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Systematic relations between multiple objects that occur in various fields can be represented as networks. Real-world networks typically exhibit complex topologies whose structural properties are key factors in characterizing and further…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-09 Yoshihisa Tanaka , Ryosuke Kojima , Shoichi Ishida , Fumiyoshi Yamashita , Yasushi Okuno

Graphs are naturally sparse objects that are used to study many problems involving networks, for example, distributed learning and graph signal processing. In some cases, the graph is not given, but must be learned from the problem and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-31 Martin Sundin , Arun Venkitaraman , Magnus Jansson , Saikat Chatterjee

This paper aims to define, quantify, and analyze the feature complexity that is learned by a DNN. We propose a generic definition for the feature complexity. Given the feature of a certain layer in the DNN, our method disentangles feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Jie Ren , Mingjie Li , Zexu Liu , Quanshi Zhang

It is common knowledge that a key dynamical characteristic of a network is its spectrum (the collection of all eigenvalues of the network's weighted adjacency matrix). In \cite{BW10} we demonstrated that it is possible to reduce a network,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-05 Leonid Bunimovich , Benjamin Webb

Graphs and hypergraphs are foundational structures in discrete mathematics. They have many practical applications, including the rapidly developing field of bioinformatics, and more generally, biomathematics. They are also a source of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-16 Mark Budden , Josh Hiller , Andrew Penland

Human cognition is supported by brain structural connectivity wherein weak connectivity with weights several orders of magnitude smaller than those of strong connectivity, has been treated as noise and ignored from analysis over a long…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-20 Rong Wang , Zhao Chang , Xuechun Liu , Daniel Kristanto , Étienne Gérard Guy Gartner , Xinyang Liu , Mianxin Liu , Ying Wu , Ming Lui , Changsong Zhou

The branchwidth of a graph has been introduced by Roberson and Seymour as a measure of the tree-decomposability of a graph, alternative to treewidth. Branchwidth is polynomially computable on planar graphs by the celebrated ``Ratcatcher''…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Dimitrios M. Thilikos , Sebastian Wiederrecht

In a recent work, we introduced a parametric framework for obtaining obstruction characterizations of graph parameters with respect to a quasi-ordering $\leqslant$ on graphs. Towards this, we proposed the concepts of class obstruction,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Christophe Paul , Evangelos Protopapas , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

We introduce a quantitative measure of network bipartivity as a proportion of even to total number of closed walks in the network. Spectral graph theory is used to quantify how close to bipartite a network is and the extent to which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ernesto Estrada , Juan A. Rodriguez-Velazquez

Network formation theory studies how agents create and maintain relationships, and the stability of those relationships with respect to individual incentives. A central stability concept in this literature is pairwise stability, introduced…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Rémi Castera , Julien Fixary , Rida Laraki

We investigate a structural generalisation of treewidth we call $\mathcal{A}$-blind-treewidth where $\mathcal{A}$ denotes an annotated graph class. This width parameter is defined by evaluating only the size of those bags $B$ of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-03 J. Pascal Gollin , Sebastian Wiederrecht

The connections in many networks are not merely binary entities, either present or not, but have associated weights that record their strengths relative to one another. Recent studies of networks have, by and large, steered clear of such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. E. J. Newman

The study of parameterized streaming complexity on graph problems was initiated by Fafianie et al. (MFCS'14) and Chitnis et al. (SODA'15 and SODA'16). Simply put, the main goal is to design streaming algorithms for parameterized problems…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Arijit Bishnu , Arijit Ghosh , Sudeshna Kolay , Gopinath Mishra , Saket Saurabh

The prediction of graph evolution is an important and challenging problem in the analysis of networks and of the Web in particular. But while the appearance of new links is part of virtually every model of Web growth, the disappearance of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-03-20 Julia Preusse , Jérôme Kunegis , Matthias Thimm , Sergej Sizov

We define and study the link prediction problem in bipartite networks, specializing general link prediction algorithms to the bipartite case. In a graph, a link prediction function of two vertices denotes the similarity or proximity of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-07-27 Jérôme Kunegis , Ernesto W. De Luca , Sahin Albayrak

A function on a topological space is called unimodal if all of its super-level sets are contractible. A minimal unimodal decomposition of a function $f$ is the smallest number of unimodal functions that sum up to $f$. The problem of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Mishal Assif P K , Yuliy Baryshnikov

In this paper, we analyze two popular network compression techniques, i.e. filter pruning and low-rank decomposition, in a unified sense. By simply changing the way the sparsity regularization is enforced, filter pruning and low-rank…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Yawei Li , Shuhang Gu , Christoph Mayer , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

The theory of graphons is an important tool in understanding properties of large networks. We investigate a power-law random graph model and cast it in the graphon framework. The distinctively different structures of the limit graph are…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-08-22 Mei Yin

The fractal nature of graphs has traditionally been investigated by using the nodes of networks as the basic units. Here, instead, we propose to concentrate on the graph edges, and introduce a practical and computationally not demanding…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-04-05 Sarika Jalan , Alok Yadav , Camellia Sarkar , Stefano Boccaletti

Dynamical networks are powerful tools for modeling a broad range of complex systems, including financial markets, brains, and ecosystems. They encode how the basic elements (nodes) of these systems interact altogether (via links) and evolve…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-03-13 Edward Laurence , Nicolas Doyon , Louis J Dubé , Patrick Desrosiers