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Attack graphs are a powerful tool for security risk assessment by analysing network vulnerabilities and the paths attackers can use to compromise network resources. The uncertainty about the attacker's behaviour makes Bayesian networks…

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We study the two inference problems of detecting and recovering an isolated community of \emph{general} structure planted in a random graph. The detection problem is formalized as a hypothesis testing problem, where under the null…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Wasim Huleihel

The explosion in the availability of GPS-enabled devices has resulted in an abundance of trajectory data. In reality, however, majority of these trajectories are collected at a low sampling rate and only provide partial observations on…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-03-25 Prithu Banerjee , Sayan Ranu , Sriram Raghavan

Graphs are ubiquitous in modelling relational structures. Recent endeavours in machine learning for graph-structured data have led to many architectures and learning algorithms. However, the graph used by these algorithms is often…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-25 Soumyasundar Pal , Saber Malekmohammadi , Florence Regol , Yingxue Zhang , Yishi Xu , Mark Coates

Online social networks (OSN) contain extensive amount of information about the underlying society that is yet to be explored. One of the most feasible technique to fetch information from OSN, crawling through Application Programming…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-12-21 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Bruno Ribeiro , Jithin K. Sreedharan

Many real-world and artificial systems and processes can be represented as graphs. Some examples of such systems include social networks, financial transactions, supply chains, and molecular structures. In many of these cases, one needs to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Ashkan Dehghan , Paweł Prałat , François Théberge

Machine learning provides algorithms that can learn from data and make inferences or predictions on data. Bayesian networks are a class of graphical models that allow to represent a collection of random variables and their condititional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Robert Leppert , Karl-Heinz Zimmermann

Link prediction is one of the fundamental research problems in network analysis. Intuitively, it involves identifying the edges that are most likely to be added to a given network, or the edges that appear to be missing from the network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Marcin Waniek , Kai Zhou , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Esteban Moro , Tomasz P. Michalak , Talal Rahwan

Graph embedding is a transformation of nodes of a graph into a set of vectors. A~good embedding should capture the graph topology, node-to-node relationship, and other relevant information about the graph, its subgraphs, and nodes. If these…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Arash Dehghan-Kooshkghazi , Bogumił Kamiński , Łukasz Kraiński , Paweł Prałat , François Théberge

Network topology inference is a prominent problem in Network Science. Most graph signal processing (GSP) efforts to date assume that the underlying network is known, and then analyze how the graph's algebraic and spectral characteristics…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-22 Gonzalo Mateos , Santiago Segarra , Antonio G. Marques , Alejandro Ribeiro

In machine learning, graph embedding algorithms seek low-dimensional representations of the input network data, thereby allowing for downstream tasks on compressed encodings. Recently, within the framework of network renormalization,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-29 Riccardo Milocco , Fabian Jansen , Diego Garlaschelli

Network reliability measures the probability that a target node is reachable from a source node in an uncertain graph, i.e., a graph where every edge is associated with a probability of existence. In this paper, we investigate the novel and…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Xiangyu Ke , Arijit Khan , Mohammad Al Hasan , Rojin Rezvansangsari

Low-dimensional embeddings of knowledge graphs and behavior graphs have proved remarkably powerful in varieties of tasks, from predicting unobserved edges between entities to content recommendation. The two types of graphs can contain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Yuting Ye , Xuwu Wang , Jiangchao Yao , Kunyang Jia , Jingren Zhou , Yanghua Xiao , Hongxia Yang

This paper considers the problem of inferring the structure of a network from indirect observations. Each observation (a "trace") is the unordered set of nodes which are activated along a path through the network. Since a trace does not…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-30 Vincent Gripon , Michael Rabbat

Deducing the structure of neural circuits is one of the central problems of modern neuroscience. Recently-introduced calcium fluorescent imaging methods permit experimentalists to observe network activity in large populations of neurons,…

Applications · Statistics 2011-07-22 Yuriy Mishchencko , Joshua T. Vogelstein , Liam Paninski

Learning graphs from sets of nodal observations represents a prominent problem formally known as graph topology inference. However, current approaches are limited by typically focusing on inferring single networks, and they assume that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Samuel Rey , Andrei Buciulea , Madeline Navarro , Santiago Segarra , Antonio G. Marques

Social learning algorithms provide models for the formation of opinions over social networks resulting from local reasoning and peer-to-peer exchanges. Interactions occur over an underlying graph topology, which describes the flow of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-15 Valentina Shumovskaia , Konstantinos Ntemos , Stefan Vlaski , Ali H. Sayed

The biased net paradigm was the first general and empirically tractable scheme for parameterizing complex patterns of dependence in networks, expressing deviations from uniform random graph structure in terms of latent ``bias events,''…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-30 Carter T. Butts

Graph embedding is a transformation of nodes of a network into a set of vectors. A good embedding should capture the underlying graph topology and structure, node-to-node relationship, and other relevant information about the graph, its…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Bogumił Kamiński , Łukasz Kraiński , Paweł Prałat , François Théberge

In many real-world networks, relationships often go beyond simple dyadic presence or absence; they can be positive, like friendship, alliance, and mutualism, or negative, characterized by enmity, disputes, and competition. To understand the…

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