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Graph neural network (GNN) has been demonstrated powerful in modeling graph-structured data. However, despite many successful cases of applying GNNs to various graph classification and prediction tasks, whether the graph geometrical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Dai Shi , Yi Guo , Zhiqi Shao , Junbin Gao

Graph Machine Learning often involves the clustering of nodes based on similarity structure encoded in the graph's topology and the nodes' attributes. On homophilous graphs, the integration of pooling layers has been shown to enhance the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Amy Feng , Melanie Weber

Graph matching problem aims to identify node correspondence between two or more correlated graphs. Previous studies have primarily focused on models where only edge information is provided. However, in many social networks, not only the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Joonhyuk Yang , Hye Won Chung

Network alignment is useful for multiple applications that require increasingly large graphs to be processed. Existing research approaches this as an optimization problem or computes the similarity based on node representations. However,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Kyle K. Qin , Flora D. Salim , Yongli Ren , Wei Shao , Mark Heimann , Danai Koutra

Distances in a network capture relations between nodes and are the basis of centrality, similarity, and influence measures. Often, however, the relevance of a node $u$ to a node $v$ is more precisely measured not by the magnitude of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-02-25 Eliav Buchnik , Edith Cohen

The topological structure of complex networks has fascinated researchers for several decades, resulting in the discovery of many universal properties and reoccurring characteristics of different kinds of networks. However, much less is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Yvonne Anne Pignolet , Matthieu Roy , Stefan Schmid , Gilles Tredan

The topological structure of complex networks has fascinated researchers for several decades, resulting in the discovery of many universal properties and reoccurring characteristics of different kinds of networks. However, much less is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Yvonne Anne Pignolet , Matthieu Roy , Stefan Schmid , Gilles Tredan

In this paper, we present a new metric distance for comparing two large graphs to find similarities and differences between them based on one of the most important graph structural properties, which is Node Adjacency Information, for all…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Arefe Alikhani , Farzad Didehvar

We introduce Forman-Ricci curvature and its corresponding flow as characteristics for complex networks attempting to extend the common approach of node-based network analysis by edge-based characteristics. Following a theoretical…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Melanie Weber , Emil Saucan , Jürgen Jost

In this paper, we propose a modified Ricci flow, as well as a quasi-normalized Ricci flow, on arbitrary weighted graph. Each of these two flows has a unique global solution. In particular, these global existence and uniqueness results do…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Jicheng Ma , Yunyan Yang

Network alignment, or the task of finding meaningful node correspondences between nodes in different graphs, is an important graph mining task with many scientific and industrial applications. An important principle for network alignment is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Mark Heimann , Xiyuan Chen , Fatemeh Vahedian , Danai Koutra

Network embedding aims to represent each node in a network as a low-dimensional feature vector that summarizes the given node's (extended) network neighborhood. The nodes' feature vectors can then be used in various downstream machine…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Shawn Gu , Tijana Milenkovic

Ricci curvature is a fundamental concept in differential geometry for encoding local geometric structure, and its graph-based analogues have recently gained prominence as practical tools for reweighting, pruning, and reshaping network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Kyoichi Iwasaki , Tam Le , Hideitsu Hino

The graph is one of the most widely used mathematical structures in engineering and science because of its representational power and inherent ability to demonstrate the relationship between objects. The objective of this work is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Shri Prakash Dwivedi

We propose a novel entropy flow on weighted graphs, which provides a principled framework that characterizes the evolution of probability distributions over graph structures while sharing geometric intuition with discrete Ricci flow. We…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Juan Zhao , Jicheng Ma , Yunyan Yang , Liang Zhao

Ricci curvature was proposed by Ollivier in a general framework of metric measure spaces, and it has been studied extensively in the context of graphs in recent years. In this paper we prove upper bounds for Ollivier's Ricci curvature for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Bhaswar B. Bhattacharya , Sumit Mukherjee

Curvature is a fundamental geometric characteristic of smooth spaces. In recent years different notions of curvature have been developed for combinatorial discrete objects such as graphs. However, the connections between such discrete…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Pim van der Hoorn , Gabor Lippner , Carlo Trugenberger , Dmitri Krioukov

Describing the basic properties of road network systems, such as their robustness, vulnerability, and reliability, has been a very important research topic in the field of urban transportation. Current research mainly uses several…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Lei Gao , Xingquan Liu , Yu Liu , Pu Wang , Min Deng , Qing Zhu , Haifeng Li

In this work, we propose to utilize discrete graph Ricci flow to alter network entropy through feedback control. Given such feedback input can reverse entropic changes, we adapt the moniker of Maxwells Demon to motivate our approach. In…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-11 Romeil Sandhu , Ji Liu

Traditionally, network analysis is based on local properties of vertices, like their degree or clustering, and their statistical behavior across the network in question. This paper develops an approach which is different in two respects. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-12 Melanie Weber , Emil Saucan , Jürgen Jost