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We study the problem of generating graphs with prescribed degree sequences for bipartite, directed, and undirected networks. We first propose a sequential method for bipartite graph generation and establish a necessary and sufficient…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-13 Tong Sun , Jianshu Hao , Michael C. Fu , Guangxin Jiang

Graphs are naturally used to describe the structures of various real-world systems in biology, society, computer science etc., where subgraphs or motifs as basic blocks play an important role in function expression and information…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Jinhuan Wang , Pengtao Chen , Bin Ma , Jiajun Zhou , Zhongyuan Ruan , Guanrong Chen , Qi Xuan

Generating realistic graph-structured data is challenging due to discrete connectivity, varying graph sizes, and class-specific structural patterns. Recent Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN)-based graph generation methods improve edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 James Sargant , Seyedeh Ava Razi Razavi , Renata Dividino , Sheridan Houghten

Modeling generative process of growing graphs has wide applications in social networks and recommendation systems, where cold start problem leads to new nodes isolated from existing graph. Despite the emerging literature in learning graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Da Xu , Chuanwei Ruan , Kamiya Motwani , Evren Korpeoglu , Sushant Kumar , Kannan Achan

The topic of synthetic graph generators (SGGs) has recently received much attention due to the wave of the latest breakthroughs in generative modelling. However, many state-of-the-art SGGs do not scale well with the graph size. Indeed, in…

Networks observed in real world like social networks, collaboration networks etc., exhibit temporal dynamics, i.e. nodes and edges appear and/or disappear over time. In this paper, we propose a generative, latent space based, statistical…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Shubham Gupta , Gaurav Sharma , Ambedkar Dukkipati

We propose and study a hierarchical algorithm to generate graphs having a predetermined distribution of cliques, the fully connected subgraphs. The construction mechanism may be either random or incorporate preferential attachment. We…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Gregor Kaczor , Claudius Gros

Graph generative models have been extensively studied in the data mining literature. While traditional techniques are based on generating structures that adhere to a pre-decided distribution, recent techniques have shifted towards learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Nikhil Goyal , Harsh Vardhan Jain , Sayan Ranu

Standard neural networks are often overconfident when presented with data outside the training distribution. We introduce HyperGAN, a new generative model for learning a distribution of neural network parameters. HyperGAN does not require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Neale Ratzlaff , Li Fuxin

Crowd counting is an important yet challenging task due to the large scale and density variation. Recent investigations have shown that distilling rich relations among multi-scale features and exploiting useful information from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Ao Luo , Fan Yang , Xin Li , Dong Nie , Zhicheng Jiao , Shangchen Zhou , Hong Cheng

The problem of labeled graph generation is gaining attention in the Deep Learning community. The task is challenging due to the sparse and discrete nature of graph spaces. Several approaches have been proposed in the literature, most of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Marco Podda , Davide Bacciu

Graphs are important data representations for describing objects and their relationships, which appear in a wide diversity of real-world scenarios. As one of a critical problem in this area, graph generation considers learning the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Xiaojie Guo , Liang Zhao

Generating graphs that preserve characteristic structures while promoting sample diversity can be challenging, especially when the number of graph observations is small. Here, we tackle the problem of graph generation from only one observed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-08 Gesine Reinert , Wenkai Xu

In this paper, we propose Continuous Graph Flow, a generative continuous flow based method that aims to model complex distributions of graph-structured data. Once learned, the model can be applied to an arbitrary graph, defining a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Zhiwei Deng , Megha Nawhal , Lili Meng , Greg Mori

Despite recent advancements in single-domain or single-object image generation, it is still challenging to generate complex scenes containing diverse, multiple objects and their interactions. Scene graphs, composed of nodes as objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Sarthak Garg , Helisa Dhamo , Azade Farshad , Sabrina Musatian , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

This paper proposes an autoregressive (AR) model for sequences of graphs, which generalises traditional AR models. A first novelty consists in formalising the AR model for a very general family of graphs, characterised by a variable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Daniele Zambon , Daniele Grattarola , Lorenzo Livi , Cesare Alippi

Deep generative models, since their inception, have become increasingly more capable of generating novel and perceptually realistic signals (e.g., images and sound waves). With the emergence of deep models for graph structured data, natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Yuliang Ji , Ru Huang , Jie Chen , Yuanzhe Xi

Online social networks are a dominant medium in everyday life to stay in contact with friends and to share information. In Twitter, users can connect with other users by following them, who in turn can follow back. In recent years,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Christoph Schweimer , Christine Gfrerer , Florian Lugstein , David Pape , Jan A. Velimsky , Robert Elsässer , Bernhard C. Geiger

Graph generation is an important area in network science. Traditional approaches focus on replicating specific properties of real-world graphs, such as small diameters or power-law degree distributions. Recent advancements in deep learning,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Rodrigo Tuna , Carlos Soares

Community detection is a foundational capability in large-scale industrial graph analytics, powering applications such as fraud-ring discovery, recommendation systems, and hierarchical indexing for retrieval-augmented generation. Among…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Chunxu Lin , Yumao Xie , Yixiang Fang , Yongmin Hu , Yingqian Hu , Chen Cheng