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most citedMeasuring and Modeling Bipartite Graphs with Community Structure

73 citations · 141 across the 26 of their papers we have counts for

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33 papers

cs.DS2026

Query Complexity of Densest Sub(hyper)graph Problems

Sinan G. Aksoy, Eli Friedman, Nate Veldt +1

Rubinstein et al. introduce the study of connectivity and minimum cut problems in the cut query model, where an algorithm can only access the edges of a graph through CUT queries.…

math.CO2025

Re-imagining Spectral Graph Theory

Sinan G. Aksoy, Stephen J. Young

We propose a Laplacian based on general inner product spaces, which we call the inner product Laplacian. We show the combinatorial and normalized graph Laplacians, as well as other…

cs.LG2024

HyperMagNet: A Magnetic Laplacian based Hypergraph Neural Network

Tatyana Benko, Martin Buck, Ilya Amburg +2

In data science, hypergraphs are natural models for data exhibiting multi-way relations, whereas graphs only capture pairwise. Nonetheless, many proposed hypergraph neural networks…

cs.LG2024

Randomized Algorithms for Symmetric Nonnegative Matrix Factorization

Koby Hayashi, Sinan G. Aksoy, Grey Ballard +1

Symmetric Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (SymNMF) is a technique in data analysis and machine learning that approximates a symmetric matrix with a product of a nonnegative, low-r…

math.NA2023

Fast Parallel Tensor Times Same Vector for Hypergraphs

Shruti Shivakumar, Ilya Amburg, Sinan G. Aksoy +3

Hypergraphs are a popular paradigm to represent complex real-world networks exhibiting multi-way relationships of varying sizes. Mining centrality in hypergraphs via symmetric adja…

cs.CR2023

Hypergraph Topological Features for Autoencoder-Based Intrusion Detection for Cybersecurity Data

Bill Kay, Sinan G. Aksoy, Molly Baird +8

In this position paper, we argue that when hypergraphs are used to capture multi-way local relations of data, their resulting topological features describe global behaviour. Conseq…

cs.CR2023

Stepping out of Flatland: Discovering Behavior Patterns as Topological Structures in Cyber Hypergraphs

Helen Jenne, Sinan G. Aksoy, Daniel Best +9

Data breaches and ransomware attacks occur so often that they have become part of our daily news cycle. This is due to a myriad of factors, including the increasing number of inter…

cs.MS2023★ 1 cited

HyperNetX: A Python package for modeling complex network data as hypergraphs

Brenda Praggastis, Sinan Aksoy, Dustin Arendt +5

HyperNetX (HNX) is an open source Python library for the analysis and visualization of complex network data modeled as hypergraphs. Initially released in 2019, HNX facilitates expl…

cs.CG2023

Malicious Cyber Activity Detection Using Zigzag Persistence

Audun Myers, Alyson Bittner, Sinan Aksoy +8

In this study we synthesize zigzag persistence from topological data analysis with autoencoder-based approaches to detect malicious cyber activity and derive analytic insights. Cyb…

math.NA2023

Scalable tensor methods for nonuniform hypergraphs

Sinan G. Aksoy, Ilya Amburg, Stephen J. Young

While multilinear algebra appears natural for studying the multiway interactions modeled by hypergraphs, tensor methods for general hypergraphs have been stymied by theoretical and…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 10 cited

Filtering higher-order datasets

Nicholas W. Landry, Ilya Amburg, Mirah Shi +1

Many complex systems often contain interactions between more than two nodes, known as higher-order interactions, which can change the structure of these systems in significant ways…

math.CO2023

Seven open problems in applied combinatorics

Sinan G. Aksoy, Ryan Bennink, Yuzhou Chen +10

We present and discuss seven different open problems in applied combinatorics. The application areas relevant to this compilation include quantum computing, algorithmic differentia…

cs.LG2022

Skew-Symmetric Adjacency Matrices for Clustering Directed Graphs

Koby Hayashi, Sinan G. Aksoy, Haesun Park

Cut-based directed graph (digraph) clustering often focuses on finding dense within-cluster or sparse between-cluster connections, similar to cut-based undirected graph clustering…

cs.DC2022

High-order Line Graphs of Non-uniform Hypergraphs: Algorithms, Applications, and Experimental Analysis

Xu T. Liu, Jesun Firoz, Sinan Aksoy +5

Hypergraphs offer flexible and robust data representations for many applications, but methods that work directly on hypergraphs are not readily available and tend to be prohibitive…

cs.NI2021

SpectralFly: Ramanujan Graphs as Flexible and Efficient Interconnection Networks

Stephen Young, Sinan Aksoy, Jesun Firoz +5

In recent years, graph theoretic considerations have become increasingly important in the design of HPC interconnection topologies. One approach is to seek optimal or near-optimal…

cs.DM2020

Parallel Algorithms and Heuristics for Efficient Computation of High-Order Line Graphs of Hypergraphs

Xu T. Liu, Jesun Firoz, Andrew Lumsdaine +4

This paper considers structures of systems beyond dyadic (pairwise) interactions and investigates mathematical modeling of multi-way interactions and connections as hypergraphs, wh…

cs.SI2020

Directional Laplacian Centrality for Cyber Situational Awareness

Sinan G. Aksoy, Emilie Purvine, Stephen J. Young

Cyber operations is drowning in diverse, high-volume, multi-source data. In order to get a full picture of current operations and identify malicious events and actors analysts must…

cs.LG2020★ 3 cited

Hypergraph Random Walks, Laplacians, and Clustering

Koby Hayashi, Sinan G. Aksoy, Cheong Hee Park +1

We propose a flexible framework for clustering hypergraph-structured data based on recently proposed random walks utilizing edge-dependent vertex weights. When incorporating edge-d…

cs.DM2020★ 1 cited

Hypernetwork Science: From Multidimensional Networks to Computational Topology

Cliff A. Joslyn, Sinan Aksoy, Tiffany J. Callahan +5

As data structures and mathematical objects used for complex systems modeling, hypergraphs sit nicely poised between on the one hand the world of network models, and on the other t…

math.CO2020

Spectral Threshold for Extremal Cyclic Edge-Connectivity

Sinan G. Aksoy, Mark Kempton, Stephen J. Young

The cyclic edge-connectivity of a graph is the least such that there exists a set of edges whose removal disconnects into components where every component contains…

cs.DC2019

Ramanujan Graphs and the Spectral Gap of Supercomputing Topologies

Sinan G. Aksoy, Paul Bruillard, Stephen J. Young +1

Graph eigenvalues play a fundamental role in controlling structural properties, such as bisection bandwidth, diameter, and fault tolerance, which are critical considerations in the…

cs.DM2019

Relative Hausdorff Distance for Network Analysis

Sinan G. Aksoy, Kathleen E. Nowak, Emilie Purvine +1

Similarity measures are used extensively in machine learning and data science algorithms. The newly proposed graph Relative Hausdorff (RH) distance is a lightweight yet nuanced sim…

physics.soc-ph2019

Hypernetwork Science via High-Order Hypergraph Walks

Sinan G. Aksoy, Cliff Joslyn, Carlos Ortiz Marrero +2

We propose high-order hypergraph walks as a framework to generalize graph-based network science techniques to hypergraphs. Edge incidence in hypergraphs is quantitative, yielding h…

math.CO2019

A linear-time algorithm and analysis of graph Relative Hausdorff distance

Sinan G. Aksoy, Kathleen E. Nowak, Stephen J. Young

Graph similarity metrics serve far-ranging purposes across many domains in data science. As graph datasets grow in size, scientists need comparative tools that capture meaningful d…