WAW 2025

20th Workshop on Modelling and Mining Networks (WAW 2025)
June 30 - July 3, 2025
Faculty of Philosophy
Vilnius University
Universiteto 9, Vilnius, Lithuania

Time in Lithuania (GMT+3)

Monday, June 30, 2025

• 8:50 - 9:00 — Opening remarks

Contributed talks:
• 9:00 - 9:30 — Modularity of random intersection graphs — Katarzyna Rybarczyk
• 9:30 - 10:00 — The size of the giant in inhomogeneous random graphs of preferential attachment type — Lucas Schätze and Peter Mörters
• 10:00 - 10:30 — k-connectivity threshold for superpositions of Bernoulli random graphs — Mindaugas Bloznelis, Daumilas Ardickas, and Rimantas Vaicekauskas


• 10:30 - 11:00 — Coffee

Plenary talk:
• 11:00 - 12:00 — Duplication-divergence models with edge deletion — Gesine Reinert


• 12:00 - 14:00 — Lunch

Contributed talks:
• 14:00 - 14:30 — PageRank under interpolation between undirected- and directed networks - a case study — Florian Henning, Remco van der Hofstad, and Nelly Litvak
• 14:30 - 15:00 — Degrees in preferential attachment networks with an anomaly — Qiu Liang, Remco van der Hofstad, and Nelly Litvak


• 15:00 - 15:30 — Coffee

Regular talks:
• 15:30 - 16:00 — Learning the Mechanisms of Network Growth — Lourens Touwen, Doina Bucur, Remco van der Hofstad, Alessandro Garavaglia, and Nelly Litvak
• 16:00 - 16:30 — Relational state modelling — R. Juozaitienė, E. C. Wit


• 16:30 — Ice breaker reception

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Contributed talks:
• 9:00 - 9:30 — Linear Geometric Centralities — Paolo Boldi, Chiara Prezioso, and Flavio Furia
• 9:30 - 10:00 — Analysis and predictability of centrality measures in competition networks — Anthony Bonato and Mariam Walaa
• 10:00 - 10:30 — Computation of the Laplacian Spectral Barycentre Network in a Soules Basis — François Meyer


• 10:30 - 11:00 — Coffee

Plenary talk:
• 11:00 - 12:00 — Accuracy and Efficiency of Semi-Supervised Graph Clustering Methods — Konstantin Avrachenkov


• 12:00 - 14:00 — Lunch

Contributed / Regular talks:
• 14:00 - 14:30 — Finding General Hierarchies: Beyond Binary Trees — Maximilien Dreveton, Daichi Kuroda, Matthias Grossglauser, and Patrick Thiran
• 14:30 - 15:00 — Integrating Link Prediction and Isolation Forest for Backbone Extraction — Ali Yassin, Hocine Cherifi, Hamida Seba, and Olivier Togni


• 15:00 - 15:30 — Coffee

Regular talks:
• 15:30 - 16:00 — Hypergraph embedding for consistent line clustering — Kalle Alaluusua, Konstantin Avrachenkov, B.R. Vinay Kumar, and Lasse Leskelä
• 16:00 - 16:30 — The weighted hidden clique problem — Urmisha Chatterjee, Karissa Huang, Ritabrata Karmakar, Nandan Malhotra, Anirban Mandal, Maruf Alam Tarafdar, B.R. Vinay Kumar, Gábor Lugosi


• 18:00 — Excursion / Walk

Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Contributed talks:
• 9:00 - 9:30 — Improving community detection via community association strength scores — Jordan Barrett, Pawel Pralat, Francois Theberge, Bogumil Kaminski, Aaron Smith, and Ryan DeWolfe
• 9:30 - 10:00 — The Artificial Benchmark for Community Detection with Outliers and Overlapping Communities (ABCD+o^2) — Jordan Barrett, Ryan DeWolfe, Bogumił Kamiński, Pawel Pralat, Aaron Smith, and François Théberge
• 10:00 - 10:30 — The Multilayer Artificial Benchmark for Community Detection (mABCD) — Piotr Bródka, Michał Czuba, Bogumił Kamiński, Łukasz Kraiński, Paweł Prałat, and François Théberge


• 10:30 - 11:00 — Coffee

Plenary talk:
• 11:00 - 12:00 — Embedding Nodes and Features in Hyperbolic Space: A Geometric Lens on Networks — Marián Boguñá


• 12:00 - 14:00 — Lunch

Regular talks:
• 14:00 - 14:30 — Properties and Performance of Embedding-based Community Detection Algorithm — Bartosz Pankratz, Bogumił Kamiński, and Paweł Prałat
• 14:30 - 15:00 — Exploring Community-Based Graph Variables in Graph Neural Networks — Sebastian Zając


• 16:00 - 18:30 — Conference Dinner

Thursday, July 3, 2025

Regular talks:
• 9:00 - 9:30 — Hypergraph sampling via random walk and its application to OpenAlex database — Kazuki Nakajima, Masanao Kodakari, and Masaki Aida
• 9:30 - 10:00 — Stationary distribution of node2vec random walks on household models — L. Schroeder and C. Stegehuis
• 10:00 - 10:30 — Geometry hinders the formation of consensus in asynchronous majority dynamics — Martijn Gösgen


• 10:30 - 11:00 — Coffee

Regular talks:
• 11:00 - 11:30 — Robotic Swarms with Free Communication — James Tuite
• 11:30 - 12:00 — Improved Graph-Based Semi-Supervised Learning Schemes — Farid Bozorgnia


• 12:00 - 14:00 — Lunch

Contributed / Regular talks:
• 14:00 - 14:30 — A Graph Network Approach to Disinformation Detection in Social Media — Milita Songailaite, Justina Mandravickaitė, Veronika Bryskina, Maksym Bondar, and Tomas Krilavičius
• 14:30 - 15:00 — Modelling the Disinformation Spread on Social Networks: A Case of Lithuanian Political Discourse — Severina Kardis and Bartosz Pankratz


• 15:00 - 15:30 — Coffee

Regular talks:
• 15:30 - 16:00 — Consistent Markov edge processes and Arak's model — Donatas Surgailis
• 16:00 - 16:30 — Sparse and clustered stationary temporal networks — Mindaugas Bloznelis and Dominykas Marma


• 16:30 - 16:45 — Closing remarks