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Degree distribution models are incredibly important tools for analyzing and understanding the structure and formation of social networks, and can help guide the design of efficient graph algorithms. In particular, the Power-law degree…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-08-20 Alessandra Sala , Sabrina Gaito , Gian Paolo Rossi , Haitao Zheng , Ben Y. Zhao

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

Degree distribution, or equivalently called degree sequence, has been commonly used to be one of most significant measures for studying a large number of complex networks with which some well-known results have been obtained. By contrast,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-02-19 Fei Ma , Xiaoming Wang , Ping Wang

We consider first passage percolation on sparse random graphs with prescribed degree distributions and general independent and identically distributed edge weights assumed to have a density. Assuming that the degree distribution satisfies a…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-26 Shankar Bhamidi , Remco van der Hofstad , Gerard Hooghiemstra

The paper is devoted to the problem of establishing right-convergence of sparse random graphs. This concerns the convergence of the logarithm of number of homomorphisms from graphs or hyper-graphs $\G_N, N\ge 1$ to some target graph $W$.…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-02-15 David Gamarnik

We present a general holistic theory for the organization of complex networks, both human-engineered and naturally-evolved. Introducing concepts of value of interactions and satisfaction as generic network performance measures, we show that…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-07-13 Venkat Venkatasubramanian , Dimitris N. Politis , Priyan R. Patkar

We establish the conditions under which several algorithmically exploitable structural features hold for random intersection graphs, a natural model for many real-world networks where edges correspond to shared attributes. Specifically, we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-10 Matthew Farrell , Timothy Goodrich , Nathan Lemons , Felix Reidl , Fernando Sánchez Villaamil , Blair D. Sullivan

Models for generating simple graphs are important in the study of real-world complex networks. A well established example of such a model is the erased configuration model, where each node receives a number of half-edges that are connected…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-09-25 Pim van der Hoorn , Nelly Litvak

Random spanning trees of a graph $G$ are governed by a corresponding probability mass distribution (or "law"), $\mu$, defined on the set of all spanning trees of $G$. This paper addresses the problem of choosing $\mu$ in order to utilize…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Nathan Albin , Jason Clemens , Derek Hoare , Pietro Poggi-Corradini , Brandon Sit , Sarah Tymochko

It has been observed that many complex real-world networks have certain properties, such as a high clustering coefficient, a low diameter, and a power-law degree distribution. A network with a power-law degree distribution is known as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Ankit Chauhan , Tobias Friedrich , Francesco Quinzan

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

We investigate structural properties of large, sparse random graphs through the lens of "sampling convergence" (Borgs et. al. (2017)). Sampling convergence generalizes left convergence to sparse graphs, and describes the limit in terms of a…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-07-04 Christian Borgs , Jennifer T. Chayes , Souvik Dhara , Subhabrata Sen

Random geometric graphs (RGGs) are commonly used to model networked systems that depend on the underlying spatial embedding. We concern ourselves with the probability distribution of an RGG, which is crucial for studying its random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Mihai-Alin Badiu , Justin P. Coon

The intricate relations between elements in natural and human-made systems sustain the complex processes that shape our world, forming multiscale networks of interactions. These networks can be represented as graphs composed of nodes…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-20 M. Ángeles Serrano

Inhomogeneous random graphs are fundamental models for real-world networks, where prescribed degrees are imposed as soft constraints. A common assumption in such models is that the degree distribution follows a power-law, capturing the…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Riccardo Michielan , Clara Stegehuis , Bert Zwart

We study a recent model for edge exchangeable random graphs introduced by Crane and Dempsey; in particular we study asymptotic properties of the random simple graph obtained by merging multiple edges. We study a number of examples, and show…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-08-02 Svante Janson

We propose and investigate a unifying class of sparse random graph models, based on a hidden coloring of edge-vertex incidences, extending an existing approach, Random graphs with a given degree distribution, in a way that admits a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bo Söderberg

The decision problem of perfect matchings in uniform hypergraphs is famously an NP-complete problem. It has been shown by Keevash--Knox--Mycroft [STOC, 2013] that for every $\varepsilon>0$, such decision problem restricted to $k$-uniform…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Jie Han , Jingwen Zhao

While previous works have shown that an overwhelming number of scale-free networks are sparse, there still exist some real-world networks including social networks, urban networks, information networks, which are by observation dense. In…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Fei Ma , Xiaomin Wang , Ping Wang , Xudong Luo

This research establishes that many real-world networks exhibit bounded expansion, a strong notion of structural sparsity, and demonstrates that it can be leveraged to design efficient algorithms for network analysis. We analyze several…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Erik D. Demaine , Felix Reidl , Peter Rossmanith , Fernando Sanchez Villaamil , Somnath Sikdar , Blair D. Sullivan