Co-evolving dynamic networks

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Main Authors: Banerjee, Sayan, Bhamidi, Shankar, Huang, Xiangying
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Published: 2022
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author Banerjee, Sayan
Bhamidi, Shankar
Huang, Xiangying
author_facet Banerjee, Sayan
Bhamidi, Shankar
Huang, Xiangying
contents We propose a general class of co-evolving tree network models driven by local exploration where new vertices attach to the current network via randomly sampling a vertex and then exploring the graph for a random number of steps in the direction of the root, connecting to the terminal vertex. Specific choices of the exploration step distribution lead to the well-studied affine preferential attachment and uniform attachment models, as well as less well understood dynamic network models with global attachment functionals such as PageRank scores [Chebolu-Melsted (2008)]. We obtain local weak limits for such networks and use them to derive asymptotics for the limiting empirical degree and PageRank distribution. We also quantify asymptotics for the degree and PageRank of fixed vertices, including the root, and the height of the network. Two distinct regimes are seen to emerge, based on the expected exploration distance of incoming vertices, which we call the `fringe' and `non-fringe' regimes. These regimes are shown to exhibit different qualitative and quantitative properties. In particular, networks in the non-fringe regime undergo `condensation' where the root degree grows at the same rate as the network size. Networks in the fringe regime do not exhibit condensation. Non-trivial phase transition phenomena are displayed for the height and the PageRank distribution, the latter connecting to the well known power-law hypothesis. In the process, we develop a general set of techniques involving local limits, infinite-dimensional urn models, related multitype branching processes and corresponding Perron-Frobenius theory, branching random walks, and in particular relating tail exponents of various functionals to the scaling exponents of quasi-stationary distributions of associated random walks. These techniques are expected to shed light on a variety of other co-evolving network models.
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spellingShingle Co-evolving dynamic networks
Banerjee, Sayan
Bhamidi, Shankar
Huang, Xiangying
Probability
60K35, 05C80
We propose a general class of co-evolving tree network models driven by local exploration where new vertices attach to the current network via randomly sampling a vertex and then exploring the graph for a random number of steps in the direction of the root, connecting to the terminal vertex. Specific choices of the exploration step distribution lead to the well-studied affine preferential attachment and uniform attachment models, as well as less well understood dynamic network models with global attachment functionals such as PageRank scores [Chebolu-Melsted (2008)]. We obtain local weak limits for such networks and use them to derive asymptotics for the limiting empirical degree and PageRank distribution. We also quantify asymptotics for the degree and PageRank of fixed vertices, including the root, and the height of the network. Two distinct regimes are seen to emerge, based on the expected exploration distance of incoming vertices, which we call the `fringe' and `non-fringe' regimes. These regimes are shown to exhibit different qualitative and quantitative properties. In particular, networks in the non-fringe regime undergo `condensation' where the root degree grows at the same rate as the network size. Networks in the fringe regime do not exhibit condensation. Non-trivial phase transition phenomena are displayed for the height and the PageRank distribution, the latter connecting to the well known power-law hypothesis. In the process, we develop a general set of techniques involving local limits, infinite-dimensional urn models, related multitype branching processes and corresponding Perron-Frobenius theory, branching random walks, and in particular relating tail exponents of various functionals to the scaling exponents of quasi-stationary distributions of associated random walks. These techniques are expected to shed light on a variety of other co-evolving network models.
title Co-evolving dynamic networks
topic Probability
60K35, 05C80
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.11877