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In the sequential learning problem, agents in a network attempt to predict a binary ground truth, informed by both a noisy private signal and the predictions of neighboring agents before them. It is well known that social learning in this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-10 William Guo , Edward Xiong , Jie Gao

In this paper we consider a network of processors aiming at cooperatively solving linear programming problems subject to uncertainty. Each node only knows a common cost function and its local uncertain constraint set. We propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-27 Mohammadreza Chamanbaz , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Roland Bouffanais

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) has emerged as a powerful framework for extracting robust and interpretable features from noisy high-dimensional data. In the context of Social Choice Theory, where preference profiles and collective…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Athanasios Andrikopoulos , Nikolaos Sampanis

In this paper we investigate networks whose evolution is governed by the interaction of a random assembly process and an optimization process. In the first process, new nodes are added one at a time and form connections to randomly selected…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-05-16 Markus Brede

A mechanism for self-organization of the degree of connectivity in model neural networks is studied. Network connectivity is regulated locally on the basis of an order parameter of the global dynamics which is estimated from an observable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Stefan Bornholdt , Torsten Roehl

The framework of feedback graphs is a generalization of sequential decision-making with bandit or full information feedback. In this work, we study an extension where the directed feedback graph is stochastic, following a distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Emmanuel Esposito , Federico Fusco , Dirk van der Hoeven , Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi

We consider two simple asynchronous opinion dynamics on arbitrary graphs where every node $u$ has an initial value $\xi_u(0)$. In the first process, the NodeModel, at each time step $t\ge 0$, a random node $u$ and a random sample of $k$ of…

Network topologies can be non-trivial, due to the complex underlying behaviors that form them. While past research has shown that some processes on networks may be characterized by low-order statistics describing nodes and their neighbors,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-10-22 Xin-Zeng Wu , Allon G. Percus , Keith Burghardt , Kristina Lerman

We revisit the classic problem of dynamically maintaining shortest paths between all pairs of nodes of a directed weighted graph. The allowed updates are insertions and deletions of nodes and their incident edges. We give worst-case…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Ittai Abraham , Shiri Chechik , Sebastian Krinninger

We construct a novel preorder on the set of nodes of a simple undirected graph. We prove that the preorder (induced by the topology of the graph) is preserved, e.g., by the logistic dynamical system (both in discrete and continuous time).…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Augusto Almeida Santos , José M. F. Moura , João Xavier

We study the distributed optimization problem over a graphon with a continuum of nodes, which is regarded as the limit of the distributed networked optimization as the number of nodes goes to infinity. Each node has a private local cost…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Yan Chen , Tao Li , Xiaofeng Zong

This paper provides time-dependent expressions for the expected degree distribution of a given network that is subject to growth, as a function of time. We consider both uniform attachment, where incoming nodes form links to existing nodes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-12-16 Babak Fotouhi , Michael G. Rabbat

We study asymptotic dynamical patterns that emerge among a set of nodes that interact in a dynamically evolving signed random network. Node interactions take place at random on a sequence of deterministic signed graphs. Each node receives…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-09-24 Guodong Shi , Alexandre Proutiere , Mikael Johansson , John. S. Baras , Karl H. Johansson

It has been proposed that adaptation in complex systems is optimized at the critical boundary between ordered and disordered dynamical regimes. Here, we review models of evolving dynamical networks that lead to self-organization of network…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2008-11-07 Thimo Rohlf , Stefan Bornholdt

We consider discrete, iterative load balancing via matchings on arbitrary graphs. Initially each node holds a certain number of tokens, defining the load of the node, and the objective is to redistribute the tokens such that eventually each…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Petra Berenbrink , Robert Elsässer , Tom Friedetzky , Hamed Hosseinpour , Dominik Kaaser , Peter Kling , Thomas Sauerwald

This work considers the robustness of uncertain consensus networks. The first set of results studies the stability properties of consensus networks with negative edge weights. We show that if either the negative weight edges form a cut in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-03 Daniel Zelazo , Mathias Bürger

Graph signal processing deals with algorithms and signal representations that leverage graph structures for multivariate data analysis. Often said graph topology is not readily available and may be time-varying, hence (dynamic) graph…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-20 Hector Chahuara , Gonzalo Mateos

This paper presents a novel accelerated distributed algorithm for unconstrained consensus optimization over static undirected networks. The proposed algorithm combines the benefits of acceleration from momentum, the robustness of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Eduardo Sebastián , Mauro Franceschelli , Andrea Gasparri , Eduardo Montijano , Carlos Sagüés

In this paper, we investigate asymptotic properties of a consensus protocol taking place in a class of temporal (i.e., time-varying) networks called the activity driven network. We first show that a standard methodology provides us with an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Masaki Ogura , Junpei Tagawa , Naoki Masuda

Consider a network of agents that all want to guess the correct value of some ground truth state. In a sequential order, each agent makes its decision using a single private signal which has a constant probability of error, as well as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Kevin Lu , Jordan Chong , Matt Lu , Jie Gao