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As large graph datasets become increasingly common across many fields, sampling is often needed to reduce the graphs into manageable sizes. This procedure raises critical questions about representativeness as no sample can capture the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Alan Zhu , Jiaqi Ma , Qiaozhu Mei

Despite their great success, neural networks still remain as black-boxes due to the lack of interpretability. Here we propose a new analyzing method, namely the weight pathway analysis (WPA), to make them transparent. We consider weights in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Sihan Feng , Yong Zhang , Fuming Wang , Hong Zhao

The posterior in probabilistic programs with stochastic support decomposes as a weighted sum of the local posterior distributions associated with each possible program path. We show that making predictions with this full posterior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Tim Reichelt , Luke Ong , Tom Rainforth

Accurately analyzing graph properties of social networks is a challenging task because of access limitations to the graph data. To address this challenge, several algorithms to obtain unbiased estimates of properties from few samples via a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Kazuki Nakajima , Kazuyuki Shudo

The selection of best variables is a challenging problem in supervised and unsupervised learning, especially in high dimensional contexts where the number of variables is usually much larger than the number of observations. In this paper,…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-04-01 Benoit Liquet , Sarat Moka , Samuel Muller

We investigate the longest-path attacks on complex networks. Specifically, we remove approximately the longest simple path from a network iteratively until there are no paths left in the network. We propose two algorithms, the random…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2014-05-29 Cunlai Pu , Wei Cui

A {\em parametric weighted graph} is a graph whose edges are labeled with continuous real functions of a single common variable. For any instantiation of the variable, one obtains a standard edge-weighted graph. Parametric weighted graph…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-02-03 Eldar Fischer , Oded Lachish , Raphael Yuster

Graphs have been commonly used to model many applications. A natural problem which abstracts applications such as itinerary planning, playlist recommendation, and flow analysis in information networks is that of finding the heaviest path(s)…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Mohammad Khabbaz , Smriti Bhagat , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan

Random walks have been proposed as a simple method of efficiently searching, or disseminating information throughout, communication and sensor networks. In nature, animals (such as ants) tend to follow correlated random walks, i.e., random…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-03 Graeme Smith , J. W. Sanders , Qin Li

Sparse parametric models are of great interest in statistical learning and are often analyzed by means of regularized estimators. Pathwise methods allow to efficiently compute the full solution path for penalized estimators, for any…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-06 Alessandro De Gregorio , Francesco Iafrate

In this paper we present a combinatorial optimisation view on the routing problem for connectionless packet networks by using the metaphor of a landscape. We examine the main properties of the routing landscapes as we define them and how…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 T. Michalareas , L. Sacks

Properties of networks are often characterized in terms of features such as node degree distributions, average path lengths, diameters, or clustering coefficients. Here, we study shortest path length distributions. On the one hand, average…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-20 Christian Bauckhage , Kristian Kersting , Fabian Hadiji

The aim of this paper is to check feasibility of using the maximal-entropy random walk in algorithms finding communities in complex networks. A number of such algorithms exploit an ordinary or a biased random walk for this purpose. Their…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-02-05 Jeremi K. Ochab , Zdzisław Burda

Understanding how packets are routed in Internet is significantly important to Internet measurement and modeling. The conventional solution for route simulation is based on the assumption of unweighted shortest path. However, it has been…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Mingming Chen , Jichang Zhao , Xiao Liang , Ke Xu

Node connectivity plays a central role in temporal network analysis. We provide a comprehensive study of various concepts of walks in temporal graphs, that is, graphs with fixed vertex sets but edge sets changing over time. Taking into…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Anne-Sophie Himmel , Matthias Bentert , André Nichterlein , Rolf Niedermeier

Computing the shortest path between two given locations in a road network is an important problem that finds applications in various map services and commercial navigation products. The state-of-the-art solutions for the problem can be…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-02-01 Lingkun Wu , Xiaokui Xiao , Dingxiong Deng , Gao Cong , Andy Diwen Zhu , Shuigeng Zhou

We study a group of new methods to solve an open problem that is the shortest paths problem on a given fix-weighted instance. It is the real significance at a considerable altitude to reach our aim to meet these qualities of generic,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-11-30 Yong Tan

In this work we deal with the so-called path convexities, defined over special collections of paths. For example, the collection of the shortest paths in a graph is associated with the well-known geodesic convexity, while the collection of…

This article generalizes the Near Shortest Paths Problem introduced by Byers and Waterman in 1984 using concepts of the Universal Shortest Path Problem established by Turner and Hamacher in 2011. The generalization covers a variety of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-26 Luca E. Schäfer , Andrea Maier , Stefan Ruzika

In a network, the shortest paths between nodes are of great importance as they allow the fastest and strongest interaction between nodes. However measuring the shortest paths between all nodes in a large network is computationally…

Applications · Statistics 2018-06-12 Minhui Zheng , Bruce D. Spencer