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We introduce a novel class of labeled directed acyclic graph (LDAG) models for finite sets of discrete variables. LDAGs generalize earlier proposals for allowing local structures in the conditional probability distribution of a node, such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-11-12 Johan Pensar , Henrik Nyman , Timo Koski , Jukka Corander

The feed-forward relationship naturally observed in time-dependent processes and in a diverse number of real systems -such as some food-webs and electronic and neural wiring- can be described in terms of so-called directed acyclic graphs…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-19 Joaquín Goñi , Bernat Corominas-Murtra , Ricard V. Solé , Carlos Rodríguez-Caso

Butterfly minors are a generalisation of the minor containment relation for undirected graphs to directed graphs. Many results in directed structural graph theory use this notion as a central tool next to directed treewidth, a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Gunwoo Kim , Meike Hatzel , Stephan Kreutzer

Graph embedding methods embed the nodes in a graph in low dimensional vector space while preserving graph topology to carry out the downstream tasks such as link prediction, node recommendation and clustering. These tasks depend on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Ramanujam Madhavan , Mohit Wadhwa

The undirected degree/diameter and degree/girth problems and their directed analogues have been studied for many decades in the search for efficient network topologies. Recently such questions have received much attention in the setting of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-05 James Tuite , Grahame Erskine

Despite the enormous success of graph neural networks (GNNs), most existing GNNs can only be applicable to undirected graphs where relationships among connected nodes are two-way symmetric (i.e., information can be passed back and forth).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Zhuo Tan , Bin Liu , Guosheng Yin

Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) can be characterised as directed graphs whose strongly connected components are isolated vertices. Using this restriction on the strong components, we discover that when $m = cn$, where $m$ is the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-21 Élie de Panafieu , Sergey Dovgal

We explore pseudometrics for directed graphs in order to better understand their topological properties. The directed flag complex associated to a directed graph provides a useful bridge between network science and topology. Indeed, it has…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-26 Ana Lucia Garcia-Pulido , Kathryn Hess , Jane Tan , Katharine Turner , Bei Wang , Naya Yerolemou

Many well-known NP-hard algorithmic problems on directed graphs resist efficient parametrisations with most known width measures for directed graphs, such as directed treewidth, DAG-width, Kelly-width and many others. While these focus on…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Raphael Steiner , Sebastian Wiederrecht

This is the second report of our work on the construction of directed strongly regular graphs. In our previous work, we constructed a couple of infinite families of new directed strongly regular graphs on the sets of antiflags of partial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-02-09 Oktay Olmez , Sung Y. Song

Consider a directed graph (digraph) in which vertices are assigned color sets, and two vertices are connected if and only if they share at least one color and the tail vertex has a strictly smaller color set than the head. We seek to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-17 Xujun Liu , Roberto Machado , Olgica Milenkovic

In the Metric Dimension problem, one asks for a minimum-size set $R$ of vertices such that for any pair of vertices of the graph, there is a vertex from $R$ whose two distances to the vertices of the pair are distinct. This problem has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Antoine Dailly , Florent Foucaud , Anni Hakanen

A circle graph is an intersection graph of a set of chords of a circle. We describe the unavoidable induced subgraphs of circle graphs with large treewidth. This includes examples that are far from the `usual suspects'. Our results imply…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-23 Robert Hickingbotham , Freddie Illingworth , Bojan Mohar , David R. Wood

Bidirected graphs generalize directed and undirected graphs in that edges are oriented locally at every node. The natural notion of the degree of a node that takes into account (local) orientations is that of net-degree. In this paper, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-11 Laura Gellert , Raman Sanyal

We consider the problem of estimating the graph size, where one is given only local access to the graph. We formally define a query model in which one starts with a \emph{seed} node and is allowed to make queries about neighbours of nodes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-15 Varun Kanade , Frederik Mallmann-Trenn , Victor Verdugo

\emph{Bidirected graphs} (a sort of nonstandard graphs introduced by Edmonds and Johnson) provide a natural generalization to the notions of directed and undirected graphs. By a \emph{weakly (node- or edge-) acyclic} bidirected graph we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Maxim A. Babenko

Given an edge-weighted graph $G$ and a subset of vertices $T$ called terminals, an $\alpha$-distance-approximating minor ($\alpha$-DAM) of $G$ is a graph minor $H$ of $G$ that contains all terminals, such that the distance between every…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Hsien-Chih Chang , Jonathan Conroy

Erd\H{o}s, Harary, and Tutte defined the dimension of a graph $G$ as the smallest natural number $n$ such that $G$ can be embedded in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with each edge a straight line segment of length 1. Since the proposal of this definition,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-11 Thomas Giardina , Joel Foisy

In this paper we explore mathematical tools that can be used to relate directed and undirected random graph models to each other. We identify probability spaces on which a directed and an undirected graph model are equivalent, and…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-03 Mike van Santvoort , Pim van der Hoorn

Entanglement is a complexity measure of directed graphs that origins in fixed point theory. This measure has shown its use in designing efficient algorithms to verify logical properties of transition systems. We are interested in the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-04-09 Walid Belkhir , Luigi Santocanale