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The Maximal Entropy Random Walk (MERW) is a natural process on a finite graph, introduced a few years ago with motivations from theoretical physics. The construction of this process relies on Perron-Frobenius theory for adjacency matrices.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Duboux Thibaut , Lucas Gerin , Yoann Offret

We introduce and develop the concept of Maximal Entropy Random Walks (MERWs) on Weighted Bratteli Diagrams (WBDs), maximizing entropy production along paths as a natural criterion for choosing random walks on networks. Initially defined for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Yoann Offret , Sergey Dovgal

Maximum entropy random walks (MERWs) are maximally dispersing and play a key role in optimizing information spreading in various contexts. However, building MERWs comes at the cost of knowing beforehand the global structure of the network,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-24 Gabriele Di Bona , Leonardo Di Gaetano , Vito Latora , Francesco Coghi

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

We define the Uniform Random Walk (URW) on a connected, locally finite graph as the weak limit of the uniform walk of length $n$ starting at a fixed vertex. When the limit exists, it is necessarily Markovian and is independent of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Miklos Abert , Adam Arras , Jaelin Kim

We review various features of the statistics of random paths on graphs. The relationship between path statistics and Quantum Mechanics (QM) leads to two canonical ways of defining random walk on a graph, which have different statistics and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-08-04 Z. Burda , J. Duda , J. M. Luck , B. Waclaw

Random walks are fundamental tools for analyzing complex networked systems, including social networks, biological systems, and communication infrastructures. While classical random walks focus on pairwise interactions, many real-world…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Anqi Dong , Anzhi Sheng , Xin Mao , Can Chen

We perform an in-depth study for mean first-passage time (MFPT)---a primary quantity for random walks with numerous applications---of maximal-entropy random walks (MERW) performed in complex networks. For MERW in a general network, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-17 Yuan Lin , Zhongzhi Zhang

A simple strategy to explore a network is to use a random-walk where the walker jumps from one node to an adjacent node at random. It is known that biasing the random jump, the walker can explore every walk of the same length with equal…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-09-25 Raul J Mondragon

We use maximal entropy random walk (MERW) to study the trapping problem in dendrimers modeled by Cayley trees with a deep trap fixed at the central node. We derive an explicit expression for the mean first passage time from any node to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-19 Xin Peng , Zhongzhi Zhang

We provide analytical solutions for two types of random walk: generic random walk (GRW) and maximal entropy random walk (MERW) on a Cayley tree with arbitrary branching number, root degree, and number of generations. For MERW, we obtain the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-19 J. K. Ochab , Z. Burda

While one-dimensional Markov processes are well understood, going to higher dimensions there are only a few analytically solved Ising-like models, in practice requiring to use relatively costly, uncontrollable and inaccurate Monte-Carlo…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Jarek Duda

We describe particles in a potential by a special diffusion process, the maximal entropy random walk (MERW) on a lattice. Since MERW originates in a variational problem, it shares the linear algebra of Hilbert spaces with quantum mechanics.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-29 Manfried Faber

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the asymptotic behavior of the multi-dimensional elephant random walk (MERW). It is a non-Markovian random walk which has a complete memory of its entire history. A wide range of literature is…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-09-22 Bernard Bercu , Lucile Laulin

The aim of this paper is to check feasibility of using the maximal-entropy random walk in algorithms finding communities in complex networks. A number of such algorithms exploit an ordinary or a biased random walk for this purpose. Their…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-02-05 Jeremi K. Ochab , Zdzisław Burda

Maximization of the entropy rate is an important issue to design diffusion processes aiming at a well-mixed state. We demonstrate that it is possible to construct maximal-entropy random walks with only local information on the graph…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-03-14 Roberta Sinatra , Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes , Renaud Lambiotte , Vincenzo Nicosia , Vito Latora

In this article we shall derive functional limit theorems for the multi-dimensional elephant random walk (MERW) and thus extend the results provided for the one-dimensional marginal by Bercu and Laulin (2019). The MERW is a non-Markovian…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-09-06 Marco Bertenghi

Our objective is to sample the node set of a large unknown graph via crawling, to accurately estimate a given metric of interest. We design a random walk on an appropriately defined weighted graph that achieves high efficiency by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-03-29 M. Kurant , M. Gjoka , C. T. Butts , A. Markopoulou

Random walks have been intensively studied on regular and complex networks, which are used to represent pairwise interactions. Nonetheless, recent works have demonstrated that many real-world processes are better captured by higher-order…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-06-19 Pietro Traversa , Guilherme Ferraz de Arruda , Yamir Moreno

In this paper analogies between different (dis)similarity matrices are derived. These matrices, which are connected to path enumeration and random walks, are used in community detection methods or in computation of centrality measures for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-20 J. K. Ochab
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