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Designing algorithms that generate networks with a given degree sequence while varying both subgraph composition and distribution of subgraphs around nodes is an important but challenging research problem. Current algorithms lack control of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-12-07 Martin Ritchie , Luc Berthouze , Istvan Z Kiss

We extend Andersson-Madigan-Perlman chain graphs by (i) relaxing the semidirected acyclity constraint so that only directed cycles are forbidden, and (ii) allowing up to two edges between any pair of nodes. We introduce global, and ordered…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-02-22 Jose M. Peña

Although neural networks are capable of reaching astonishing performances on a wide variety of contexts, properly training networks on complicated tasks requires expertise and can be expensive from a computational perspective. In industrial…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-11 Théo Lacombe , Yuichi Ike , Mathieu Carriere , Frédéric Chazal , Marc Glisse , Yuhei Umeda

Many applications like pointer analysis and incremental compilation require maintaining a topological ordering of the nodes of a directed acyclic graph (DAG) under dynamic updates. All known algorithms for this problem are either only…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-02-08 Deepak Ajwani , Tobias Friedrich

Motivated by the recent surge of criminal activities with cross-cryptocurrency trades, we introduce a new topological perspective to structural anomaly detection in dynamic multilayer networks. We postulate that anomalies in the underlying…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Dorcas Ofori-Boateng , Ignacio Segovia Dominguez , Murat Kantarcioglu , Cuneyt G. Akcora , Yulia R. Gel

Directed acyclic graphs are a fundamental class of networks that includes citation networks, food webs, and family trees, among others. Here we define a random graph model for directed acyclic graphs and give solutions for a number of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-03-23 Brian Karrer , M. E. J. Newman

Our goal is to infer the topology of a network when (i) we can send probes between sources and receivers at the edge of the network and (ii) intermediate nodes can perform simple network coding operations, i.e., additions. Our key intuition…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-02-07 Pegah Sattari , Christina Fragouli , Athina Markopoulou

Graph filters are a staple tool for processing signals over graphs in a multitude of downstream tasks. However, they are commonly designed for graphs with a fixed number of nodes, despite real-world networks typically grow over time. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Bishwadeep Das , Elvin Isufi

Topology identification and inference of processes evolving over graphs arise in timely applications involving brain, transportation, financial, power, as well as social and information networks. This chapter provides an overview of graph…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-12 Gonzalo Mateos , Yanning Shen , Georgios B. Giannakis , Ananthram Swami

We explore pseudometrics for directed graphs in order to better understand their topological properties. The directed flag complex associated to a directed graph provides a useful bridge between network science and topology. Indeed, it has…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-26 Ana Lucia Garcia-Pulido , Kathryn Hess , Jane Tan , Katharine Turner , Bei Wang , Naya Yerolemou

We study random graph models for directed acyclic graphs, an important class of networks that includes citation networks, food webs, and feed-forward neural networks among others. We propose two specific models, roughly analogous to the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-10-16 Brian Karrer , M. E. J. Newman

We obtain new parameterized algorithms for the classical problem of determining whether a directed acyclic graph admits an upward planar drawing. Our results include a new fixed-parameter algorithm parameterized by the number of sources, an…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Steven Chaplick , Emilio Di Giacomo , Fabrizio Frati , Robert Ganian , Chrysanthi N. Raftopoulou , Kirill Simonov

We present a simple algorithm which maintains the topological order of a directed acyclic graph with n nodes under an online edge insertion sequence in O(n^{2.75}) time, independent of the number of edges m inserted. For dense DAGs, this is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Deepak Ajwani , Tobias Friedrich , Ulrich Meyer

We consider the problem of detecting a cycle in a directed graph that grows by arc insertions, and the related problems of maintaining a topological order and the strong components of such a graph. For these problems, we give two…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-12-06 Michael A. Bender , Jeremy T. Fineman , Seth Gilbert , Robert E. Tarjan

Conditional graph generation tasks involve training a model to generate a graph given a set of input conditions. Many previous studies employ autoregressive models to incrementally generate graph components such as nodes and edges. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Jie Bu , Kazi Sajeed Mehrab , Anuj Karpatne

Computational topology is an area that revisits topological problems from an algorithmic point of view, and develops topological tools for improved algorithms. We survey results in computational topology that are concerned with graphs drawn…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Éric Colin de Verdière

Symmetries are an essential feature of complex networks as they regulate how the graph collective dynamics organizes into clustered states. We here show how to control network symmetries, and how to enforce patterned states of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-11-24 L. V. Gambuzza , M. Frasca , F. Sorrentino , L. M. Pecora , S. Boccaletti

All intelligence is collective intelligence, in the sense that it is made of parts which must align with respect to system-level goals. Understanding the dynamics which facilitate or limit navigation of problem spaces by aligned parts thus…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-18 Francesco Sacco , Dalton A R Sakthivadivel , Michael Levin

Let $G$ be an $n$-vertex connected graph. A cyclic base ordering of $G$ is a cyclic ordering of all edges such that every cyclically consecutive $n-1$ edges induce a spanning tree of $G$. In this project, we study cyclic base ordering of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-18 Cedric Xia , Joseph Zhang , Allan Zhou

Learning the unique directed acyclic graph corresponding to an unknown causal model is a challenging task. Methods based on functional causal models can identify a unique graph, but either suffer from the curse of dimensionality or impose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Sujai Hiremath , Jacqueline R. M. A. Maasch , Mengxiao Gao , Promit Ghosal , Kyra Gan