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20092024
most citedOn the transition from heavy traffic to heavy tails for the M/G/1 queue: The regularly varying case

18 citations · 71 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

math.PR2024

Opinion dynamics on non-sparse networks with community structure

Panagiotis Andreou, Mariana Olvera-Cravioto

We study the evolution of opinions on a directed network with community structure. Individuals update their opinions synchronously based on a weighted average of their neighbors' o…

math.PR2023

PageRank Nibble on the sparse directed stochastic block model

Sayan Banerjee, Prabhanka Deka, Mariana Olvera-Cravioto

We present new results on community recovery based on the PageRank Nibble algorithm on a sparse directed stochastic block model (dSBM). Our results are based on a characterization…

math.PR2023★ 1 cited

Local weak limits for collapsed branching processes with random out-degrees

Sayan Banerjee, Prabhanka Deka, Mariana Olvera-Cravioto

We obtain local weak limits in probability for Collapsed Branching Processes (CBP), which are directed random networks obtained by collapsing random-sized families of individuals i…

math.PR2022

Opinion dynamics on directed complex networks

Nicolas Fraiman, Tzu-Chi Lin, Mariana Olvera-Cravioto

We propose and analyze a mathematical model for the evolution of opinions on directed complex networks. Our model generalizes the popular DeGroot and Friedkin-Johnsen models by all…

math.PR2021

Strong couplings for static locally tree-like random graphs

Mariana Olvera-Cravioto

The goal of this paper is to provide a general purpose result for the coupling of exploration processes of random graphs, both undirected and directed, with their local weak limits…

math.PR2021

PageRank Asymptotics on Directed Preferential Attachment Networks

Sayan Banerjee, Mariana Olvera-Cravioto

We characterize the tail behavior of the distribution of the PageRank of a uniformly chosen vertex in a directed preferential attachment graph and show that it decays as a power la…

math.PR2020

Stochastic recursions on directed random graphs

Nicolas Fraiman, Tzu-Chi Lin, Mariana Olvera-Cravioto

For a directed graph on the vertices , we study the distribution of a Markov chain on such that…

math.PR2020

Importance sampling for maxima on trees

Bojan Basrak, Michael Conroy, Mariana Olvera-Cravioto +1

We consider the distributional fixed-point equation: where the are i.i.d.~copies of , in…

math.PR2019★ 6 cited

PageRank's behavior under degree-degree correlations

Mariana Olvera-Cravioto

The focus of this work is the asymptotic analysis of the tail distribution of Google's PageRank algorithm on large scale-free directed networks. In particular, the main theorem pro…

math.PR2018★ 4 cited

Last-mile shared delivery: A discrete sequential packing approach

Junyu Cao, Mariana Olvera-Cravioto, Zuo-Jun Shen

We propose a model for optimizing the last-mile delivery of n packages, from a distribution center to their final recipients, using a strategy that combines the use of ride-sharing…

math.PR2017★ 2 cited

On a general class of inhomogeneous random digraphs

Junyu Cao, Mariana Olvera-Cravioto

We study a family of directed random graphs whose arcs are sampled independently of each other, and are present in the graph with a probability that depends on the attributes of th…

math.PR2017

Likelihood Ratio Gradient Estimation for Steady-State Parameters

Peter W. Glynn, Mariana Olvera-Cravioto

We consider a discrete-time Markov chain on a general state-space , whose transition probabilities are parameterized by a real-valued vector .…

math.PR2017

PageRank on inhomogeneous random digraphs

Jiung Lee, Mariana Olvera-Cravioto

We study the typical behavior of a generalized version of Google's PageRank algorithm on a large family of inhomogeneous random digraphs. This family includes as special cases dire…

math.PR2017

Convergence of the Population Dynamics algorithm in the Wasserstein metric

Mariana Olvera-Cravioto

We study the convergence of the population dynamics algorithm, which produces sample pools of random variables having a distribution that closely approximates that of the {\em spec…

math.PR2015

Typical distances in the directed configuration model

Pim van der Hoorn, Mariana Olvera-Cravioto

We analyze the distribution of the distance between two nodes, sampled uniformly at random, in digraphs generated via the directed configuration model, in the supercritical regime.…

math.PR2015★ 10 cited

Efficient Simulation for Branching Linear Recursions

Ningyuan Chen, Mariana Olvera-Cravioto

We consider a linear recursion of the form where is a real-valued random vector with $N\in\…

math.PR2015★ 12 cited

Parallel queues with synchronization

Mariana Olvera-Cravioto, Octavio Ruiz-Lacedelli

Motivated by the growing interest in today's massive parallel computing capabilities we analyze a queueing network with many servers in parallel to which jobs arrive a according to…

math.PR2014★ 2 cited

Coupling on weighted branching trees

Ningyuan Chen, Mariana Olvera-Cravioto

This paper considers linear functions constructed on two different weighted branching processes and provides explicit bounds for their Kantorovich-Rubinstein distance in terms of c…

math.PR2014★ 6 cited

PageRank in scale-free random graphs

Ningyuan Chen, Nelly Litvak, Mariana Olvera-Cravioto

We analyze the distribution of PageRank on a directed configuration model and show that as the size of the graph grows to infinity it can be closely approximated by the PageRank of…

math.PR2014

Maximums on Trees

Predrag R. Jelenkovic, Mariana Olvera-Cravioto

We study the minimal/endogenous solution to the maximum recursion on weighted branching trees given by …

math.PR2012★ 4 cited

Directed random graphs with given degree distributions

Ningyuan Chen, Mariana Olvera-Cravioto

Given two distributions F and G on the nonnegative integers we propose an algorithm to construct in- and out-degree sequences from samples of i.i.d. observations from F and G, resp…

math.PR2011

Tail behavior of solutions of linear recursions on trees

Mariana Olvera-Cravioto

Consider the linear nonhomogeneous fixed point equation R =_d sum_{i=1}^N C_i R_i + Q, where (Q,N,C_1,...,C_N) is a random vector with N in{0,1,2,3,...}U{infty}, {C_i}_{i=1}^N >= 0…

math.PR2011

Asymptotics for Weighted Random Sums

Mariana Olvera-Cravioto

Let be a sequence of independent identically distributed random variables with an intermediate regularly varying (IR) right tail . Let be a…

math.PR2010★ 6 cited

Implicit Renewal Theorem for Trees with General Weights

Predrag R. Jelenkovic, Mariana Olvera-Cravioto

Consider distributional fixed point equations of the form R =d f(C_i, R_i, 1 <= i <= N), where f(.) is a possibly random real valued function, N in {0, 1, 2, 3,...} U {infty}, {C_i…