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Ricci curvature and Ricci flow have proven to be powerful tools for analyzing the geometry of discrete structures, particularly on undirected graphs, where they have been applied to tasks ranging from community detection to graph…

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We have performed an empirical comparison of two distinct notions of discrete Ricci curvature for graphs or networks, namely, the Forman-Ricci curvature and Ollivier-Ricci curvature. Importantly, these two discretizations of the Ricci…

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Graph embedding approaches attempt to project graphs into geometric entities, i.e, manifolds. The idea is that the geometric properties of the projected manifolds are helpful in the inference of graph properties. However, if the choice of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Saloua Naama , Kavé Salamatian , Francesco Bronzino

Ricci curvature and its associated flow offer powerful geometric methods for analyzing complex networks. While existing research heavily focuses on applications for undirected graphs such as community detection and core extraction, there…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Juan Zhao , Jicheng Ma , Yunyan Yang , Liang Zhao

Graph Ricci curvature is crucial as it geometrically quantifies network structure. It pinpoints bottlenecks via negative curvature, identifies cohesive communities with positive curvature, and highlights robust hubs. This guides network…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Juan Zhao , Jicheng Ma , Yunyan Yang , Liang Zhao

In recent years extensions of manifold Ricci curvature to discrete combinatorial objects such as graphs and hypergraphs (popularly called as "network shapes"), have found a plethora of applications in a wide spectrum of research areas…

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Discrete curvatures are quantities associated to the nodes and edges of a graph that reflect the local geometry around them. These curvatures have a rich mathematical theory and they have recently found success as a tool to analyze networks…

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In this article, we revisit and expand our prior work on graph similarity. As with our earlier work, we focus on a view of similarity which does not require node correspondence between graphs under comparison. Our work is suited to the…

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Community detection in complex networks is a fundamental problem, open to new approaches in various scientific settings. We introduce a novel community detection method, based on Ricci flow on graphs. Our technique iteratively updates edge…

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Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved great success in many graph-based tasks. Much work is dedicated to empowering GNNs with the adaptive locality ability, which enables measuring the importance of neighboring nodes to the target node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Haifeng Li , Jun Cao , Jiawei Zhu , Yu Liu , Qing Zhu , Guohua Wu

Community detection is an important problem in graph neural networks. Recently, algorithms based on Ricci curvature flows have gained significant attention. It was suggested by Ollivier (2009), and applied to community detection by Ni et al…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-22 Jicheng Ma , Yunyan Yang

Graph isomorphism is a problem for which there is no known polynomial-time solution. Nevertheless, assessing (dis)similarity between two or more networks is a key task in many areas, such as image recognition, biology, chemistry, computer…

Computation · Statistics 2022-06-28 Pierre Miasnikof , Alexander Y. Shestopaloff , Cristián Bravo , Yuri Lawryshyn

The graph alignment problem explores the concept of node correspondence and its optimality. In this paper, we focus on purely geometric graph alignment methods, namely our newly proposed Ricci Matrix Comparison (RMC) and its original form,…

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Analysis of Internet topologies has shown that the Internet topology has negative curvature, measured by Gromov's "thin triangle condition", which is tightly related to core congestion and route reliability. In this work we analyze the…

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Graph curvature provides geometric priors for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), enhancing their ability to model complex graph structures, particularly in terms of structural awareness, robustness, and theoretical interpretability. Among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Chaoqun Fei , Tinglve Zhou , Tianyong Hao , Yangyang Li

We propose a new graph kernel for graph classification and comparison using Ollivier Ricci curvature. The Ricci curvature of an edge in a graph describes the connectivity in the local neighborhood. An edge in a densely connected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Kin Sum Liu , Chien-Chun Ni , Yu-Yao Lin , Jie Gao

The problem of measuring similarity of graphs and their nodes is important in a range of practical problems. There is a number of proposed measures, some of them being based on iterative calculation of similarity between two graphs and the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-09-28 Mladen Nikolic

The study of the topological structure of complex networks has fascinated researchers for several decades, and today we have a fairly good understanding of the types and reoccurring characteristics of many different complex networks.…

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The monitoring of large dynamic networks is a major chal- lenge for a wide range of application. The complexity stems from properties of the underlying graphs, in which slight local changes can lead to sizable variations of global prop-…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Loqman Salamatian , Dali Kaafar , Kavé Salamatian

The Ricci flow is a partial differential equation for evolving the metric in a Riemannian manifold to make it more regular. On the other hand, neural networks seem to have similar geometric behavior for specific tasks. In this paper, we…

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