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This paper considers a joint multi-graph inference and clustering problem for simultaneous inference of node centrality and association of graph signals with their graphs. We study a mixture model of filtered low pass graph signals with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-15 Yiran He , Hoi-To Wai

Ensemble models of graphs are one of the most important theoretical tools to study complex networks. Among them, exponential random graphs (ERGs) have proven to be very useful in the analysis of social networks. In this paper we develop a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-14 Diego Escribano , José A. Cuesta

We recently proposed a new ensemble clustering algorithm for graphs (ECG) based on the concept of consensus clustering. We validated our approach by replicating a study comparing graph clustering algorithms over benchmark graphs, showing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Valérie Poulin , François Théberge

We analyse the metastable behaviour of the dilute Curie-Weiss model subject to a Glauber dynamics. The model is a random version of a mean-field Ising model, where the coupling coefficients are Bernoulli random variables with mean $p\in…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-26 Anton Bovier , Saeda Marello , Elena Pulvirenti

Continuous graph neural models based on differential equations have expanded the architecture of graph neural networks (GNNs). Due to the connection between graph diffusion and message passing, diffusion-based models have been widely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Kaiyuan Cui , Xinyan Wang , Zicheng Zhang , Weichen Zhao

In this short paper, we obtain non-asymptotic concentration results for magnetization of the Curie-Weiss model at subcritical temperatures, which leads to a diffusion limit theorem of the scaled and centered magnetization driven by a…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-03-02 Yingdong Lu

We extend the latent position random graph model to the line graph of a random graph, which is formed by creating a vertex for each edge in the original random graph, and connecting each pair of edges incident to a common vertex in the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Zachary Lubberts , Avanti Athreya , Youngser Park , Carey E. Priebe

Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGMs) are an inferential model for analysing statistical networks. Recent development in ERGMs uses hierarchical Bayesian setup to jointly model a group of networks, which is called a multiple-network…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-06 Yefeng Fan , Simon Richard White

We consider general Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGMs) where the sufficient statistics are functions of homomorphism counts for a fixed collection of simple graphs $F_k$. Whereas previous work has shown a degeneracy phenomenon in dense…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Nicholas A. Cook , Amir Dembo

The modeling of diffusion processes on graphs is the basis for many network science and machine learning approaches. Entropic measures of network-based diffusion have recently been employed to investigate the reversibility of these…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Samuel Koovely , Alexandre Bovet

In most domains of network analysis researchers consider networks that arise in nature with weighted edges. Such networks are routinely dichotomized in the interest of using available methods for statistical inference with networks. The…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-11-10 James D. Wilson , Matthew J. Denny , Shankar Bhamidi , Skyler Cranmer , Bruce Desmarais

Understanding microstructural evolution under extreme thermal conditions is essential for advancing metal additive manufacturing (AM). This work demonstrates the feasibility of employing micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) heating…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-12 C. Koenig , P. Mayr , J. R. Jinschek , A. Bastos Fanta

The conventional use of the Generalized Extreme Value (GEV) distribution to model block maxima may be inappropriate when extremes are actually structured into multiple heterogeneous groups. In this work, we propose a novel approach for…

Random graphs, where the connections between nodes are considered random variables, have wide applicability in the social sciences. Exponential-family Random Graph Models (ERGM) have shown themselves to be a useful class of models for…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-08-02 Ian Fellows , Mark S. Handcock

We present a general method to derive the metastable behavior of weakly mixing Markov chains. This approach is based on properties of the resolvent equations and can be applied to metastable dynamics which do not satisfy the mixing…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Claudio Landim , Diego Marcondes , Insuk Seo

In this work we prove sufficient conditions for the Glauber dynamics corresponding to a sequence of (non-product) measures on finite product spaces to be rapidly mixing, i.e. that the mixing time with respect to the total variation distance…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-02-27 Arthur Sinulis

Convergence rate analyses of random walk Metropolis-Hastings Markov chains on general state spaces have largely focused on establishing sufficient conditions for geometric ergodicity or on analysis of mixing times. Geometric ergodicity is a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-24 Riddhiman Bhattacharya , Galin L. Jones

The main goal of the paper is to prove central limit theorems for the magnetization rescaled by $\sqrt{N}$ for the Ising model on random graphs with $N$ vertices. Both random quenched and averaged quenched measures are considered. We work…

This is a summary of the article with the same title, accepted for publication in Advances in Chemical Engineering, 47: 193-277 (2015). Gas-solid fluidization is a typical nonlinear nonequilibrium system with multiscale structure. In…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-12-15 Wei Wang , Yanpei Chen

I propose an estimation algorithm for Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGM), a popular statistical network model for estimating the structural parameters of strategic network formation in economics and finance. Existing methods often…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-12-09 Yoon Choi