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Meeting times of random walks on graphs
1999
Information Processing Letters
W e prove an upper bound on the meeting time of an arbitrary number of random walks in any connected undirected graph in terms of the meeting times of fewer random walks. ...
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Concluding remarks and open problems Theorem 6 bounds the meeting time of several random walks on an undirected connected graph by a function of the meeting times of fewer random walks. ...
The expected time until several random walks on a graph collapse into one characterizes the performance of this protocol. In the literature, however, one random walk on a graph is usually analyzed. ...
doi:10.1016/s0020-0190(99)00017-4
fatcat:5i4c4gyf25ghrfg4ed3uux2iwe
Exact computation for meeting times and infection times of random walks on graphs
2015
Pacific Journal of Mathematics for Industry
We consider independent multiple random walks on graphs and study comparison results of meeting times and infection times between many conditions of the random walks by obtaining the exact density functions ...
The author was supported by JST, ERATO, Kawarabayashi Large Graph Project. ...
It is mentioned in [1] that meeting times of two random walks on some graphs can be regarded as a first hitting time of a single random walk. We give a generalization of this fact. ...
doi:10.1186/s40736-015-0016-2
fatcat:6yyovejhebdufkr23v25qqvw2e
MEETING TIMES OF RANDOM WALKS ON GRAPHS
[article]
2008
Both bounds express the meeting time of several random walks in terms of the meeting times of fewer random walks. ...
These techniques are used to prove two upper bounds on the meeting time of an arbitrary number of random walks in any connected undirected graph. ...
Concluding remarks and open problems Theorem 6 bounds the meeting time of several random walks on an undirected connected graph by a function of the meeting times of fewer random walks. ...
doi:10.11575/prism/31330
fatcat:b2s6nhrpbjclnojfemdeprc26y
An efficient similarity search framework for SimRank over large dynamic graphs
2015
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
In the preprocessing stage, TSF samples a set of one-way graphs to index raw random walks in a novel manner within O(N Rg) time and space, where N is the number of vertices and Rg is the number of one-way ...
In this paper, we propose a novel two-stage random-walk sampling framework (TSF) for SimRank-based similarity search (e.g., top-k search). ...
In the tsM ap, each meeting vertex is associated with its all possible meeting times, like vertex 1 can be met at times 1 or 2 based on the two sampled random walks. ...
doi:10.14778/2757807.2757809
fatcat:kxltrqvpgramfbznz7b3ahcodm
Multiple Random Walks and Interacting Particle Systems
[chapter]
2009
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
For k independent walks on a random regular graph G, the cover time CG(k) is asymptotic to CG/k, where CG is the cover time of a single walk. ...
We study properties of multiple random walks on a graph under various assumptions of interaction between the particles. To give precise results, we make our analysis for random regular graphs. ...
To make our analysis, we reduce the multiple random walks to a single random walk on a suitably defined product graph, to which we apply the technique of [6] . ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-02930-1_33
fatcat:axxnxxnv2fdcbfz2bb5ehupw2i
Graph Degree Heterogeneity Facilitates Random Walker Meetings
[article]
2020
arXiv
pre-print
The first meeting time is one of the important metrics for multiple random walks. ...
The first meeting time of multiple random walks has been analyzed previously, but many of these analyses have focused on regular graphs. ...
The first meeting time is one of the important metrics for multiple random walks. ...
arXiv:2005.11161v3
fatcat:nnfqyidte5gvvkiac4ulyemuwy
Coalescing random walks and voting on connected graphs
[article]
2016
arXiv
pre-print
In a coalescing random walk, a set of particles make independent random walks on a graph. ...
Whenever one or more particles meet at a vertex, they unite to form a single particle, which then continues the random walk through the graph. ...
Previous work on coalescing random walks We summarize some known results for coalescing random walks. There are two distinct models for the transition times of random walks on finite graphs. ...
arXiv:1204.4106v3
fatcat:rwq5xit4xne33kee76d6qstdbe
On coalescence time in graphs--When is coalescing as fast as meeting?
[article]
2018
arXiv
pre-print
Coalescing random walks is a fundamental stochastic process, where a set of particles perform independent discrete-time random walks on an undirected graph. ...
