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Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) gained traction for graph representation learning, with recent attention on improving performance on heterophilic graphs for various real-world applications. The localized feature aggregation in a typical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Garv Kaushik

We study the family of network models derived by requiring the expected properties of a graph ensemble to match a given set of measurements of a real-world network, while maximizing the entropy of the ensemble. Models of this type play the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Juyong Park , M. E. J. Newman

Empirical studies of graphs have contributed enormously to our understanding of complex systems. Known today as network science, what was originally a theoretical study of graphs has grown into a more scientific exploration of communities…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-01-01 Ryan E. Langendorf , Debra S. Goldberg

We study the problem of modeling spatiotemporal trajectories over long time horizons using expert demonstrations. For instance, in sports, agents often choose action sequences with long-term goals in mind, such as achieving a certain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Stephan Zheng , Yisong Yue , Patrick Lucey

We develop an approach to training generative models based on unrolling a variational auto-encoder into a Markov chain, and shaping the chain's trajectories using a technique inspired by recent work in Approximate Bayesian computation. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Philip Bachman , Doina Precup

We present a method to infer network connectivity from collective dynamics in networks of synchronizing phase oscillators. We study the long-term stationary response to temporally constant driving. For a given driving condition, measuring…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Marc Timme

The paper examines the discrete-time dynamics of neuron models (of excitatory and inhibitory types) with piecewise linear activation functions, which are connected in a network. The properties of a pair of neurons (one excitatory and the…

chao-dyn · Physics 2007-05-23 Sitabhra Sinha

We have developed a steady state theory of complex transport networks used to model the flow of commodity, information, viruses, opinions, or traffic. Our approach is based on the use of the Markov chains defined on the graph…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Volchenkov , Ph. Blanchard

We describe a simple adaptive network of coupled chaotic maps. The network reaches a stationary state (frozen topology) for all values of the coupling parameter, although the dynamics of the maps at the nodes of the network can be…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-06-19 V. Botella-Soler , P. Glendinning

Many machine learning algorithms are based on the assumption that training examples are drawn independently. However, this assumption does not hold anymore when learning from a networked sample because two or more training examples may…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Yuyi Wang , Jan Ramon , Zheng-Chu Guo

Robust estimates for the performance of complicated queueing networks can be obtained by showing that the number of jobs in the network is stochastically comparable to a simpler, analytically tractable reference network. Classical coupling…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-12-09 Lasse Leskelä

We give a constructive method for realizing an arbitrary directed graph (with no one-cycles) as a heteroclinic or an excitable dynamic network in the phase space of a system of coupled cells of two types. In each case, the system is…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-12-17 Peter Ashwin , Claire Postlethwaite

We study the long-term behavior of two piecewise-deterministic Markov processes used to model stochastic gene regulatory networks with bursting dynamics. Under regularity assumptions on the jump rate, we prove the existence and uniqueness…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Mathilde Gaillard , Ulysse Herbach

In this paper, we propose a novel approach that employs kinetic equations to describe the collective dynamics emerging from graph-mediated pairwise interactions in multi-agent systems. We formally show that for large graphs and specific…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-15 Marco Nurisso , Matteo Raviola , Andrea Tosin

Directed acyclic graph (DAG) models are widely used to represent causal relationships among random variables in many application domains. This paper studies a special class of non-Gaussian DAG models, where the conditional variance of each…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-03 Wei Zhou , Xin He , Wei Zhong , Junhui Wang

Conventional notions of generalization often fail to describe the ability of learned models to capture meaningful information from dynamical data. A neural network that learns complex dynamics with a small test error may still fail to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Jeongjin Park , Nicole Yang , Nisha Chandramoorthy

We study a generic family of nonlinear dynamics on undirected networks generalising linear consensus. We find a compact expression for its equilibrium points in terms of the topology of the network and classify their stability using the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Marc Homs-Dones , Karel Devriendt , Renaud Lambiotte

We describe a new method for the random sampling of connected networks with a specified degree sequence. We consider both the case of simple graphs and that of loopless multigraphs. The constraints of fixed degrees and of connectedness are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-12-03 Szabolcs Horvát , Carl D. Modes

We introduce Network Automata, a framework which couples the topological evolution of a network to its structure. It is useful for dealing with networks in which the topology evolves according to some specified microscopic rules and,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-07-12 David M. D. Smith , Jukka-Pekka Onnela , Chiu Fan Lee , Mark Fricker , Neil F. Johnson

A foremost challenge in modern network science is the inverse problem of reconstruction (inference) of coupling equations and network topology from the measurements of the network dynamics. Of particular interest are the methods that can…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-31 Isao T. Tokuda , Zoran Levnajic , Kazuyoshi Ishimura