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Random walks by single-node agents have been systematically conducted on various types of complex networks in order to investigate how their topologies can affect the dynamics of the agents. However, by fitting any network node, these…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-16 Alexandre Benatti , Luciano da F. Costa

A simple random walk on a graph is a sequence of movements from one vertex to another where at each step an edge is chosen uniformly at random from the set of edges incident on the current vertex, and then transitioned to next vertex.…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-02-28 Mohammed Abdullah

Dense subgraphs of sparse graphs (communities), which appear in most real-world complex networks, play an important role in many contexts. Computing them however is generally expensive. We propose here a measure of similarities between…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-10-13 Matthieu Latapy , Pascal Pons

Signs of hierarchy are prevalent in a wide range of systems in nature and society. One of the key problems is quantifying the importance of hierarchical organisation in the structure of the network representing the interactions or…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-01-25 Dániel Czégel , Gergely Palla

We study walk-based centrality measures for time-ordered network sequences. For the case of standard dynamic walk-counting, we show how to derive and compute centrality measures induced by analytic functions. We also prove that dynamic Katz…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Francesca Arrigo , Desmond J. Higham , Vanni Noferini , Ryan Wood

We study the inverse problem of determining the conductivity matrix of an electrical network from the prescribed knowledge of the magnitude of the induced current along the edges coupled with the imposed voltage or injected current on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Christina Knox , Amir Moradifam

We give a deterministic, nearly logarithmic-space algorithm that given an undirected graph $G$, a positive integer $r$, and a set $S$ of vertices, approximates the conductance of $S$ in the $r$-step random walk on $G$ to within a factor of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Jack Murtagh , Omer Reingold , Aaron Sidford , Salil Vadhan

How does one find important or influential people in an online social network? Researchers have proposed a variety of centrality measures to identify individuals that are, for example, often visited by a random walk, infected in an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-03-20 Kristina Lerman , Prachi Jain , Rumi Ghosh , Jeon-Hyung Kang , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

Many natural and artificial networks evolve in time. Nodes and connections appear and disappear at various timescales, and their dynamics has profound consequences for any processes in which they are involved. The first empirical analysis…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-05-21 Michele Starnini , Andrea Baronchelli , Alain Barrat , Romualdo Pastor-Satorras

The Laplacian eigenvalues of a network play an important role in the analysis of many structural and dynamical network problems. In this paper, we study the relationship between the eigenvalue spectrum of the normalized Laplacian matrix and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-10-21 Zhengwei Wu , Victor M. Preciado

Random walks constitute a fundamental mechanism for many dynamics taking place on complex networks. Besides, as a more realistic description of our society, multiplex networks have been receiving a growing interest, as well as the dynamical…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-05-25 Quantong Guo , Emanuele Cozzo , Zhiming Zheng , Yamir Moreno

Rare event statistics for random walks on complex networks are investigated using the large deviations formalism. Within this formalism, rare events are realized as typical events in a suitably deformed path-ensemble, and their statistics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-30 Caterina De Bacco , Alberto Guggiola , Reimer Kühn , Pierre Paga

Centrality measures identify and rank the most influential entities of complex networks. In this paper, we generalize matrix function-based centrality measures, which have been studied extensively for single-layer and temporal networks in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-03-24 Kai Bergermann , Martin Stoll

We investigate unimodular random networks. Our motivations include their characterization via reversibility of an associated random walk and their similarities to unimodular quasi-transitive graphs. We extend various theorems concerning…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-05-20 David Aldous , Russell Lyons

Classic measures of graph centrality capture distinct aspects of node importance, from the local (e.g., degree) to the global (e.g., closeness). Here we exploit the connection between diffusion and geometry to introduce a multiscale…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-07-29 Alexis Arnaudon , Robert L. Peach , Mauricio Barahona

Random walks represent an important tool for probing the structural and dynamical properties of networks and modeling transport and diffusion processes on networks. However, when individuals' movement becomes dictated by more complicated…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-11-24 Per Sebastian Skardal

The diagonal entries of pseudoinverse of the Laplacian matrix of a graph appear in many important practical applications, since they contain much information of the graph and many relevant quantities can be expressed in terms of them, such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Zenan Lu , Wanyue Xu , Zhongzhi Zhang

We consider random walks in the form of nearest-neighbor hopping on Erdos-Renyi random graphs of finite fixed mean degree c as the number of vertices N tends to infinity. In this regime, using statistical field theory methods, we develop an…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-02-14 Oleg Evnin , Weerawit Horinouchi

Hypergraphs are used in machine learning to model higher-order relationships in data. While spectral methods for graphs are well-established, spectral theory for hypergraphs remains an active area of research. In this paper, we use random…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Uthsav Chitra , Benjamin J Raphael

A variety of metrics have been proposed to measure the relative importance of nodes in a network. One of these, alpha-centrality [Bonacich, 2001], measures the number of attenuated paths that exist between nodes. We introduce a normalized…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-08-06 Rumi Ghosh , Kristina Lerman