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Elek and Lippner (2010) showed that the convergence of a sequence of bounded-degree graphs implies the existence of a limit for the proportion of vertices covered by a maximum matching. We provide a characterization of the limiting…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-04-12 Charles Bordenave , Marc Lelarge , Justin Salez

Graphs are powerful abstractions for capturing complex relationships in diverse application settings. An active area of research focuses on theoretical models that define the generative mechanism of a graph. Yet given the complexity and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-09-19 Rajmonda S. Caceres , Leah Weiner , Matthew C. Schmidt , Benjamin A. Miller , William M. Campbell

The message-passing mechanism underlying Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) is not naturally suited for heterophilic datasets, where adjacent nodes often have different labels. Most solutions to this problem remain confined to the task of node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Andrea Giuseppe Di Francesco , Francesco Caso , Maria Sofia Bucarelli , Fabrizio Silvestri

Besides the complexity in time or in number of messages, a common approach for analyzing distributed algorithms is to look at the assumptions they make on the underlying network. We investigate this question from the perspective of network…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-05-02 Arnaud Casteigts , Serge Chaumette , Afonso Ferreira

If the nodes of a graph are considered to be identical barrels - featuring different water levels - and the edges to be (locked) water-filled pipes in between the barrels, one might consider the optimization problem of how much the water…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-04-16 Olle Häggström , Timo Hirscher

In this paper we introduce a novel family of attributed graphs for the purpose of shape discrimination. Our graphs typically arise from variations on the Mapper graph construction, which is an approximation of the Reeb graph for point cloud…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-07-03 Justin Curry , Washington Mio , Tom Needham , Osman Berat Okutan , Florian Russold

The problem of link prediction, predicting if two nodes in a network have a connection between them, is a theoretical problem with numerous field-agnostic real-world applications. This paper investigates the efficacy of three classes of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Vivian Feng

Neural link predictors learn distributed representations of entities and relations in a knowledge graph. They are remarkably powerful in the link prediction and knowledge base completion tasks, mainly due to the learned representations that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Emir Muñoz , Pasquale Minervini , Matthias Nickles

Random graphs have played an instrumental role in modelling real-world networks arising from the internet topology, social networks, or even protein-interaction networks within cells. Percolation, on the other hand, has been the fundamental…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-09-12 Souvik Dhara

We consider fair network topology inference from nodal observations. Real-world networks often exhibit biased connections based on sensitive nodal attributes. Hence, different subpopulations of nodes may not share or receive information…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Madeline Navarro , Samuel Rey , Andrei Buciulea , Antonio G. Marques , Santiago Segarra

Link prediction attempts to predict whether an unseen edge exists based on only a portion of edges of a graph. A flurry of methods have been introduced in recent years that attempt to make use of graph neural networks (GNNs) for this task.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Juanhui Li , Harry Shomer , Haitao Mao , Shenglai Zeng , Yao Ma , Neil Shah , Jiliang Tang , Dawei Yin

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have gained prominence in recommendation systems in recent years. By representing the user-item matrix as a bipartite and undirected graph, GNNs have demonstrated their potential to capture short- and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Daniele Malitesta , Claudio Pomo , Tommaso Di Noia

We study the problem of inferring network topology from information cascades, in which the amount of time taken for information to diffuse across an edge in the network follows an unknown distribution. Unlike previous studies, which assume…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Feng Ji , Wenchang Tang , Wee Peng Tay , Edwin K. P. Chong

Due to the advent of the expressions of data other than tabular formats, the topological compositions which make samples interrelated came into prominence. Analogically, those networks can be interpreted as social connections, dataflow…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Hacı İsmail Aslan , Chang Choi , Hoon Ko

Protein subcellular localization is an important factor in normal cellular processes and disease. While many protein localization resources treat it as static, protein localization is dynamic and heavily influenced by biological context.…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2022-12-13 Chris S. Magnano , Anthony Gitter

The problem of node-similarity in networks has motivated a plethora of such measures between node-pairs, which make use of the underlying graph structure. However, higher-order relations cannot be losslessly captured by mere graphs and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Govind Sharma , Paarth Gupta , M. Narasihma Murty

As a natural extension of link prediction on graphs, hyperlink prediction aims for the inference of missing hyperlinks in hypergraphs, where a hyperlink can connect more than two nodes. Hyperlink prediction has applications in a wide range…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Can Chen , Yang-Yu Liu

Systems whose organization displays causal asymmetry constraints, from evolutionary trees to river basins or transport networks, can be often described in terms of directed paths (causal flows) on a discrete state space. Such a set of paths…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-07-13 Bernat Corominas-Murtra , Carlos Rodríguez-Caso , Joaquín Goñi , Ricard Solé

In real-world systems, the relationships and connections between components are highly complex. Real systems are often described as networks, where nodes represent objects in the system and edges represent relationships or connections…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-06-24 Shen Zhang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown remarkable success across various scientific fields, yet their adoption in critical decision-making is often hindered by a lack of interpretability. Recently, intrinsically interpretable GNNs have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Cheng Xin , Fan Xu , Xin Ding , Jie Gao , Jiaxin Ding