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Compressing Graphs (Kolmogorov complexity of graphs)
What is known about compressing graphs? Here, with "compressing", I mean something like "putting a graph into a zip program"; or with a more technical expression, what is know about the Kolmogorov ...
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How sensitive are Neural Networks to weight change?
Let's consider the space of feedforward neural networks with a given structure: $L$ layers, $m$ neurons per layer, ReLu activation, input dimension $d$, output dimension $k$.
Which means I'm ...
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If graph is tree what can be said about its adjacency matrix ?
Question If graph is tree what can be said about its adjacency matrix ? And vice versa ?
Especially I am interested in case when graph is bipartite graph.
Such graphs are related to error-...
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Lovasz theta function and independence number of product of simple odd-cycles
Lovasz theta function $\vartheta(G)$ of a graph $G$ provides an upper bound for the independence number of a graph, $\alpha(G)$ and $\Theta(G) = \lim_{k\rightarrow \infty}\sqrt[k]{\alpha(G^{k})}$. ...
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De Bruijn sequence inside De Bruijn sequence
A binary De Bruijn sequence of index $n$ is a circular sequence $S=a_1a_2\ldots a_{2^n}$, with $a_i∈\{0,1\}$, and such that each of the $2^n$ binary $n$-tuples occurs exactly once in $S$.
What is ...
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When the Lovász theta-function saturates its upper bound
The Lovász $\vartheta$-function of a graph $G$, $\vartheta(G)$, is well-known to be "sandwiched" between the independence number of the graph, $\alpha(G)$, and the chromatic number of its complement, $...
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Quantifying the noninvertibility of a function
Given a function $f$ from a finite set $X$ to itself, it seems natural to consider $\kappa_f := (\sum_{x \in X} |f^{-1}(x)|^2)/|X|$ as a measure of the non-invertibility of $f$: it equals 1 if $f$ is ...
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Lovász theta and circulant graphs
Let $\theta(G)$ denote the Shannon zero error capacity of graph $G$ and $\vartheta(G)$ be the Lovász upper bound for $\theta(G)$.
Let $C_{2n+1}$ denote the cycle graph with $2n+1$ nodes.
We know the ...
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Simple uses for the Entropy bound on the volume of a Hamming ball
I'm a teaching assistant in an introductory course of Information Theory. I intend to prove the following well-known fact that easily proven using elementary information theoretic consideration:
$\...
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The degrees in a random subgraph
Fix some positive integers $N$ and $d_k$, $k=1,2,\dots$ with $N=\sum_{k=1}^\infty d_k$.
Suppose you have a graph $G$ taken randomly uniformly among the set of all (unoriented) graphs with $N$ ...
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Capacity of Cycle Graphs
Shannon capacity $\Theta(G)$ of pentagon is achieved at $2$-fold strong product of the pentagon.
It is also known that the Lov\'asz theta $\vartheta(G)^m\neq\alpha(G^{\boxtimes m})$ for any finite ...
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Maximum number of $4$-cycles
Suppose we have a balanced bipartite planar maximum degree $k$ graph.
How many such graphs on $2n$ vertices have at most $f(n)$ maximum number of $4$ cycles for a given function $f:\Bbb R^+\...
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Ax=0, estimate min(Hamming(x)) ? Equivalently: Bipartite graph. How to find (estimate) minimal number of vertices1 which are connected with EVEN number of vertices2 ? Equivalently: estimate minimal weight of error correcting code ?
Consider system of linear equations Ax=0 over $F_2$ (field with two elements {0,1}).
Where number of variables is bigger than equations - so we have many solutions $x$.
Question How to estimate ...
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Do product distributions (or graph products) eventually cluster as more products are taken?
Say we have a joint distribution on a finite alphabet $\mathcal{X}\times \mathcal{Y}$. It could be a communication link where we want to send a random message $X$ over a channel, but it gets garbled ...
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How effective is using local property to test Shannon capacity?
A key tool in graph theory is the laplacian which is a local property. We can form a semidefinite programming and get an upper bound for Shannon capacity using laplacian.
Shannon capacity is ...
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Is there an universal (dis)similarity measure between two structures?
I'm always wondering is there an universal (dis)similarity measure
between two structures (let's say between two undirected simple
graphs)? I mean, not "the measure with universal parameter that we
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Adjacency matrices of graphs as parity check matrices of error correcting codes
Consider bipartite graph.
Consider its adjacency matrix.
It will have a form
0 A^t
A 0
Take matrix $A$.
Consider the null-space $L$ of $A$ over $F_2^N$.
Question Can we say something about the $...
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Uniquely describing a graph
According to answers here https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1524598/a-general-incidence-problem// an unigraph comes from unigraphic degree sequences if it can be uniquely determined by its ...
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Is this general form of Lovasz theta function of circulant graphs?
Let $G$ be a cirulant graph with no loops at vertices and vertex degree $d$. Is the Lovasz theta function of this graph given by:
$\vartheta(G) = \max_{i}\frac{-N\epsilon_{i}}{-\epsilon_{i}+d-1}$?
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Channel Capacity & Dependency Graph
A single-input-single-output communication channel is to be used repetitively. Denote by $X_i \in \mathcal X$ the input at time $i$ and by $Y_i \in \mathcal Y$ the output at time $i$.
Assume the ...
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Min-sum belief propagation not working on a chain model with equal unary potentials
Given is a chain factor graph as presented in the image below with the following properties:
Each node can take values 0 or 1
All unary potentials are equal (e.g. $U(a)=0$) for every node $a$
All ...
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Form of the Shannon capacity for Heptagon?
Is the $0$-error capacity of $7$-cycle:
$(1)$ known to be of form $7^q$ for some $q\in \mathbb Q$?
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Is there any relationship between a tree(graph theory) and semi-metric?
suppose we have a tree(undirected) with $n$ vertices.The edges are weighted(distances). Is it possible to impose a semi-metric structure on the graph using these distances and adjacency matrix?
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Is there an existing problem related to inferring a hidden node in a graph from its neighbors
My original question was a bit too ambiguous, so I updated it as follows:
Consider a graph $G=(V,E)$. A vertex in $G$ is chosen uniformly at random; then a neighbor $x$ of $v$ is chosen uniformly at ...