives rise to a \emph{propagation-dispersion equation} which is obtained as the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jean Pierre Boon , Patrick Grosfils , James F. Lutsko

A finite graph with an assignment of non-negative integers to vertices gives chip-firing games. Chip-firing games determine languages (sets of words) called the record sets of legal games. Bj\"orner, Lov\'asz and Shor found several…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Kentaro Akasaka , Suguru Ishibashi , Masahiko Yoshinaga

Baker and Norine introduced a graph-theoretic analogue of the Riemann-Roch theory. A central notion in this theory is the rank of a divisor. In this paper we prove that computing the rank of a divisor on a graph is NP-hard. The…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-12-22 Viktor Kiss , Lilla Tóthmérész

In 2016, Hopkins, McConville, and Propp proved that labeled chip-firing on a line always leaves the chips in sorted order if the number of chips is even. We present a novel proof of this result. We then apply our methods to resolve a number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Caroline Klivans , Patrick Liscio

For an arbitrary initial configuration of discrete loads over vertices of a distributed graph, we consider the problem of minimizing the {\em discrepancy} between the maximum and minimum loads among all vertices. For this problem, this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Takeharu Shiraga

The spread of an infection, a contagion, meme, emotion, message and various other spreadable objects have been discussed in several works. Burning and firefighting have been discussed in particular on static graphs. Graph burning simulates…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-11-17 Arya Tanmay Gupta