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In graph realization problems one is given a degree sequence and the task is to decide whether there is a graph whose vertex degrees match to the given sequence. This realization problem is known to be polynomial-time solvable when the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-01-18 Sepp Hartung , André Nichterlein

This paper studies causal discovery for a directed acyclic graph under a structural equation model with additive heteroscedastic errors. We first establish new identifiability results for location-scale noise models, showing that…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-27 Xintao Xia , Li Chen , Yue Hu , Chunlin Li

Seeking effective neural networks is a critical and practical field in deep learning. Besides designing the depth, type of convolution, normalization, and nonlinearities, the topological connectivity of neural networks is also important.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Kun Yuan , Quanquan Li , Jing Shao , Junjie Yan

Grouping the nodes of a graph into clusters is a standard technique for studying networks. We study a problem where we are given a directed network and are asked to partition the graph into a sequence of coherent groups. We assume that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Iiro Kumpulainen , Nikolaj Tatti

A family of graphs optimized as the topologies for supercomputer interconnection networks is proposed. The special needs of such network topologies, minimal diameter and mean path length, are met by special constructions of the weight…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Alexandre F. Ramos , Yuefan Deng

Symmetries are ubiquitous in network systems and have profound impacts on the observable dynamics. At the most fundamental level, many synchronization patterns are induced by underlying network symmetry, and a high degree of symmetry is…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-02-18 Joseph D. Hart , Yuanzhao Zhang , Rajarshi Roy , Adilson E. Motter

In this paper, we employ the decomposition of a directed network as an undirected graph plus its associated node metadata to characterise the cyclic structure found in directed networks by finding a Minimal Cycle Basis of the undirected…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Vaiva Vasiliauskaite , Tim S. Evans , Paul Expert

Precise knowledge of causal directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) is assumed for standard approaches towards valid adjustment set selection for unbiased estimation, but in practice, the DAG is often inferred from data or expert knowledge,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Zhongyi Hu , Stéphanie van der Pas

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are a powerful architecture for tackling graph learning tasks, yet have been shown to be oblivious to eminent substructures such as cycles. We present TOGL, a novel layer that incorporates global topological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Max Horn , Edward De Brouwer , Michael Moor , Yves Moreau , Bastian Rieck , Karsten Borgwardt

In this paper, we consider the topological interference management (TIM) problem in a dynamic setting, where an adversary perturbs network topology to prevent the exploitation of sophisticated coding opportunities (e.g., interference…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Ya-Chun Liang , Chung-Shou Liao , Xinping Yi

Given an underlying undirected simple graph, we consider the set of all acyclic orientations of its edges. Each of these orientations induces a partial order on the vertices of our graph and, therefore, we can count the number of linear…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-17 Benjamin Iriarte Giraldo

The study of time-varying (dynamic) networks (graphs) is of fundamental importance for computer network analytics. Several methods have been proposed to detect the effect of significant structural changes in a time series of graphs. The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Peter Wills , Francois G. Meyer

Graphs are used in many disciplines to model the relationships that exist between objects in a complex discrete system. Researchers may wish to compare a network of interest to a "typical" graph from a family (or ensemble) of graphs which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Catherine Greenhill

Unsupervised feature learning often finds low-dimensional embeddings that capture the structure of complex data. For tasks for which prior expert topological knowledge is available, incorporating this into the learned representation may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Robin Vandaele , Bo Kang , Jefrey Lijffijt , Tijl De Bie , Yvan Saeys

We present the first optimal algorithm for the classical problem of listing all the cycles in an undirected graph. We exploit their properties so that the total cost is the time taken to read the input graph plus the time to list the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-07-06 Rui Ferreira , Roberto Grossi , Andrea Marino , Nadia Pisanti , Romeo Rizzi , Gustavo Sacomoto

Networks such as organizational network of a global company play an important role in a variety of knowledge management and information diffusion tasks. The nodes in these networks correspond to individuals who are self-interested. The…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-10 Swapnil Dhamal , Y. Narahari

The feed-forward relationship naturally observed in time-dependent processes and in a diverse number of real systems -such as some food-webs and electronic and neural wiring- can be described in terms of so-called directed acyclic graphs…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-19 Joaquín Goñi , Bernat Corominas-Murtra , Ricard V. Solé , Carlos Rodríguez-Caso

Graphs have been widely used in many applications such as social networks, collaboration networks, and biological networks. One important graph analytics is to explore cohesive subgraphs in a large graph. Among several cohesive subgraphs…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Yikai Zhang , Jeffrey Xu Yu , Ying Zhang , Lu Qin

Complex systems are difficult to study not only because they are nonlinear, multiscale, and often nonstationary, but because their scientifically relevant organization is often invisible at the level of individual components, pairwise…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-30 Mark M. Bailey

Persistence diagrams (PDs), often characterized as sets of death and birth of homology class, have been known for providing a topological representation of a graph structure, which is often useful in machine learning tasks. Prior works rely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Chau Pham , Trung Dang , Peter Chin