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In this paper we study the behavior of a continuous time random walk (CTRW) on a stationary and ergodic time varying dynamic graph. We establish conditions under which the CTRW is a stationary and ergodic process. In general, the stationary…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-12-04 Daniel Figueiredo , Philippe Nain , Bruno Ribeiro , Edmundo de Souza e Silva , Don Towsley

We study a symmetric random walk (RW) in one spatial dimension in environment, formed by several zones of finite width, where the probability of transition between two neighboring points and corresponding diffusion coefficient are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-03 A. V. Nazarenko , V. Blavatska

For an arbitrary initial configuration of discrete loads over vertices of a distributed graph, we consider the problem of minimizing the {\em discrepancy} between the maximum and minimum loads among all vertices. For this problem, this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Takeharu Shiraga

Random walks are a fundamental tool for analyzing realistic complex networked systems and implementing randomized algorithms to solve diverse problems such as searching and sampling. For many real applications, their actual effect and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Yuan Lin , Zhongzhi Zhang

Continuous time random walk (CTRW) subdiffusion along with the associated fractional Fokker-Planck equation (FFPE) is traditionally based on the premise of random clock with divergent mean period. This work considers an alternative CTRW and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-24 Igor Goychuk

In a recent work we introduced a semi-Markovian discrete-time generalization of the telegraph process. We referred this random walk to as squirrel random walk (SRW). The SRW is a discrete-time random walk on the one-dimensional infinite…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Thomas M. Michelitsch , Federico Polito , Alejandro P. Riascos

We study normal diffusive and subdiffusive processes in a harmonic potential (Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process) on a uniformly growing/contracting domain. Our starting point is a recently derived fractional Fokker-Planck equation, which covers…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-31 F. Le Vot , S. B. Yuste , E. Abad

For certain materials science scenarios arising in rubber technology, one-dimensional moving boundary problems (MBPs) with kinetic boundary conditions are capable of unveiling the large-time behavior of the diffusants penetration front,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-04 Surendra Nepal , Magnus Ogren , Yosief Wondmagegne , Adrian Muntean

Sampling a network with a given probability distribution has been identified as a useful operation. In this paper we propose distributed algorithms for sampling networks, so that nodes are selected by a special node, called the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-09-28 Andrés Sevilla , Alberto Mozo , Antonio Fernández Anta

The behavior of a spin undergoing Larmor precession in the presence of fluctuating fields is of interest to workers in many fields. The fluctuating fields cause frequency shifts and relaxation which are related to their power spectrum,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-15 Christopher M. Swank , Alexander K. Petukhov , Robert Golub

We study a general continuous-time random walk (CTRW), by including non-Markovian cases and L\'evy flights, under complete stochastic resetting to the initial position with an arbitrary law, which can be power-lawed as well as Poissonian.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-11 Fausto Colantoni , Gianni Pagnini

Above two dimensions, diffusion of a particle in a medium with quenched random traps is believed to be well-described by the annealed continuous time random walk (CTRW). We propose an approximate expression for the first-passage-time (FPT)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-12-05 Liang Luo , Lei-Han Tang

Dynamic time warping (DTW) plays an important role in analytics on time series. Despite the large body of research on speeding up univariate DTW, the method for multivariate DTW has not been improved much in the last two decades. The most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Daniel Shen , Min Chi

We consider a model for random walks on random environments (RWRE) with random subset of the d-dimensional Euclidean lattice as the vertices, and uniform transition probabilities on 2d points (two "coordinate nearest points" in each of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-10-27 Ron Rosenthal

The Continuous-Time Random Walk (CTRW) formalism can be adapted to encompass stochastic processes with memory. In this article we will show how the random combination of two different unbiased CTRWs can give raise to a process with clear…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-11-30 Miquel Montero

Graph generation addresses the problem of generating new graphs that have a data distribution similar to real-world graphs. While previous diffusion-based graph generation methods have shown promising results, they often struggle to scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Tobias Bernecker , Ghalia Rehawi , Francesco Paolo Casale , Janine Knauer-Arloth , Annalisa Marsico

Maximum entropy random walks (MERWs) are maximally dispersing and play a key role in optimizing information spreading in various contexts. However, building MERWs comes at the cost of knowing beforehand the global structure of the network,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-24 Gabriele Di Bona , Leonardo Di Gaetano , Vito Latora , Francesco Coghi

Random projection algorithm is an iterative gradient method with random projections. Such an algorithm is of interest for constrained optimization when the constraint set is not known in advance or the projection operation on the whole…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-05-02 Soomin Lee , Angelia Nedich

We study the so-called elephant random walk (ERW) which is a non-Markovian discrete-time random walk on $\mathbb{Z}$ with unbounded memory which exhibits a phase transition from diffusive to superdiffusive behaviour. We prove a law of large…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-07 Cristian F. Coletti , Renato Gava , Gunter M. Schütz

We study a random walk driven by a particle system from a generic class, and establish a law of large numbers for the walk for almost all densities of the environment. To do so, we exploit the finite-ranged approximations of the environment…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Guillaume Conchon--Kerjan , Toril Palaniappan