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Detecting the origin of information or infection spread in networks is a fundamental challenge with applications in misinformation tracking, epidemiology, and beyond. We study the multi-source detection problem: given snapshot observations…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Xingchao Jian , Purui Zhang , Lan Tian , Feng Ji , Wenfei Liang , Wee Peng Tay , Bihan Wen , Felix Krahmer

Mapping the Internet generally consists in sampling the network from a limited set of sources by using "traceroute"-like probes. This methodology, akin to the merging of different spanning trees to a set of destinations, has been argued to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Luca Dall'Asta , Ignacio Alvarez-Hamelin , Alain Barrat , Alexei Vazquez , Alessandro Vespignani

Researchers, policy makers, and engineers need to make sense of data on spreading processes as diverse as viral infections, water contamination, and misinformation in social networks. Classical questions include predicting infection…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Ben Bals

We investigate the problem of locating the source of diffusion in complex networks without complete knowledge of nodes' states. Some currently known methods assume the information travels via a single, shortest path, which by assumption is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-01-14 Łukasz Gajewski , Krzysztof Suchecki , Janusz Hołyst

Source localization, the act of finding the originator of a disease or rumor in a network, has become an important problem in sociology and epidemiology. The localization is done using the infection state and time of infection of a few…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Brunella Spinelli , L. Elisa Celis , Patrick Thiran

We study the epidemic source detection problem in contact tracing networks modeled as a graph-constrained maximum likelihood estimation problem using the susceptible-infected model in epidemiology. Based on a snapshot observation of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Pei-Duo Yu , Chee Wei Tan , Hung-Lin Fu

This paper proposes a novel approach for detecting the topology of distribution networks based on the analysis of time series measurements. The time-based analysis approach draws on data from high-precision phasor measurement units (PMUs or…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-04-23 Guido Cavraro , Reza Arghandeh , Alexandra von Meier

Detecting malicious activity within an enterprise computer network can be framed as a temporal link prediction task: given a sequence of graphs representing communications between hosts over time, the goal is to predict which edges…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Corentin Larroche

Well-established methods of locating the source of information in a complex network are usually derived with the assumption of complete and exact knowledge of network topology. We study the performance of three such algorithms (LPTVA, GMLA…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-10-27 Piotr Machura , Robert Paluch

The problem of finding the optimal set of source nodes in a diffusion network that maximizes the spread of information, influence, and diseases in a limited amount of time depends dramatically on the underlying temporal dynamics of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-05-09 Manuel Gomez Rodriguez , Bernhard Schölkopf

When a piece of malicious information becomes rampant in an information diffusion network, can we identify the source node that originally introduced the piece into the network and infer the time when it initiated this? Being able to do so…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-28 Mehrdad Farajtabar , Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez , Nan Du , Mohammad Zamani , Hongyuan Zha , Le Song

Source traffic prediction is one of the main challenges of enabling predictive resource allocation in machine type communications (MTC). In this paper, a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) based deep learning approach is proposed for…

We study the problem of identifying the source of a stochastic diffusion process spreading on a graph based on the arrival times of the diffusion at a few queried nodes. In a graph $G=(V,E)$, an unknown source node $v^* \in V$ is drawn…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Victor Lecomte , Gergely Ódor , Patrick Thiran

In this paper, we study a problem of detecting the source of diffused information by querying individuals, given a sample snapshot of the information diffusion graph, where two queries are asked: {\em (i)} whether the respondent is the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Jaeyoung Choi , Sangwoo Moon , Jiin Woo , Kyunghwan Son , Jinwoo Shin , Yung Yi

Inferring the source of a diffusion in a large network of agents is a difficult but feasible task, if a few agents act as sensors revealing the time at which they got hit by the diffusion. A main limitation of current source detection…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Gergely Ódor , Jana Vuckovic , Miguel-Angel Sanchez Ndoye , Patrick Thiran

Four types of explicit estimators are proposed here to estimate the loss rates of the links in a network with the tree topology and all of them are derived by the maximum likelihood principle. One of the four is developed from an estimator…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-07-05 Weiping Zhu

We consider the problem of source sampling and transmission scheduling for age-of-information minimization in a system consisting of multiple energy harvesting (EH) sources and a sink node. At each time, one of the sources is selected by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-06 Akanksha Jaiswal , Arpan Chattopadhyay

Internet mapping projects generally consist in sampling the network from a limited set of sources by using traceroute probes. This methodology, akin to the merging of spanning trees from the different sources to a set of destinations, leads…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Fabien Viger , Alain Barrat , Luca Dall'Asta , Cun-Hui Zhang , Eric D. Kolaczyk

This work presents a topology detection method combining home smart meter information and sparse line flow measurements. The problem is formulated as a spanning tree detection problem over a graph given partial nodal and edge flow…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Raffi Avo Sevlian , Ram Rajagopal

The mining of pattern subgraphs, known as motifs, is a core task in the field of graph mining. Edges in real-world networks often have timestamps, so there is a need for temporal motif mining. A temporal motif is a richer structure that…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yunjie Pan , Omkar Bhalerao , C. Seshadhri , Nishil Talati