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Large-scale recurrent networks have drawn increasing attention recently because of their capabilities in modeling a large variety of real-world phenomena and physical mechanisms. This paper studies how to identify all authentic connections…

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The statistical property of a growing scale-free network is studied based on an earlier model proposed by Krapivsky, Rodgers, and Redner [Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5401 (2001)], with the additional constraints of forbidden of self-connection and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Haijun Zhou

Modeling generative process of growing graphs has wide applications in social networks and recommendation systems, where cold start problem leads to new nodes isolated from existing graph. Despite the emerging literature in learning graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Da Xu , Chuanwei Ruan , Kamiya Motwani , Evren Korpeoglu , Sushant Kumar , Kannan Achan

We introduce and solve a model which considers two coupled networks growing simultaneously. The dynamics of the networks is governed by the new arrival of network elements (nodes) making preferential attachments to pre-existing nodes in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dafang Zheng , Guler Ergun

We present continuum models that describe the evolution of the position of a random walker on a growing network using four different growth algorithms. Three of these involve a random element, including one in which the motility rate of the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-06-26 Robert Ross , Walter Fontana

The network structure (or topology) of a dynamical network is often unavailable or uncertain. Hence, we consider the problem of network reconstruction. Network reconstruction aims at inferring the topology of a dynamical network using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-26 Henk J. van Waarde , Pietro Tesi , M. Kanat Camlibel

We investigate a model of evolving random network, introduced by us previously {[}{\it Phys. Rev. Lett.} {\bf 83}, 5587 (1999){]} . The model is a generalization of the Bak-Sneppen model of biological evolution, with the modification that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Frantisek Slanina , Miroslav Kotrla

We analyze dynamic random network models where younger vertices connect to older ones with probabilities proportional to their degrees as well as a propensity kernel governed by their attribute types. Using stochastic approximation…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Nelson Antunes , Sayan Banerjee , Shankar Bhamidi , Vladas Pipiras

Many classes of network growth models have been proposed in the literature for capturing real-world complex networks. Existing research primarily focuses on global characteristics of these models, e.g., degree distribution. We aim to shift…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Shravika Mittal , Tanmoy Chakraborty , Siddharth Pal

We study the averaging-based distributed optimization solvers over random networks. We show a general result on the convergence of such schemes using weight-matrices that are row-stochastic almost surely and column-stochastic in expectation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Adel Aghajan , Behrouz Touri

Network structures are extremely important to the study of political science. Much of the data in its subfields are naturally represented as networks. This includes trade, diplomatic and conflict relationships. The social structure of…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-05-05 Drew Conway

There has been considerable recent interest in the properties of networks, such as citation networks and the worldwide web, that grow by the addition of vertices, and a number of simple solvable models of network growth have been studied.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-09 Cristopher Moore , Gourab Ghoshal , M. E. J. Newman

We investigate the emergence and persistence of communities through a recently proposed mechanism of adaptive rewiring in coevolutionary networks. We characterize the topological structures arising in a coevolutionary network subject to an…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-22 J. C. González-Avella , M. G. Cosenza , J. L. Herrera , K. Tucci

We study the evolution of networks when the creation and decay of links are based on the position of nodes in the network measured by their centrality. We show that the same network dynamics arises under various centrality measures, and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-05-29 Michael D. Koenig , Claudio J. Tessone

Designing algorithms that generate networks with a given degree sequence while varying both subgraph composition and distribution of subgraphs around nodes is an important but challenging research problem. Current algorithms lack control of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-12-07 Martin Ritchie , Luc Berthouze , Istvan Z Kiss

For most technical networks, the interplay of dynamics, traffic and topology is assumed crucial to their evolution. In this paper, we propose a traffic-driven evolution model of weighted technological networks. By introducing a general…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Wen-Xu Wang , Bo Hu , Gang Yan , Qing Ou , Bing-Hong Wang

How does the shape of a network change as its size increases? Although random graph models provide some expectations for such "scaling behaviors" in the structure of networks, relatively little is known about how empirical network structure…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Upasana Dutta , Alexander Ray , Aaron Clauset

We study network growth from a fixed set of initially isolated nodes placed at random on the surface of a sphere. The growth mechanism we use adds edges to the network depending on strictly local gain and cost criteria. Only nodes that are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-04-11 Valmir C. Barbosa , Raul Donangelo , Sergio R. Souza

Mechanistic models can provide an intuitive and interpretable explanation of network growth by specifying a set of generative rules. These rules can be defined by domain knowledge about real-world mechanisms governing network growth or may…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Maxwell H Wang , Till Hoffmann , Jukka-Pekka Onnela

Social networks have become an inseparable part of human life and processing them in an efficient manner is a top priority in the study of networks. These networks are highly dynamic and they are growing incessantly. Inspired by the concept…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Sara Ahmadian , Shahrzad Haddadan