EGBTER: capturing degree distribution, clustering coefficients, and community structure in a single random graph model

O El-Daghar, E Lundberg… - 2018 IEEE/ACM …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Random graph models are important constructs for data analytic applications as well as
pure mathematical developments, as they provide capabilities for network synthesis and …

A two-stage working model strategy for network analysis under hierarchical exponential random graph models

M Cao, Y Chen, K Fujimoto… - 2018 IEEE/ACM …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Social network data are complex and dependent data. At the macro-level, social networks
often exhibit clustering in the sense that social networks consist of communities; and at the …

Block-approximated exponential random graphs

F Adriaens, A Mara, J Lijffijt… - 2020 IEEE 7th …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An important challenge in the field of exponential random graphs (ERGs) is the fitting of non-
trivial ERGs on large graphs. By utilizing fast matrix block-approximation techniques, we …

Stochastic Step-wise Feature Selection for Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGMs)

H El-Zaatari, F Yu, MR Kosorok - arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.12862, 2023 - arxiv.org
Statistical analysis of social networks provides valuable insights into complex network
interactions across various scientific disciplines. However, accurate modeling of networks …

Triadic Temporal Exponential Random Graph Models (TTERGM)

Y Huang, C Barham, E Page, PK Douglas - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Temporal exponential random graph models (TERGM) are powerful statistical models that
can be used to infer the temporal pattern of edge formation and elimination in complex …

On the structural properties of social networks and their measurement-calibrated synthetic counterparts

M Nagy, R Molontay - Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/ACM International …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Data-driven analysis of large social networks has attracted a great deal of research interest.
In this paper, we investigate 120 real social networks and their measurement-calibrated …

Exponential random graph models with big networks: Maximum pseudolikelihood estimation and the parametric bootstrap

CS Schmid, BA Desmarais - … conference on big data (Big Data), 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the growth of interest in network data across fields, the Exponential Random Graph
Model (ERGM) has emerged as the leading approach to the statistical analysis of network …

Incorporating assortativity and degree dependence into scalable network models

S Mussmann, J Moore, J Pfeiffer, J Neville - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2015 - ojs.aaai.org
Due to the recent availability of large complex networks, considerable analysis has focused
on understanding and characterizing the properties of these networks. Scalable generative …

DERGMs: Degeneracy-restricted exponential random graph models

V Karwa, S Petrović, D Bajić - arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.03054, 2016 - arxiv.org
Exponential random graph models, or ERGMs, are a flexible and general class of models for
modeling dependent data. While the early literature has shown them to be powerful in …

A simple bipartite graph projection model for clustering in networks

AR Benson, P Liu, H Yin - arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.00761, 2020 - arxiv.org
Graph datasets are frequently constructed by a projection of a bipartite graph, where two
nodes are connected in the projection if they share a common neighbor in the bipartite …