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This paper examines the $\mathcal{H}_\infty$ performance problem of the edge agreement protocol for networks of agents operating on independent time scales, connected by weighted edges, and corrupted by exogenous disturbances.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-08 Omar Farhat , Dany Abou Jaoude , Mathias Hudoba de Badyn

Identifying the most influential nodes in information networks has been the focus of many research studies. This problem has crucial applications in various contexts, such as controlling the propagation of viruses or rumours in real-world…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Ahmad Asgharian Rezaei , Justin Munoz , Mahdi Jalili , Hamid Khayyam

We consider the problem of estimating the topology of multiple networks from nodal observations, where these networks are assumed to be drawn from the same (unknown) random graph model. We adopt a graphon as our random graph model, which is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-14 Madeline Navarro , Santiago Segarra

This paper introduces a convex optimization framework for identifying switched network systems, in which both the node dynamics and the underlying graph topology switch between a finite number of configurations. Building on our recent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Kaito Iwasaki , Anthony Bloch , Maani Ghaffari

We address the problem of distributed uncon- strained convex optimization under separability assumptions, i.e., the framework where each agent of a network is endowed with a local private multidimensional convex cost, is subject to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-06 Damiano Varagnolo , Filippo Zanella , Angelo Cenedese , Gianluigi Pillonetto , Luca Schenato

Learning influence pathways of a network of dynamically related processes from observations is of considerable importance in many disciplines. In this article, influence networks of agents which interact dynamically via linear dependencies…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Saurav Talukdar , Deepjyoti Deka , Harish Doddi , Donatello Materassi , Misha Chertkov , Murti V. Salapaka

A reliable inference of networks from data is of key interest in the Neurosciences. Several methods have been suggested in the literature to reliably determine links in a network. To decide about the presence of links, these techniques rely…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-06-29 Gloria Cecchini , Marco Thiel , Bjoern Schelter , Linda Sommerlade

Network tomography, a classic research problem in the realm of network monitoring, refers to the methodology of inferring unmeasured network attributes using selected end-to-end path measurements. In the research community, network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Liang Ma , Ziyao Zhang , Mudhakar Srivatsa

The statistical modeling of random networks has been widely used to uncover interaction mechanisms in complex systems and to predict unobserved links in real-world networks. In many applications, network connections are collected via…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Angus Chan , Tianxi Li

We consider a network topology design problem in which an initial undirected graph underlying the network is given and the objective is to select a set of edges to add to the graph to optimize the coherence of the resulting network. We show…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-19 Tyler Summers , Iman Shames , John Lygeros , Florian Dörfler

The transductive inference is an effective technique in the few-shot learning task, where query sets update prototypes to improve themselves. However, these methods optimize the model by considering only the classification scores of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Minglei Yuan , Qian Xu , Chunhao Cai , Yin-Dong Zheng , Tao Wang , Tong Lu

Inference and prediction are fundamental to the study of complex systems, where network data are often incomplete, inaccurate or obtained indirectly. In this paper, we review recent advances in network sampling and comparison, as well as in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-09 Francisco A. Rodrigues

In this paper, we study how to shape opinions in social networks when the matrix of interactions is unknown. We consider classical opinion dynamics with some stubborn agents and the possibility of continuously influencing the opinions of a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Vivek Borkar , Alexandre Reiffers-Masson

Collecting network data directly from network members can be challenging. One alternative involves inferring a network from observed groups, for example, inferring a network of scientific collaboration from researchers' observed paper…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Zachary P. Neal

Topological properties of networks are widely applied to study the link-prediction problem recently. Common Neighbors, for example, is a natural yet efficient framework. Many variants of Common Neighbors have been thus proposed to further…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-09-18 Fei Tan , Yongxiang Xia , Boyao Zhu

We present a new inference method based on approximate Bayesian computation for estimating parameters governing an entire network based on link-traced samples of that network. To do this, we first take summary statistics from an observed…

Computation · Statistics 2017-01-17 Jack Davis , Steven K. Thompson

Networks are models representing relationships between entities. Often these relationships are explicitly given, or we must learn a representation which generalizes and predicts observed behavior in underlying individual data (e.g.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Ivan Brugere , Chris Kanich , Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf

We consider a graphical model where a multivariate normal vector is associated with each node of the underlying graph and estimate the graphical structure. We minimize a loss function obtained by regressing the vector at each node on those…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-19 Xingqi Du , Subhashis Ghosal

Understanding the structural complexity and predictability of complex networks is a central challenge in network science. Although recent studies have revealed a relationship between compression-based entropy and link prediction…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Sebastián Brzovic , Cristóbal Rojas , Andrés Abeliuk

We consider a social learning problem, where a network of agents is interested in selecting one among a finite number of hypotheses. We focus on weakly-connected graphs where the network is partitioned into a sending part and a receiving…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Vincenzo Matta , Virginia Bordignon , Augusto Santos , Ali H. Sayed