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Cover times quantify the speed of exhaustive search. In this work, we compute exactly the mean cover time associated with a one-dimensional Brownian search under exponentially distributed resetting. We also approximate the moments of cover…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Samantha Linn , Sean D Lawley

In distributed target tracking for wireless sensor networks, agreement on the target state can be achieved by the construction and maintenance of a communication path, in order to exchange information regarding local likelihood functions.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Vladimir Savic , Henk Wymeersch , Santiago Zazo

We investigate searching efficiency of different kinds of random walk on complex networks which rely on local information and one-step memory. For the studied navigation strategies we obtained theoretical and numerical values for the graph…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Miroslav Mirchev , Lasko Basnarkov , Igor Mishkovski

The evolutionary processes of complex systems contain critical information regarding their functional characteristics. The generation time of edges provides insights into the historical evolution of various networked complex systems, such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-14 En Xu , Can Rong , Jingtao Ding , Yong Li

The flow size distribution is a useful metric for traffic modeling and management. Its estimation based on sampled data, however, is problematic. Previous work has shown that flow sampling (FS) offers enormous statistical benefits over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-21 Paul Tune , Darryl Veitch

We study the problem of inferring network topology from information cascades, in which the amount of time taken for information to diffuse across an edge in the network follows an unknown distribution. Unlike previous studies, which assume…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Feng Ji , Wenchang Tang , Wee Peng Tay , Edwin K. P. Chong

Particle smoothing methods are used for inference of stochastic processes based on noisy observations. Typically, the estimation of the marginal posterior distribution given all observations is cumbersome and computational intensive. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-24 H. -Ch. Ruiz , H. J. Kappen

In this article, we generalize the recent Discrete Time Random Walk (DTRW) algorithm, which was introduced for the computation of probability densities of fractional diffusion. Although it has the same computational complexity and shares…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-20 Gurtek Gill , Peter Straka

Recent advances in communications, mobile computing, and artificial intelligence have greatly expanded the application space of intelligent distributed sensor networks. This in turn motivates the development of generalized Bayesian…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-08-15 Nisar Ahmed , Tsung-Lin Yang , Mark Campbell

In this research we address the problem of capturing recurring concepts in a data stream environment. Recurrence capture enables the re-use of previously learned classifiers without the need for re-learning while providing for better…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-06-25 Sakthithasan Sripirakas , Russel Pears

We investigate hide-and-seek games on complex networks using a random walk framework. Specifically, we investigate the efficiency of various degree-biased random walk search strategies to locate items that are randomly hidden on a subset of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-02-20 Shubham Pandey , Reimer Kuehn

Nowadays, the bulk of Internet traffic uses TCP protocol for reliable transmission. But the standard TCP's performance is very poor in High Speed Networks (HSN) and hence the core gigabytes links are usually underutilization. This problem…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Shahram Jamali , Mir Mahmoud Talebi , Reza Fotohi

Diffusion-based classifiers such as those relying on the Personalized PageRank and the Heat kernel, enjoy remarkable classification accuracy at modest computational requirements. Their performance however is affected by the extent to which…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-20 Dimitris Berberidis , Athanasios N. Nikolakopoulos , Georgios B. Giannakis

Employing a forward diffusion chain to gradually map the data to a noise distribution, diffusion-based generative models learn how to generate the data by inferring a reverse diffusion chain. However, this approach is slow and costly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-08 Huangjie Zheng , Pengcheng He , Weizhu Chen , Mingyuan Zhou

Dynamic Spectrum Access systems exploit temporarily available spectrum (`white spaces') and can spread transmissions over a number of non-contiguous sub-channels. Such methods are highly beneficial in terms of spectrum utilization. However,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-04-19 Ed Coffman , Philippe Robert , Florian Simatos , Shuzo Tarumi , Gil Zussman

We obtain long series (28 terms or more) for the coverage (occupation fraction) $\theta$, in powers of time $t$ for two models of random sequential adsorption with diffusional relaxation using an efficient algorithm developed by the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Chee Kwan Gan , Jian-Sheng Wang

Finding the reduced-dimensional structure is critical to understanding complex networks. Existing approaches such as spectral clustering are applicable only when the full network is explicitly observed. In this paper, we focus on the online…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Lin F. Yang , Vladimir Braverman , Tuo Zhao , Mengdi Wang

This paper introduces Discrete Markov Probabilistic Models (DMPMs), a novel discrete diffusion algorithm for discrete data generation. The algorithm operates in discrete bit space, where the noising process is a continuous-time Markov chain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-09 Le-Tuyet-Nhi Pham , Dario Shariatian , Antonio Ocello , Giovanni Conforti , Alain Durmus

We study diffusion of information packets on several classes of structured networks. Packets diffuse from a randomly chosen node to a specified destination in the network. As local transport rules we consider random diffusion and an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Bosiljka Tadic , Stefan Thurner

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models and score-matching models have proven to be very powerful for generative tasks. While these approaches have also been applied to the generation of discrete graphs, they have, so far, relied on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Kilian Konstantin Haefeli , Karolis Martinkus , Nathanaël Perraudin , Roger Wattenhofer