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We describe a new method for the random sampling of connected networks with a specified degree sequence. We consider both the case of simple graphs and that of loopless multigraphs. The constraints of fixed degrees and of connectedness are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-12-03 Szabolcs Horvát , Carl D. Modes

In real world domains, most graphs naturally exhibit a hierarchical structure. However, data-driven graph generation is yet to effectively capture such structures. To address this, we propose a novel approach that recursively generates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Mahdi Karami , Jun Luo

Graph generation is one of the most challenging tasks in recent years, and its core is to learn the ground truth distribution hiding in the training data. However, training data may not be available due to security concerns or unaffordable…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Xiaorui Qi , Yanlong Wen , Xiaojie Yuan

Markov chain Monte Carlo is a class of algorithms for drawing Markovian samples from high-dimensional target densities to approximate the numerical integration associated with computing statistical expectation, especially in Bayesian…

Computation · Statistics 2018-03-28 Khoa T. Tran

Hypergraphs are a natural modeling paradigm for a wide range of complex relational systems. A standard analysis task is to identify clusters of closely related or densely interconnected nodes. Many graph algorithms for this task are based…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Philip S. Chodrow , Nate Veldt , Austin R. Benson

We introduce a Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm which samples from the space of spanning trees of complete graphs using local rewiring operations only. The probability distribution of graphs of this kind is shown to depend on the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Neal McBride , John Bulava

Random hypergraphs extend the classical notion of random graphs by allowing hyperedges to join more than two vertices, making them well-suited for modeling higher-order interactions in complex systems. Despite their broad applicability,…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Yanna J. Kraakman , Clara Stegehuis

The configuration model is a standard tool for uniformly generating random graphs with a specified degree sequence, and is often used as a null model to evaluate how much of an observed network's structure can be explained by its degree…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Upasana Dutta , Bailey K. Fosdick , Aaron Clauset

A popular approach to semi-supervised learning proceeds by endowing the input data with a graph structure in order to extract geometric information and incorporate it into a Bayesian framework. We introduce new theory that gives appropriate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-14 Nicolas Garcia Trillos , Zachary Kaplan , Thabo Samakhoana , Daniel Sanz-Alonso

In recent years hypergraphs have emerged as a powerful tool to study systems with multi-body interactions which cannot be trivially reduced to pairs. While highly structured methods to generate synthetic data have proved fundamental for the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Nicolò Ruggeri , Federico Battiston , Caterina De Bacco

Markov-chain Monte Carlo algorithms rely on trial moves that are either rejected or accepted based on certain criteria. Here, we provide an efficient algorithm to generate random rotation matrices in four dimensions (4D) covering an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-02-14 Jakob Tómas Bullerjahn , Balázs Fábián , Gerhard Hummer

This study introduces an algorithm that generates undirected graphs with three main characteristics of real-world networks: scale-freeness, short distances between nodes (small-world phenomenon), and large clustering coefficients. The main…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-27 João Pedro C. Morais , Ruben Interian

One of the most demanding calculations is to generate random samples from a specified probability distribution (usually with an unknown normalizing prefactor) in a high-dimensional configuration space. One often has to resort to using a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Youhan Fang , Jesus-Maria Sanz-Serna , Robert D. Skeel

Generating graphs subject to strict structural constraints is a fundamental computational challenge in network science. Simultaneously preserving interacting properties-such as the diameter and the clustering coefficient- is particularly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Dávid Ferenczi , Alexander Grigoriev

Uniform sampling from graphical realizations of a given degree sequence is a fundamental component in simulation-based measurements of network observables, with applications ranging from epidemics, through social networks to Internet…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-04-14 Charo I. Del Genio , Hyunju Kim , Zoltan Toroczkai , Kevin E. Bassler

We present a method for generating random hypergraphs in context-free hypergraph languages. It is obtained by adapting Mairson's generation algorithm for context-free string grammars to the setting of hyperedge replacement grammars. Our…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Federico Vastarini , Detlef Plump

We describe a simple algorithm based on a Markov chain process to generate simply connected acyclic directed graphs over a fixed set of vertices. This algorithm is an extension of a previous one, designed to generate acyclic digraphs, non…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Guy Melancon , Fabrice Philippe

This article proposes an artificial data generating algorithm that is simple and easy to customize. The fundamental concept is to perform random permutation of Monte Carlo generated random numbers which conform to the unconditional…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-02-17 A. Christian Silva , Fernando F. Ferreira

Markov chains are convenient means of generating realizations of networks with a given (joint or otherwise) degree distribution, since they simply require a procedure for rewiring edges. The major challenge is to find the right number of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-11-01 J. Ray , A. Pinar , C. Seshadhri

We study a version of the proximal gradient algorithm for which the gradient is intractable and is approximated by Monte Carlo methods (and in particular Markov Chain Monte Carlo). We derive conditions on the step size and the Monte Carlo…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-22 Yves F. Atchade , Gersende Fort , Eric Moulines