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The identification and counting of small graph patterns, called network motifs, is a fundamental primitive in the analysis of networks, with application in various domains, from social networks to neuroscience. Several techniques have been…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Ilie Sarpe , Fabio Vandin

One fundamental problem in temporal graph analysis is to count the occurrences of small connected subgraph patterns (i.e., motifs), which benefits a broad range of real-world applications, such as anomaly detection, structure prediction,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Zhongqiang Gao , Chuanqi Cheng , Yanwei Yu , Lei Cao , Chao Huang , Junyu Dong

Networks are a fundamental tool for modeling complex systems in a variety of domains including social and communication networks as well as biology and neuroscience. Small subgraph patterns in networks, called network motifs, are crucial to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Ashwin Paranjape , Austin R. Benson , Jure Leskovec

The mining of pattern subgraphs, known as motifs, is a core task in the field of graph mining. Edges in real-world networks often have timestamps, so there is a need for temporal motif mining. A temporal motif is a richer structure that…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yunjie Pan , Omkar Bhalerao , C. Seshadhri , Nishil Talati

A great variety of complex systems ranging from user interactions in communication networks to transactions in financial markets can be modeled as temporal graphs, which consist of a set of vertices and a series of timestamped and directed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Jingjing Wang , Yanhao Wang , Wenjun Jiang , Yuchen Li , Kian-Lee Tan

Temporal networks representing a stream of timestamped edges are seemingly ubiquitous in the real-world. However, the massive size and continuous nature of these networks make them fundamentally challenging to analyze and leverage for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Nesreen K. Ahmed , Nick Duffield , Ryan A. Rossi

Counting the number of small subgraphs, called motifs, is a fundamental problem in social network analysis and graph mining. Many real-world networks are directed and temporal, where edges have timestamps. Motif counting in directed,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yunjie Pan , Omkar Bhalerao , C. Seshadhri , Nishil Talati

A great variety of complex systems, from user interactions in communication networks to transactions in financial markets, can be modeled as temporal graphs consisting of a set of vertices and a series of timestamped and directed edges.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Jingjing Wang , Yanhao Wang , Wenjun Jiang , Yuchen Li , Kian-Lee Tan

Exploring statistics of locally connected subgraph patterns (also known as network motifs) has helped researchers better understand the structure and function of biological and online social networks (OSNs). Nowadays the massive size of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-03-28 Pinghui Wang , John C. S. Lui , Bruno Ribeiro , Don Towsley , Junzhou Zhao , Xiaohong Guan

Dynamic networks, a.k.a. graph streams, consist of a set of vertices and a collection of timestamped interaction events (i.e., temporal edges) between vertices. Temporal motifs are defined as classes of (small) isomorphic induced subgraphs…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-02-23 Xiaojing Zhu , Eric D. Kolaczyk

Counting the number of occurrences of small connected subgraphs, called temporal motifs, has become a fundamental primitive for the analysis of temporal networks, whose edges are annotated with the time of the event they represent. One of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Ilie Sarpe , Fabio Vandin

Motif counting plays a crucial role in understanding the structural properties of networks. By computing motif frequencies, researchers can draw key insights into the structural properties of the underlying network. As networks become…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Haozhe Yin , Kai Wang , Wenjie Zhang , Yizhang He , Ying Zhang , Xuemin Lin

We introduce Tiered Sampling, a novel technique for approximate counting sparse motifs in massive graphs whose edges are observed in a stream. Our technique requires only a single pass on the data and uses a memory of fixed size $M$, which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Lorenzo De Stefani , Erisa Terolli , Eli Upfal

Motifs are the fundamental components of complex systems. The topological structure of networks representing complex systems and the frequency and distribution of motifs in these networks are intertwined. The complexities associated with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Ali Jazayeri , Christopher C. Yang

We address the problem of computing the distribution of induced connected subgraphs, aka \emph{graphlets} or \emph{motifs}, in large graphs. The current state-of-the-art algorithms estimate the motif counts via uniform sampling, by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Marco Bressan , Stefano Leucci , Alessandro Panconesi

Network motifs are recurrent, small-scale patterns of interactions observed frequently in a system. They shed light on the interplay between the topology and the dynamics of complex networks across various domains. In this work, we focus on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Quintino Francesco Lotito , Federico Musciotto , Federico Battiston , Alberto Montresor

Computing subgraph frequencies is a fundamental task that lies at the core of several network analysis methodologies, such as network motifs and graphlet-based metrics, which have been widely used to categorize and compare networks from…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Pedro Ribeiro , Pedro Paredes , Miguel E. P. Silva , David Aparicio , Fernando Silva

Investigating the frequency and distribution of small subgraphs with a few nodes/edges, i.e., motifs, is an effective analysis method for static networks. Motif-driven analysis is also useful for temporal networks where the spectrum of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Penghang Liu , Valerio Guarrasi , A. Erdem Sarıyüce

The randomized technique of color coding is behind state-of-the-art algorithms for estimating graph motif counts. Those algorithms, however, are not yet capable of scaling well to very large graphs with billions of edges. In this paper we…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Marco Bressan , Stefano Leucci , Alessandro Panconesi

Counting the frequency of small subgraphs is a fundamental technique in network analysis across various domains, most notably in bioinformatics and social networks. The special case of triangle counting has received much attention. Getting…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-19 Madhav Jha , C. Seshadhri , Ali Pinar
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