English
Related papers

Related papers: MANTRA: Temporal Betweenness Centrality Approximat…

200 papers

Centrality measures identify and rank the most influential entities of complex networks. In this paper, we generalize matrix function-based centrality measures, which have been studied extensively for single-layer and temporal networks in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-03-24 Kai Bergermann , Martin Stoll

Neural ordinary differential equations (neural ODE) are powerful continuous-time machine learning models for depicting the behavior of complex dynamical systems, but their verification remains challenging due to limited reachability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-09 Abdelrahman Sayed Sayed , Pierre-Jean Meyer , Mohamed Ghazel

Vertices with high betweenness and closeness centrality represent influential entities in a network. An important problem for time varying networks is to know a-priori, using minimal computation, whether the influential vertices of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Soumya Sarkar , Sandipan Sikdar , Animesh Mukherjee , Sanjukta Bhowmick

A prediction interval covers a future observation from a random process in repeated sampling, and is typically constructed by identifying a pivotal quantity that is also an ancillary statistic. Analogously, a tolerance interval covers a…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-01-19 Geoffrey S Johnson

This paper proposes a flexible framework for inferring large-scale time-varying and time-lagged correlation networks from multivariate or high-dimensional non-stationary time series with piecewise smooth trends. Built on a novel and unified…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-02-13 Lujia Bai , Weichi Wu

While widely used as a general method for uncertainty quantification, the bootstrap method encounters difficulties that raise concerns about its validity in practical applications. This paper introduces a new resampling-based method, termed…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-08-30 Yiran Jiang , Chuanhai Liu , Heping Zhang

Finding patterns in graphs is a fundamental problem in databases and data mining. In many applications, graphs are temporal and evolve over time, so we are interested in finding durable patterns, such as triangles and paths, which persist…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Pankaj K. Agarwal , Xiao Hu , Stavros Sintos , Jun Yang

We consider the convergence time for solving the binary consensus problem using the interval consensus algorithm proposed by B\' en\' ezit, Thiran and Vetterli (2009). In the binary consensus problem, each node initially holds one of two…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-02-07 Moez Draief , Milan Vojnovic

Extracting information from real-world large networks is a key challenge nowadays. For instance, computing a node centrality may become unfeasible depending on the intended centrality due to its computational cost. One solution is to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Matheus R. F. Mendonça , André M. S. Barreto , Artur Ziviani

Recent research on temporal networks has highlighted the limitations of a static network perspective for our understanding of complex systems with dynamic topologies. In particular, recent works have shown that i) the specific order in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-11-20 Ingo Scholtes , Nicolas Wider , Antonios Garas

Node connectivity plays a central role in temporal network analysis. We provide a comprehensive study of various concepts of walks in temporal graphs, that is, graphs with fixed vertex sets but edge sets changing over time. Taking into…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Anne-Sophie Himmel , Matthias Bentert , André Nichterlein , Rolf Niedermeier

Accurate and efficient multivariate time series (MTS) analysis is increasingly critical for a wide range of intelligent applications. Within this realm, Transformers have emerged as the predominant architecture due to their strong ability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Rui An , Haohao Qu , Wenqi Fan , Xuequn Shang , Qing Li

In this paper, we study the dynamics of temporal difference learning with neural network-based value function approximation over a general state space, namely, \emph{Neural TD learning}. We consider two practically used algorithms,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Semih Cayci , Siddhartha Satpathi , Niao He , R. Srikant

In this paper we study the problem of discovering a timeline of events in a temporal network. We model events as dense subgraphs that occur within intervals of network activity. We formulate the event-discovery task as an optimization…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Polina Rozenshtein , Francesco Bonchi , Aristides Gionis , Mauro Sozio , Nikolaj Tatti

Many traffic prediction applications rely on uncertainty estimates instead of the mean prediction. Statistical traffic prediction literature has a complete subfield devoted to uncertainty modelling, but recent deep learning traffic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Tijs Maas , Peter Bloem

This paper presents a new anytime algorithm for the marginal MAP problem in graphical models. The algorithm is described in detail, its complexity and convergence rate are studied, and relations to previous theoretical results for the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-12-21 Denis Maua , Cassio De Campos

Optimization has been widely used to generate smooth trajectories for motion planning. However, existing trajectory optimization methods show weakness when dealing with large-scale long trajectories. Recent advances in parallel computing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Jiajun Yu , Nanhe Chen , Guodong Liu , Chao Xu , Fei Gao , Yanjun Cao

While a natural fit for modeling and understanding mobile networks, time-varying graphs remain poorly understood. Indeed, many of the usual concepts of static graphs have no obvious counterpart in time-varying ones. In this paper, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-08-01 John Whitbeck , Marcelo Dias de Amorim , Vania Conan , Jean-Loup Guillaume

Real-time analysis of graphs containing temporal information, such as social media streams, Q&A networks, and cyber data sources, plays an important role in various applications. Among them, detecting patterns is one of the fundamental…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Seunghwan Min , Jihoon Jang , Kunsoo Park , Dora Giammarresi , Giuseppe F. Italiano , Wook-Shin Han

This paper presents a novel learning analytics method: Transition Network Analysis (TNA), a method that integrates Stochastic Process Mining and probabilistic graph representation to model, visualize, and identify transition patterns in the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Mohammed Saqr , Sonsoles López-Pernas , Tiina Törmänen , Rogers Kaliisa , Kamila Misiejuk , Santtu Tikka