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In this paper, we study the problem of unsupervised graph representation learning by harnessing the control properties of dynamical networks defined on graphs. Our approach introduces a novel framework for contrastive learning, a widely…

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We study an optimal control problem aimed at achieving a desired tradeoff between the network coherence and communication requirements in the distributed controller. Our objective is to add a certain number of edges to an undirected…

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This letter deals with the controllability issue of complex networks. An index is chosen to quantitatively measure the extent of controllability of given network. The effect of this index is analyzed based on empirical studies on various…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Ning Cai

When designing large-scale distributed controllers, the information-sharing constraints between sub-controllers, as defined by a communication topology interconnecting them, are as important as the controller itself. Controllers implemented…

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In network science, collective dynamics of complex systems are typically modelled as (nonlinear, often including many-body) vertex-level update rules evolving over a graph interaction structure. In recent years, frameworks that explicitly…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-03 Lucas Lacasa

Networks are a powerful tool to model complex systems, and the definition of many Graph Neural Networks (GNN), Deep Learning algorithms that can handle networks, has opened a new way to approach many real-world problems that would be hardly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Marco Grassia , Manlio De Domenico , Giuseppe Mangioni

A hypergraph is a useful combinatorial object to model ternary or higher-order relations among entities. Clustering hypergraphs is a fundamental task in network analysis. In this study, we develop two clustering algorithms based on…

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Hypergraphs have been a powerful tool to represent higher-order interactions, where hyperedges can connect an arbitrary number of nodes. Quantifying the relative importance of nodes and hyperedges in hypergraphs is a fundamental problem in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Qing Xu , Chunmeng Liu , Changjiang Bu , Jihong Shen

A new proof is given for the mathematical equivalence among three $k$-sparse controllability problems of a networked system, which plays key roles in Olshevsky,2014, in the establishment of the NP-hardness of the associated minimal…

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The widespread use of Multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs) often relies on a fixed activation function (e.g., ReLU, Sigmoid, Tanh) for all nodes within the hidden layers. While effective in many scenarios, this uniformity may limit the networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Hy Nguyen , Duy Khoa Pham , Srikanth Thudumu , Hung Du , Rajesh Vasa , Kon Mouzakis

Model Predictive Control (MPC) represents nowadays one of the main methods employed for process control in industry. Its strong suits comprise a simple algorithm based on a straightforward formulation and the flexibility to deal with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-23 Alberto Zenere , Mattia Zorzi

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning is widely used for multi-robot coordination, where simple graphs typically model pairwise interactions. However, such representations fail to capture higher-order collaborations, limiting effectiveness in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Delin Zhao , Yanbo Shan , Chang Liu , Shenghang Lin , Yingxin Shou , Bin Xu

Dynamic graphs provide a flexible data abstraction for modelling many sorts of real-world systems, such as transport, trade, and social networks. Graph neural networks (GNNs) are powerful tools allowing for different kinds of prediction and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-27 Ed Davis , Ian Gallagher , Daniel John Lawson , Patrick Rubin-Delanchy

Controlling a complex network is of great importance in many applications. The network can be controlled by inputting external control signals through some selected nodes, which are called input nodes. Previous works found that the majority…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Xizhe Zhang , Qian Li

Identifying critical nodes and links in graphs is a crucial task. These nodes/links typically represent critical elements/communication links that play a key role in a system's performance. However, a majority of the methods available in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Sai Munikoti , Laya Das , Balasubramaniam Natarajan

The article addresses the problem of strong structural controllability of structured networks with multi-input multi-output (MIMO) node systems. The authors first present necessary and sufficient conditions for strong structural…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-19 Yanting Ni , Xuyang Lou , Junjie Jiao , Jiajia Jia

The control of bilinear systems has attracted considerable attention in the field of systems and control for decades, owing to their prevalence in diverse applications across science and engineering disciplines. Although much work has been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-09 Gong Cheng , Wei Zhang , Jr-Shin Li

This work develops a distributed graph neural network (GNN) methodology for mesh-based modeling applications using a consistent neural message passing layer. As the name implies, the focus is on enabling scalable operations that satisfy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Shivam Barwey , Riccardo Balin , Bethany Lusch , Saumil Patel , Ramesh Balakrishnan , Pinaki Pal , Romit Maulik , Venkatram Vishwanath

This paper develops a decentralized approach to mobile sensor coverage by a multi-robot system. We consider a scenario where a team of robots with limited sensing range must position itself to effectively detect events of interest in a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Walker Gosrich , Siddharth Mayya , Rebecca Li , James Paulos , Mark Yim , Alejandro Ribeiro , Vijay Kumar

Graph representation learning for hypergraphs can be used to extract patterns among higher-order interactions that are critically important in many real world problems. Current approaches designed for hypergraphs, however, are unable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Ruochi Zhang , Yuesong Zou , Jian Ma