As a general result, we establish that for graphs whose meeting time is only marginally larger than the mixing time (a factor of log^2 n), the coalescence time of n random walks equals the meeting time ...
the hitting time (Theorem 1.4) . ...
arXiv:1611.02460v4
fatcat:5av5epd5mbf7layr6i46g44t6y
Coalescing Random Walks and Voting on Connected Graphs
2013
SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
In a coalescing random walk, a set of particles make independent discrete-time random walks on a graph. ...
Whenever one or more particles meet at a vertex, they unite to form a single particle, which then continues a random walk through the graph. ...
We summarize some known results for coalescing random walks. There are two distinct models for the transition times of random walks on finite graphs. ...
doi:10.1137/120900368
fatcat:rfptirzvvbgnpklh5zji2rwpna
Random Walks on Random Graphs
[chapter]
2009
Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
Among them are the following: Mixing time of the random walk, cover time of a random graph, properties of multiple particle walks, random walks on graph processes, constructing random networks using random ...
Random Graphs Various topics arise in the context of random walks on random graphs. ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-02427-6_18
fatcat:jsowgcrxznf6jgw4kvwggwkv4e
An experimental evaluation of simrank-based similarity search algorithms
2017
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Our study reveals that none of these algorithms dominates the others: algorithms based on iterative method often have higher accuracy while algorithms based on random walk can be more scalable. ...
Given a graph, SimRank is one of the most popular measures of the similarity between two vertices. ...
An FPG organizes in a compact way one random walk with length T for each vertex together with the distance where each two random walks meet for the first time. ...
doi:10.14778/3055540.3055552
fatcat:qb6alvxakfcd5dtyxqzrvpc6sm
On the Convergence Time of Asynchronous Distributed Quantized Averaging Algorithms
2011
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
By appealing to random walks on graphs, we derive polynomial bounds on the expected convergence time of the algorithms presented, as a function of the number of agents in the network. ...
The focus of this technical note is on the study of the convergence time of the proposed quantized averaging algorithms. ...
The Meeting Time of Two Natural Random Walks on a Fixed Graph G We first study a variation of the problem in [8] , namely, the meeting time of two natural random walks on a fixed graph G. ...
doi:10.1109/tac.2010.2093276
fatcat:ig6ybtimd5g6xcatdbfvoc7jri
An Upper Bound on the Convergence Time for Quantized Consensus of Arbitrary Static Graphs
2015
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
We use the theory of electric networks, random walks, and couplings of Markov chains to derive an O(N^3 N) upper bound for the expected convergence time on an arbitrary graph of size N, improving on the ...
Our result is not dependent on graph topology. Example of complete graphs is given to show how to extend the analysis to graphs of given topology. ...
We use the degree of nodes on the shortest path on the graph to improve the bound on the hitting time of the biased random walk. • The analysis for arbitrary graphs is extended to a tighter bound for certain ...
doi:10.1109/tac.2014.2342071
fatcat:daapmymcw5ht5nt7ryf3ixtixm
The infection time of graphs
2006
Discrete Applied Mathematics
We easily get that an upper bound on the expected value of T k is the worst case (over all initial positions) expected meeting time m * of two random walks multiplied by (log k). ...
The infection time T k of infecting all the white particles with red color is then a random variable that depends on k, the initial position of the particles, the number of nodes and edges of the graph ...
The machinery stated above can be used also for the meeting times: Definition 8. Let M i,j be the first time that two independent copies of a random walk on G meet given that they start from i, j . ...
doi:10.1016/j.dam.2006.04.026
fatcat:d6cmaplzlbhxzozct5sx3ihjau
Robotic Surveillance Based on the Meeting Time of Random Walks
[article]
2019
arXiv
pre-print
First, by analyzing multiple random walks on a common graph as a single random walk on the Kronecker product graph, we provide the first closed-form expression for the expected meeting time in terms of ...
This paper analyzes the meeting time between a pair of pursuer and evader performing random walks on digraphs. ...
The meeting time of two Markov chains Consider the pursuer and evader performing random walks on a strongly connected graph G = (V, E) with the node set V = {1, . . . , n} and E ⊂ V × V . ...
arXiv:1912.02693v1
fatcat:fssldkrtwjfdzeh4prjiy64wpi
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