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Recently, the theory of dense graph limits has received attention from multiple disciplines including graph theory, computer science, statistical physics, probability, statistics, and group theory. In this paper we initiate the study of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-09 Peter Diao , Dominique Guillot , Apoorva Khare , Bala Rajaratnam

Probabilistic graphical models provide a powerful tool to describe complex statistical structure, with many real-world applications in science and engineering from controlling robotic arms to understanding neuronal computations. A major…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Yicheng Fei , Xaq Pitkow

Non-parametric approaches for analyzing network data based on exchangeable graph models (ExGM) have recently gained interest. The key object that defines an ExGM is often referred to as a graphon. This non-parametric perspective on network…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-11-14 Edoardo M Airoldi , Thiago B Costa , Stanley H Chan

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are widely used in domains like social networks and biological systems. However, the locality assumption of GNNs, which limits information exchange to neighboring nodes, hampers their ability to capture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Tingting Dan , Jiaqi Ding , Ziquan Wei , Shahar Z Kovalsky , Minjeong Kim , Won Hwa Kim , Guorong Wu

Due to the limited resources and the scale of the graphs in modern datasets, we often get to observe a sampled subgraph of a larger original graph of interest, whether it is the worldwide web that has been crawled or social connections that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Ashish Khetan , Harshay Shah , Sewoong Oh

In an earlier paper the authors proved that limits of convergent graph sequences can be described by various structures, including certain 2-variable real functions called graphons, random graph models satisfying certain consistency…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-02-10 László Lovász , Balázs Szegedy

In this work we develop a theory of hierarchical clustering for graphs. Our modeling assumption is that graphs are sampled from a graphon, which is a powerful and general model for generating graphs and analyzing large networks. Graphons…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-24 Justin Eldridge , Mikhail Belkin , Yusu Wang

Multiplex networks are a powerful framework for representing systems with multiple types of interactions among a common set of entities. Understanding their structure requires statistical tools capturing higher-order cross-layer…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Karl Sawaya , Sofia Olhede

We establish a central limit theorem for the sum of $\epsilon$-independent random variables, extending both the classical and free probability setting. Central to our approach is the use of graphon limits to characterize the limiting…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Guillaume Cébron , Patrick Oliveira Santos , Pierre Youssef

Graph neural networks (GNNs) use graph convolutions to exploit network invariances and learn meaningful feature representations from network data. However, on large-scale graphs convolutions incur in high computational cost, leading to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Juan Cervino , Luana Ruiz , Alejandro Ribeiro

We study spectral graph convolutional neural networks (GCNNs), where filters are defined as continuous functions of the graph shift operator (GSO) through functional calculus. A spectral GCNN is not tailored to one specific graph and can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Sohir Maskey , Ron Levie , Gitta Kutyniok

We study the distributed optimization problem over a graphon with a continuum of nodes, which is regarded as the limit of the distributed networked optimization as the number of nodes goes to infinity. Each node has a private local cost…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Yan Chen , Tao Li , Xiaofeng Zong

In this paper, we introduce a generalization of graphlets to heterogeneous networks called typed graphlets. Informally, typed graphlets are small typed induced subgraphs. Typed graphlets generalize graphlets to rich heterogeneous networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Ryan A. Rossi , Nesreen K. Ahmed , Aldo Carranza , David Arbour , Anup Rao , Sungchul Kim , Eunyee Koh

A sequence of graphs with diverging number of nodes is a dense graph sequence if the number of edges grows approximately as for complete graphs. To each such sequence a function, called graphon, can be associated, which contains information…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Andrea Braides , Paolo Cermelli , Simone Dovetta

We use the theory of graph limits to study several quasi-random properties, mainly dealing with various versions of hereditary subgraph counts. The main idea is to transfer the properties of (sequences of) graphs to properties of graphons,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-05-21 Svante Janson

We study Turing bifurcations on one-dimensional random ring networks where the probability of a connection between two nodes depends on the distance between the two nodes. Our approach uses the theory of graphons to approximate the graph…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Jason Bramburger , Matt Holzer

Many real world networks contain a statistically surprising number of certain subgraphs, called network motifs. In the prevalent approach to motif analysis, network motifs are detected by comparing subgraph frequencies in the original…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Anatol E. Wegner

Real-world graph datasets often arise from mixtures of populations, where graphs are generated by multiple distinct underlying distributions. In this work, we propose a unified framework that explicitly models graph data as a mixture of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Ali Azizpour , Reza Ramezanpour , Santiago Segarra

In latent-position random graph models (LPMs), latent vertex positions $U_{1},\ldots,U_{n}$ are sampled from some distribution on a latent space $\Omega$, then edges of an observed graph $G = ([n],E)$ are sampled with some probability…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Jeannette Janssen , Na Lin , Aaron Smith

We consider large uniform labeled random graphs in different classes with prescribed decorations in their modular decomposition. Our main result is the estimation of the number of copies of every graph as an induced subgraph. As a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-25 Théo Lenoir