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Given a set of graphs from some unknown family, we want to generate new graphs from that family. Recent methods use diffusion on either graph embeddings or the discrete space of nodes and edges. However, simple changes to embeddings (say,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Rahul Nandakumar , Deepayan Chakrabarti

Graph embedding methods represent nodes in a continuous vector space, preserving information from the graph (e.g. by sampling random walks). There are many hyper-parameters to these methods (such as random walk length) which have to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Sami Abu-El-Haija , Bryan Perozzi , Rami Al-Rfou , Alex Alemi

We pursue the study of edge-irregulators of graphs, which were recently introduced in [Fioravantes et al. Parametrised Distance to Local Irregularity. IPEC, 2024]. That is, we are interested in the parameter Ie(G), which, for a given graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Julien Bensmail , Noémie Catherinot , Foivos Fioravantes , Clara Marcille , Nacim Oijid

A recent result of Eden, Levi, and Ron (ECCC 2015) provides a sublinear time algorithm to estimate the number of triangles in a graph. Given an undirected graph $G$, one can query the degree of a vertex, the existence of an edge between…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-11 C. Seshadhri

We establish conditions on sequences of graphs which ensure that the mixing times of the random walks on the graphs in the sequence converge. The main assumption is that the graphs, associated measures and heat kernels converge in a…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-24 David Croydon , Ben Hambly , Takashi Kumagai

We consider the minimization of edge-crossings in geometric drawings of graphs $G=(V, E)$, i.e., in drawings where each edge is depicted as a line segment. The respective decision problem is NP-hard [Bienstock, '91]. In contrast to theory…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Marcel Radermacher , Ignaz Rutter

We derive an exact closed-form analytical expression for the distribution of the cover time for a random walk over an arbitrary graph. In special case, we derive simplified exact expressions for the distributions of cover time for a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-20 Nikola Zlatanov , Ljupco Kocarev

How efficiently can we find an unknown graph using distance or shortest path queries between its vertices? Let $G = (V,E)$ be an unweighted, connected graph of bounded degree. The edge set $E$ is initially unknown, and the graph can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-19 Sampath Kannan , Claire Mathieu , Hang Zhou

We present a nearly-linear time algorithm for counting and randomly generating simple graphs with a given degree sequence in a certain range. For degree sequence $(d_i)_{i=1}^n$ with maximum degree $d_{\max}=O(m^{1/4-\tau})$, our algorithm…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-03-06 Mohsen Bayati , Jeong Han Kim , Amin saberi

The problem of a restricted random walk on graphs which keeps track of the number of immediate reversal steps is considered by using a transfer matrix formulation. A closed-form expression is obtained for the generating function of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Y. Wu , H. Kunz

We study the expected adjacency matrix of a uniformly random multigraph with fixed degree sequence $\mathbf{d} \in \mathbb{Z}_+^n$. This matrix arises in a variety of analyses of networked data sets, including modularity-maximization and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Philip S. Chodrow

We present algorithms that extend the path-based hierarchical drawing framework and give experimental results. Our algorithms run in $O(km)$ time, where $k$ is the number of paths and $m$ is the number of edges of the graph, and provide…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Panagiotis Lionakis , Giorgos Kritikakis , Ioannis G. Tollis

We study random walks on Erd\"os-R\'enyi random graphs in which, every time the random walk returns to the starting point, first an edge probability is independently sampled according to a priori measure $\mu$, and then an Erd\"os-R\'enyi…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-02-06 Giulio Iacobelli , Guilherme Ost , Daniel Y. Takahashi

This paper concerns discrete-time occupancy processes on a finite graph. Our results can be formulated in two theorems, which are stated for vertex processes, but also applied to edge process (e.g., dynamic random graphs). The first theorem…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Davide Sclosa , Michel Mandjes , Christian Bick

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

Graph embedding has recently gained momentum in the research community, in particular after the introduction of random walk and neural network based approaches. However, most of the embedding approaches focus on representing the local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Joerg Schloetterer , Martin Wehking , Fatemeh Salehi Rizi , Michael Granitzer

Consider a collaborative dynamic of $k$ independent random walks on a finite connected graph $G$. We are interested in the size of the set of vertices visited by at least one walker and study how the number of walkers relates to the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Partha S. Dey , Daesung Kim , Grigory Terlov

We consider the following question. We have a dense regular graph $G$ with degree $\alpha n$, where $\alpha>0$ is a constant. We add $m=o(n^2)$ random edges. The edges of the augmented graph $G(m)$ are given independent edge weights $X(e)$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Alan Frieze

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

We investigate the paramater of the average range of $M$-Lipschitz mapping of a given graph. We focus on well-known classes such as paths, complete graphs, complete bipartite graphs and cycles and show closed formulas for computing this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-18 Jan Bok