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We give fast, simple, and implementable catalytic logspace algorithms for two fundamental graph problems. First, a randomized catalytic algorithm for $s\to t$ connectivity running in $\widetilde{O}(nm)$ time, and a deterministic catalytic…

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Researchers have designed many algorithms to measure the distances between graph nodes, such as average hitting times of random walks, cosine distances from DeepWalk, personalized PageRank, etc. Successful although these algorithms are,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Enzhi Li , Zhengyi Le

Random walks over directed graphs are used to model activities in many domains, such as social networks, influence propagation, and Bayesian graphical models. They are often used to compute the importance or centrality of individual nodes…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-08-10 Daniel Boley , Alejandro Buendia , Golshan Golnari

This paper presents near-optimal deterministic parallel and distributed algorithms for computing $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximate single-source shortest paths in any undirected weighted graph. On a high level, we deterministically reduce this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Václav Rozhoň , Christoph Grunau , Bernhard Haeupler , Goran Zuzic , Jason Li

The continuous-time quantum walk is a particle evolving by Schr\"odinger's equation in discrete space. Encoding the space as a graph of vertices and edges, the Hamiltonian is proportional to the discrete Laplacian. In some physical systems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-26 Thomas G. Wong , Joshua Lockhart

Random walks on graphs can be slow. To speed them up, imagine that at each step instead of choosing the neighbor at random, there is a small probability $\varepsilon>0$ that we can choose it. We show that in this case, at least for graphs…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Boris Bukh , Quentin Dubroff

We propose a class of continuous-time quantum walk models on graphs induced by a certain class of discrete-time quantum walk models with the parameter $\epsilon\in [0,1]$. Here the graph treated in this paper can be applied both finite and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Kei Saito , Etsuo Segawa

We present the first deterministic nearly-linear time algorithm for single-source shortest paths with negative edge weights on directed graphs: given a directed graph $G$ with $n$ vertices, $m$ edges whose weights are integer in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Bernhard Haeupler , Yonggang Jiang , Thatchaphol Saranurak

Large unweighted directed graphs are commonly used to capture relations between entities. A fundamental problem in the analysis of such networks is to properly define the similarity or dissimilarity between any two vertices. Despite the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-03 Tatsunori B. Hashimoto , Yi Sun , Tommi S. Jaakkola

For $\lambda>0$, we define a $\lambda$-damped random walk to be a random walk that is started from a random vertex of a graph and stopped at each step with probability $\frac{\lambda}{1+\lambda}$, otherwise continued with probability…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-01-17 Madhav Desai , Hariharan Narayanan

We give faster algorithms for producing sparse approximations of the transition matrices of $k$-step random walks on undirected, weighted graphs. These transition matrices also form graphs, and arise as intermediate objects in a variety of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Gorav Jindal , Pavel Kolev , Richard Peng , Saurabh Sawlani

In this note, we design a discrete random walk on the real line which takes steps $0, \pm 1$ (and one with steps in $\{\pm 1, 2\}$) where at least $96\%$ of the signs are $\pm 1$ in expectation, and which has $\mathcal{N}(0,1)$ as a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Yang P. Liu , Ashwin Sah , Mehtaab Sawhney

We study the graph-theoretic properties of the trace of random walks on pseudorandom graphs. We show that for any $\varepsilon>0$, there exists a constant $C$ such that the cover time of an $(n,d,\lambda)$-graph $G$ with $d/\lambda\ge C$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Yaobin Chen , Yiting Wang

Random walks describe diffusion processes, where movement at every time step is restricted to only the neighbouring locations. We construct a quantum random walk algorithm, based on discretisation of the Dirac evolution operator inspired by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Apoorva Patel , Md. Aminoor Rahaman

This paper addresses consensus optimization problems in a multi-agent network, where all agents collaboratively find a minimizer for the sum of their private functions. We develop a new decentralized algorithm in which each agent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-03 Xianghui Mao , Kun Yuan , Yubin Hu , Yuantao Gu , Ali H. Sayed , Wotao Yin

In this article, we provide a unified and simplified approach to derandomize central results in the area of fault-tolerant graph algorithms. Given a graph $G$, a vertex pair $(s,t) \in V(G)\times V(G)$, and a set of edge faults $F \subseteq…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Karthik C. S. , Merav Parter

The ubiquity of massive graph data sets in numerous applications requires fast algorithms for extracting knowledge from these data. We are motivated here by three electrical measures for the analysis of large small-world graphs $G = (V, E)$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Eugenio Angriman , Maria Predari , Alexander van der Grinten , Henning Meyerhenke

Consider $n$ points independently sampled from a density $p$ of class $\mathcal{C}^2$ on a smooth compact $d$-dimensional sub-manifold $\mathcal{M}$ of $\mathbb{R}^m$, and consider the generator of a random walk visiting these points…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-12-22 Hélène Guérin , Dinh-Toan Nguyen , Viet-Chi Tran

Random walk centrality is a fundamental metric in graph mining for quantifying node importance and influence, defined as the weighted average of hitting times to a node from all other nodes. Despite its ability to capture rich graph…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Changan Liu , Zixuan Xie , Ahad N. Zehmakan , Zhongzhi Zhang

In this paper, we propose a deterministic algorithm that approximates the optimal path cover on weighted undirected graphs. Based on the 1/2-Approximation Path Cover Algorithm by Moran et al., we add a procedure to remove the redundant…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-25 Junyuan Lin , Guangpeng Ren