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One fundamental problem in temporal graph analysis is to count the occurrences of small connected subgraph patterns (i.e., motifs), which benefits a broad range of real-world applications, such as anomaly detection, structure prediction,…

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Network motif algorithms have been a topic of research mainly after the 2002-seminal paper from Milo \emph{et al}, that provided motifs as a way to uncover the basic building blocks of most networks. In Bioinformatics, motifs have been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-22 Luis A. A. Meira , Vinicius R. Máximo , Álvaro L. Fazenda , Arlindo F. da Conceição

Networks are fundamental for our understanding of complex systems. Interactions between individual nodes in networks generate network motifs - small recurrent patterns that can be considered the network's building-block components,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Miri Adler , Ruslan Medzhitov

Given a dynamic network, where edges appear and disappear over time, we are interested in finding sets of edges that have similar temporal behavior and form a dense subgraph. Formally, we define the problem as the enumeration of the maximal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Giulia Preti , Polina Rozenshtein , Aristides Gionis , Yannis Velegrakis

Dynamic evolving networks capture temporal relations in domains such as social networks, communication networks, and financial transaction networks. In such networks, temporal motifs, which are repeated sequences of time-stamped…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Alexandra Porter , Baharan Mirzasoleiman , Jure Leskovec

A determinant property of the structure of a biological network is the distribution of local connectivity patterns, i.e., network motifs. In this work, a method for creating directed, unweighted networks while promoting a certain…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Tuomo Mäki-Marttunen

Diffusion models simulate the propagation of influence in networks. The design and evaluation of diffusion models has been subjective and empirical. When being applied to a network represented by a graph, the diffusion model generates a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Fangqi Li

Temporal graphs are widely used to model dynamic systems with time-varying interactions. In real-world scenarios, the underlying mechanisms of generating future interactions in dynamic systems are typically governed by a set of recurring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Jialin Chen , Rex Ying

The structure of the network can be described by motifs, which are subgraphs that often repeat themselves. In order to understand the structure of network motifs, it is of great importance to study subgraphs from the perspective of…

General Topology · Mathematics 2019-10-25 Ruize Gao , Ying Zhao

Identifying frequent subgraphs, also called network motifs, is crucial in analyzing and predicting properties of real-world networks. However, finding large commonly-occurring motifs remains a challenging problem not only due to its NP-hard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Rex Ying , Tianyu Fu , Andrew Wang , Jiaxuan You , Yu Wang , Jure Leskovec

Understanding the structure and dynamics of biological networks is one of the important challenges in system biology. In addition, increasing amount of experimental data in biological networks necessitate the use of efficient methods to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-07-17 Mohammadreza Keyvanpour , Fereshteh Azizani

Network motifs are often called the building blocks of networks. Analysis of motifs is found to be an indispensable tool for understanding local network structure, in contrast to measures based on node degree distribution and its functions…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-08-23 Asim Kumer Dey , Yulia R. Gel , H. Vincent Poor

The observation that some subgraphs, called motifs, appear more often in real networks than in their randomized counterparts has attracted much attention in the scientific community. In the prevalent approach the detection of motifs is…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2014-08-28 Anatol E. Wegner

Temporal networks have been increasingly used to model a diversity of systems that evolve in time; for example human contact structures over which dynamic processes such as epidemics take place. A fundamental aspect of real-life networks is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-11-08 Luis E C Rocha , Naoki Masuda , Petter Holme

Counting the number of small subgraphs, called motifs, is a fundamental problem in social network analysis and graph mining. Many real-world networks are directed and temporal, where edges have timestamps. Motif counting in directed,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yunjie Pan , Omkar Bhalerao , C. Seshadhri , Nishil Talati

A new heuristic based on vertex invariants is developed to rapidly distinguish non-isomorphic graphs to a desired level of accuracy. The method is applied to sample subgraphs from an E.coli protein interaction network, and as a probe for…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-13 Kim Baskerville , Maya Paczuski

Dense regions in networks are an indicator of interesting and unusual information. However, most existing methods only consider simple, undirected, unweighted networks. Complex networks in the real-world often have rich information though:…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Ahmet Erdem Sariyuce

Topology identification and inference of processes evolving over graphs arise in timely applications involving brain, transportation, financial, power, as well as social and information networks. This chapter provides an overview of graph…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-12 Gonzalo Mateos , Yanning Shen , Georgios B. Giannakis , Ananthram Swami

Temporal graphs serve as a critical foundation for modeling evolving interactions in domains ranging from financial networks to social media. Mining temporal motifs is essential for applications such as fraud detection, cybersecurity, and…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Sanjay Sri Vallabh Singapuram , Ronald Dreslinski , Nishil Talati

Conventionally, pairwise relationships between nodes are considered to be the fundamental building blocks of complex networks. However, over the last decade the overabundance of certain sub-network patterns, so called motifs, has attracted…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-01-28 Marco Winkler , Joerg Reichardt