scholarly journals On the Largest Component of a Hyperbolic Model of Complex Networks

10.37236/4958 ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel Bode ◽  
Nikolaos Fountoulakis ◽  
Tobias Müller
Keyword(s):  
Complex Networks ◽  
Uniform Distribution ◽  
Random Graph ◽  
Power Law ◽  
High Probability ◽  
Degree Sequence ◽  
Hyperbolic Model ◽  
Hyperbolic Distance ◽  
Component Structure ◽  
Two Parameters

We consider a model for complex networks that was introduced by Krioukov et al.  In this model, $N$ points are chosen randomly inside a disk on the hyperbolic plane and any two of them are joined by an  edge if they are within a certain hyperbolic distance.  The $N$ points are distributed according to a quasi-uniform distribution, which is a distorted version of  the uniform distribution. The model turns out to behave similarly to the well-known Chung-Lu model, but without the independence between the edges. Namely, it exhibits a power-law degree sequence and small distances but, unlike the Chung-Lu model and many other well-known models for complex networks, it also exhibits clustering. The model is controlled by two parameters $\alpha$ and $\nu$ where, roughly speaking, $\alpha$ controls the exponent of the power-law and $\nu$ controls the average degree. The present paper focuses on the evolution of the component structure of the random graph.  We show that (a) for $\alpha > 1$ and $\nu$ arbitrary, with high probability, as the number of vertices grows, the largest component of the random graph has sublinear order; (b) for $\alpha < 1$ and $\nu$ arbitrary with high probability there is a "giant" component  of linear order,  and (c) when $\alpha=1$ then there is a non-trivial phase transition for the existence of a linear-sized component in terms of $\nu$. A corrigendum was added to this paper 29 Dec 2018.

scholarly journals The diameter of KPKVB random graphs

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 358-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Müller ◽  
Merlijn Staps
Keyword(s):  
Complex Networks ◽  
Power Law ◽  
Degree Sequence ◽  
Graph Model ◽  
Clustering Coefficient ◽  
Maximum Diameter ◽  
Hyperbolic Distance ◽  
Random Graph Model ◽  
Power Law Exponent ◽  
Law Degree

AbstractWe consider a random graph model that was recently proposed as a model for complex networks by Krioukov et al. (2010). In this model, nodes are chosen randomly inside a disk in the hyperbolic plane and two nodes are connected if they are at most a certain hyperbolic distance from each other. It has previously been shown that this model has various properties associated with complex networks, including a power-law degree distribution and a strictly positive clustering coefficient. The model is specified using three parameters: the number of nodes N, which we think of as going to infinity, and $\alpha, \nu > 0$, which we think of as constant. Roughly speaking, $\alpha$ controls the power-law exponent of the degree sequence and $\nu$ the average degree. Earlier work of Kiwi and Mitsche (2015) has shown that, when $\alpha \lt 1$ (which corresponds to the exponent of the power law degree sequence being $\lt 3$), the diameter of the largest component is asymptotically almost surely (a.a.s.) at most polylogarithmic in N. Friedrich and Krohmer (2015) showed it was a.a.s. $\Omega(\log N)$ and improved the exponent of the polynomial in $\log N$ in the upper bound. Here we show the maximum diameter over all components is a.a.s. $O(\log N),$ thus giving a bound that is tight up to a multiplicative constant.

A Small-World Model of Scale-Free Networks: Features and Verifications

2011 ◽  
Vol 50-51 ◽  
pp. 166-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wen Jun Xiao ◽  
Shi Zhong Jiang ◽  
Guan Rong Chen
Keyword(s):  
Complex Networks ◽  
Power Law ◽  
Degree Sequence ◽  
Small World ◽  
Static Condition ◽  
Vertex Degree ◽  
Power Law Distribution ◽  
Least Common Multiple ◽  
Scale Free ◽  
Vertex Degrees

It is now well known that many large-sized complex networks obey a scale-free power-law vertex-degree distribution. Here, we show that when the vertex degrees of a large-sized network follow a scale-free power-law distribution with exponent  2, the number of degree-1 vertices, if nonzero, is of order N and the average degree is of order lower than log N, where N is the size of the network. Furthermore, we show that the number of degree-1 vertices is divisible by the least common multiple of , , . . ., , and l is less than log N, where l = < is the vertex-degree sequence of the network. The method we developed here relies only on a static condition, which can be easily verified, and we have verified it by a large number of real complex networks.

scholarly journals Large Cliques in a Power-Law Random Graph

2010 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 1124-1135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svante Janson ◽  
Tomasz Łuczak ◽  
Ilkka Norros
Keyword(s):  
Random Graph ◽  
Power Law ◽  
High Probability ◽  
Simple Algorithm ◽  
Heavy Tail ◽  
Degree Sequences ◽  
Constant Size ◽  
Tail Distribution ◽  
Law Degree ◽  
Large Clique

