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Graph-based nearest neighbor search methods have seen a surge of popularity in recent years, offering state-of-the-art performance across a wide variety of applications. Central to these methods is the task of constructing a sparse…

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Connections in complex networks are inherently fluctuating over time and exhibit more dimensionality than analysis based on standard static graph measures can capture. Here, we introduce the concepts of temporal paths and distance in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-05-19 J. Tang , S. Scellato , M. Musolesi , C. Mascolo , V. Latora

Activity or spin patterns on random scale-free network are studied by mean field analysis and computer simulations. These activity patterns evolve in time according to local majority-rule dynamics which is implemented using (i) parallel or…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Haijun Zhou , Reinhard Lipowsky

Several kinds of walks on complex networks are currently used to analyze search and navigation in different systems. Many analytical and computational results are known for random walks on such networks. Self-avoiding walks (SAWs) are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Carlos P. Herrero

Accurately analyzing graph properties of social networks is a challenging task because of access limitations to the graph data. To address this challenge, several algorithms to obtain unbiased estimates of properties from few samples via a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Kazuki Nakajima , Kazuyuki Shudo

Random walks are gaining much attention from the networks research community. They are the basis of many proposals aimed to solve a variety of network-related problems such as resource location, network construction, nodes sampling, etc.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-08-06 Luis Rodero-Merino , Antonio Fernandez Anta , Luis Lopez , Vicent Chovi

Real world networks exhibit rich temporal information: friends are added and removed over time in online social networks; the seasons dictate the predator-prey relationship in food webs; and the propagation of a virus depends on the network…

A temporal graph is a graph in which the edge set can change from one time step to the next. The temporal graph exploration problem TEXP is the problem of computing a foremost exploration schedule for a temporal graph, i.e., a temporal walk…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Thomas Erlebach , Michael Hoffmann , Frank Kammer

With the growing amount of available temporal real-world network data, an important question is how to efficiently study these data. One can simply model a temporal network as either a single aggregate static network, or as a series of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-12-15 Yuriy Hulovatyy , Huili Chen , Tijana Milenkovic

A large number of complex networks, both natural and artificial, share the presence of highly heterogeneous, scale-free degree distributions. A few mechanisms for the emergence of such patterns have been suggested, optimization not being…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Valverde , R. Ferrer i Cancho , R. V. Sole

We consider a continuous time simple random walk on a subset of the square lattice with wired boundary conditions: the walk transitions at unit edge rate on the graph obtained from the lattice closure of the subset by contracting the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Oren Louidor , Santiago Saglietti

Random walks are the simplest way to explore or search a graph, and have revealed a very useful tool to investigate and characterize the structural properties of complex networks from the real world, e.g. they have been used to identify the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-11 Timoteo Carletti , Malbor Asllani , Duccio Fanelli , Vito Latora

We introduce and simulate the random walk that adapts move strategies according to local node preferences on a directed graph. We consider graphs with double-hierarchical connectivity and variable wiring diagram in the universality class of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bosiljka Tadic

Recently, motivated by the pioneer works in revealing the small-world effect and scale-free property of various real-life networks, many scientists devote themselves to studying complex networks. In this paper, we give a brief review on the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Bing-Hong Wang , Tao Zhou

Dynamic networks reflect temporal changes occurring to the graph's structure and are used to model a wide variety of problems in many application fields. We investigate the design space of dynamic graph visualization along two major…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Velitchko Filipov , Alessio Arleo , Markus Bögl , Silvia Miksch

Coalescing-branching random walks, or {\em cobra walks} for short, are a natural variant of random walks on graphs that can model the spread of disease through contacts or the spread of information in networks. In a $k$-cobra walk, at each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Michael Mitzenmacher , Rajmohan Rajaraman , Scott Roche

Random walk neural networks (RWNNs) have emerged as a promising approach for graph representation learning, leveraging recent advances in sequence models to process random walks. However, under realistic sampling constraints, RWNNs often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Michael Ito , Danai Koutra , Jenna Wiens

We study the graph-theoretic properties of the trace of random walks on pseudorandom graphs. We show that for any $\varepsilon>0$, there exists a constant $C$ such that the cover time of an $(n,d,\lambda)$-graph $G$ with $d/\lambda\ge C$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Yaobin Chen , Yiting Wang

We address quantum spatial search on graphs and its implementation by continuous-time quantum walks in the presence of dynamical noise. In particular, we focus on search on the complete graph and on the star graph of order $N$, proving that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-29 Marco Cattaneo , Matteo A. C. Rossi , Matteo G. A. Paris , Sabrina Maniscalco

In unstructured peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, the overlay topology (or connectivity graph) among peers is a crucial component in addition to the peer/data organization and search. Topological characteristics have profound impact on the…

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