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The graph structure is a commonly used data storage mode, and it turns out that the low-dimensional embedded representation of nodes in the graph is extremely useful in various typical tasks, such as node classification, link prediction ,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Xing Li , Wei Wei , Xiangnan Feng , Xue Liu , Zhiming Zheng

Seeking effective neural networks is a critical and practical field in deep learning. Besides designing the depth, type of convolution, normalization, and nonlinearities, the topological connectivity of neural networks is also important.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Kun Yuan , Quanquan Li , Jing Shao , Junjie Yan

Machine learning problems have an intrinsic geometric structure as central objects including a neural network's weight space and the loss function associated with a particular task can be viewed as encoding the intrinsic geometry of a given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Guruprasad Raghavan , Matt Thomson

The local geometry of high dimensional neural network loss landscapes can both challenge our cherished theoretical intuitions as well as dramatically impact the practical success of neural network training. Indeed recent works have observed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Stanislav Fort , Surya Ganguli

One of the central models in distributed computing is Linial's LOCAL model [SIAM J. Comp. 1992]. Over time, researchers have studied distributed graph problems in the LOCAL model under slightly different assumptions, such as whether nodes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Alkida Balliu , Sebastian Brandt , Fabian Kuhn , Dennis Olivetti , Timothé Picavet , Gustav Schmid

This work develops an LLM-based optimization framework ensuring strict constraint satisfaction in network optimization. While LLMs possess contextual reasoning capabilities, existing approaches often fail to enforce constraints, causing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Youngjin Song , Wookjin Lee , Hong Ki Kim , Sang Hyun Lee

The Maximum Betweenness Centrality problem (MBC) can be defined as follows. Given a graph find a $k$-element node set $C$ that maximizes the probability of detecting communication between a pair of nodes $s$ and $t$ chosen uniformly at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-08-23 Martin Fink , Joachim Spoerhase

The contribution of this paper is a framework for training and evaluation of Model Predictive Control (MPC) implemented using constrained neural networks. Recent studies have proposed to use neural networks with differentiable convex…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-11 Rebecka Winqvist , Arun Venkitaraman , Bo Wahlberg

Network data arises through observation of relational information between a collection of entities. Recent work in the literature has independently considered when (i) one observes a sample of networks, connectome data in neuroscience being…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-06-22 George Bolt , Simón Lunagómez , Christopher Nemeth

The critical locus of the loss function of a neural network is determined by the geometry of the functional space and by the parameterization of this space by the network's weights. We introduce a natural distinction between pure critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Matthew Trager , Kathlén Kohn , Joan Bruna

Despite the significant recent progress in deep generative models, the underlying structure of their latent spaces is still poorly understood, thereby making the task of performing semantically meaningful latent traversals an open research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Yue Song , T. Anderson Keller , Nicu Sebe , Max Welling

Sampling-based path planning algorithms usually implement uniform sampling methods to search the state space. However, uniform sampling may lead to unnecessary exploration in many scenarios, such as the environment with a few dead ends. Our…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Han Ma , Chenming Li , Jianbang Liu , Jiankun Wang , Max Q. -H. Meng

Visual representations can be defined as the activations of neuronal populations in response to images. The activation of a neuron as a function over all image space has been described as a "tuning landscape". As a function over a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-12-29 Binxu Wang , Carlos R. Ponce

Despite the abundance of bipartite networked systems, their organizing principles are less studied, compared to unipartite networks. Bipartite networks are often analyzed after projecting them onto one of the two sets of nodes. As a result…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-03-10 Maksim Kitsak , Fragkiskos Papadopoulos , Dmitri Krioukov

Robust disturbance rejection remains a longstanding challenge in humanoid locomotion, particularly on unstructured terrains where sensing is unreliable and model mismatch is pronounced. While perception information, such as height map,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Qixin Zeng , Hongyin Zhang , Shangke Lyu , Junxi Jin , Donglin Wang , Chao Huang

Oblivious routing has a long history in both the theory and practice of networking. In this work we initiate the formal study of oblivious routing in the context of reconfigurable networks, a new architecture that has recently come to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Daniel Amir , Tegan Wilson , Vishal Shrivastav , Hakim Weatherspoon , Robert Kleinberg , Rachit Agarwal

Understanding the latent space geometry of large language models (LLMs) is key to interpreting their behavior and improving alignment. Yet it remains unclear to what extent LLMs linearly organize representations related to semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Baturay Saglam , Paul Kassianik , Blaine Nelson , Sajana Weerawardhena , Yaron Singer , Amin Karbasi

Force-directed layout algorithms are ubiquitously-used tools for network visualisation across a multitude of scientific disciplines. However, they lack theoretical grounding which allows to interpret their outcomes rigorously and can guide…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Felix Gaisbauer , Armin Pournaki , Sven Banisch , Eckehard Olbrich

With the proliferation of network devices and rapid development in information technology, networks such as Internet of Things are increasing in size and becoming more complex with heterogeneous wired and wireless links. In such networks,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Srinikethan Madapuzi Srinivasan , Tram Truong-Huu , Mohan Gurusamy

Feasibility of using unlicensed spectrum for ultra reliable low latency communications (URLLC) is still a question for beyond 5G wireless networks. Low latency access to the channel and efficiently sharing spectrum among the multiple users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Irshad A. Meer , Woong-Hee Lee , Mustafa Ozger , Cicek Cavdar , Ki Won Sung