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Learning properties of large graphs from samples has been an important problem in statistical network analysis since the early work of Goodman \cite{Goodman1949} and Frank \cite{Frank1978}. We revisit a problem formulated by Frank…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Jason M. Klusowski , Yihong Wu

This paper is inspired by the problem of understanding in a mathematical sense the Liouville quantum gravity on surfaces. Here we show how to define a stationary random metric on self-similar spaces which are the limit of nice finite…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-09-15 Mikhail Khristoforov , Victor Kleptsyn , Michele Triestino

We develop and extensively evaluate highly scalable distributed-memory algorithms for computing minimum spanning trees (MSTs). At the heart of our solutions is a scalable variant of Boruvka's algorithm. For partitioned graphs with many…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Peter Sanders , Matthias Schimek

The graph continual release model of differential privacy seeks to produce differentially private solutions to graph problems under a stream of edge updates where new private solutions are released after each update. Thus far, previously…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Alessandro Epasto , Quanquan C. Liu , Tamalika Mukherjee , Felix Zhou

Given a graph $G$, the hard-core model defines a probability distribution over its independent sets, assigning to each set of size $k$ a probability of $\frac{\lambda^k}{Z}$, where $\lambda>0$ is a parameter known as the \emph{fugacity} and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Malory Marin

We introduce Tiered Sampling, a novel technique for approximate counting sparse motifs in massive graphs whose edges are observed in a stream. Our technique requires only a single pass on the data and uses a memory of fixed size $M$, which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Lorenzo De Stefani , Erisa Terolli , Eli Upfal

One of the most influential recent results in network analysis is that many natural networks exhibit a power-law or log-normal degree distribution. This has inspired numerous generative models that match this property. However, more recent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-09-01 Isabelle Stanton , Ali Pinar

Gas transport and other complex real-world challenges often require solving and controlling partial differential equations (PDEs) defined on graph structures, which typically demand substantial memory and computational resources. The Random…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Martín Hernández , Enrique Zuazua

The efficiency of graph-based semi-supervised algorithms depends on the graph of instances on which they are applied. The instances are often in a vectorial form before a graph linking them is built. The construction of the graph relies on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-19 Pauline Wauquier , Mikaela Keller

Fastest arrival events, where the first among many diffusing particles reaches a target, are central in triggering signal initiation in molecular stochastic systems. Classical approaches to simulate such events rely on full trajectory…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Emmanuel Akame Mfoumou , David Holcman

Comparative analysis between a network and a random graph model can uncover network properties that significantly deviate from those in random networks. The standard random graph model used for comparison uniformly samples random graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Yanna J. Kraakman , Clara Stegehuis

Extensive time-series encoding the position of particles such as viruses, vesicles, or individual proteins are routinely garnered in single-particle tracking experiments or supercomputing studies. They contain vital clues on how viruses…

Many applications collect a large number of time series, for example, the financial data of companies quoted in a stock exchange, the health care data of all patients that visit the emergency room of a hospital, or the temperature sequences…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Jonathan Mei , José M. F. Moura

Directed graphs have asymmetric connections, yet the current graph clustering methodologies cannot identify the potentially global structure of these asymmetries. We give a spectral algorithm called di-sim that builds on a dual measure of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-01-09 Karl Rohe , Tai Qin , Bin Yu

This paper considers mean square error (MSE) analysis for stochastic gradient sampling algorithms applied to underdamped Langevin dynamics under a global convexity assumption. A novel discrete Poisson equation framework is developed to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Jianfeng Lu , Xuda Ye , Zhennan Zhou

The dynamic scaling of distributed computations plays an important role in the utilization of elastic computational resources, such as the cloud. It enables the provisioning and de-provisioning of resources to match dynamic resource…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Masatoshi Hanai , Nikos Tziritas , Toyotaro Suzumura , Wentong Cai , Georgios Theodoropoulos

The area of Data Analytics on graphs promises a paradigm shift as we approach information processing of classes of data, which are typically acquired on irregular but structured domains (social networks, various ad-hoc sensor networks).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Ljubisa Stankovic , Danilo Mandic , Milos Dakovic , Milos Brajovic , Bruno Scalzo , Tony Constantinides

In this paper, we propose a new framework to study distributed optimization problems with stochastic gradients by employing a multi-agent system with continuous-time dynamics. Here the goal of the agents is to cooperatively minimize the sum…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Jianhua Sun , Kaihong Lu , Xin Yu

A diffusion taking value in probability measures on a graph with a vertex set $V$, $\sum_{i\in V}x_i\delta_i$, is studied. The masses on each vertices satisfy the stochastic differential equation of the form $dx_i=\sum_{j\in…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-03-13 Shuhei Mano

In this paper, the dynamics of heuristic algorithms for constructing small vertex covers (or independent sets) of finite-connectivity random graphs is analysed. In every algorithmic step, a vertex is chosen with respect to its vertex…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Martin Weigt