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We study the problem of generating graphs with prescribed degree sequences for bipartite, directed, and undirected networks. We first propose a sequential method for bipartite graph generation and establish a necessary and sufficient…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-13 Tong Sun , Jianshu Hao , Michael C. Fu , Guangxin Jiang

Bipartite networks manifest as a stream of edges that represent transactions, e.g., purchases by retail customers. Many machine learning applications employ neighborhood-based measures to characterize the similarity among the nodes, such as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Nesreen K. Ahmed , Nick Duffield , Liangzhen Xia

The question of aggregating pair-wise comparisons to obtain a global ranking over a collection of objects has been of interest for a very long time: be it ranking of online gamers (e.g. MSR's TrueSkill system) and chess players, aggregating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-13 Sahand Negahban , Sewoong Oh , Devavrat Shah

Rank-based approaches are among the most popular nonparametric methods for univariate data in tackling statistical problems such as hypothesis testing due to their robustness and effectiveness. However, they are unsatisfactory for more…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-07-04 Doudou Zhou , Hao Chen

Finding dense bipartite subgraphs and detecting the relations among them is an important problem for affiliation networks that arise in a range of domains, such as social network analysis, word-document clustering, the science of science,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-29 A. Erdem Sariyuce , Ali Pinar

Ranking nodes in networks according to a defined measure of importance is an extensively studied task, with applications in ecology, economic trade networks, and social networks. This paper introduces a method based on a non-linear…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-01 Andrea Mazzolini , Michele Caselle , Matteo Osella

Bipartite ranking is a fundamental ranking problem that learns to order relevant instances ahead of irrelevant ones. The pair-wise approach for bi-partite ranking construct a quadratic number of pairs to solve the problem, which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Wei-Yuan Shen , Hsuan-Tien Lin

Bipartite graphs are often found to represent the connectivity between the components of many systems such as ecosystems. A bipartite graph is a set of $n$ nodes that is decomposed into two disjoint subsets, having $m$ and $n-m$ vertices…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-01-01 C. T. Martinez-Martinez , J. A. Mendez-Bermudez , Yamir Moreno , Jair J. Pineda-Pineda , Jose M. Sigarreta

With increasing importance of e-commerce, many websites have emerged where users can express their opinions about products, such as movies, books, songs, etc. Such interactions can be modeled as bipartite graphs where the weight of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-03-16 Abhinav Mishra

Higher-order networks are efficient representations of sequential data. Unlike the classic first-order network approach, they capture indirect dependencies between items composing the input sequences by the use of \textit{memory-nodes}. We…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-09-08 Célestin Coquidé , Julie Queiros , François Queyroi

A hypergraph is a useful combinatorial object to model ternary or higher-order relations among entities. Clustering hypergraphs is a fundamental task in network analysis. In this study, we develop two clustering algorithms based on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Yuuki Takai , Atsushi Miyauchi , Masahiro Ikeda , Yuichi Yoshida

Let G = (A U P, E) be a bipartite graph where A denotes a set of agents, P denotes a set of posts and ranks on the edges denote preferences of the agents over posts. A matching M in G is rank-maximal if it matches the maximum number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-09-18 Pratik Ghoshal , Meghana Nasre , Prajakta Nimbhorkar

We propose a novel image representation, termed Attribute-Graph, to rank images by their semantic similarity to a given query image. An Attribute-Graph is an undirected fully connected graph, incorporating both local and global image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-09 Nikita Prabhu , R. Venkatesh Babu

Recent years have witnessed a widespread increase of interest in network representation learning (NRL). By far most research efforts have focused on NRL for homogeneous networks like social networks where vertices are of the same type, or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Ming Gao , Xiangnan He , Leihui Chen , Tingting Liu , Jinglin Zhang , Aoying Zhou

This paper is to analyze the properties of evolving bipartite networks from four aspects, the growth of networks, the degree distribution, the popularity of objects and the diversity of user behaviours, leading a deep understanding on the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-10-29 Xin-Yi Lu , Jian-Hong Lin , Qiang Guo , Jian-Guo Liu

Processing large complex networks recently attracted considerable interest. Complex graphs are useful in a wide range of applications from technological networks to biological systems like the human brain. Sometimes these networks are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Christian Schulz

Bipartite networks are a common type of network data in which there are two types of vertices, and only vertices of different types can be connected. While bipartite networks exhibit community structure like their unipartite counterparts,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-07-14 Daniel B. Larremore , Aaron Clauset , Abigail Z. Jacobs

In this article we will look at the PageRank algorithm used as part of the ranking process of different Internet pages in search engines by for example Google. This article has its main focus in the understanding of the behavior of PageRank…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Christopher Engström , Sergei Silvestrov

We propose a new data mining approach in ranking documents based on the concept of cone-based generalized inequalities between vectors. A partial ordering between two vectors is made with respect to a proper cone and thus learning the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-21 Truyen T. Tran , Duc Son Pham

We propose a novel unsupervised approach for linking records across arbitrarily many files, while simultaneously detecting duplicate records within files. Our key innovation is to represent the pattern of links between records as a {\em…

Computation · Statistics 2014-03-04 Rebecca C. Steorts , Rob Hall , Stephen E. Fienberg