In this paper we study the size of the largest clique ω(G(n, α)) in a random graph G(n, α) on n vertices which has power-law degree distribution with exponent α. We show that, for ‘flat’ degree sequences with α > 2, with high probability, the largest clique in G(n, α) is of a constant size, while, for the heavy tail distribution, when 0 < α < 2, ω(G(n, α)) grows as a power of n. Moreover, we show that a natural simple algorithm with high probability finds in G(n, α) a large clique of size (1 − o(1))ω(G(n, α)) in polynomial time.

scholarly journals Greed is Good for Deterministic Scale-Free Networks

Algorithmica ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 82 (11) ◽  
pp. 3338-3389
Author(s):  
Ankit Chauhan ◽  
Tobias Friedrich ◽  
Ralf Rothenberger
Keyword(s):  
Random Graph ◽  
Random Graphs ◽  
Power Law ◽  
Real World ◽  
Degree Distribution ◽  
High Probability ◽  
Maximum Independent Set ◽  
Graph Models ◽  
Random Graph Models ◽  
Graph Classes

Abstract Large real-world networks typically follow a power-law degree distribution. To study such networks, numerous random graph models have been proposed. However, real-world networks are not drawn at random. Therefore, Brach et al. (27th symposium on discrete algorithms (SODA), pp 1306–1325, 2016) introduced two natural deterministic conditions: (1) a power-law upper bound on the degree distribution (PLB-U) and (2) power-law neighborhoods, that is, the degree distribution of neighbors of each vertex is also upper bounded by a power law (PLB-N). They showed that many real-world networks satisfy both properties and exploit them to design faster algorithms for a number of classical graph problems. We complement their work by showing that some well-studied random graph models exhibit both of the mentioned PLB properties. PLB-U and PLB-N hold with high probability for Chung–Lu Random Graphs and Geometric Inhomogeneous Random Graphs and almost surely for Hyperbolic Random Graphs. As a consequence, all results of Brach et al. also hold with high probability or almost surely for those random graph classes. In the second part we study three classical $$\textsf {NP}$$ NP -hard optimization problems on PLB networks. It is known that on general graphs with maximum degree $$\Delta$$ Δ , a greedy algorithm, which chooses nodes in the order of their degree, only achieves a $$\Omega (\ln \Delta )$$ Ω ( ln Δ ) -approximation for Minimum Vertex Cover and Minimum Dominating Set, and a $$\Omega (\Delta )$$ Ω ( Δ ) -approximation for Maximum Independent Set. We prove that the PLB-U property with $$\beta >2$$ β > 2 suffices for the greedy approach to achieve a constant-factor approximation for all three problems. We also show that these problems are -hard even if PLB-U, PLB-N, and an additional power-law lower bound on the degree distribution hold. Hence, a PTAS cannot be expected unless = . Furthermore, we prove that all three problems are in if the PLB-U property holds.

scholarly journals Cover time of a random graph with given degree sequence

2010 ◽  
Vol DMTCS Proceedings vol. AM,... (Proceedings) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Abdullah ◽  
Colin Cooper ◽  
Alan Frieze
Keyword(s):  
Random Graph ◽  
High Probability ◽  
Minimum Degree ◽  
Degree Sequence ◽  
Average Degree ◽  
Cover Time ◽  
Vertex Set ◽  
International Audience

International audience In this paper we establish the cover time of a random graph $G(\textbf{d})$ chosen uniformly at random from the set of graphs with vertex set $[n]$ and degree sequence $\textbf{d}$. We show that under certain restrictions on $\textbf{d}$, the cover time of $G(\textbf{d})$ is with high probability asymptotic to $\frac{d-1}{ d-2} \frac{\theta}{ d}n \log n$. Here $\theta$ is the average degree and $d$ is the $\textit{effective minimum degree}$. The effective minimum degree is the first entry in the sorted degree sequence which occurs order $n$ times.

scholarly journals Large Cliques in a Power-Law Random Graph

2010 ◽  
Vol 47 (04) ◽  
pp. 1124-1135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svante Janson ◽  
Tomasz Łuczak ◽  
Ilkka Norros
Keyword(s):  
Random Graph ◽  
Power Law ◽  
High Probability ◽  
Simple Algorithm ◽  
Heavy Tail ◽  
Degree Sequences ◽  
Constant Size ◽  
Tail Distribution ◽  
Law Degree ◽  
Large Clique

In this paper we study the size of the largest clique ω(G(n, α)) in a random graph G(n, α) on n vertices which has power-law degree distribution with exponent α. We show that, for ‘flat’ degree sequences with α &gt; 2, with high probability, the largest clique in G(n, α) is of a constant size, while, for the heavy tail distribution, when 0 &lt; α &lt; 2, ω(G(n, α)) grows as a power of n. Moreover, we show that a natural simple algorithm with high probability finds in G(n, α) a large clique of size (1 − o(1))ω(G(n, α)) in polynomial time.

