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Modularity is a very widely used measure of the level of clustering or community structure in networks. Here we consider a recent generalisation of the definition of modularity to temporal graphs, whose edge-sets change over discrete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Vilhelm Agdur , Jessica Enright , Laura Larios-Jones , Kitty Meeks , Fiona Skerman , Ella Yates

Network science provides valuable insights across numerous disciplines including sociology, biology, neuroscience and engineering. A task of major practical importance in these application domains is inferring the network structure from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Vassilis N. Ioannidis , Yanning Shen , Georgios B. Giannakis

In this paper, we consider the convex, finite-sum minimization problem with explicit convex constraints over strongly connected directed graphs. The constraint is an intersection of several convex sets each being known to only one node. To…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-23 Firooz Shahriari-Mehr , David Bosch , Ashkan Panahi

The recursive removal of leaves (dead end vertices) and their neighbors from an undirected network results, when this pruning algorithm stops, in a so-called core of the network. This specific subgraph should be distinguished from…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-12 N. Azimi-Tafreshi , S. N. Dorogovtsev , J. F. F. Mendes

When designing large-scale distributed controllers, the information-sharing constraints between sub-controllers, as defined by a communication topology interconnecting them, are as important as the controller itself. Controllers implemented…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-29 Fengjun Yang , Nikolai Matni

Graph clustering is an important technique to understand the relationships between the vertices in a big graph. In this paper, we propose a novel random-walk-based graph clustering method. The proposed method restricts the reach of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Honglei Zhang , Jenni Raitoharju , Serkan Kiranyaz , Moncef Gabbouj

We explore pseudometrics for directed graphs in order to better understand their topological properties. The directed flag complex associated to a directed graph provides a useful bridge between network science and topology. Indeed, it has…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-26 Ana Lucia Garcia-Pulido , Kathryn Hess , Jane Tan , Katharine Turner , Bei Wang , Naya Yerolemou

We describe a computationally efficient, stochastic graph-regularization technique that can be utilized for the semi-supervised training of deep neural networks in a parallel or distributed setting. We utilize a technique, first described…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-31 Sunil Thulasidasan , Jeffrey Bilmes , Garrett Kenyon

Combinations of Gramian-based centrality measures are used for driver node selection in complex networks in order to simultaneously take into account conflicting control energy requirements, like minimizing the average energy needed to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Gustav Lindmark , Claudio Altafini

One of the most important combinatorial optimization problems is graph coloring. There are several variations of this problem involving additional constraints either on vertices or edges. They constitute models for real applications, such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Rosiane de Freitas , Bruno Dias , Nelson Maculan , Jayme Szwarcfiter

Complex networks possess a rich, multi-scale structure reflecting the dynamical and functional organization of the systems they model. Often there is a need to analyze multiple networks simultaneously, to model a system by more than one…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-11-29 Tom Michoel , Bruno Nachtergaele

This paper studies Gramian-based reachability metrics for bilinear control systems. In the context of complex networks, bilinear systems capture scenarios where an actuator not only can affect the state of a node but also interconnections…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-02-05 Yingbo Zhao , Jorge Cortés

Geometry can be used to explain many properties commonly observed in real networks. It is therefore often assumed that real networks, especially those with high average local clustering, live in an underlying hidden geometric space.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-04-11 J. van der Kolk , M. Á. Serrano , M. Boguñá

Projection-based Reduced Order Models minimize the discrete residual of a "full order model" (FOM) while constraining the unknowns to a reduced dimension space. For problems with symmetric positive definite (SPD) Jacobians, this is…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-09-29 S. Ares de Parga , J. R. Bravo , J. A. Hernandez , R. Zorrilla , R. Rossi

Networks can be highly complex systems with numerous interconnected components and interactions. Granular computing offers a framework to manage this complexity by decomposing networks into smaller, more manageable components, or granules.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Hibba Arshad , Imran Javaid

Many problems in machine learning can be expressed by means of a graph with nodes representing training samples and edges representing the relationship between samples in terms of similarity, temporal proximity, or label information. Graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Laurenz Wiskott , Fabian Schönfeld

In this paper, a gradient-free distributed algorithm is introduced to solve a set constrained optimization problem under a directed communication network. Specifically, at each time-step, the agents locally compute a so-called…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-06 Yipeng Pang , Guoqiang Hu

We give the first $2$-approximation algorithm for the cluster vertex deletion problem. This is tight, since approximating the problem within any constant factor smaller than $2$ is UGC-hard. Our algorithm combines the previous approaches,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Manuel Aprile , Matthew Drescher , Samuel Fiorini , Tony Huynh

We consider the problem of estimating the measure of subsets in very large networks. A prime tool for this purpose is the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm. This algorithm, while extremely useful in many cases, still often suffers…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Ahmad Askarian , Rupei Xu , András Faragó

A random network model which allows for tunable, quite general forms of clustering, degree correlation and degree distribution is defined. The model is an extension of the configuration model, in which stubs (half-edges) are paired to form…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-07-31 Frank Ball , Tom Britton , David Sirl