English
Related papers

Related papers: Network Distance Based on Laplacian Flows on Graph…

200 papers

As network research becomes more sophisticated, it is more common than ever for researchers to find themselves not studying a single network but needing to analyze sets of networks. An important task when working with sets of networks is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-26 James P. Bagrow , Erik M. Bollt

With a view on graph clustering, we present a definition of vertex-to-vertex distance which is based on shared connectivity. We argue that vertices sharing more connections are closer to each other than vertices sharing fewer connections.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Pierre Miasnikof , Alexander Y. Shestopaloff , Leonidas Pitsoulis , Yuri Lawryshyn

We define a (pseudo-)distance between graphs based on the spectrum of the normalized Laplacian, which is easy to compute or to estimate numerically. It can therefore serve as a rough classification of large empirical graphs into families…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-03 Jiao Gu , Jürgen Jost , Shiping Liu , Peter F. Stadler

The tasks of identifying separation structures and clusters in flow data are fundamental to flow visualization. Significant work has been devoted to these tasks in flow represented by vector fields, but there are unique challenges in…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Matthew Berger , Joshua A. Levine

In the interdisciplinary field of network science, a complex-valued network, with edges assigned complex weights, provides a more nuanced representation of relationships by capturing both the magnitude and phase of interactions.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-05 Aditi Saxena , Twinkle Tripathy , Rajasekhar Anguluri

Group or cluster structure on explanatory variables in machine learning problems is a very general phenomenon, which has attracted broad interest from practitioners and theoreticians alike. In this work we contribute an approach to sparse…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-22 Subhroshekhar Ghosh , Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee

Classic measures of graph centrality capture distinct aspects of node importance, from the local (e.g., degree) to the global (e.g., closeness). Here we exploit the connection between diffusion and geometry to introduce a multiscale…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-07-29 Alexis Arnaudon , Robert L. Peach , Mauricio Barahona

Diffusion models have emerged from various theoretical and methodological perspectives, each offering unique insights into their underlying principles. In this work, we provide an overview of the most prominent approaches, drawing attention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Solveig Klepper

Evaluating similarity between graphs is of major importance in several computer vision and pattern recognition problems, where graph representations are often used to model objects or interactions between elements. The choice of a distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-15 Sofia Ira Ktena , Sarah Parisot , Enzo Ferrante , Martin Rajchl , Matthew Lee , Ben Glocker , Daniel Rueckert

The degree distribution is an important characteristic of complex networks. In many applications, quantification of degree distribution in the form of a fixed-length feature vector is a necessary step. On the other hand, we often need to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-12-24 Sadegh Aliakbary , Jafar Habibi , Ali Movaghar

Many functions have been recently defined to assess the similarity among networks as tools for quantitative comparison. They stem from very different frameworks - and they are tuned for dealing with different situations. Here we show an…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2012-08-21 Giuseppe Jurman , Roberto Visintainer , Cesare Furlanello

The widespread relevance of complex networks is a valuable tool in the analysis of a broad range of systems. There is a demand for tools which enable the extraction of meaningful information and allow the comparison between different…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-03-30 Kathryn Cooper , Mauricio Barahona

The notions of distance and similarity play a key role in many machine learning approaches, and artificial intelligence (AI) in general, since they can serve as an organizing principle by which individuals classify objects, form concepts…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Santiago Ontañón

Laplacian-based methods are popular for the dimensionality reduction of data lying in $\mathbb{R}^N$. Several theoretical results for these algorithms depend on the fact that the Euclidean distance locally approximates the geodesic distance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Liane Xu , Amit Singer

Metric graphs are ubiquitous in science and engineering. For example, many data are drawn from hidden spaces that are graph-like, such as the cosmic web. A metric graph offers one of the simplest yet still meaningful ways to represent the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Tamal K. Dey , Dayu Shi , Yusu Wang

Identifying networks with similar characteristics in a given ensemble, or detecting pattern discontinuities in a temporal sequence of networks, are two examples of tasks that require an effective metric capable of quantifying network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Carlo Piccardi

Complex networks are a useful tool to investigate various phenomena in social science, economics, and logistics. Node Vector Distance (NVD) is an emerging set of techniques allowing us to estimate the distance and correlation between…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Michele Coscia , Karel Devriendt

Long-range dependencies are critical for effective graph representation learning, yet most existing datasets focus on small graphs tailored to inductive tasks, offering limited insight into long-range interactions. Current evaluations…

This paper prescribes a distance between learning tasks modeled as joint distributions on data and labels. Using tools in information geometry, the distance is defined to be the length of the shortest weight trajectory on a Riemannian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Yansong Gao , Pratik Chaudhari

Distances are pervasive in machine learning. They serve as similarity measures, loss functions, and learning targets; it is said that a good distance measure solves a task. When defining distances, the triangle inequality has proven to be a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Silviu Pitis , Harris Chan , Kiarash Jamali , Jimmy Ba