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In this work, we present a probabilistic model for directed graphs where nodes have attributes and labels. This model serves as a generative classifier capable of predicting the labels of unseen nodes using either maximum likelihood or…

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Statistical inference for exponential-family models of random graphs with dependent edges is challenging. We stress the importance of additional structure and show that additional structure facilitates statistical inference. A simple…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-13 Michael Schweinberger , Jonathan Stewart

In the first part of this paper, we consider weighted domination in the case where the vertices of the complete graph on~\(n\) vertices are equipped with independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) weights. We use the probabilistic…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-16 Ghurumuruhan Ganesan

We introduce a method for the theoretical analysis of exponential random graph models. The method is based on a large-deviations approximation to the normalizing constant shown to be consistent using theory developed by Chatterjee and…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-11-21 Sourav Chatterjee , Persi Diaconis

When analyzing weighted networks using spectral embedding, a judicious transformation of the edge weights may produce better results. To formalize this idea, we consider the asymptotic behavior of spectral embedding for different…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-23 Ian Gallagher , Andrew Jones , Anna Bertiger , Carey Priebe , Patrick Rubin-Delanchy

The edge-degeneracy model is an exponential random graph model that uses the graph degeneracy, a measure of the graph's connection density, and number of edges in a graph as its sufficient statistics. We show this model is relatively…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-19 Nicolas Kim , Dane Wilburne , Sonja Petrović , Alessandro Rinaldo

This paper presents foundational theoretical results on distributed parameter estimation for undirected probabilistic graphical models. It introduces a general condition on composite likelihood decompositions of these models which…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-06-13 Yariv Dror Mizrahi , Misha Denil , Nando de Freitas

This doctoral thesis concerns novel distributed algorithms for weight balancing over directed (communication) topologies. A directed topology (digraph) with nonnegative (or positive) weights assigned on each edge is weight-balanced if, for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Apostolos I. Rikos

We analyze the correlation between randomly chosen edge weights on neighboring edges in a directed graph. This shared-endpoint correlation controls the expected organization of randomly drawn edge flows when the flow on each edge is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-13 Joshua Richland , Alexander Strang

We consider complete graphs with edge weights and/or node weights taking values in some set. In the first part of this paper, we show that a large number of graphs are completely determined, up to isomorphism, by the distribution of their…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-10-11 Mireille Boutin , Gregor Kemper

We consider the distributed weight balancing problem in networks of nodes that are interconnected via directed edges, each of which is able to admit a positive integer weight within a certain interval, captured by individual lower and upper…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-10 Apostolos I. Rikos , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis

We find the explicit expression for the equilibrium wealth distribution of the Directed Random Market process, recently introduced by Mart\'inez-Mart\'inez and L\'opez-Ruiz, which turns out to be a Gamma distribution with shape parameter…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2019-10-07 Guy Katriel

This paper builds on recent research that focuses on regression modeling of continuous bounded data, such as proportions measured on a continuous scale. Specifically, it deals with beta regression models with mixed effects from a Bayesian…

Subgraph counting is a fundamental task that underpins several network analysis methodologies, including community detection and graph two-sample tests. Counting subgraphs is a computationally intensive problem. Substantial research has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Feng Yu , Mingao Yuan

Exponential-family random graph models (ERGMs) provide a principled and flexible way to model and simulate features common in social networks, such as propensities for homophily, mutuality, and friend-of-a-friend triad closure, through…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-08-01 Pavel N. Krivitsky

Many phenomena in real world social networks are interpreted as spread of influence between activated and non-activated network elements. These phenomena are formulated by combinatorial graphs, where vertices represent the elements and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Siavash Askari , Manouchehr Zaker

The mathematical properties of a family of generalized beta distribution, including beta-normal, skewed-t, log-F, beta-exponential, beta-Weibull distributions have recently been studied in several publications. This paper applies these…

Methodology · Statistics 2007-10-26 J. H. Sepanski , Lingji Kong

We present an approach to reduced-order modelling that builds off recent graph-theoretic work for representation, exploration, and analysis of computed states of physical systems (Banerjee et al., Comp. Meth. App. Mech. Eng., 351, 501-530,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Matthew Duschenes , Siddhartha Srivastava , Krishna Garikipati

In this paper, we explore the two-star Exponential Random Graph Model, which is a two parameter exponential family on the space of simple labeled graphs. We introduce auxiliary variables to express the two-star model as a mixture of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-04 Sumit Mukherjee , Yuanzhe Xu

Random graphs are more and more used for modeling real world networks such as evolutionary networks of proteins. For this purpose we look at two different models and analyze how properties like connectedness and degree distributions are…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Klemens Taglieber , Uta Freiberg