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In this article, we quantify the functional convergence of the rescaled random walk with heavy tails to a stable process.This generalizes the Generalized Central Limit Theorem for stable random variables infinite dimension. We show that…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Lorick Huang , Laurent Decreusefond , Laure Coutin

We introduce a new framework to analyze quantum algorithms with the renormalization group (RG). To this end, we present a detailed analysis of the real-space RG for discrete-time quantum walks on fractal networks and show how deep insights…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-16 Stefan Boettcher , Shanshan Li

In this work, we consider a modification of the usual Branching Random Walk (BRW), where we give certain independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) displacements to all the particles at the $n$-th generation, which may be different…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Antar Bandyopadhyay , Partha Pratim Ghosh

Reinforced random walks (RRWs), including vertex-reinforced random walks (VRRWs) and edge-reinforced random walks (ERRWs), model random walks where the transition probabilities evolve based on prior visitation history~\cite{mgr, fmk,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-22 Qinghua , Ding , Venkat Anantharam

The rotor router model is a popular deterministic analogue of a random walk on a graph. Instead of moving to a random neighbor, the neighbors are served in a fixed order. We examine how fast this "deterministic random walk" covers all…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-06-18 Tobias Friedrich , Thomas Sauerwald

A random walk is a basic stochastic process on graphs and a key primitive in the design of distributed algorithms. One of the most important features of random walks is that, under mild conditions, they converge to a stationary distribution…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-19 Leran Cai , Thomas Sauerwald , Luca Zanetti

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 centrality is a fundamental metric in graph mining for quantifying node importance and influence, defined as the weighted average of hitting times to a node from all other nodes. Despite its ability to capture rich graph…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Changan Liu , Zixuan Xie , Ahad N. Zehmakan , Zhongzhi Zhang

We review various features of the statistics of random paths on graphs. The relationship between path statistics and Quantum Mechanics (QM) leads to two canonical ways of defining random walk on a graph, which have different statistics and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-08-04 Z. Burda , J. Duda , J. M. Luck , B. Waclaw

The aim of this paper is to deepen the analysis of the asymptotic behavior of the so-called minimal random walk (MRW) using a new martingale approach. The MRW is a discrete-time random walk with infinite memory that has three regimes…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Bernard Bercu , Víctor Hugo Vázquez Guevara

We revisit a simple model class for machine learning on graphs, where a random walk on a graph produces a machine-readable record, and this record is processed by a deep neural network to directly make vertex-level or graph-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Jinwoo Kim , Olga Zaghen , Ayhan Suleymanzade , Youngmin Ryou , Seunghoon Hong

Nodes can be ranked according to their relative importance within the network. Ranking algorithms based on random walks are particularly useful because they connect topological and diffusive properties of the network. Previous methods based…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-06-17 Luis Enrique Correa Rocha , Naoki Masuda

We consider diffusivity of random walks with transition probabilities depending on the number of consecutive traversals of the last traversed edge, the so called senile reinforced random walk (SeRW). In one dimension, the walk is known to…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Thu Dinh , Jack Xin

We describe and analyze how reinforced random walks can eventually localize, i.e. only visit finitely many sites. After introducing vertex and edge self-interacting walks on a discrete graph in a general setting, and stating the main…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-03-30 Pierre Tarrès

Random walks in random scenery are processes defined by $$Z_n:=\sum_{k=1}^n\omega_{S_k}$$ where $S:=(S_k,k\ge 0)$ is a random walk evolving in $\mathbb{Z}^d$ and $\omega:=(\omega_x, x\in{\mathbb Z}^d)$ is a sequence of i.i.d. real random…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-09-29 Nadine Guillotin-Plantard , Julien Poisat

We consider two random walks evolving synchronously on a random out-regular graph of $n$ vertices with bounded out-degree $r\ge 2$, also known as a random Deterministic Finite Automaton (DFA). We show that, with high probability with…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-30 Matteo Quattropani , Federico Sau

The reproduction speed of a continuous-time branching random walk is proportional to a positive parameter $\lambda$. There is a threshold for $\lambda$, which is called $\lambda_w$, that separates almost sure global extinction from global…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-04-28 Daniela Bertacchi , Cristian F. Coletti , Fabio Zucca

We show that for a weakly dense subset of the domain of attraction of a positive stable random variable of index $0<\alpha<1$($DOA\left(\alpha\right))$ the functional stable convergence is a time-changed renewal convergence of distribution…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-09-12 Ofer Busani

In this paper, we consider a spectral analysis of the Correlated Random Walk (CRW) on the path. We apply an analytical method for the Quantum Walk to CRW. For the isospectral coin cases, we obtain all of the eigenvalues and the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Yusuke Ide , Akihiro Narimatsu

We study the behavior of Random Walk in Random Environment (RWRE) on trees in the critical case left open in previous work. Representing the random walk by an electrical network, we assume that the ratios of resistances of neighboring edges…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Robin Pemantle , Yuval Peres