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Graph neural networks (GNNs) extend convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to graph-based data. A question that arises is how much performance improvement does the underlying graph structure in the GNN provide over the CNN (that ignores this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Lavender Yao Jiang , John Shi , Mark Cheung , Oren Wright , José M. F. Moura

A common issue in graph learning under the semi-supervised setting is referred to as gradient scarcity. That is, learning graphs by minimizing a loss on a subset of nodes causes edges between unlabelled nodes that are far from labelled ones…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Hashem Ghanem , Samuel Vaiter , Nicolas Keriven

This paper aims to maximize algebraic connectivity of networks via topology design under the presence of constraints and an adversary. We are concerned with three problems. First, we formulate the concave maximization topology design…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Tor Anderson , Chin-Yao Chang , Sonia Martinez

We consider the next greedy randomized process for generating maximal H-free graphs: Given a fixed graph H and an integer n, start by taking a uniformly random permutation of the edges of the complete n-vertex graph. Then, construct an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-12-19 Guy Wolfovitz

By employing a recently introduced optimization algorithm we explicitely design optimally synchronizable (unweighted) networks for any given scale-free degree distribution. We explore how the optimization process affects degree-degree…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 Luca Donetti , Pablo I. Hurtado , Miguel A. Munoz

Representing nodes in a network as dense vectors node embeddings is important for understanding a given network and solving many downstream tasks. In particular, for weighted homophilous graphs where similar nodes are connected with larger…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Jun Hee Kim , Jaeman Son , Hyunsoo Kim , Eunjo Lee

Motivated by the recent advances in the field of quantum computing, quantum systems are modelled and analyzed as networks of decentralized quantum nodes which employ distributed quantum consensus algorithms for coordination. In the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-11-27 Saber Jafarizadeh

Designing well-connected graphs is a fundamental problem that frequently arises in various contexts across science and engineering. The weighted number of spanning trees, as a connectivity measure, emerges in numerous problems and plays a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Kasra Khosoussi , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Shoudong Huang , Gamini Dissanayake

Motivated by the exact weight perfect matching problem and recent parameterized algorithms for finding an $\ell$-th smallest perfect matching, we study structural properties of edge-weight symmetries in graphs. Recent work by El Maalouly et…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Kristóf Bérczi , Viktor Csaplár , Yutaro Yamaguchi

We consider network design problems in which we are given a graph and seek a min-size $2$-connected subgraph that satisfies a prescribed property. $\bullet$ In the 1-Connectivity Augmentation problem the goal is to augment a connected graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Zeev Nutov

In this study, we analyzed the problem of accelerating the linear average consensus algorithm for complex networks. We propose a data-driven approach to tuning the weights of temporal (i.e., time-varying) networks using deep learning…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Masako Kishida , Masaki Ogura , Yuichi Yoshida , Tadashi Wadayama

We introduce and study a generalization of conformal rigidity for graphs. A graph is $k$-conformally rigid if the uniform edge weights simultaneously maximize the sum of the $k$ smallest nontrivial Laplacian eigenvalues and minimize the sum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Henrique Assumpção , Gabriel Coutinho , Chris Godsil

We show that, for any graph optimization problem in which the feasible solutions can be expressed by a formula in monadic second-order logic describing sets of vertices or edges and in which the goal is to minimize the sum of the weights in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-09 David Eppstein , Denis Kurz

We consider the problem of estimating the topology of multiple networks from nodal observations, where these networks are assumed to be drawn from the same (unknown) random graph model. We adopt a graphon as our random graph model, which is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-14 Madeline Navarro , Santiago Segarra

When searching for characteristic subpatterns in potentially noisy graph data, it appears self-evident that having multiple observations would be better than having just one. However, it turns out that the inconsistencies introduced when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Novi Quadrianto , Chao Chen , Christoph Lampert

Solving fastest distributed consensus averaging problem (i.e., finding weights on the edges to minimize the second-largest eigenvalue modulus of the weight matrix) over networks with different topologies is one of the primary areas of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-05-18 Saber Jafarizadeh

The notion of network connectivity is used to characterize the robustness and failure tolerance of networks, with high connectivity being a desirable feature. In this paper, we develop a novel approach to the problem of identifying critical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Vishaal Krishnan , Sonia Martínez

Graphs are a common model for complex relational data such as social networks and protein interactions, and such data can evolve over time (e.g., new friendships) and be noisy (e.g., unmeasured interactions). Link prediction aims to predict…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Abhay Singh , Qian Huang , Sijia Linda Huang , Omkar Bhalerao , Horace He , Ser-Nam Lim , Austin R. Benson

This paper studies the fastest distributed consensus averaging problem on branches of an arbitrary connected sensor network. In the previous works full knowledge about the sensor network's connectivity topology was required for determining…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-06 Saber Jafarizadeh , Abbas Jamalipour

We propose a new yet natural algorithm for learning the graph structure of general discrete graphical models (a.k.a. Markov random fields) from samples. Our algorithm finds the neighborhood of a node by sequentially adding nodes that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-02-09 Praneeth Netrapalli , Siddhartha Banerjee , Sujay Sanghavi , Sanjay Shakkottai