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Discriminative Random Walks (DRWs) are a simple yet powerful tool for semi-supervised node classification, but their theoretical foundations remain fragmentary. We revisit DRWs through the lens of information geometry, treating the family…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-10 Masanari Kimura

In this paper we consider the problem of graph-based transductive classification, and we are particularly interested in the directed graph scenario which is a natural form for many real world applications. Different from existing research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-03-19 Jaydeep De , Xiaowei Zhang , Li Cheng

Sampling a network with a given probability distribution has been identified as a useful operation. In this paper we propose distributed algorithms for sampling networks, so that nodes are selected by a special node, called the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-09-28 Andrés Sevilla , Alberto Mozo , Antonio Fernández Anta

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

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

This work extends Roberts et al. (1997) by considering limits of Random Walk Metropolis (RWM) applied to block IID target distributions, with corresponding block-independent proposals. The extension verifies the robustness of the optimal…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-02-19 Jeffrey Negrea

As random walk is a powerful tool in many graph processing, mining and learning applications, this paper proposes an efficient in-memory random walk engine named ThunderRW. Compared with existing parallel systems on improving the…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Shixuan Sun , Yuhang Chen , Shengliang Lu , Bingsheng He , Yuchen Li

We propose a history-driven target (HDT) framework in Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) to improve any random walk algorithm on discrete state spaces, such as general undirected graphs, for efficient sampling from target distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Jie Hu , Yi-Ting Ma , Do Young Eun

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

Network embedding aims to represent a network into a low dimensional space where the network structural information and inherent properties are maximumly preserved. Random walk based network embedding methods such as DeepWalk and node2vec…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Jiawei Shen , Xincheng Shu , Hu Yang

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

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

In the last two decades we are witnessing a huge increase of valuable big data structured in the form of graphs or networks. To apply traditional machine learning and data analytic techniques to such data it is necessary to transform graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Aleksandar Tomčić , Miloš Savić , Miloš Radovanović

We present a graph random walk (GRW) method for the study of charge transport properties of complex molecular materials in the time-of-flight regime. The molecules forming the material are represented by the vertices of a directed weighted…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-01 Zhongquan Chen , Pim van der Hoorn , Björn Baumeier

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 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

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

Hypergraphs provide a fundamental framework for representing complex systems involving interactions among three or more entities. As empirical hypergraphs grow in size, characterizing their structural properties becomes increasingly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Kazuki Nakajima , Masanao Kodakari , Masaki Aida

The Random Walks (RW) algorithm is one of the most e - cient and easy-to-use probabilistic segmentation methods. By combining contrast terms with prior terms, it provides accurate segmentations of medical images in a fully automated manner.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-06-06 Pierre-Yves Baudin , Danny Goodman , Puneet Kumar , Noura Azzabou , Pierre G. Carlier , Nikos Paragios , M. Pawan Kumar

Imbalanced data widely exists in many high-impact applications. An example is in air traffic control, where we aim to identify the leading indicators for each type of accident cause from historical records. Among all three types of accident…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Jun Wu , Jingrui He , Yongming Liu