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A novel method to identify salient computational paths within randomly wired neural networks before training is proposed. The computational graph is pruned based on a node mass probability function defined by local graph measures and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Samuel Glass , Simeon Spasov , Pietro Liò

Forman-Ricci curvature (FRC) is a potent and powerful tool for analysing empirical networks, as the distribution of the curvature values can identify structural information that is not readily detected by other geometrical methods.…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2024-05-13 Danillo Barros de Souza , Jonatas T. S. da Cunha , Fernando A. N. Santos , Jürgen Jost , Serafim Rodrigues

Describing networks geometrically through low-dimensional latent metric spaces has helped design efficient learning algorithms, unveil network symmetries and study dynamical network processes. However, latent space embeddings are limited to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-04-10 Adam Gosztolai , Alexis Arnaudon

In recent years, network models have become more complex with the development of big data. Therefore, more advanced network analysis is required. In this paper, we introduce a new quantitative measure named combinatorial evaluation, which…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Taiki Yamada

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

Using Banchoff's discrete Morse Theory, in tandem with Bloch's result on the strong connection between the former and Forman's Morse Theory, and our own previous algorithm based on the later, we show that there exists a curvature-based,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-26 Emil Saucan

Directed networks are ubiquitous and are necessary to represent complex systems with asymmetric interactions---from food webs to the World Wide Web. Despite the importance of edge direction for detecting local and community structure, it…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-11-09 Jacob G. Foster , David V. Foster , Peter Grassberger , Maya Paczuski

For undirected graphs, the Ricci curvature introduced by Lin-Lu-Yau has been widely studied from various perspectives, especially geometric analysis. In the present paper, we discuss generalization problem of their Ricci curvature for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-07 Ryunosuke Ozawa , Yohei Sakurai , Taiki Yamada

$Anomaly$ $detection$ problems (also called $change$-$point$ $detection$ problems) have been studied in data mining, statistics and computer science over the last several decades in applications such as medical condition monitoring and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Bhaskar DasGupta , Mano Vikash Janardhanan , Farzane Yahyanejad

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

The relations, rather than the elements, constitute the structure of networks. We therefore develop a systematic approach to the analysis of networks, modelled as graphs or hypergraphs, that is based on structural properties of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Marzieh Eidi , Amirhossein Farzam , Wilmer Leal , Areejit Samal , Jürgen Jost

Identifying (a) systemic barriers to quality healthcare access and (b) key indicators of care efficacy in the United States remains a significant challenge. To improve our understanding of regional disparities in care delivery, we introduce…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Jeremy Wayland , Russel J. Funk , Bastian Rieck

Many complex networks in the real world have community structures -- groups of well-connected nodes with important functional roles. It has been well recognized that the identification of communities bears numerous practical applications.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Chien-Chun Ni , Yu-Yao Lin , Feng Luo , Jie Gao

The problem of defining correctly geometric objects such as the curvature is a hard one in discrete geometry. In 2009, Ollivier defined a notion of curvature applicable to a wide category of measured metric spaces, in particular to graphs.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-03-10 Benoît Loisel , Pascal Romon

In this second part of our overview of the different metric curvatures and their various applications, we concentrate on the Ricci curvature and flow for polyhedral surfaces and higher dimensional manifolds, and we largely review our…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Emil Saucan

This study introduces the Lower Ricci Curvature (LRC), a novel, scalable, and scale-free discrete curvature designed to enhance community detection in networks. Addressing the computational challenges posed by existing curvature-based…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-01-30 Yun Jin Park , Didong Li

Deep neural networks learn feature representations via complex geometric transformations of the input data manifold. Despite the models' empirical success across domains, our understanding of neural feature representations is still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Moritz Hehl , Max von Renesse , Melanie Weber

The configuration model was originally defined for undirected networks and has recently been extended to directed networks. Many empirical networks are however neither undirected nor completely directed, but instead usually partially…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-09-30 Kristoffer Spricer , Tom Britton

Graph Neural Networks are highly effective at learning from relational data, leveraging node and edge features while maintaining the symmetries inherent to graph structures. However, many real-world systems, such as social or biological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Michael Banf , Dominik Filipiak , Max Schattauer , Liliya Imasheva

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