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Given a hypergraph with uncertain node weights following known probability distributions, we study the problem of querying as few nodes as possible until the identity of a node with minimum weight can be determined for each hyperedge.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Evripidis Bampis , Christoph Dürr , Thomas Erlebach , Murilo S. de Lima , Nicole Megow , Jens Schlöter

We propose and analyze a graph model to study the connectivity of interdependent networks. Two interdependent networks of arbitrary topologies are modeled as two graphs, where every node in one graph is supported by supply nodes in the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Jianan Zhang , Eytan Modiano

Assume that the vertices of a graph $G$ are always operational, but the edges of $G$ are operational independently with probability $p \in[0,1]$. For fixed vertices $s$ and $t$, the \emph{two-terminal reliability} of $G$ is the probability…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-18 Jason Brown , Corey D. C. DeGagne

There has been recent growing interest in graph theoretical properties known as r- and (r,s)-robustness. These properties serve as sufficient conditions guaranteeing the success of certain consensus algorithms in networks with misbehaving…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-06 James Usevitch , Dimitra Panagou

The Survivable Network Design problem (SNDP) is a well-studied problem, motivated by the design of networks that are robust to faults under the assumption that any subset of edges up to a specific number can fail. We consider non-uniform…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Chandra Chekuri , Rhea Jain

We address the problem of distributed state estimation of a linear dynamical process in an attack-prone environment. Recent attempts to solve this problem impose stringent redundancy requirements on the measurement and communication…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Aritra Mitra , Faiq Ghawash , Shreyas Sundaram , Waseem Abbas

Node embedding is the task of extracting informative and descriptive features over the nodes of a graph. The importance of node embeddings for graph analytics, as well as learning tasks such as node classification, link prediction and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Dimitris Berberidis , Georgios B. Giannakis

It was experimentally observed that the majority of real-world networks follow power law degree distribution. The aim of this paper is to study the algorithmic complexity of such "typical" networks. The contribution of this work is twofold.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-10 Paweł Brach , Marek Cygan , Jakub Łącki , Piotr Sankowski

Graph neural networks (GNNs) work remarkably well in semi-supervised node regression, yet a rigorous theory explaining when and why they succeed remains lacking. To address this gap, we study an aggregate-and-readout model that encompasses…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-20 Juntong Chen , Claire Donnat , Olga Klopp , Johannes Schmidt-Hieber

In this paper we study the node failure identification problem in undirected graphs by means of Boolean Network Tomography. We argue that vertex connectivity plays a central role. We show tight bounds on the maximal identifiability in a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Nicola Galesi , Fariba Ranjbar , Michele Zito

The outage performance of wireless networks with unstructured network topologies is investigated. The network reliability perspective of graph theory is used to obtain the network outage polynomial of generalized wireless networks by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Semiha Tedik Basaran , Gunes Karabulut Kurt , Frank R. Kschischang

The study of network robustness is a critical tool in the characterization and sense making of complex interconnected systems such as infrastructure, communication and social networks. While significant research has been conducted in all of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Scott Freitas , Diyi Yang , Srijan Kumar , Hanghang Tong , Duen Horng Chau

In a wide range of complex networks, the links between the nodes are temporal and may sporadically appear and disappear. This temporality is fundamental to analyze the formation of paths within such networks. Moreover, the presence of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-09-20 Shahriar Etemadi Tajbakhsh , Justin P. Coon , David E. Simmons

Real-world applications such as the internet of things, wireless sensor networks, smart grids, transportation networks, communication networks, social networks, and computer grid systems are typically modeled as network structures. Network…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Wei-Chang Yeh

In this paper, we present algorithms for designing networks that are robust to node failures with minimal or limited number of links. We present algorithms for both the static network setting and the dynamic network setting; setting where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Deepan Muthirayan , Pramod P. Khargonekar

We give the first polynomial-time, differentially node-private, and robust algorithm for estimating the edge density of Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graphs and their generalization, inhomogeneous random graphs. We further prove…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Hongjie Chen , Jingqiu Ding , Yiding Hua , David Steurer

We study the problem of guaranteeing the connectivity of a given graph by protecting or strengthening edges. Herein, a protected edge is assumed to be robust and will not fail, which features a non-uniform failure model. We introduce the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Felix Hommelsheim , Zhenwei Liu , Nicole Megow , Guochuan Zhang

We consider the problem of measuring the margin of robust feasibility of solutions to a system of nonlinear equations. We study the special case of a system of quadratic equations, which shows up in many practical applications such as the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Krishnamurthy Dvijotham , Bala Krishnamoorthy , Yunqi Luo , Benjamin Rapone

We investigate certain structural properties of random interdependent networks. We start by studying a property known as $r$-robustness, which is a strong indicator of the ability of a network to tolerate structural perturbations and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Ebrahim Moradi Shahrivar , Mohammad Pirani , Shreyas Sundaram

Supervised learning on graphs is a challenging task due to the high dimensionality and inherent structural dependencies in the data, where each edge depends on a pair of vertices. Existing conventional methods are designed for standard…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-06-27 Cencheng Shen , Shangsi Wang , Alexandra Badea , Carey E. Priebe , Joshua T. Vogelstein