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Computation · Statistics 2023-04-24 Igor Artico , Ernst C. Wit

We define a (pseudo-)distance between graphs based on the spectrum of the normalized Laplacian, which is easy to compute or to estimate numerically. It can therefore serve as a rough classification of large empirical graphs into families…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-03 Jiao Gu , Jürgen Jost , Shiping Liu , Peter F. Stadler

Modeling of intricate relational patterns has become a cornerstone of contemporary statistical research and related data science fields. Networks, represented as graphs, offer a natural framework for this analysis. This paper extends the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-13 Bernardo Marenco , Paola Bermolen , Marcelo Fiori , Federico Larroca , Gonzalo Mateos

Generative models for graphs have been typically committed to strong prior assumptions concerning the form of the modeled distributions. Moreover, the vast majority of currently available models are either only suitable for characterizing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Antonino Freno , Mikaela Keller , Gemma C. Garriga , Marc Tommasi

A geometric graph is a combinatorial graph, endowed with a geometry that is inherited from its embedding in a Euclidean space. Formulation of a meaningful measure of (dis-)similarity in both the combinatorial and geometric structures of two…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Sushovan Majhi , Carola Wenk

Let $X_1,X_2,...$ be an infinite sequence of i.i.d. random vectors distributed exponentially with parameter $\lam .$ For each $y$ and $n\geq 1,$ form a graph $G_n(y)$ with vertex set $V_n = \{X_1,...,X_n\},$ two vertices are connected if…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bhupendra Gupta

Reciprocity, or the stochastic tendency for actors to form mutual relationships, is an essential characteristic of directed network data. Existing latent space approaches to modeling directed networks are severely limited by the assumption…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-11-28 Joshua Daniel Loyal , Xiangyu Wu , Jonathan R. Stewart

Degree heterogeneity and latent geometry, also referred to as popularity and similarity, are key explanatory components underlying the structure of real-world networks. The relationship between these components and the statistical…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Keith Malcolm Smith , Jason P. Smith

Understanding network functionality requires integrating structure and dynamics, and emergent latent geometry induced by network-driven processes captures the low-dimensional spaces governing this interplay. Here, we focus on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-02 Andrea Filippo Beretta , Davide Zanchetta , Sebastiano Bontorin , Manlio De Domenico

In this paper, a new measurement to compare two large-scale graphs based on the theory of quantum probability is proposed. An explicit form for the spectral distribution of the corresponding adjacency matrix of a graph is established. Our…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Hayoung Choi , Hosoo Lee , Yifei Shen , Yuanming Shi

Random geometric graphs are random graph models defined on metric measure spaces. A random geometric graph is generated by first sampling points from a metric space and then connecting each pair of sampled points independently with a…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Han Huang , Pakawut Jiradilok , Elchanan Mossel

We study nonparametric methods for the setting where multiple distinct networks are observed on the same set of nodes. Such samples may arise in the form of replicated networks drawn from a common distribution, or in the form of…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-01-15 Swati Chandna , Pierre-Andre Maugis

Comparing two geometric graphs embedded in space is important in the field of transportation network analysis. Given street maps of the same city collected from different sources, researchers often need to know how and where they differ.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Mahmuda Ahmed , Brittany Terese Fasy , Kyle S. Hickmann , Carola Wenk

Link prediction is a fundamental task in statistical network analysis. Recent advances have been made on learning flexible nonparametric Bayesian latent feature models for link prediction. In this paper, we present a max-margin learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-25 Jun Zhu , Jiaming Song , Bei Chen

The Waxman random graph is a generalisation of the simple Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi or Gilbert random graph. It is useful for modelling physical networks where the increased cost of longer links means they are less likely to be built, and thus less…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-30 Matthew Roughan , Jonathan Tuke , Eric Parsonage

Inferring temporal interaction graphs and higher-order structure from neural signals is a key problem in building generative models for systems neuroscience. Foundation models for large-scale neural data represent shared latent structures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Nathan X. Kodama , Kenneth A. Loparo

Complex systems, ranging from soft materials to wireless communication, are often organised as random geometric networks in which nodes and edges evenly fill up the volume of some space. Studying such networks is difficult because they…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Ivan Kryven , Rik Versendaal

One-dimensional geometric random graphs are constructed by distributing $n$ nodes uniformly and independently on a unit interval and then assigning an undirected edge between any two nodes that have a distance at most $r_n$. These graphs…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-02-20 Jun Zhao , Osman Yağan , Virgil Gligor

In wireless networks, the knowledge of nodal distances is essential for several areas such as system configuration, performance analysis and protocol design. In order to evaluate distance distributions in random networks, the underlying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-01-24 Sunil Srinivasa , Martin Haenggi

This paper presents a spectral framework for quantifying the differentiation between graph data samples by introducing a novel metric named Graph Geodesic Distance (GGD). For two different graphs with the same number of nodes, our framework…

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