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Many real life networks present an average path length logarithmic with the number of nodes and a degree distribution which follows a power law. Often these networks have also a modular and self-similar structure and, in some cases -…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-02-26 Alicia Miralles , Lichao Chen , Zhongzhi Zhang , Francesc Comellas

We present an achievable rate for general deterministic relay networks, with broadcasting at the transmitters and interference at the receivers. In particular we show that if the optimizing distribution for the information-theoretic cut-set…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-10-24 A. S. Avestimehr , S. N. Diggavi , D. N. C. Tse

Several systems can be modeled as sets of interdependent networks where each network contains distinct nodes. Diffusion processes like the spreading of a disease or the propagation of information constitute fundamental phenomena occurring…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Mostafa Salehi , Payam Siyari , Matteo Magnani , Danilo Montesi

Computing expected information gain (EIG) from prior to posterior (equivalently, mutual information between candidate observations and model parameters or other quantities of interest) is a fundamental challenge in Bayesian optimal…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-30 Fengyi Li , Ricardo Baptista , Youssef Marzouk

We use the linear threshold model to study the diffusion of information on a network generated by the stochastic block model. We focus our analysis on a two community structure where the initial set of informed nodes lies only in one of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-09-21 Gianbiagio Curato , Fabrizio Lillo

Random factor graphs provide a powerful framework for the study of inference problems such as decoding problems or the stochastic block model. Information-theoretically the key quantity of interest is the mutual information between the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Amin Coja-Oghlan , Max Hahn-Klimroth , Philipp Loick , Noela Müller , Konstantinos Panagiotou , Matija Pasch

We investigate the existence of a statistical-computational gap in multiple Gaussian graph alignment. We first generalize a previously established informational threshold from Vassaux and Massouli\'e (2025) to regimes where the number of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-02 Bertrand Even , Luca Ganassali

We propose and analyze a quasirandom analogue of the classical push model for disseminating information in networks ("randomized rumor spreading"). In the classical model, in each round each informed vertex chooses a neighbor at random and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Benjamin Doerr , Tobias Friedrich , Thomas Sauerwald

Random Threshold Networks (RTNs) are an idealized model of diluted, non symmetric spin glasses, neural networks or gene regulatory networks. RTNs also serve as an interesting general example of any coordinated causal system. Here we study…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2009-01-14 M. Andrecut , D. Foster , H. Carteret , S. A. Kauffman

Datasets from several domains, such as life-sciences, semantic web, machine learning, natural language processing, etc. are naturally structured as acyclic graphs. These datasets, particularly those in bio-informatics and computational…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-09-02 Sandeep Gupta

How do real graphs evolve over time? What are ``normal'' growth patterns in social, technological, and information networks? Many studies have discovered patterns in static graphs, identifying properties in a single snapshot of a large…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Jure Leskovec , Jon Kleinberg , Christos Faloutsos

We study the problem of learning a Bayesian network (BN) of a set of variables when structural side information about the system is available. It is well known that learning the structure of a general BN is both computationally and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Ehsan Mokhtarian , Sina Akbari , Fateme Jamshidi , Jalal Etesami , Negar Kiyavash

The topology of many real complex networks has been conjectured to be embedded in hidden metric spaces, where distances between nodes encode their likelihood of being connected. Besides of providing a natural geometrical interpretation of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-01-23 Antoine Allard , M. Ángeles Serrano , Guillermo García-Pérez , Marián Boguñá

We consider a wireless network comprising $n$ nodes located within a circular area of radius $R$, which are participating in a decentralized learning algorithm to optimize a global objective function using their local datasets. To enable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Navid Naderializadeh

Spreading phenomena are ubiquitous in nature and society. For example, disease, rumor, and information spread over underlying social and information networks. It is well known that there is no threshold for epidemic models on scale-free…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-03-16 Satoru Morita

This document is an informal bibliography of the papers dealing with distributed approximation algorithms. A classic setting for such algorithms is bounded degree graphs, but there is a whole set of techniques that have been developed for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Laurent Feuilloley

In the standard CONGEST model for distributed network computing, it is known that "global" tasks such as minimum spanning tree, diameter, and all-pairs shortest paths, consume large bandwidth, for their running-time is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Pierre Fraigniaud , Pedro Montealegre , Dennis Olivetti , Ivan Rapaport , Ioan Todinca

A great deal of significant progress has been seen in the study of information spreading on populations of networked individuals. A common point in many of past studies is that there is only one transition in the phase diagram of the final…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-10-09 Jiao Wu , Muhua Zheng , Wei Wang , Huijie Yang , Changgui Gu

Complex networks usually exhibit a rich architecture organized over multiple intertwined scales. Information pathways are expected to pervade these scales reflecting structural insights that are not manifest from analyses of the network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-09-16 Pablo Villegas , Andrea Gabrielli , Francesca Santucci , Guido Caldarelli , Tommaso Gili

We prove that the diameter of threshold (zero temperature) Geometric Inhomogeneous Random Graphs (GIRG) is $\Theta(\log n)$. This has strong implications for the runtime of many distributed protocols on those graphs, which often have…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Zylan Benjert , Kostas Lakis , Johannes Lengler , Raghu Raman Ravi