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Deriving meaningful representations from complex, high-dimensional data in unsupervised settings is crucial across diverse machine learning applications. This paper introduces a framework for multi-scale graph network embedding based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Shay Deutsch , Lionel Yelibi , Alex Tong Lin , Arjun Ravi Kannan

We introduce a new measure of complexity (called spectral complexity) for directed graphs. We start with splitting of the directed graph into its recurrent and non-recurrent parts. We define the spectral complexity metric in terms of the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-11-02 Igor Mezić , Vladimir A. Fonoberov , Maria Fonoberova , Tuhin Sahai

Graphs can be associated with a matrix according to some rule and we can find the spectrum of a graph with respect to that matrix. Two graphs are cospectral if they have the same spectrum. Constructions of cospectral graphs help us…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Kate Lorenzen

To quantify the fundamental evolution of time-varying networks, and detect abnormal behavior, one needs a notion of temporal difference that captures significant organizational changes between two successive instants. In this work, we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Nathan D Monnig , Francois G Meyer

We discuss the problem of extending data mining approaches to cases in which data points arise in the form of individual graphs. Being able to find the intrinsic low-dimensionality in ensembles of graphs can be useful in a variety of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-06-18 Karthikeyan Rajendran , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

We study the problem of calculating noncommutative distances on graphs, using techniques from linear algebra, specifically, Birkhoff-James orthogonality. A complete characterization of the solutions is obtained in the case when the…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2024-09-09 Pierre Clare , Chi-Kwong Li , Edward Poon , Eric Swartz

We examine the capacity of the complementarity spectrum to distinguish non-isomorphic digraphs. We focus on the seven families with exactly three complementarity eigenvalues. Our findings reveal that in some, but not all families, any two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Diego Bravo , Florencia Cubría , Marcelo Fiori , Gustavo Rama

Graph-level representations are crucial tools for characterising structural differences between graphs. However, comparing graphs with different cardinalities, even when sampled from the same underlying distribution, remains challenging.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Katharina Limbeck , Nadja Häusermann , Martin Carrasco , Guy Wolf , Bastian Rieck

In graph learning, maps between graphs and their subgraphs frequently arise. For instance, when coarsening or rewiring operations are present along the pipeline, one needs to keep track of the corresponding nodes between the original and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Marco Pegoraro , Riccardo Marin , Arianna Rampini , Simone Melzi , Luca Cosmo , Emanuele Rodolà

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

Finding the graphs that are most similar to a query graph in a large database is a common task with various applications. A widely-used similarity measure is the graph edit distance, which provides an intuitive notion of similarity and…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Franka Bause , David B. Blumenthal , Erich Schubert , Nils M. Kriege

A new metric for quantifying pairwise vertex connectivity in graphs is defined and an implementation presented. While general in nature, it features a combination of input features well-suited for social networks, including applicability to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-24 David L. Rhodes , Breanna N. Johnson

Given experimental data, one of the main objectives of biological modeling is to construct a model which best represents the real world phenomena. In some cases, there could be multiple distinct models exhibiting the exact same dynamics,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Cashous Bortner , John Gilliana , Dev Patel , Zaia Tamras

Typically, graph structures are represented by one of three different matrices: the adjacency matrix, the unnormalised and the normalised graph Laplacian matrices. The spectral (eigenvalue) properties of these different matrices are…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-01-27 J. F. Lutzeyer , A. T. Walden

Graph spectral analysis can yield meaningful embeddings of graphs by providing insight into distributed features not directly accessible in nodal domain. Recent efforts in graph signal processing have proposed new decompositions-e.g., based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Miljan Petrović , Thomas A. W. Bolton , Maria Giulia Preti , Raphaël Liégeois , Dimitri Van De Ville

Graph sampling is a technique to pick a subset of vertices and/ or edges from original graph. It has a wide spectrum of applications, e.g. survey hidden population in sociology [54], visualize social graph [29], scale down Internet AS graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-08-28 Pili Hu , Wing Cheong Lau

We consider a hierarchy of graph invariants that naturally extends the spectral invariants defined by F\"urer (Lin. Alg. Appl. 2010) based on the angles formed by the set of standard basis vectors and their projections onto eigenspaces of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-05-06 V. Arvind , Frank Fuhlbrück , Johannes Köbler , Oleg Verbitsky

We study criteria attesting that a given graph can not be embedded in the plane so that neighboring vertices are at unit distance apart and the straight line edges do not cross.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-20 Sascha Kurz

A wide range of tasks in network analysis, such as clustering network populations or identifying anomalies in temporal graph streams, require a measure of the similarity between two graphs. To provide a meaningful data summary for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-10-15 Helcio Felippe , Federico Battiston , Alec Kirkley

The aim of the present article is to give an overview of spectral theory on metric graphs guided by spectral geometry on discrete graphs and manifolds. We present the basic concept of metric graphs and natural Laplacians acting on it and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-02-15 Olaf Post