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Laplacian operators are classical objects that are fundamental in both pure and applied mathematics and are becoming increasingly prominent in modern computational and data science fields such as applied and computational topology and…

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Incorporating higher-order interactions in information processing enables us to build more accurate models, gain deeper insights into complex systems, and address real-world challenges more effectively. However, existing methods, such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-25 Ryu Hayakawa , Kuo-Chin Chen , Min-Hsiu Hsieh

We study the Laplacian operator of an uncorrelated random network and, as an application, consider hopping processes (diffusion, random walks, signal propagation, etc.) on networks. We develop a strict approach to these problems. We derive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. N. Samukhin , S. N. Dorogovtsev , J. F. F. Mendes

Focusing on coupling between edges, we generalize the relationship between the normalized graph Laplacian and random walks on graphs by devising an appropriate normalization for the Hodge Laplacian -- the generalization of the graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Michael T. Schaub , Austin R. Benson , Paul Horn , Gabor Lippner , Ali Jadbabaie

Higher-order networks encode the many-body interactions existing in complex systems, such as the brain, protein complexes, and social interactions. Simplicial complexes are higher-order networks that allow a comprehensive investigation of…

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In network science, the interplay between dynamical processes and the underlying topologies of complex systems has led to a diverse family of models with different interpretations. In graph signal processing, this is manifested in the form…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Xiaoran Yan , Brian M. Sadler , Robert J. Drost , Paul L. Yu , Kristina Lerman

Quantum walks provide a natural framework to approach graph problems with quantum computers, exhibiting speedups over their classical counterparts for tasks such as the search for marked nodes or the prediction of missing links.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Duarte Magano , João Moutinho , Bruno Coutinho

A deformation of the combinatorial Laplacian is proposed, consisting in a generalization of several existing Laplacians. As particular cases of this construction, the dilation Laplacians are shown to be useful tools for ranking in directed…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-10-25 Michaël Fanuel , Johan A. K. Suykens

Network topology is a flourishing interdisciplinary subject that is relevant for different disciplines including quantum gravity and brain research. The discrete topological objects that are investigated in network topology are simplicial…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-07-15 Marcus Reitz , Ginestra Bianconi

Graph Laplacians computed from weighted adjacency matrices are widely used to identify geometric structure in data, and clusters in particular; their spectral properties play a central role in a number of unsupervised and semi-supervised…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Franca Hoffmann , Bamdad Hosseini , Assad A. Oberai , Andrew M. Stuart

Understanding the mutual interdependence between the behavior of dynamical processes on networks and the underlying topologies promises new insight for a large class of empirical networks. We present a generic approach to investigate this…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-08-08 Steffen Karalus , Markus Porto

Multiplex networks describe systems whose interactions can be of different nature, and are fundamental to understand complexity of networks beyond the framework of simple graphs. Recently it has been pointed out that restricting the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-11-14 Reza Ghorbanchian , Vito Latora , Ginestra Bianconi

Convolution operations designed for graph-structured data usually utilize the graph Laplacian, which can be seen as message passing between the adjacent neighbors through a generic random walk. In this paper, we propose PAN, a new graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Zheng Ma , Ming Li , Yuguang Wang

In this paper, we present a framework to compare the differences in the occupation probabilities of two random walk processes, which can be generated by modifications of the network or the transition probabilities between the nodes of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-29 Alejandro P. Riascos , Francisco Hernández Padilla

Random walks over directed graphs are used to model activities in many domains, such as social networks, influence propagation, and Bayesian graphical models. They are often used to compute the importance or centrality of individual nodes…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-08-10 Daniel Boley , Alejandro Buendia , Golshan Golnari

This work focuses on exploring the potential benefits of introducing a nonlinear Laplacian in Sheaf Neural Networks for graph-related tasks. The primary aim is to understand the impact of such nonlinearity on diffusion dynamics, signal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Olga Zaghen

Diffuse interface methods have recently been introduced for the task of semi-supervised learning. The underlying model is well-known in materials science but was extended to graphs using a Ginzburg--Landau functional and the graph…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-21 Jessica Bosch , Steffen Klamt , Martin Stoll

We propose a novel Bayesian methodology which uses random walks for rapid inference of statistical properties of undirected networks with weighted or unweighted edges. Our formalism yields high-accuracy estimates of the probability…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-07-25 Willow B. Kion-Crosby , Alexandre V. Morozov

Complex networks are characterized by latent geometries induced by their topology or by the dynamics on the top of them. In the latter case, different network-driven processes induce distinct geometric features that can be captured by…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-07 Giulia Bertagnolli , Manlio De Domenico