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Human learners are adept at grasping the complex relationships underlying incoming sequential input. In the present work, we formalize complex relationships as graph structures derived from temporal associations in motor sequences. Next, we…

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In data science, hypergraphs are natural models for data exhibiting multi-way relations, whereas graphs only capture pairwise. Nonetheless, many proposed hypergraph neural networks effectively reduce hypergraphs to undirected graphs via…

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It is reported that dynamical systems over digraphs have superior performance in terms of system damping and tolerance to time delays if the underlying graph Laplacian has a purely real spectrum. This paper investigates the topological…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Tianhao Yu , Shenglu Wang , Mengqi Xue , Yue Song , David J. Hill

In temporal planning, many different temporal network formalisms are used to model real world situations. Each of these formalisms has different features which affect how easy it is to determine whether the underlying network of temporal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Nikhil Bhargava , Brian Williams

In this paper, we propose to study on sufficient control of complex networks which is to control a sufficiently large portion of the network, where only the quantity of controllable nodes matters. To the best of our knowledge, this is the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Xiang Li , Guoqi Li , Leitao Gao , Beibei Li , Gaoxi Xiao

We study the boundary control problems for the wave, heat, and Schr\"odinger equations on a finite graph. We suppose that the graph is a tree (i.e., it does not contain cycles), and on each edge an equation is defined. The control is acting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-28 S. A. Avdonin , V. S. Mikhaylov

A faithful description of the state of a complex dynamical network would require, in principle, the measurement of all its $d$ variables, an infeasible task for systems with practical limited access and composed of many nodes with high…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-06 Christophe Letellier , Irene Sendiña-Nadal , Luis A. Aguirre

In this work, we consider the controllability of a discrete-time linear dynamical system with sparse control inputs. Sparsity constraints on the input arises naturally in networked systems, where activating each input variable adds to the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-14 Geethu Joseph , Chandra R. Murthy

In this paper we consider the problem of transmission across a graph and how to effectively control/restrict it with limited resources. Transmission can represent information transfer across a social network, spread of a malicious virus…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Leiming Zhang , Brian M. Sadler , Rick S. Blum , Subhrajit Bhattacharya

This paper tackles the challenging problem of jointly inferring time-varying network topologies and imputing missing data from partially observed graph signals. We propose a unified non-convex optimization framework to simultaneously…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-07 Chuansen Peng , Xiaojing Shen

We study the dynamics of systems on networks from a linear algebraic perspective. The control theoretic concept of controllability describes the set of states that can be reached for these systems. Under appropriate conditions, there is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 Daniel Burgarth , Domenico D'Alessandro , Leslie Hogben , Simone Severini , Michael Young

In a network consisting of n nodes, our goal is to identify the most central k nodes with respect to the proposed definitions of centrality. Depending on the specific application, there exist several metrics for quantifying k-centrality,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Karim Shahbaz , Madhu N. Belur , Chayan Bhawal , Debasattam Pal

Estimating the influence that individual nodes have on one another in a Boolean network is essential to predict and control the system's dynamical behavior, for example, detecting key therapeutic targets to control pathways in models of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-11-02 Thomas Parmer , Filippo Radicchi

Structural controllability has been proposed as an analytical framework for making predictions regarding the control of complex networks across myriad disciplines in the physical and life sciences (Liu et al., Nature:473(7346):167-173,…

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Graphs with diverse structural characteristics play a central role in modelling and optimization tasks. The ability to generate different types of graphs that exhibit shared properties is likewise essential for algorithm selection and…

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We take a unified view of network coding and decentralized control. Precisely speaking, we consider both as linear time-invariant systems by appropriately restricting channels and coding schemes of network coding to be linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-08-26 Se Yong Park , Anant Sahai

We develop a linear systems theory that coincides with the existing theories for continuous and discrete dynamical systems, but that also extends to linear systems defined on nonuniform time domains. The approach here is based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-03-03 John M. Davis , Ian A. Gravagne , Billy J. Jackson , Robert J. Marks

In the communication systems domain, constructing and maintaining network topologies via topology control (TC) algorithms is an important cross-cutting research area. Network topologies are usually modeled using attributed graphs whose…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Roland Kluge , Michael Stein , Gergely Varró , Andy Schürr , Matthias Hollick , Max Mühlhäuser

Network controllability measures how well a networked system can be controlled to a target state, and its robustness reflects how well the system can maintain the controllability against malicious attacks by means of node-removals or…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-02 Yang Lou , Yaodong He , Lin Wang , Guanrong Chen

This paper presents new graph-theoretic conditions for structural target controllability of directed networks. After reviewing existing conditions and highlighting some gaps in the literature, we introduce a new class of network systems,…

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