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Node counting on a graph is subject to some fundamental theoretical limitations, yet a solution to such problems is necessary in many applications of graph theory to real-world systems, such as collective robotics and distributed sensor…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Arindam Saha , James A. R. Marshall , Andreagiovanni Reina

We propose a novel model-reduction methodology for large-scale dynamic networks with tightly-connected components. First, the coherent groups are identified by a spectral clustering algorithm on the graph Laplacian matrix that models the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Hancheng Min , Enrique Mallada

This paper studies a constrained optimization problem over networked systems with an undirected and connected communication topology. The algorithm proposed in this work utilizes singular perturbation, dynamic average consensus, and saddle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Phuong Huu Hoang , Hyo-Sung Ahn

Network structures, consisting of nodes and edges, have applications in almost all subjects. A set of nodes is called a community if the nodes have strong interrelations. Industries (including cell phone carriers and online social media…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Haoye Lu , Amiya Nayak

We address a fundamental problem that is systematically encountered when modeling complex systems: the limitedness of the information available. In the case of economic and financial networks, privacy issues severely limit the information…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-12-07 Giulio Cimini , Tiziano Squartini , Diego Garlaschelli , Andrea Gabrielli

We state a combinatorial optimization problem whose feasible solutions define both a decomposition and a node labeling of a given graph. This problem offers a common mathematical abstraction of seemingly unrelated computer vision tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Evgeny Levinkov , Jonas Uhrig , Siyu Tang , Mohamed Omran , Eldar Insafutdinov , Alexander Kirillov , Carsten Rother , Thomas Brox , Bernt Schiele , Bjoern Andres

The robustness of complex networks under targeted attacks is deeply connected to the resilience of complex systems, i.e., the ability to make appropriate responses to the attacks. In this article, we investigated the state-of-the-art…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-19 Xiao-Long Ren , Niels Gleinig , Dijana Tolic , Nino Antulov-Fantulin

We study the distributed optimization problem over a graphon with a continuum of nodes, which is regarded as the limit of the distributed networked optimization as the number of nodes goes to infinity. Each node has a private local cost…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Yan Chen , Tao Li , Xiaofeng Zong

Based upon the idea that network functionality is impaired if two nodes in a network are sufficiently separated in terms of a given metric, we introduce two combinatorial \emph{pseudocut} problems generalizing the classical min-cut and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Alan Kuhnle , Tianyi Pan , Victoria G. Crawford , Md Abdul Alim , My T. Thai

One major open problem in network coding is to characterize the capacity region of a general multi-source multi-demand network. There are some existing computational tools for bounding the capacity of general networks, but their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Michelle Effros , Tracey Ho , Shirin Jalali

We address the problem of distributed convex unconstrained optimization over networks characterized by asynchronous and possibly lossy communications. We analyze the case where the global cost function is the sum of locally coupled local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Marco Todescato , Nicoletta Bof , Guido Cavraro , Ruggero Carli , Luca Schenato

Motivated by broad applications in various fields of engineering, we study a network resource allocation problem where the goal is to optimally allocate a fixed quantity of resources over a network of nodes. We consider large scale networks…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-06 Thinh T. Doan , Carolyn L. Beck

Optimal percolation is the problem of finding the minimal set of nodes such that if the members of this set are removed from a network, the network is fragmented into non-extensive disconnected clusters. The solution of the optimal…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-03-02 Saeed Osat , Ali Faqeeh , Filippo Radicchi

The aim of this work is to develop a fully-distributed algorithmic framework for training graph convolutional networks (GCNs). The proposed method is able to exploit the meaningful relational structure of the input data, which are collected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Simone Scardapane , Indro Spinelli , Paolo Di Lorenzo

Many imaging tasks require global information about all pixels in an image. Conventional bottom-up classification networks globalize information by decreasing resolution; features are pooled and downsampled into a single output. But for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Sohil Shah , Pallabi Ghosh , Larry S Davis , Tom Goldstein

We propose a modularization method that decomposes a deep neural network (DNN) into small modules from a functionality perspective and recomposes them into a new model for some other task. Decomposed modules are expected to have the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Hiroaki Kingetsu , Kenichi Kobayashi , Taiji Suzuki

There has been significant interest in the networking community on the impact of cascade effects on the diffusion of networking technology upgrades in the Internet. Thinking of the global Internet as a graph, where each node represents an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Sharon Goldberg , Zhenming Liu

Network analysis has emerged as a key technique in communication studies, economics, geography, history and sociology, among others. A fundamental issue is how to identify key nodes, for which purpose a number of centrality measures have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-08 László Csató

The presence of embedded electronics and communication capabilities as well as sensing and control in smart devices has given rise to the novel concept of cyber-physical networks, in which agents aim at cooperatively solving complex tasks…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-28 Giuseppe Notarstefano , Ivano Notarnicola , Andrea Camisa

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are powerful tools for solving graph-related problems. Distributed GNN frameworks and systems enhance the scalability of GNNs and accelerate model training, yet most are optimized for node classification. Their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Xin Huang , Chul-Ho Lee