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We study the size and the lifetime distributions of scale-free random branching tree in which $k$ branches are generated from a node at each time step with probability $q_k\sim k^{-\gamma}$. In particular, we focus on finite-size trees in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. -S. Lee , J. S. Kim , B. Kahng , D. Kim

We propose an extension of tree-based space-partitioning indexing structures for data with low intrinsic dimensionality embedded in a high dimensional space. We call this extension an Angle Tree. Our extension can be applied to both…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-04-19 Ilia Zvedeniouk , Sanjay Chawla

Accessibility percolation is a new type of percolation problem inspired by evolutionary biology. To each vertex of a graph a random number is assigned and a path through the graph is called accessible if all numbers along the path are in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-04-04 Stefan Nowak , Joachim Krug

Motivated by online recommendation systems, we study a family of random forests. The vertices of the forest are labeled by integers. Each non-positive integer $i\le 0$ is the root of a tree. Vertices labeled by positive integers $n \ge 1$…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Nicolas Broutin , Luc Devroye , Gabor Lugosi , Roberto Imbuzeiro Oliveira

Leaves, i.e., vertices of degree one, can play a significant role in graph structure, especially in sparsely connected settings in which leaves often constitute the largest fraction of vertices. We consider a leaf-based counterpart of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-07 Harrison Hartle , P. L. Krapivsky

By introducing the notions of living and dead nodes a new model of random tree evolution with continuous time parameter has been constructed. It is assumed that two random variables, the lifetime and the offspring number of living nodes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Pal

We develop a general statistical framework for the analysis and inference of large tree-structured data, with a focus on developing asymptotic goodness-of-fit tests. We first propose a consistent statistical model for binary trees, from…

The probability distribution P(k) of the sizes k of critical trees (branching ratio m=1) is well known to show a power-law behavior k^(-3/2). Such behavior corresponds to the mean-field approximation for many critical and self-organized…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo De Los Rios

Let's denote a complete $m$-ary rooted tree graph of height $n$ as $G$. In scope of this paper we prove the certain relations between the properties of $G$ and the expectation and variance of the distribution of lengths of strings,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Yurii Lahodiuk

Computing and storing probabilities is a hard problem as soon as one has to deal with complex distributions over multiple random variables. The problem of efficient representation of probability distributions is central in term of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-16 David Bellot , Pierre Bessiere

Two kinds of evolving trees are considered here: the exponential trees, where subsequent nodes are linked to old nodes without any preference, and the Barab\'asi--Albert scale-free networks, where the probability of linking to a node is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Malarz , J. Czaplicki , B. Kawecka-Magiera , K. Kulakowski

The mode of a collection of values (i.e., the most frequent value in the collection) is a key summary statistic. Finding the mode in a given range of an array of values is thus of great importance, and constructing a data structure to solve…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Jialong Zhou , Ben Bals , Matei Tinca , Ai Guan , Panagiotis Charalampopoulos , Grigorios Loukides , Solon P. Pissis

Tree-based methods are powerful nonparametric techniques in statistics and machine learning. However, their effectiveness, particularly in finite-sample settings, is not fully understood. Recent applications have revealed their surprising…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Hengrui Luo , Meng Li

Graph alignment - identifying node correspondences between two graphs - is a fundamental problem with applications in network analysis, biology, and privacy research. While substantial progress has been made in aligning correlated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Jakob Maier , Laurent Massoulié

In this work we explore the ability of the Google search engine to find results for random N-letter strings. These random strings, dense over the set of possible N-letter words, address the existence of typos, acronyms, and other words…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-05-09 Lucas Lacasa , Jacopo Tagliabue , Andrew Berdahl

In the critical beta-splitting model of a random $n$-leaf rooted tree, clades are recursively split into sub-clades, and a clade of $m$ leaves is split into sub-clades containing $i$ and $m-i$ leaves with probabilities $\propto 1/(i(m-i))$.…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-16 David J. Aldous , Svante Janson

Recent work on the structure of social networks and the internet has focussed attention on graphs with distributions of vertex degree that are significantly different from the Poisson degree distributions that have been widely studied in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. E. J. Newman , S. H. Strogatz , D. J. Watts

We introduce the Thresholding Monte Carlo Tree Search problem, in which, given a tree $\mathcal{T}$ and a threshold $\theta$, a player must answer whether the root node value of $\mathcal{T}$ is at least $\theta$ or not. In the given tree,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-02 Shoma Nameki , Atsuyoshi Nakamura , Junpei Komiyama , Koji Tabata

In the Dictionary-based String Matching (DSM) problem, a retrieval system has access to a source sequence and stores the position of a certain number of strings in a posting table. When a user inquires the position of a string, the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-26 M. Suri , S. Rini

Uniform spanning trees are a statistical model obtained by taking the set of all spanning trees on a given graph (such as a portion of a cubic lattice in d dimensions), with equal probability for each distinct tree. Some properties of such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. Read