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Background: Network-based interventions are most powerful against epidemics when the full network structure is known. However, resource constraints often require decisions based on partial network data. We investigated how the effectiveness…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-03-30 Yingrui Yang , Ashley McKhann , Guy Harling , Jukka-Pekka Onnela

Dynamic interactions between entities are prevalent in domains like social platforms, financial systems, healthcare, and e-commerce. These interactions can be effectively represented as time-evolving graphs, where predicting future…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Sidharth Agarwal , Tanishq Dubey , Shubham Gupta , Srikanta Bedathur

In this work we propose and investigate a new strategy of vaccination, which we call "dynamic vaccination". In our model, susceptible people become aware that one or more of their contacts are infected, and thereby get vaccinated with…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-01-09 L. G. Alvarez-Zuzek , M. A. Di Muro , S. Havlin , L. A. Braunstein

Vaccination has played an important role in preventing the spread of infectious diseases. However, the limited availability of vaccines and personnel at the roll-out of a new vaccine and the costs of vaccination campaigns often limit how…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-27 Rowan Hoogervorst , Evelien van der Hurk , David Pisinger

We explore the feasibility of combining Graph Neural Network-based policy architectures with Deep Reinforcement Learning as an approach to problems in systems. This fits particularly well with operations on networks, which naturally take…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Oliver Hope , Eiko Yoneki

Vaccinations are an important tool in the prevention of disease. Vaccinations are generally voluntary for each member of a population and vaccination decisions are influenced by individual risk perceptions and contact structures within…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-07 Kausutua Tjikundi , Mark Broom

We consider a mathematical model describing the propagation of an epidemic on a geographical network. The size of the outbreak is governed by the initial growth rate of the disease given by the maximal eigenvalue of the epidemic matrix…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-06-06 Mohamad Badaoui , Jean-Guy Caputo , Gustavo Cruz-Pacheco , Arnaud Knippel

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved tremendous success in a variety of real-world applications by relying on the fixed graph data as input. However, the initial input graph might not be optimal in terms of specific downstream tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Beidi Zhao , Boxin Du , Zhe Xu , Liangyue Li , Hanghang Tong

Real-time vaccination following an outbreak can effectively mitigate the damage caused by an infectious disease. However, in many cases, available resources are insufficient to vaccinate the entire at-risk population, logistics result in…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2016-03-29 Chantal Nguyen , Jean M. Carlson

Document structure analysis, such as zone segmentation and table recognition, is a complex problem in document processing and is an active area of research. The recent success of deep learning in solving various computer vision and machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Shah Rukh Qasim , Hassan Mahmood , Faisal Shafait

The optimal allocation of vaccines to population subgroups over time is a challenging health care management problem. In the context of a pandemic, the interaction between vaccination policies adopted by multiple agents and the cooperation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-22 David Rey , Ahmed W Hammad , Meead Saberi

State-of-the-art reinforcement learning algorithms predominantly learn a policy from either a numerical state vector or images. Both approaches generally do not take structural knowledge of the task into account, which is especially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Marco Oliva , Soubarna Banik , Josip Josifovski , Alois Knoll

Despite achieving strong performance in semi-supervised node classification task, graph neural networks (GNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, similar to other deep learning models. Existing researches focus on developing either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Shuchang Tao , Huawei Shen , Qi Cao , Liang Hou , Xueqi Cheng

Efficient job allocation in complex scheduling problems poses significant challenges in real-world applications. In this report, we propose a novel approach that leverages the power of Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Graph Neural Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Lars C. P. M. Quaedvlieg

Since early 2020, the world has been dealing with a raging pandemic outbreak: COVID-19. A year later, vaccines have become accessible, but in limited quantities, so that governments needed to devise a strategy to decide which part of the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-04-13 Sander Tonkens , Paul de Klaver , Mauro Salazar

Modelling epidemics via classical population-based models suffers from shortcomings that so-called individual-based models are able to overcome, as they are able to take heterogeneity features into account, such as super-spreaders, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-16 C. Courtès , E. Franck , K. Lutz , L. Navoret , Y. Privat

Last year, IEEE 802.11 Extremely High Throughput Study Group (EHT Study Group) was established to initiate discussions on new IEEE 802.11 features. Coordinated control methods of the access points (APs) in the wireless local area networks…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-20 Kota Nakashima , Shotaro Kamiya , Kazuki Ohtsu , Koji Yamamoto , Takayuki Nishio , Masahiro Morikura

Modern control systems routinely employ wireless networks to exchange information between spatially distributed plants, actuators and sensors. With wireless networks defined by random, rapidly changing transmission conditions that challenge…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-02 Vinicius Lima , Mark Eisen , Konstantinos Gatsis , Alejandro Ribeiro

We consider the problem of controlling a partially-observed dynamic process on a graph by a limited number of interventions. This problem naturally arises in contexts such as scheduling virus tests to curb an epidemic; targeted marketing in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Eli A. Meirom , Haggai Maron , Shie Mannor , Gal Chechik

We present a deep reinforcement learning approach to minimizing the execution cost of neural network computation graphs in an optimizing compiler. Unlike earlier learning-based works that require training the optimizer on the same graph to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Aditya Paliwal , Felix Gimeno , Vinod Nair , Yujia Li , Miles Lubin , Pushmeet Kohli , Oriol Vinyals