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Random walks (RWs) are fundamental stochastic processes with applications across physics, computer science, and information processing. A recent extension, the laser chaos decision-maker, employs chaotic time series from semiconductor…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Akihiro Narimatsu , Tomoki Yamagami

In this paper, we study the fundamental problem of random walk for network embedding. We propose to use non-Markovian random walk, variants of vertex-reinforced random walk (VRRW), to fully use the history of a random walk path. To solve…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Wenyi Xiao , Huan Zhao , Vincent W. Zheng , Yangqiu Song

We focus on the study of dynamics of two kinds of random walk: generic random walk (GRW) and maximal entropy random walk (MERW) on two model networks: Cayley trees and ladder graphs. The stationary probability distribution for MERW is given…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-06-01 Jeremi K. Ochab

Temporal random walks, which sample causality-preserving paths, are widely used to analyze time-stamped interactions in domains such as microservices, finance, and online platforms. Generating such walks at scale is challenging because…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Md Ashfaq Salehin , George Parisis , Luc Berthouze

The Hiperwalk package is designed to facilitate the simulation of quantum walks using heterogeneous high-performance computing, taking advantage of the parallel processing power of diverse processors such as CPUs, GPUs, and acceleration…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-13 Paulo Motta , Gustavo A. Bezerra , Anderson F. P. Santos , Renato Portugal

The study of quasar light curves poses two problems: inference of the power spectrum and interpolation of an irregularly sampled time series. A baseline approach to these tasks is to interpolate a time series with a Damped Random Walk (DRW)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-21 Egor Danilov , Aleksandra Ćiprijanović , Brian Nord

Continuous-time random walks (CTRWs) on discrete state spaces, ranging from regular lattices to complex networks, are ubiquitous across physics, chemistry, and biology. Models with coarse-grained states, for example those employed in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-03 Michael Manhart , Willow Kion-Crosby , Alexandre V. Morozov

Continuous Time Random Walks (CTRW) are widely used to coarse-grain the evolution of systems jumping from a metastable sub-set of their configuration space, or trap, to another via rare intermittent events. The multi-scaled behavior typical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-01-21 Paolo Sibani

We consider the problem of a Parameter Server (PS) that wishes to learn a model that fits data distributed on the nodes of a graph. We focus on Federated Learning (FL) as a canonical application. One of the main challenges of FL is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Ghadir Ayache , Venkat Dassari , Salim El Rouayheb

Monte Carlo random walk methods are widely used in capacitance extraction for their mesh free formulation and inherent parallelism. However, modern semiconductor technologies with densely packed structures present significant challenges in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Hector R. Rodriguez , Jiechen Huang , Wenjian Yu

The enormous successes have been made by quantum algorithms during the last decade. In this paper, we combine the quantum random walk (QRW) with the problem of data clustering, and develop two clustering algorithms based on the one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2008-12-09 Qiang Li , Yan He , Jing-ping Jiang

We introduce a set of techniques that allow for efficiently generating many independent random walks in the Massive Parallel Computation (MPC) model with space per machine strongly sublinear in the number of vertices. In this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Jakub Łącki , Slobodan Mitrović , Krzysztof Onak , Piotr Sankowski

Given a set of graphs from some unknown family, we want to generate new graphs from that family. Recent methods use diffusion on either graph embeddings or the discrete space of nodes and edges. However, simple changes to embeddings (say,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Rahul Nandakumar , Deepayan Chakrabarti

Search pattern experienced by the processor to search an element in secondary storage devices follows a random sequence. Formally, it is a random walk and its modeling is crucial in studying performance metrics like memory access time. In…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-07-09 Surabhi Jain , N. Sadagopan

Graph embedding maps graph nodes to low-dimensional vectors, and is widely adopted in machine learning tasks. The increasing availability of billion-edge graphs underscores the importance of learning efficient and effective embeddings on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Peng Fang , Arijit Khan , Siqiang Luo , Fang Wang , Dan Feng , Zhenli Li , Wei Yin , Yuchao Cao

Researchers have designed many algorithms to measure the distances between graph nodes, such as average hitting times of random walks, cosine distances from DeepWalk, personalized PageRank, etc. Successful although these algorithms are,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Enzhi Li , Zhengyi Le

Many real-world datasets have an underlying dynamic graph structure, where entities and their interactions evolve over time. Machine learning models should consider these dynamics in order to harness their full potential in downstream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Ahmad Naser Eddin , Jacopo Bono , David Aparício , Hugo Ferreira , João Ascensão , Pedro Ribeiro , Pedro Bizarro

Given a large graph, how can we determine similarity between nodes in a fast and accurate way? Random walk with restart (RWR) is a popular measure for this purpose and has been exploited in numerous data mining applications including…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Minji Yoon , Jinhong Jung , U Kang

In recent years, graph neural networks (GNNs) have gained increasing popularity and have shown very promising results for data that are represented by graphs. The majority of GNN architectures are designed based on developing new…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-05 Anahita Iravanizad , Edgar Ivan Sanchez Medina , Martin Stoll

For a deep learning model, efficient execution of its computation graph is key to achieving high performance. Previous work has focused on improving the performance for individual nodes of the computation graph, while ignoring the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Linpeng Tang , Yida Wang , Theodore L. Willke , Kai Li