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Pairwise temporal interactions between entities can be represented as temporal networks, which code the propagation of processes such as epidemic spreading or information cascades, evolving on top of them. The largest outcome of these…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Rémi Vaudaine , Pierre Borgnat , Paulo Goncalves , Rémi Gribonval , Márton Karsai

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…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Ali Pinar , C. Seshadhri , V. Vishal

We consider the problem of sampling and approximately counting an arbitrary given motif $H$ in a graph $G$, where access to $G$ is given via queries: degree, neighbor, and pair, as well as uniform edge sample queries. Previous algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Amartya Shankha Biswas , Talya Eden , Ronitt Rubinfeld

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a predominant method for graph representation learning. However, beyond subgraph frequency estimation, their application to network motif significance-profile (SP) prediction remains under-explored, with no…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Pedro C. Vieira , Miguel E. P. Silva , Pedro Manuel Pinto Ribeiro

Networks are widely used to model real-world systems and uncover their topological features. Network properties such as the degree distribution and shortest path length have been computed in numerous real-world networks, and most of them…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-17 David Aparício , Pedro Ribeiro , Fernando Silva

One of the most common approaches to the analysis of dynamic networks is through time-window aggregation. The resulting representation is a sequence of static networks, i.e. the snapshot graph. Despite this representation being widely used…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Alessandro Chiappori , Rémy Cazabet

Counting the number of triangles in a graph has many important applications in network analysis. Several frequently computed metrics like the clustering coefficient and the transitivity ratio need to count the number of triangles in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-24 Mostafa Haghir Chehreghani

Frequent and structurally related subgraphs, also known as network motifs, are valuable features of many graph datasets. However, the high computational complexity of identifying motif sets in arbitrary datasets (motif mining) has limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Carlos Oliver , Dexiong Chen , Vincent Mallet , Pericles Philippopoulos , Karsten Borgwardt

Sequence discovery tools play a central role in several fields of computational biology. In the framework of Transcription Factor binding studies, motif finding algorithms of increasingly high performance are required to process the big…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2014-08-27 Nicolò Colombo , Nikos Vlassis

Finding patterns in graphs is a fundamental problem in databases and data mining. In many applications, graphs are temporal and evolve over time, so we are interested in finding durable patterns, such as triangles and paths, which persist…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Pankaj K. Agarwal , Xiao Hu , Stavros Sintos , Jun Yang

Several natural and theoretical networks can be broken down into smaller portions, or subgraphs corresponding to neighborhoods. The more frequent of these neighborhoods can then be understood as motifs of the network, being therefore…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-04-21 Guilherme S. Domingues , Eric K. Tokuda , Luciano da F. Costa

Studying the topology of so-called real networks, that is networks obtained from sociological or biological data for instance, has become a major field of interest in the last decade. One way to deal with it is to consider that networks are…

Applications · Statistics 2010-07-27 Etienne Birmele

Group interactions arise in our daily lives (email communications, on-demand ride sharing, comment interactions on online communities, to name a few), and they together form hypergraphs that evolve over time. Given such temporal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Geon Lee , Kijung Shin

Temporal graphs are widely used to model dynamic systems with time-varying interactions. In real-world scenarios, the underlying mechanisms of generating future interactions in dynamic systems are typically governed by a set of recurring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Jialin Chen , Rex Ying

Spreading processes on graphs arise in a host of application domains, from the study of online social networks to viral marketing to epidemiology. Various discrete-time probabilistic models for spreading processes have been proposed. These…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Abram Magner , Carolyn Kaminski , Petko Bogdanov

Physical and functional constraints on biological networks lead to complex topological patterns across multiple scales in their organization. A particular type of higher-order network feature that has received considerable interest is…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-15 Alexis Bénichou , Jean-Baptiste Masson , Christian L. Vestergaard

Many data analysis problems rely on dynamic networks, such as social or communication network analyses. Providing a scalable overview of long sequences of such dynamic networks remains challenging due to the underlying large-scale data…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Eren Cakmak , Johannes Fuchs , Dominik Jäckle , Tobias Schreck , Ulrik Brandes , Daniel Keim

Algorithms for mining very large graphs, such as those representing online social networks, to discover the relative frequency of small subgraphs within them are of high interest to sociologists, computer scientists and marketeers alike.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Guyue Han , Harish Sethu

Inferring network topology from smooth signals is a significant problem in data science and engineering. A common challenge in real-world scenarios is the availability of only partially observed nodes. While some studies have considered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Chuansen Peng , Hanning Tang , Zhiguo Wang , Xiaojing Shen

The structure of the network can be described by motifs, which are subgraphs that often repeat themselves. In order to understand the structure of network motifs, it is of great importance to study subgraphs from the perspective of…

General Topology · Mathematics 2019-10-25 Ruize Gao , Ying Zhao