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We propose a model for epidemic spreading on a finite complex network with a restriction to at most one contamination per time step. Because of a highly discrete character of the process, the analysis cannot use the continous approximation,…

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Time plays an essential role in the diffusion of information, influence and disease over networks. In many cases we only observe when a node copies information, makes a decision or becomes infected -- but the connectivity, transmission…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-05-05 Manuel Gomez Rodriguez , David Balduzzi , Bernhard Schölkopf

Epidemic containment is a major concern when confronting large-scale infections in complex networks. Many works have been devoted to analytically understand how to restructure the network to minimize the impact of major outbreaks of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-12-27 Joan T. Matamalas , Alex Arenas , Sergio Gómez

We introduce the Graph Mixture Density Networks, a new family of machine learning models that can fit multimodal output distributions conditioned on graphs of arbitrary topology. By combining ideas from mixture models and graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Federico Errica , Davide Bacciu , Alessio Micheli

We study by analytical methods and large scale simulations a dynamical model for the spreading of epidemics in complex networks. In networks with exponentially bounded connectivity we recover the usual epidemic behavior with a threshold…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Romualdo Pastor-Satorras , Alessandro Vespignani

Understanding propagation structures in graph diffusion processes, such as epidemic spread or misinformation diffusion, is a fundamental yet challenging problem. While existing methods primarily focus on source localization, they cannot…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zeeshan Memon , Chen Ling , Ruochen Kong , Vishwanath Seshagiri , Andreas Zufle , Liang Zhao

We analyze an epidemic model on a network consisting of susceptible-infected-recovered equations at the nodes coupled by diffusion using a graph Laplacian. We introduce an epidemic criterion and examine different vaccination/containment…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-09-25 F. Bustamante-Castaneda , J. -G. Caputo , G. Cruz-Pacheco , A. Knippel , F. Mouatamide

Epidemic processes are common out-of-equilibrium phenomena of broad interdisciplinary interest. Recently, dynamic message-passing (DMP) has been proposed as an efficient algorithm for simulating epidemic models on networks, and in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-09-30 Munik Shrestha , Samuel V. Scarpino , Cristopher Moore

Identifying super-spreaders can be framed as a subtask of the influence maximisation problem. It seeks to pinpoint agents within a network that, if selected as single diffusion seeds, disseminate information most effectively. Multilayer…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Michał Czuba , Mateusz Stolarski , Adam Piróg , Piotr Bielak , Piotr Bródka

Denoising diffusion models (DDMs) offer a promising generative approach for combinatorial optimization, yet they often lack the robust exploration capabilities of traditional metaheuristics like evolutionary algorithms (EAs). We propose a…

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Graph-based semi-supervised learning usually involves two separate stages, constructing an affinity graph and then propagating labels for transductive inference on the graph. It is suboptimal to solve them independently, as the correlation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Qilin Li , Senjian An , Ling Li , Wanquan Liu

Predicting the viral dynamics of an epidemic process requires the knowledge of the underlying contact network. However, the network is not known for most applications and has to be inferred from observing the viral state evolution instead.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-11-19 Bastian Prasse , Piet Van Mieghem

Learning graph representations is a fundamental task aimed at capturing various properties of graphs in vector space. The most recent methods learn such representations for static networks. However, real world networks evolve over time and…

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Sparsification aims at extracting a reduced core of associations that best preserves both the dynamics and topology of networks while reducing the computational cost of simulations. We show that the semi-metric topology of complex networks…

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Spectral unmixing is an important task in hyperspectral image processing for separating the mixed spectral data pertaining to various materials observed individual pixels. Recently, nonlinear spectral unmixing has received particular…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-07 Min Zhao , Mou Wang , Jie Chen , Susanto Rahardja

Infectious diseases that incorporate pre-symptomatic transmission are challenging to monitor, model, predict and contain. We address this scenario by studying a variant of a stochastic susceptible-exposed-infected-recovered model on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-05-07 Bo Li , David Saad

This work introduces DiGress, a discrete denoising diffusion model for generating graphs with categorical node and edge attributes. Our model utilizes a discrete diffusion process that progressively edits graphs with noise, through the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Clement Vignac , Igor Krawczuk , Antoine Siraudin , Bohan Wang , Volkan Cevher , Pascal Frossard

In network epidemic models, controlling the spread of a disease often requires targeted interventions such as vaccinating high-risk individuals based on network structure. However, typical approaches assume complete knowledge of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Anirudh Sridhar , Arnob Ghosh

The dynamics of contact networks and epidemics of infectious diseases often occur on comparable time scales. Ignoring one of these time scales may provide an incomplete understanding of the population dynamics of the infection process. We…

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