使用图根分布的网络表示

Network representation using graph root distributions

Annals of Statistics · 2021
被引 14
ABS 4★

中文导读

提出一种新的参数化方法,将一大类可交换随机图表示为线性空间中独立随机向量的内积,并研究这种图根分布的存在性、可识别性及估计问题。

Abstract

Exchangeable random graphs serve as an important probabilistic framework for the statistical analysis of network data. In this work, we develop an alternative parameterization for a large class of exchangeable random graphs, where the nodes are independent random vectors in a linear space equipped with an indefinite inner product, and the edge probability between two nodes equals the inner product of the corresponding node vectors. Therefore, the distribution of exchangeable random graphs in this subclass can be represented by a node sampling distribution on this linear space, which we call the graph root distribution. We study existence and identifiability of such representations, the topological relationship between the graph root distribution and the exchangeable random graph sampling distribution and estimation of graph root distributions.

网络分析随机图图论统计推断