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Random Walk is a basic algorithm to explore the structure of networks, which can be used in many tasks, such as local community detection and network embedding. Existing random walk methods are based on single networks that contain limited…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Dongsheng Luo , Yuchen Bian , Yaowei Yan , Xiong Yu , Jun Huan , Xiao Liu , Xiang Zhang

We investigate the dynamics of simultaneous random walkers with resetting on networks and derive exact analytical expressions for the mean first-encounter times of Markovian random walkers. Specifically, we consider two cases for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-08 Daniel Rubio-Gómez , Alejandro P. Riascos , José L. Mateos

As known, the commonly-utilized ways to determine mean first-passage time $\overline{\mathcal{F}}$ for random walk on networks are mainly based on Laplacian spectra. However, methods of this type can become prohibitively complicated and…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-18 Fei Ma , Ping Wang

Random walks by single-node agents have been systematically conducted on various types of complex networks in order to investigate how their topologies can affect the dynamics of the agents. However, by fitting any network node, these…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-16 Alexandre Benatti , Luciano da F. Costa

In this paper, we rigorously establish the Gumbel-distributed fluctuations of the cover time, normalized by the mean first passage time, for finite-range, symmetric, irreducible random walks on a torus of dimension three or higher. This has…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-02 Hao Ge , Xiao Han , Yuan Zhang

We present a novel computational method of first-passage times between a starting site and a target site of regular bounded lattices. We derive accurate expressions for all the moments of this first-passage time, validated by numerical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 S Condamin , O. Benichou , M. Moreau

We study random walks on the giant component of Hyperbolic Random Graphs (HRGs), in the regime when the degree distribution obeys a power law with exponent in the range $(2,3)$. In particular, we first focus on the expected time for a…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Marcos Kiwi , Markus Schepers , John Sylvester

Many natural and artificial networks evolve in time. Nodes and connections appear and disappear at various timescales, and their dynamics has profound consequences for any processes in which they are involved. The first empirical analysis…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-05-21 Michele Starnini , Andrea Baronchelli , Alain Barrat , Romualdo Pastor-Satorras

We present analytical results for the distribution of first-passage (FP) times of random walks (RWs) on random regular graphs that consist of $N$ nodes of degree $c \ge 3$. Starting from a random initial node at time $t=0$, at each time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-28 Ido Tishby , Ofer Biham , Eytan Katzav

Many biological, social, and communication systems can be modeled by ``searchers'' moving through a complex network. For example, intracellular cargo is transported on tubular networks, news and rumors spread through online social networks,…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-01-04 Sean D Lawley

Random walks on discrete lattices are fundamental models that form the basis for our understanding of transport and diffusion processes. For a single random walker on complex networks, many properties such as the mean first passage time and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-21 Aanjaneya Kumar , M. S. Santhanam

A self-repelling random walk of a token on a graph is one in which at each step, the token moves to a neighbor that has been visited least often (with ties broken randomly). The properties of self-repelling random walks have been analyzed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Vinod Kulathumani , Masahiro Nakagawa , Anish Arora

Random walks are the simplest way to explore or search a graph, and have revealed a very useful tool to investigate and characterize the structural properties of complex networks from the real world, e.g. they have been used to identify the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-11 Timoteo Carletti , Malbor Asllani , Duccio Fanelli , Vito Latora

We design a method to optimize the global mean first-passage time (GMFPT) of multiple random walkers searching in complex networks for a general target, without specifying the property of the target node. According to the Laplace…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-12-13 Mucong Ding , Kwok Yip Szeto

Random walks have wide application in real lives, ranging from target search, reaction kinetics, polymer chains, to the forecast of the arrive time of extreme events, diseases or opinions. In this paper, we consider discrete random walks on…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Junhao Peng , Renxiang Shao , Huoyun Wang

In the previous chapters, we explored the effects of resetting on networks considering one and two nodes. In this chapter, we will describe a generalization of random walks with resetting to an arbitrary number of nodes $\mathcal{M}$. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-26 Fernanda Hernández González

A recent result of Ding, Lee and Peres expresses the cover time of the random walk on a graph in terms of generic chaining for the commute distance. Their proof is very involved and the purpose of this article is to present a simpler…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-07-11 Joseph Lehec

We develop a framework to determine the complete statistical behavior of a fundamental quantity in the theory of random walks, namely, the probability that $n_1$, $n_2$, $n_3$, . . . distinct sites are visited at times $t_1$, $t_2$, $t_3$,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-22 Léo Régnier , Maxim Dolgushev , Sidney Redner , Olivier Bénichou

Anomalous random walks having long-range jumps are a critical branch of dynamical processes on networks, which can model a number of search and transport processes. However, traditional measurements based on mean first passage time are not…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-10-11 Tongfeng Weng , Jie Zhang , Moein Khajehnejad , Michael Small , Rui Zheng , Pan Hui

Random walks process on networks plays a fundamental role in understanding the importance of nodes and the similarity of them, which has been widely applied in PageRank, information retrieval, and community detection, etc. Individual's…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-01-13 Bing Wang , Hongjuan Zeng , Yuexing Han