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Symmetry is an important aesthetic criteria in graph drawing and network visualisation. Symmetric graph drawings aim to faithfully represent automorphisms of graphs as geometric symmetries in a drawing. In this paper, we design and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Amyra Meidiana , Seok-Hee Hong , Peter Eades , Daniel Keim

To characterize the location (mean, median) of a set of graphs, one needs a notion of centrality that is adapted to metric spaces, since graph sets are not Euclidean spaces. A standard approach is to consider the Frechet mean. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-19 Daniel Ferguson , Francois G. Meyer

In this paper we propose and study a new structural invariant for graphs, called distance-unbalanced\-ness, as a measure of how much a graph is (un)balanced in terms of distances. Explicit formulas are presented for several classes of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-04 Štefko Miklavič , Primož Šparl

As a sequel to a recent work we consider the generalized stress concentration factor, a purely geometric property of a body that for the various external loading fields indicates the worst ratio between the maximum of the optimal stress and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Reuven Segev

We study methods to manipulate weights in stress-graph embeddings to improve convex straight-line planar drawings of 3-connected planar graphs. Stress-graph embeddings are weighted versions of Tutte embeddings, where solving a linear system…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Alvin Chiu , David Eppstein , Michael T. Goodrich

Finding graph indices which are unbiased to network size and density is of high importance both within a given field and across fields for enhancing comparability of modern network science studies. The degree variance is an important metric…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Keith M. Smith , Javier Escudero

This paper proposes a family of graph metrics for measuring distances between graphs of different sizes. The proposed metric family defines a general form of the graph generalised optimal sub-pattern assignment (GOSPA) metric and is also…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Jinhao Gu , Ángel F. García-Fernández , Robert E. Firth , Lennart Svensson

When network and graph theory are used in the study of complex systems, a typically finite set of nodes of the network under consideration is frequently either explicitly or implicitly considered representative of a much larger finite or…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-03-18 Jobst Heitzig , Jonathan F. Donges , Yong Zou , Norbert Marwan , Jürgen Kurths

The graph matching optimization problem is an essential component for many tasks in computer vision, such as bringing two deformable objects in correspondence. Naturally, a wide range of applicable algorithms have been proposed in the last…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Stefan Haller , Lorenz Feineis , Lisa Hutschenreiter , Florian Bernard , Carsten Rother , Dagmar Kainmüller , Paul Swoboda , Bogdan Savchynskyy

Common measures of neural representational (dis)similarity are designed to be insensitive to rotations and reflections of the neural activation space. Motivated by the premise that the tuning of individual units may be important, there has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Meenakshi Khosla , Alex H. Williams

Designing well-connected graphs is a fundamental problem that frequently arises in various contexts across science and engineering. The weighted number of spanning trees, as a connectivity measure, emerges in numerous problems and plays a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Kasra Khosoussi , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Shoudong Huang , Gamini Dissanayake

We extend the previously observed scaling equation connecting the internode distances and nodes' degrees onto the case of weighted networks. We show that the scaling takes a similar form in the empirical data obtained from networks…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-08-25 Julian Sienkiewicz , Janusz A. Holyst

The purpose of this paper is to assess the statistical characterization of weighted networks in terms of the generalization of the relevant parameters, namely average path length, degree distribution and clustering coefficient. Although the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Antoniou Ioannis , Tsompa Eleni

We address the key challenge of size-induced distribution shifts in graph neural networks (GNNs) and their impact on the generalization of GNNs to larger graphs. Existing literature operates under diverse assumptions about distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Gaotang Li , Danai Koutra , Yujun Yan

Centrality describes the importance of nodes in a graph and is modeled by various measures. Its global analogue, called centralization, is a general formula for calculating a graph-level centrality score based on the node-level centrality…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Jose Mari E. Ortega , Rolito G. Eballe

In this article we consider the graph alignment problem from the perspective of high-dimensional statistics: we aim to estimate an unknown permutation $\pi^*$ from the observation of two correlated random adjacency matrices $A_1$, $A_2$. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Laurent Massoulié

Signed graphs are widely used to analyze complex systems such as social, political, and biological networks. The notion of balance, a key concept of signed graphs, reflects the stability of relationships. While it has been extensively…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zeyu Wang , Kudria Sergei , Jingbang Chen , Jiawei Chen , Xinyu Wang , Xiaodong Luo , Can Wang

Due to their capacity to encode rich structural information, labeled graphs are often used for modeling various kinds of objects such as images, molecules, and chemical compounds. If pattern recognition problems such as clustering and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-02 David B. Blumenthal

Measuring graph clustering quality remains an open problem. To address it, we introduce quality measures based on comparisons of intra- and inter-cluster densities, an accompanying statistical test of the significance of their differences…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Pierre Miasnikof , Alexander Y. Shestopaloff , Anthony J. Bonner , Yuri Lawryshyn , Panos M. Pardalos

In the past few years, graph neural networks (GNNs) have become the de facto model of choice for graph classification. While, from the theoretical viewpoint, most GNNs can operate on graphs of any size, it is empirically observed that their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Davide Buffelli , Pietro Liò , Fabio Vandin