Paper ID: 2207.14601

Archaeology of random recursive dags and Cooper-Frieze random networks

Simon Briend, Francisco Calvillo, Gábor Lugosi

We study the problem of finding the root vertex in large growing networks. We prove that it is possible to construct confidence sets of size independent of the number of vertices in the network that contain the root vertex with high probability in various models of random networks. The models include uniform random recursive dags and uniform Cooper-Frieze random graphs.

Submitted: Jul 29, 2022