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This work studies approximation based on single-hidden-layer feedforward and recurrent neural networks with randomly generated internal weights. These methods, in which only the last layer of weights and a few hyperparameters are optimized,…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-02-17 Lukas Gonon , Lyudmila Grigoryeva , Juan-Pablo Ortega

Much research has been done on studying the diffusion of ideas or technologies on social networks including the \textit{Influence Maximization} problem and many of its variations. Here, we investigate a type of inverse problem. Given a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-04-28 Georgios Askalidis , Randall A. Berry , Vijay G. Subramanian

We investigate notions of network centrality in terms of the underlying coupling graph of the network, structure of exogenous uncertainties, and communication time-delay. Our focus is on time-delay linear consensus networks, where…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Yaser Ghaedsharaf , Milad Siami , Christoforos Somarakis , Nader Motee

In this note, we examine the problem of identifying the interaction geometry among a known number of agents, adopting a consensus-type algorithm for their coordination. The proposed identification process is facilitated by introducing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Marzieh Nabi-Abdolyousefi , Mehran Mesbahi

Distributed consensus has been widely studied for sensor network applications. Whereas the asymptotic convergence rate has been extensively explored in prior work, other important and practical issues, including energy efficiency and link…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-04-10 Lei Chen , Jeff Frolik

Laplacian flows model the rate of change of each node's state as being proportional to the difference between its value and that of its neighbors. Typically, these flows capture diffusion or synchronization dynamics and are well-studied.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-15 Aditi Saxena , Twinkle Tripathy , Rajasekhar Anguluri

In this paper, we explore the topic of graph learning from the perspective of the Irregularity-Aware Graph Fourier Transform, with the goal of learning the graph signal space inner product to better model data. We propose a novel method to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Benjamin Girault , Eduardo Pavez , Antonio Ortega

This work addresses the distributed estimation problem in a set membership framework. The agents of a network collect measurements which are affected by bounded errors, thus implying that the unknown parameters to be estimated belong to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-11 Francesco Farina , Andrea Garulli , Antonio Giannitrapani

Graphical network inference is used in many fields such as genomics or ecology to infer the conditional independence structure between variables, from measurements of gene expression or species abundances for instance. In many practical…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-03-22 Geneviève Robin , Christophe Ambroise , Stéphane Robin

Physics-informed neural networks have emerged as a powerful tool in the scientific machine learning community, with applications to both forward and inverse problems. While they have shown considerable empirical success, significant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Federica Caforio , Martin Holler , Matthias Höfler

We propose an adaptive control protocol for identifying the topology of dynamical networks interconnected over undirected graphs with cooperative and antagonistic interactions. The signed network is modeled using a repelling Laplacian.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-13 Pelin Sekercioglu , Nana Wang , Angela Fontan , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Access to complete data in large-scale networks is often infeasible. Therefore, the problem of missing data is a crucial and unavoidable issue in the analysis and modeling of real-world social networks. However, most of the research on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Maryam Ramezani , Aryan Ahadinia , Amirmohammad Ziaei , Hamid R. Rabiee

Pervasive across diverse domains, stochastic systems exhibit fluctuations in processes ranging from molecular dynamics to climate phenomena. The Langevin equation has served as a common mathematical model for studying such systems, enabling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-01 Youngkyoung Bae , Seungwoong Ha , Hawoong Jeong

This paper studies the problem of finding the median of N distinct numbers distributed across networked agents. Each agent updates its estimate for the median from noisy local observations of one of the N numbers and information from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Shuhua Yu , Yuan Chen , Soummya Kar

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

We give an approximate solution to the difficult inverse problem of inferring the topology of an unknown network from given time-dependent signals at the nodes. For example, we measure signals from individual neurons in the brain, and infer…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Corey Weistuch , Luca Agozzino , Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi , Ken A. Dill

Contagion processes are strongly linked to the network structures on which they propagate, and learning these structures is essential for understanding and intervention on complex network processes such as epidemics and (mis)information…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Caitlin Gray , Lewis Mitchell , Matthew Roughan

This work examines the problem of topology inference over discrete-time nonlinear stochastic networked dynamical systems. The goal is to recover the underlying digraph linking the network agents, from observations of their state-evolution.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Augusto Santos , Vincenzo Matta , Ali H. Sayed

Distributed control increases system scalability, flexibility, and redundancy. Foundational to such decentralisation is consensus formation, by which decision-making and coordination are achieved. However, decentralised multi-agent systems…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Agathe Bouis , Christopher Lowe , Ruaridh A. Clark , Malcolm Macdonald

We study networks with linear dynamics where the presence of symmetries of the pair (A,B) induces a partition of the network nodes in clusters and the matrix A is not restricted to be in Laplacian form. For these networks, an invariant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-23 Francesco Lo Iudice , Anna Di Meglio , Fabio Della Rossa , Francesco Sorrentino