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Mainly motivated by the problem of modelling directional dependence relationships for multivariate count data in high-dimensional settings, we present a new algorithm, called learnDAG, for learning the structure of directed acyclic graphs…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-06-10 Thi Kim Hue Nguyen , Monica Chiogna , Davide Risso

Blockchain consensus protocols enable participants to agree on consistent views of the blockchain that may be ahead or behind relative to each other but do not fork into different chains. A number of recently popular…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Alessandro Coglio , Eric McCarthy

Learning graphical structures based on Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) is a challenging problem, partly owing to the large search space of possible graphs. A recent line of work formulates the structure learning problem as a continuous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Ignavier Ng , AmirEmad Ghassami , Kun Zhang

As the digital landscape evolves, Web3 has gained prominence, highlighting the critical role of decentralized, interconnected, and verifiable digital ecosystems. This paper introduces SPID-Chain, a novel interoperability consensus designed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Amirhossein Taherpour , Xiaodong Wang

We present a method to generate directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) using deep reinforcement learning, specifically deep Q-learning. Generating graphs with specified structures is an important and challenging task in various application fields,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Laura D'Arcy , Padraig Corcoran , Alun Preece

In this paper we introduce the first efficient external-memory algorithm to compute the bisimilarity equivalence classes of a directed acyclic graph (DAG). DAGs are commonly used to model data in a wide variety of practical applications,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Jelle Hellings , George H. L. Fletcher , Herman Haverkort

We study a distributed learning problem in which learning agents are embedded in a directed acyclic graph (DAG). There is a fixed and arbitrary distribution over feature/label pairs, and each agent or vertex in the graph is able to directly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Michael Kearns , Aaron Roth , Emily Ryu

Average consensus algorithms compute the global average of sensor data in a distributed fashion using local sensor nodes. Simple execution, decentralized philosophy make these algorithms suitable for WSN scenarios. Most of the researchers…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Sateeshkrishna Dhuli , Y. N. Singh

Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) are solid structures used to describe and infer the dependencies among variables in multivariate scenarios. Having a thorough comprehension of the accurate DAG-generating model is crucial for causal discovery…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-09-09 S. Nazari , M. Arashi , A. Sadeghkhani

We study the problem of reducing test-time acquisition costs in classification systems. Our goal is to learn decision rules that adaptively select sensors for each example as necessary to make a confident prediction. We model our system as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-10-27 Joseph Wang , Kirill Trapeznikov , Venkatesh Saligrama

We consider the PC-algorithm Spirtes et. al. (2000) for estimating the skeleton of a very high-dimensional acyclic directed graph (DAG) with corresponding Gaussian distribution. The PC-algorithm is computationally feasible for sparse…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Markus Kalisch , Peter Buehlmann

We consider the problem of recovering the true causal structure among a set of variables, generated by a linear acyclic structural equation model (SEM) with the error terms being independent, not necessarily Gaussian, and having equal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Anamitra Chaudhuri , Yang Ni , Anirban Bhattacharya

Distributed architectures are used to improve performance and reliability of various systems. Examples include drone swarms and load-balancing servers. An important capability of a distributed architecture is the ability to reach consensus…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Mohit Tekriwal , Avi Tachna-Fram , Jean-Baptiste Jeannin , Manos Kapritsos , Dimitra Panagou

In this paper, we propose two models for scaling the transaction throughput in Proof-of-Work (PoW) based blockchain networks. In the first approach, a mathematical model has derived for optimal transaction throughput for PoW based longest…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-21 B Swaroopa Reddy , G V V Sharma

Blockchain and other decentralized databases, known as distributed ledgers, are designed to store information online where all trusted network members can update the data with transparency. The dynamics of ledger's development can be…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Jiewei Feng , Christopher King , Ken R. Duffy

While visual comparison of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) is commonly encountered in various disciplines (e.g., finance, biology), knowledge about humans' perception of graph similarity is currently quite limited. By graph similarity…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-09-07 Kathrin Ballweg , Margit Pohl , Günter Wallner , Tatiana von Landesberger

We propose an algorithm for average consensus over a directed graph which is both fully asynchronous and robust to unreliable communications. We show its convergence to the average, while allowing for slowly growing but potentially…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-26 Alex Olshevsky , Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis , Artin Spiridonoff

Bayesian structure learning allows one to capture uncertainty over the causal directed acyclic graph (DAG) responsible for generating given data. In this work, we present Tractable Uncertainty for STructure learning (TRUST), a framework for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Benjie Wang , Matthew Wicker , Marta Kwiatkowska

In the past decade, blockchain has emerged as a promising solution for building secure distributed ledgers and has attracted significant attention. However, current blockchain systems suffer from limited throughput, poor scalability, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Tayyaba Noreen , Qiufen Xia , Muhammad Zeeshan Haider

Predicting answers to queries over knowledge graphs is called a complex reasoning task because answering a query requires subdividing it into subqueries. Existing query embedding methods use this decomposition to compute the embedding of a…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Yunjie He , Bo Xiong , Daniel Hernández , Yuqicheng Zhu , Evgeny Kharlamov , Steffen Staab