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We introduce a set of techniques that allow for efficiently generating many independent random walks in the Massive Parallel Computation (MPC) model with space per machine strongly sublinear in the number of vertices. In this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Jakub Łącki , Slobodan Mitrović , Krzysztof Onak , Piotr Sankowski

Random walks on graphs can be slow. To speed them up, imagine that at each step instead of choosing the neighbor at random, there is a small probability $\varepsilon>0$ that we can choose it. We show that in this case, at least for graphs…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Boris Bukh , Quentin Dubroff

Random walks have been proposed as a simple method of efficiently searching, or disseminating information throughout, communication and sensor networks. In nature, animals (such as ants) tend to follow correlated random walks, i.e., random…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-03 Graeme Smith , J. W. Sanders , Qin Li

Graph distillation (GD) is an effective approach to extract useful information from large-scale network structures. However, existing methods, which operate in Euclidean space to generate condensed graphs, struggle to capture the inherent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Yunbo Long , Liming Xu , Stefan Schoepf , Alexandra Brintrup

We pose a new and intriguing question motivated by distributed computing regarding random walks on graphs: How long does it take for several independent random walks, starting from the same vertex, to cover an entire graph? We study the…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-11-20 Noga Alon , Chen Avin , Michal Koucky , Gady Kozma , Zvi Lotker , Mark R. Tuttle

Random walk is widely used in many graph analysis tasks, especially the first-order random walk. However, as a simplification of real-world problems, the first-order random walk is poor at modeling higher-order structures in the data.…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Hongzheng Li , Yingxia Shao , Junping Du , Bin Cui , Lei Chen

Graph Random Walks (GRWs) offer efficient approximations of key graph properties and have been widely adopted in many applications. However, GRW workloads are notoriously difficult to accelerate due to their strong data dependencies,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Hongshi Tan , Yao Chen , Xinyu Chen , Qizhen Zhang , Cheng Chen , Weng-Fai Wong , Bingsheng He

Over the last decade, PageRank has gained importance in a wide range of applications and domains, ever since it first proved to be effective in determining node importance in large graphs (and was a pioneering idea behind Google's search…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-26 Atish Das Sarma , Anisur Rahaman Molla , Gopal Pandurangan , Eli Upfal

Graph sampling is a technique to pick a subset of vertices and/ or edges from original graph. Among various graph sampling approaches, Traversal Based Sampling (TBS) are widely used due to low cost and feasibility for many cases, in which…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Xiao Qi

In this article, we study branching random walks on graphs modeling division-mutation processes inspired by adaptive immunity. We apply the theory of expander graphs on mutation rules in evolutionary processes and obtain estimates for the…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Irene Balelli , Vuk Milisic , Gilles Wainrib

Quantum walks are at the heart of modern quantum technologies. They allow to deal with quantum transport phenomena and are an advanced tool for constructing novel quantum algorithms. Quantum walks on graphs are fundamentally different from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Alexey A. Melnikov , Leonid E. Fedichkin , Alexander Alodjants

Random Walk is a basic algorithm to explore the structure of networks, which can be used in many tasks, such as local community detection and network embedding. Existing random walk methods are based on single networks that contain limited…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Dongsheng Luo , Yuchen Bian , Yaowei Yan , Xiong Yu , Jun Huan , Xiao Liu , Xiang Zhang

We investigate hide-and-seek games on complex networks using a random walk framework. Specifically, we investigate the efficiency of various degree-biased random walk search strategies to locate items that are randomly hidden on a subset of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-02-20 Shubham Pandey , Reimer Kuehn

One of the focus areas of modern scientific research is to reveal mysteries related to genes and their interactions. The dynamic interactions between genes can be encoded into a gene regulatory network (GRN), which can be used to gain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-16 Atte Aalto , Lauri Viitasaari , Pauliina Ilmonen , Laurent Mombaerts , Jorge Goncalves

Graph embedding based on random-walks supports effective solutions for many graph-related downstream tasks. However, the abundance of embedding literature has made it increasingly difficult to compare existing methods and to identify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Zexi Huang , Arlei Silva , Ambuj Singh

As random walk is a powerful tool in many graph processing, mining and learning applications, this paper proposes an efficient in-memory random walk engine named ThunderRW. Compared with existing parallel systems on improving the…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Shixuan Sun , Yuhang Chen , Shengliang Lu , Bingsheng He , Yuchen Li

In the last two decades we are witnessing a huge increase of valuable big data structured in the form of graphs or networks. To apply traditional machine learning and data analytic techniques to such data it is necessary to transform graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Aleksandar Tomčić , Miloš Savić , Miloš Radovanović

We study random walks on dynamically evolving graphs, where the environment is given by a time-dependent subset of the edges of an underlying graph. Concretely, following the recently introduced framework of Lelli and Stauffer, we consider…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Andreas Galanis , Leslie Ann Goldberg , Xandru Mifsud

The role of high-degree nodes, or hubs, in shaping graph dynamics and structure is well-recognized in network science, yet their influence remains underexplored in the context of dynamic graph embedding. Recent advances in representation…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Aleksandar Tomčić , Miloš Savić , Dušan Simić , Miloš Radovanović

Top-k selection, which identifies the largest or smallest k elements from a data set, is a fundamental operation in data-intensive domains such as databases and deep learning, so its scalability and efficiency are critical for these…

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