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An embedding of chaotic data into a suitable phase space creates a diffeomorphism of the original attractor with the reconstructed attractor. Although diffeomorphic, the original and reconstructed attractors may not be topologically equivalent. In a previous work we showed how the original and reconstructed attractors can differ when the original is three-dimensional and of genus-one type. In the present work we extend this result to three-dimensional attractors of arbitrary genus. This result describes symmetries exhibited by the Lorenz attractor and its reconstructions.
Learning low-dimensional topological representation of a network in dynamic environments is attracting much attention due to the time-evolving nature of many real-world networks. The main and common objective of Dynamic Network Embedding (DNE) is to efficiently update node embeddings while preserving network topology at each time step. The idea of most existing DNE methods is to capture the topological changes at or around the most affected nodes (instead of all nodes) and accordingly update node embeddings. Unfortunately, this kind of approximation, although can improve efficiency, cannot effectively preserve the global topology of a dynamic network at each time step, due to not considering the inactive sub-networks that receive accumulated topological changes propagated via the high-order proximity. To tackle this challenge, we propose a novel node selecting strategy to diversely select the representative nodes over a network, which is coordinated with a new incremental learning paradigm of Skip-Gram based embedding approach. The extensive experiments show GloDyNE, with a small fraction of nodes being selected, can already achieve the superior or comparable performance w.r.t. the state-of-the-art DNE methods in three typical downstream tasks. Particularly, GloDyNE significantly outperforms other methods in the graph reconstruction task, which demonstrates its ability of global topology preservation. The source code is available at https://github.com/houchengbin/GloDyNE
Learning topological representation of a network in dynamic environments has recently attracted considerable attention due to the time-evolving nature of many real-world networks i.e. nodes/links might be added/removed as time goes on. Dynamic network embedding aims to learn low dimensional embeddings for unseen and seen nodes by using any currently available snapshots of a dynamic network. For seen nodes, the existing methods either treat them equally important or focus on the $k$ most affected nodes at each time step. However, the former solution is time-consuming, and the later solution that relies on incoming changes may lose the global topology---an important feature for downstream tasks. To address these challenges, we propose a dynamic network embedding method called DynWalks, which includes two key components: 1) An online network embedding framework that can dynamically and efficiently learn embeddings based on the selected nodes; 2) A novel online node selecting scheme that offers the flexible choices to balance global topology and recent changes, as well as to fulfill the real-time constraint if needed. The empirical studies on six real-world dynamic networks under three different slicing ways show that DynWalks significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in graph reconstruction tasks, and obtains comparable results in link prediction tasks. Furthermore, the wall-clock time and complexity analysis demonstrate its excellent time and space efficiency. The source code of DynWalks is available at https://github.com/houchengbin/DynWalks
We establish a hierarchical ordering of periodic orbits in a strongly coupled multidimensional Hamiltonian system. Phase space structures can be reconstructed quantitatively from the knowledge of periodic orbits alone. We illustrate our findings for the hydrogen atom in crossed electric and magnetic fields.
A stirring device consisting of a periodic motion of rods induces a mapping of the fluid domain to itself, which can be regarded as a homeomorphism of a punctured surface. Having the rods undergo a topologically-complex motion guarantees at least a minimum amount of stretching of material lines, which is important for chaotic mixing. We use topological considerations to describe the nature of the injection of unmixed material into a central mixing region, which takes place at injection cusps. A topological index formula allow us to predict the possible types of unstable foliations that can arise for a fixed number of rods.
Graph kernels are widely used for measuring the similarity between graphs. Many existing graph kernels, which focus on local patterns within graphs rather than their global properties, suffer from significant structure information loss when representing graphs. Some recent global graph kernels, which utilizes the alignment of geometric node embeddings of graphs, yield state-of-the-art performance. However, these graph kernels are not necessarily positive-definite. More importantly, computing the graph kernel matrix will have at least quadratic {time} complexity in terms of the number and the size of the graphs. In this paper, we propose a new family of global alignment graph kernels, which take into account the global properties of graphs by using geometric node embeddings and an associated node transportation based on earth movers distance. Compared to existing global kernels, the proposed kernel is positive-definite. Our graph kernel is obtained by defining a distribution over emph{random graphs}, which can naturally yield random feature approximations. The random feature approximations lead to our graph embeddings, which is named as random graph embeddings (RGE). In particular, RGE is shown to achieve emph{(quasi-)linear scalability} with respect to the number and the size of the graphs. The experimental results on nine benchmark datasets demonstrate that RGE outperforms or matches twelve state-of-the-art graph classification algorithms.