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Random walk centrality is a fundamental metric in graph mining for quantifying node importance and influence, defined as the weighted average of hitting times to a node from all other nodes. Despite its ability to capture rich graph…

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Many real-world networks are so large that we must simplify their structure before we can extract useful information about the systems they represent. As the tools for doing these simplifications proliferate within the network literature,…

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Network classification has a variety of applications, such as detecting communities within networks and finding similarities between those representing different aspects of the real world. However, most existing work in this area focus on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Kun Tu , Jian Li , Don Towsley , Dave Braines , Liam D. Turner

We have developed a steady state theory of complex transport networks used to model the flow of commodity, information, viruses, opinions, or traffic. Our approach is based on the use of the Markov chains defined on the graph…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Volchenkov , Ph. Blanchard

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

We present a new approach of topology biased random walks for undirected networks. We focus on a one parameter family of biases and by using a formal analogy with perturbation theory in quantum mechanics we investigate the features of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-12-09 Vinko Zlatić , Andrea Gabrielli , Guido Caldarelli

We introduce a method to find network motifs in knowledge graphs. Network motifs are useful patterns or meaningful subunits of the graph that recur frequently. We extend the common definition of a network motif to coincide with a basic…

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We propose a one parameter family of random walk processes on hypergraphs, where a parameter biases the dynamics of the walker towards hyperedges of low or high cardinality. We show that for each value of the parameter the resulting process…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-28 Timoteo Carletti , Duccio Fanelli , Renaud Lambiotte

We consider a statistical model for the problem of finding subgraphs with specified topology in an otherwise random graph. This task plays an important role in the analysis of social and biological networks. In these types of networks,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Hamid Javadi , Andrea Montanari

Identifying the most influential nodes in information networks has been the focus of many research studies. This problem has crucial applications in various contexts, such as controlling the propagation of viruses or rumours in real-world…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Ahmad Asgharian Rezaei , Justin Munoz , Mahdi Jalili , Hamid Khayyam

Network architecture design is very important for the optimization of industrial networks. The type of network architecture can be divided into small-scale network and large-scale network according to its scale. Graph theory is an efficient…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Chao Dong , Xiaoxiong Xiong , Qiulin Xue , Zhengzhen Zhang , Kai Niu , Ping Zhang

Sampling random nodes is a fundamental algorithmic primitive in the analysis of massive networks, with many modern graph mining algorithms critically relying on it. We consider the task of generating a large collection of random nodes in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Omri Ben-Eliezer , Talya Eden , Joel Oren , Dimitris Fotakis

The evolution of many dynamical systems that describe relationships or interactions between objects can be effectively modeled by temporal networks, which are typically represented as a sequence of static network snapshots. In this paper,…

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We propose a synthetical weights' dynamic mechanism for weighted networks which takes into account the influences of strengths of nodes, weights of links and incoming new vertices. Strength/Weight preferential strategies are used in these…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-09-10 Lujun Fang , Zhongzhi Zhang , Shuigeng Zhou , Jihong Guan

Recent years have witnessed a surge of interest in machine learning on graphs and networks with applications ranging from vehicular network design to IoT traffic management to social network recommendations. Supervised machine learning…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Manoj Reddy Dareddy , Mahashweta Das , Hao Yang

The statistical mechanical approach to complex networks is the dominant paradigm in describing natural and societal complex systems. The study of network properties, and their implications on dynamical processes, mostly focus on locally…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-06-27 Giovanni Petri , Martina Scolamiero , Irene Donato , Francesco Vaccarino

How does the small-scale topological structure of an airline network behave as the network evolves? To address this question, we study the dynamic properties of small undirected subgraphs using 15 years of data on Southwest Airlines'…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Marius Agasse-Duval , Steve Lawford

Motif counting plays a crucial role in understanding the structural properties of networks. By computing motif frequencies, researchers can draw key insights into the structural properties of the underlying network. As networks become…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Haozhe Yin , Kai Wang , Wenjie Zhang , Yizhang He , Ying Zhang , Xuemin Lin

This paper proposes an attributed network growth model. Despite the knowledge that individuals use limited resources to form connections to similar others, we lack an understanding of how local and resource-constrained mechanisms explain…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Harshay Shah , Suhansanu Kumar , Hari Sundaram

As complex networks find applications in a growing range of disciplines, the diversity of naturally occurring and model networks being studied is exploding. The adoption of a well-developed collection of network taxonomies is a natural…

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