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A new method to improve the performance of Random weight change (RWC) algorithm based on a simple genetic algorithm, namely, Genetic random weight change (GRWC) is proposed. It is to find the optimal values of global minima via learning. In…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Mohammad Ibraim Sarker , Yali Nie , Hong Yongki , Hyongsuk Kim

Message-passing architectures struggle to sufficiently model long-range dependencies in node and graph prediction tasks. We propose a novel approach exploiting hierarchical graph structures and adaptive random walks to address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Joël Mathys , Federico Errica

In this work, we propose Random Walk-steered Majority Undersampling (RWMaU), which undersamples the majority points of a class imbalanced dataset, in order to balance the classes. Rather than marking the majority points which belong to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Payel Sadhukhan , Arjun Pakrashi , Brian Mac Namee

In this paper we introduce the notion of Random Walk in Changing Environment - a random walk in which each step is performed in a different graph on the same set of vertices, or more generally, a weighted random walk on the same vertex and…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-07-05 Gideon Amir , Itai Benjamini , Ori Gurel-Gurevich , Gady Kozma

Random Walk is a basic algorithm to explore the structure of networks, which can be used in many tasks, such as local community detection and network embedding. Existing random walk methods are based on single networks that contain limited…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Dongsheng Luo , Yuchen Bian , Yaowei Yan , Xiong Yu , Jun Huan , Xiao Liu , Xiang Zhang

In the information overloaded web, personalized recommender systems are essential tools to help users find most relevant information. The most heavily-used recommendation frameworks assume user interactions that are characterized by a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Fatemeh Vahedian , Robin Burke , Bamshad Mobasher

Graph Sampling provides an efficient yet inexpensive solution for analyzing large graphs. While extracting small representative subgraphs from large graphs, the challenge is to capture the properties of the original graph. Several sampling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Muhammad Irfan Yousuf , Raheel Anwar

We study decentralized learning over networks where data are distributed across nodes without a central coordinator. Random walk learning is a token-based approach in which a single model is propagated across the network and updated at each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Zonghong Liu , Matthew Dwyer , Salim El Rouayheb

Estimating characteristics of large graphs via sampling is a vital part of the study of complex networks. Current sampling methods such as (independent) random vertex and random walks are useful but have drawbacks. Random vertex sampling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-09-08 Bruno Ribeiro , Don Towsley

Graph embedding has recently gained momentum in the research community, in particular after the introduction of random walk and neural network based approaches. However, most of the embedding approaches focus on representing the local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Joerg Schloetterer , Martin Wehking , Fatemeh Salehi Rizi , Michael Granitzer

Many applications require to learn, mine, analyze and visualize large-scale graphs. These graphs are often too large to be addressed efficiently using conventional graph processing technologies. Many applications have requirements to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Santosh Pandey , Lingda Li , Adolfy Hoisie , Xiaoye S. Li , Hang Liu

Novel Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods have enabled the generation of large ensembles of redistricting plans through graph partitioning. However, existing algorithms such as Reversible Recombination (RevReCom) and Metropolized Forest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Atticus McWhorter , Daryl DeFord

Relaxed random walk (RRW) models of trait evolution introduce branch-specific rate multipliers to modulate the variance of a standard Brownian diffusion process along a phylogeny and more accurately model overdispersed biological data.…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-15 Alexander A. Fisher , Xiang Ji , Philippe Lemey , Marc A. Suchard

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

As the popularity of graph data increases, there is a growing need to count the occurrences of subgraph patterns of interest, for a variety of applications. Many graphs are massive in scale and also fully dynamic (with insertions and…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Kaixin Wang , Cheng Long , Da Yan , Jie Zhang , H. V. Jagadish

Class imbalance poses a significant challenge in machine learning (ML), often leading to biased models favouring the majority class. In this paper, we propose GAT-RWOS, a novel graph-based oversampling method that combines the strengths of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Zahiriddin Rustamov , Abderrahmane Lakas , Nazar Zaki

We propose a family of lagged random walk sampling methods in simple undirected graphs, where transition to the next state (i.e. node) depends on both the current and previous states -- hence, lagged. The existing random walk sampling…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-16 Li-Chun Zhang

Random Walks-based Anomaly Detection (RWAD) is commonly used to identify anomalous patterns in various applications. An intriguing characteristic of RWAD is that the input graph can either be pre-existing or constructed from raw features.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Yuni Lai , Marcin Waniek , Liying Li , Jingwen Wu , Yulin Zhu , Tomasz P. Michalak , Talal Rahwan , Kai Zhou

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

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