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Random walks constitute a fundamental mechanism for a large set of dynamics taking place on networks. In this article, we study random walks on weighted networks with an arbitrary degree distribution, where the weight of an edge between two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-01-17 Zhongzhi Zhang , Tong Shan , Guanrong Chen

Network embedding, which maps graphs to distributed representations, is a unified framework for various graph inference tasks. According to the topology properties (e.g., structural roles and community memberships of nodes) to be preserved,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Meng Qin , Dit-Yan Yeung

Breadth First Search (BFS) and other graph traversal techniques are widely used for measuring large unknown graphs, such as online social networks. It has been empirically observed that an incomplete BFS is biased toward high degree nodes.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-02-23 Maciej Kurant , Athina Markopoulou , Patrick Thiran

Dynamic graphs have emerged as an appropriate model to capture the changing nature of many modern networks, such as peer-to-peer overlays and mobile ad hoc networks. Most of the recent research on dynamic networks has only addressed the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-02-02 Oksana Denysyuk , Luis Rodrigues

Random walks on graphs are an essential primitive for many randomised algorithms and stochastic processes. It is natural to ask how much can be gained by running $k$ multiple random walks independently and in parallel. Although the cover…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Nicolás Rivera , Thomas Sauerwald , John Sylvester

Numerous problems of both theoretical and practical interest are related to finding shortest (or otherwise optimal) paths in networks, frequently in the presence of some obstacles or constraints. A somewhat related class of problems focuses…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-01 Ricardo Gutiérrez , Carlos Pérez-Espigares

Graph representation learning is gaining popularity in a wide range of applications, such as social networks analysis, computational biology, and recommender systems. However, different with positive results from many academic studies,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-21 Young-Jin Park , Kyuyong Shin , Kyung-Min Kim

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

In this article, we first give a comprehensive description of random walk (RW) problem focusing on self-similarity, dynamic scaling and its connection to diffusion phenomena. One of the main goals of our work is to check how robust the RW…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-17 Tushar Mitra , Tomal Hossain , Santo Banerjee , Md. Kamrul Hassan

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

In this paper, we introduce random walks with absorbing states on simplicial complexes. Given a simplicial complex of dimension $d$, a random walk with an absorbing state is defined which relates to the spectrum of the $k$-dimensional…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-10-21 Sayan Mukherjee , John Steenbergen

Graph data, with its structurally variable nature, represents complex real-world phenomena like chemical compounds, protein structures, and social networks. Traditional Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) primarily utilize the message-passing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Jianming Huang , Hiroyuki Kasai

If we cannot store all edges in a graph stream, which edges should we store to estimate the triangle count accurately? Counting triangles (i.e., cycles of length three) is a fundamental graph problem with many applications in social network…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Kijung Shin

Vertex-Reinforced Random Walk (VRRW), defined by Pemantle (1988a), is a random process in a continuously changing environment which is more likely to visit states it has visited before. We consider VRRW on arbitrary graphs and show that on…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Stanislov Volkov

Many real-world networks are prohibitively large for data retrieval, storage and analysis of all of its nodes and links. Understanding the structure and dynamics of these networks entails creating a smaller representative sample of the full…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-07-23 Harish Sethu , Xiaoyu Chu

Parametric resampling schemes have been recently introduced in complex network analysis with the aim of assessing the statistical significance of graph clustering and the robustness of community partitions. We propose here a method to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-02-25 Fabrizio De Vico Fallani , Vincenzo Nicosia , Vito Latora , Mario Chavez

Graph classification is a fundamental but challenging issue for numerous real-world applications. Despite recent great progress in image/video classification, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) cannot yet cater to graphs well because of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Jiatao Jiang , Chunyan Xu , Zhen Cui , Tong Zhang , Wenming Zheng , Jian Yang

Random walks are at the heart of many existing deep learning algorithms for graph data. However, such algorithms have many limitations that arise from the use of random walks, e.g., the features resulting from these methods are unable to…

Popular node embedding methods such as DeepWalk follow the paradigm of performing random walks on the graph, and then requiring each node to be proximate to those appearing along with it. Though proved to be successful in various tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Zhengrong Xue , Ziao Guo , Yiwei Guo

In order to efficiently study the characteristics of network domains and support development of network systems (e.g. algorithms, protocols that operate on networks), it is often necessary to sample a representative subgraph from a large…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Nesreen K. Ahmed , Jennifer Neville , Ramana Kompella