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

Assuming a directed acyclic graph (DAG) that represents prior knowledge of causal relationships between variables is a common starting point for cause-effect estimation. Existing literature typically invokes hypothetical domain expert…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-11 Kirtan Padh , Zhufeng Li , Cecilia Casolo , Niki Kilbertus

We consider zero error function computation in a three node wireless network. Nodes A and B observe $X$ and $Y$ respectively, and want to compute a function $f(X,Y)$ with zero error. To achieve this, nodes A and B send messages to a relay…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-26 Jithin Ravi , Bikash Kumar Dey

Direct Acyclic Graph (DAG)-based ledger and the corresponding consensus algorithm has been identified as a promising technology for Internet of Things (IoT). Compared with Proof-of-Work (PoW) and Proof-of-Stake (PoS) that have been widely…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Yixin Li , Bin Cao , Mugen Peng , Long Zhang , Lei Zhang , Daquan Feng , Jihong Yu

We consider in-network computation of an arbitrary function over an arbitrary communication network. A network with capacity constraints on the links is given. Some nodes in the network generate data, e.g., like sensor nodes in a sensor…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-10-01 Virag Shah , Bikash Kumar Dey , D. Manjunath

Python-written data analytics applications can be modeled as and compiled into a directed acyclic graph (DAG) based workflow, where the nodes are fine-grained tasks and the edges are task dependencies. Such analytics workflow jobs are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Benjamin Carver , Jingyuan Zhang , Ao Wang , Yue Cheng

We study the problem of communicating over a discrete memoryless two-way channel using non-adaptive schemes, under a zero probability of error criterion. We derive single-letter inner and outer bounds for the zero-error capacity region,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Yujie Gu , Ofer Shayevitz

We study the problem of efficiently broadcasting packets in multi-hop wireless networks. At each time slot the network controller activates a set of non-interfering links and forwards selected copies of packets on each activated link. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Abhishek Sinha , Georgios Paschos , Chih-ping Li , Eytan Modiano

Traditionally, networks such as datacenter interconnects are designed to optimize worst-case performance under arbitrary traffic patterns. Such network designs can however be far from optimal when considering the actual workloads and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Chen Avin , Kaushik Mondal , Stefan Schmid

Directed Acyclic Graphical (DAG) models efficiently formulate causal relationships in complex systems. Traditional DAGs assume nodes to be scalar variables, characterizing complex systems under a facile and oversimplified form. This paper…

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In observational studies, the true causal model is typically unknown and needs to be estimated from available observational and limited experimental data. In such cases, the learned causal model is commonly represented as a partially…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Malte Luttermann , Marcel Wienöbst , Maciej Liśkiewicz

Estimating the structure of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs, also known as Bayesian networks) is a challenging problem since the search space of DAGs is combinatorial and scales superexponentially with the number of nodes. Existing approaches…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-06 Xun Zheng , Bryon Aragam , Pradeep Ravikumar , Eric P. Xing

The following \textit{network computing} problem is considered. Source nodes in a directed acyclic network generate independent messages and a single receiver node computes a target function $f$ of the messages. The objective is to maximize…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Rathinakumar Appuswamy , Massimo Franceschetti , Nikhil Karamchandani , Ken Zeger

We study monotonicity testing of real-valued functions on directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) with $n$ vertices. For every constant $\delta>0$, we prove a $\Omega(n^{1/2-\delta}/\sqrt{\varepsilon})$ lower bound against non-adaptive two-sided…

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Given $n$ points in the plane, we propose algorithms to compile connected crossing-free geometric graphs into directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). The DAGs allow efficient counting, enumeration, random sampling, and optimization. Our algorithms…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Yu Nakahata , Takashi Horiyama , Shin-ichi Minato , Katsuhisa Yamanaka

Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) are commonly used to model causal relationships among random variables. In general, learning the DAG structure is both computationally and statistically challenging. Moreover, without additional information,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-26 Ali Shojaie , Wenyu Chen

Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) are directed graphs in which there is no path from a vertex to itself. DAGs are an omnipresent data structure in computer science and the problem of counting the DAGs of given number of vertices and to sample…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Martin Pépin , Alfredo Viola

A growing body of work has begun to study intervention design for efficient structure learning of causal directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). A typical setting is a causally sufficient setting, i.e. a system with no latent confounders, selection…

To measure the tree-likeness of a directed acyclic graph (DAG), a new width parameter that considers the directions of the arcs was recently introduced: scanwidth. We present the first algorithm that efficiently computes the exact scanwidth…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Niels Holtgrefe , Leo van Iersel , Mark Jones

We study the limits of communication efficiency for function computation in collocated networks within the framework of multi-terminal block source coding theory. With the goal of computing a desired function of sources at a sink, nodes…

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