scholarly journals Artificial Benchmark for Community Detection (ABCD)—Fast random graph model with community structure

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Bogumił Kamiński ◽  
Paweł Prałat ◽  
François Théberge
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Complex Networks ◽  
Community Detection ◽  
Random Graph ◽  
Power Law ◽  
Main Parameter ◽  
Graph Model ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Random Graph Model ◽  
Mixing Parameter

Abstract Most of the current complex networks that are of interest to practitioners possess a certain community structure that plays an important role in understanding the properties of these networks. For instance, a closely connected social communities exhibit faster rate of transmission of information in comparison to loosely connected communities. Moreover, many machine learning algorithms and tools that are developed for complex networks try to take advantage of the existence of communities to improve their performance or speed. As a result, there are many competing algorithms for detecting communities in large networks. Unfortunately, these algorithms are often quite sensitive and so they cannot be fine-tuned for a given, but a constantly changing, real-world network at hand. It is therefore important to test these algorithms for various scenarios that can only be done using synthetic graphs that have built-in community structure, power law degree distribution, and other typical properties observed in complex networks. The standard and extensively used method for generating artificial networks is the LFR graph generator. Unfortunately, this model has some scalability limitations and it is challenging to analyze it theoretically. Finally, the mixing parameter μ, the main parameter of the model guiding the strength of the communities, has a non-obvious interpretation and so can lead to unnaturally defined networks. In this paper, we provide an alternative random graph model with community structure and power law distribution for both degrees and community sizes, the Artificial Benchmark for Community Detection (ABCD graph). The model generates graphs with similar properties as the LFR one, and its main parameter ξ can be tuned to mimic its counterpart in the LFR model, the mixing parameter μ. We show that the new model solves the three issues identified above and more. In particular, we test the speed of our algorithm and do a number of experiments comparing basic properties of both ABCD and LFR. The conclusion is that these models produce graphs with comparable properties but ABCD is fast, simple, and can be easily tuned to allow the user to make a smooth transition between the two extremes: pure (independent) communities and random graph with no community structure.

scholarly journals p-adic numbers encode complex networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Hua ◽  
Ludger Hovestadt
Keyword(s):  
Complex Networks ◽  
Random Graph ◽  
Genetic Interaction ◽  
Hierarchical Structures ◽  
Number System ◽  
Hierarchical Organization ◽  
Natural Representation ◽  
Multimodal Distributions ◽  
Number Sequences ◽  
Er Model

AbstractThe Erdős-Rényi (ER) random graph G(n, p) analytically characterizes the behaviors in complex networks. However, attempts to fit real-world observations need more sophisticated structures (e.g., multilayer networks), rules (e.g., Achlioptas processes), and projections onto geometric, social, or geographic spaces. The p-adic number system offers a natural representation of hierarchical organization of complex networks. The p-adic random graph interprets n as the cardinality of a set of p-adic numbers. Constructing a vast space of hierarchical structures is equivalent for combining number sequences. Although the giant component is vital in dynamic evolution of networks, the structure of multiple big components is also essential. Fitting the sizes of the few largest components to empirical data was rarely demonstrated. The p-adic ultrametric enables the ER model to simulate multiple big components from the observations of genetic interaction networks, social networks, and epidemics. Community structures lead to multimodal distributions of the big component sizes in networks, which have important implications in intervention of spreading processes.

scholarly journals The Total Acquisition Number of Random Graphs

10.37236/5327 ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Deepak Bal ◽  
Patrick Bennett ◽  
Andrzej Dudek ◽  
Paweł Prałat
Keyword(s):  
Random Graph ◽  
Random Graphs ◽  
High Probability ◽  
Sharp Threshold ◽  
Positive Weight ◽  
Minimum Value ◽  
Almost All

Let $G$ be a graph in which each vertex initially has weight 1. In each step, the weight from a vertex $u$ to a neighbouring vertex $v$ can be moved, provided that the weight on $v$ is at least as large as the weight on $u$. The total acquisition number of $G$, denoted by $a_t(G)$, is the minimum possible size of the set of vertices with positive weight at the end of the process.LeSaulnier, Prince, Wenger, West, and Worah asked for the minimum value of $p=p(n)$ such that $a_t(\mathcal{G}(n,p)) = 1$ with high probability, where $\mathcal{G}(n,p)$ is a binomial random graph. We show that $p = \frac{\log_2 n}{n} \approx 1.4427 \ \frac{\log n}{n}$ is a sharp threshold for this property. We also show that almost all trees $T$ satisfy $a_t(T) = \Theta(n)$, confirming a conjecture of West.

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