The Deformed Graph Laplacian and Its Applications to Network Centrality Analysis
The Deformed Graph Laplacian and Its Applications to Network Centrality Analysis
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变形图拉普拉斯算子及其在网络中心性分析中的应用
DOI:
10.1137/17m1112297
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发表时间:
2018
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通讯作者:
V. Noferini
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作者:
P. Grindrod;D. Higham;V. Noferini
We introduce and study a new network centrality measure based on the concept of nonbacktracking walks, that is, walks not containing subsequences of the form uvu where u and v are any distinct connected vertices of the underlying graph. We argue that this feature can yield more meaningful rankings than traditional walk-based centrality measures. We show that the resulting Katz-style centrality measure may be computed via the so-called deformed graph Laplacian---a quadratic matrix polynomial that can be associated with any graph. By proving a range of new results about this matrix polynomial, we gain insights into the behavior of the algorithm with respect to its Katz-like parameter. The results also inform implementation issues. In particular we show that, in an appropriate limit, the new measure coincides with the nonbacktracking version of eigenvector centrality introduced by Martin, Zhang, and Newman in 2014. Rigorous analysis on star and star-like networks illustrates the benefits of the new approach,...
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3.1
作者:
Schoch, David;Valente, Thomas W.;Brandes, Ulrik
通讯作者:
Brandes, Ulrik