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Continuous graph neural models based on differential equations have expanded the architecture of graph neural networks (GNNs). Due to the connection between graph diffusion and message passing, diffusion-based models have been widely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Kaiyuan Cui , Xinyan Wang , Zicheng Zhang , Weichen Zhao

A distributed average consensus algorithm robust to a wide range of impulsive channel noise distributions is proposed. This work is the first of its kind in the literature to propose a consensus algorithm which relaxes the requirement of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Sivaraman Dasarathan , Cihan Tepedelenlioglu , Mahesh Banavar , Andreas Spanias

Link prediction in complex networks--identifying the missing or future connections--remains a cornerstone problem for understanding network evolution and function, yet existing methods struggle to balance computational efficiency with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Huilin Wang Wenjun Zhang Weibing Deng

Consensus-based decentralized stochastic gradient descent (D-SGD) is a widely adopted algorithm for decentralized training of machine learning models across networked agents. A crucial part of D-SGD is the consensus-based model averaging,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Daniel Pérez Herrera , Zheng Chen , Erik G. Larsson

Distributed consensus optimization has received considerable attention in recent years; several distributed consensus-based algorithms have been proposed for (nonsmooth) convex and (smooth) nonconvex objective functions. However, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Vyacheslav Kungurtsev

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown promising results across various graph learning tasks, but they often assume homophily, which can result in poor performance on heterophilic graphs. The connected nodes are likely to be from different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Kai Zhao , Qiyu Kang , Yang Song , Rui She , Sijie Wang , Wee Peng Tay

This paper studies an open consensus network design problem: identifying the optimal simple directed graphs, given a fixed number of vertices and arcs, that maximize the second smallest real part of all Laplacian eigenvalues, referred to as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Susie Lu , Marco Gamarra , Ji Liu

We study the dynamics of diffusion processes acting on directed multiplex networks, i.e., coupled multilayer networks where at least one layer consists of a directed graph. We reveal that directed multiplex networks may exhibit a faster…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-09-26 Alejandro Tejedor , Anthony Longjas , Efi Foufoula-Georgiou , Tryphon Georgiou , Yamir Moreno

In this paper, we hope to bring closer graph theory and consensus algorithms. Firstly, we give a brief introduction to graph theory by listing a concise definition. Then we analyze and visualize some commonly used graphs. Secondly, we…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Shen Zheng

We analyze the asynchronous version of the DeGroot dynamics: In a connected graph $G$ with $n$ nodes, each node has an initial opinion in $[0,1]$ and an independent Poisson clock. When a clock at a node $v$ rings, the opinion at $v$ is…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Dor Elboim , Yuval Peres , Ron Peretz

Much research has been done on studying the diffusion of ideas or technologies on social networks including the \textit{Influence Maximization} problem and many of its variations. Here, we investigate a type of inverse problem. Given a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-04-28 Georgios Askalidis , Randall A. Berry , Vijay G. Subramanian

In this paper, we study the robust consensus problem for a set of discrete-time linear agents to coordinate over an uncertain communication network, which is to achieve consensus against the transmission errors and noises resulted from the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Zhongkui Li , Jie Chen

We consider the problem of identifying the topology of a weighted, undirected network $\mathcal G$ from observing snapshots of multiple independent consensus dynamics. Specifically, we observe the opinion profiles of a group of agents for a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Santiago Segarra , Michael T. Schaub , Ali Jadbabaie

Generating molecular graphs is a challenging task due to their discrete nature and the competitive objectives involved. Diffusion models have emerged as SOTA approaches in data generation across various modalities. For molecular graphs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Prashanth Pombala , Gerrit Grossmann , Verena Wolf

This two-part paper discusses robustification methodologies for linear-iterative distributed algorithms for consensus and coordination problems in multicomponent systems, in which unreliable communication links may drop packets. We consider…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2011-09-30 Alejandro D. Dominguez-Garcia , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis , Nitin H. Vaidya

In this paper we consider a wide class of discrete diffusion load balancing algorithms. The problem is defined as follows. We are given an interconnection network and a number of load items, which are arbitrarily distributed among the nodes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-23 Hoda Akbari , Petra Berenbrink , Robert Elsässer , Dominik Kaaser

Diffusion describes the motion of microscopic entities from regions of high concentration to regions of low concentration. In multiplex networks, flows can occur both within and across layers, and super-diffusion, a regime where the time…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-04-02 Giulia Cencetti , Federico Battiston

This paper introduces a novel continuous-time dynamic average consensus algorithm for networks whose interaction is described by a strongly connected and weight-balanced directed graph. The proposed distributed algorithm allows agents to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-28 Solmaz S. Kia , Jorge Cortes , Sonia Martinez

We present multiscale graph-based reduction algorithms for upscaling heterogeneous and anisotropic diffusion problems. The proposed coarsening approaches begin by constructing a partitioning of the computational domain into a set of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Maria Vasilyeva , James Brannick , Ben S. Southworth

Dynamical processes taking place on networks have received much attention in recent years, especially on various models of random graphs (including small world and scale free networks). They model a variety of phenomena, including the…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jonathan Rowe , Boris Mitavskiy