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Twin-width is a recently introduced graph parameter based on the repeated contraction of near-twins. It has shown remarkable utility in algorithmic and structural graph theory, as well as in finite model theory -- particularly since…

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Understanding causal relationships between variables is fundamental across scientific disciplines. Most causal discovery algorithms rely on two key assumptions: (i) all variables are observed, and (ii) the underlying causal graph is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Muralikrishnna G. Sethuraman , Faramarz Fekri

In this paper we derive results concerning the connected components and the diameter of random graphs with an arbitrary i.i.d. degree sequence. We study these properties primarily, but not exclusively, when the tail of the degree…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Remco van der Hofstad , Gerard Hooghiemstra , Dmitri Znamenski

As neural networks grow in scale, their training becomes both computationally demanding and rich in dynamics. Amidst the flourishing interest in these training dynamics, we present a novel observation: Parameters during training exhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Jonathan Brokman , Roy Betser , Rotem Turjeman , Tom Berkov , Ido Cohen , Guy Gilboa

Routing games are amongst the most studied classes of games. Their two most well-known properties are that learning dynamics converge to equilibria and that all equilibria are approximately optimal. In this work, we perform a stress test…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Thiparat Chotibut , Fryderyk Falniowski , Michał Misiurewicz , Georgios Piliouras

We classify the maximal $m$-distance sets in $\mathbb{R}^{n-1}$ which contain the representation of the Johnson graph $J(n, m)$ for $m = 2, 3$. Furthermore, we determine the necessary and sufficient condition for $n$ and $m$ such that the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-09-04 Eiichi Bannai , Takahiro Sato , Junichi Shigezumi

Large real-life complex networks are often modeled by various random graph constructions and hundreds of further references therein. In many cases it is not at all clear how the modeling strength of differently generated random graph model…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-01 András Faragó , Rupei Xu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are the standard for learning on graphs, yet they have limited expressive power, often expressed in terms of the Weisfeiler-Leman (WL) hierarchy or within the framework of first-order logic. In this context,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Amirreza Akbari , Amauri H. Souza , Vikas Garg

Let $3\le d\le k$ and $\nu\ge 0$ be fixed and $\mathcal{F}\subset\binom{[n]}{k}$. The matching number of $\mathcal{F}$, denoted by $\nu(\mathcal{F})$, is the maximum number of pairwise disjoint sets in $\mathcal{F}$, and $\mathcal{F}$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Xizhi Liu

In this paper, we introduce a new model to study network reliability with node failures. This model, strongly connected node reliability, is the directed variant of node reliability and measures the probability that the operational vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-27 Danielle Cox , Kyle MacKeigan , Emily Wright

A key challenge of evolutionary game theory and multi-agent learning is to characterize the limit behavior of game dynamics. Whereas convergence is often a property of learning algorithms in games satisfying a particular reward structure…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Aleksander Czechowski , Georgios Piliouras

We introduce a new parameter, called stretch-width, that we show sits strictly between clique-width and twin-width. Unlike the reduced parameters [BKW '22], planar graphs and polynomial subdivisions do not have bounded stretch-width. This…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Édouard Bonnet , Julien Duron

Given a graph $G$, let $f_{G}(n,m)$ be the minimal number $k$ such that every $k$ independent $n$-sets in $G$ have a rainbow $m$-set. Let $\mathcal{D}(2)$ be the family of all graphs with maximum degree at most two. Aharoni et al. (2019)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-24 Yue Ma , Xinmin Hou , Jun Gao , Boyuan Liu , Zhi Yin

We improve the best known lower bounds on the exponential behavior of the maximum of the number of connected sets, $N(G)$, and dominating connected sets, $N_{dom}(G)$, for regular graphs. These lower bounds are improved by constructing a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-27 Stijn Cambie , Jan Goedgebeur , Jorik Jooken

In this article, we review the literature on statistical theories of neural networks from three perspectives: approximation, training dynamics and generative models. In the first part, results on excess risks for neural networks are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-17 Namjoon Suh , Guang Cheng

Since Darwin, species trees have been used as a simplified description of the relationships which summarize the complicated network $N$ of reality. Recent evidence of hybridization and lateral gene transfer, however, suggest that there are…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2016-11-17 Stephen J. Willson

To reduce the overwhelming size of Deep Neural Networks (DNN) teacher-student methodology tries to transfer knowledge from a complex teacher network to a simple student network. We instead propose a novel method called the teacher-class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Shaiq Munir Malik , Muhammad Umair Haider , Mohbat Tharani , Musab Rasheed , Murtaza Taj

The majorization relation orders the degree sequences of simple graphs into posets called dominance orders. As shown by Ruch and Gutman (1979) and Merris (2002), the degree sequences of threshold and split graphs form upward-closed sets…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Michael D. Barrus , Jean A. Guillaume

We study fundamental directed graph (digraph) problems in the streaming model. An initial investigation by Chakrabarti, Ghosh, McGregor, and Vorotnikova [SODA'20] on streaming digraphs showed that while most of these problems are provably…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Prantar Ghosh , Sahil Kuchlous

We consider the following problem posed by Volkmann in 2007: How close to regular must a c-partite tournament be, to secure a strongly connected subtournament of order $c$? We give sufficient conditions on the regularity of balanced…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-21 Ana Paulina Figueroa , Juan José Montellano-Ballesteros , Mika Olsen