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We show that heterogeneous degree distributions in observed scale-free topologies of complex networks can emerge as a consequence of the exponential expansion of hidden hyperbolic space. Fermi-Dirac statistics provides a physical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-09-26 Dmitri Krioukov , Fragkiskos Papadopoulos , Amin Vahdat , Marian Boguna

Hyperbolic networks are supposed to be congruent with their underlying latent geometry and following geodesics in the hyperbolic space is believed equivalent to navigate through topological shortest paths (TSP). This assumption of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci , Alessandro Muscoloni

Complex networks, which are the abstractions of many real-world systems, present a persistent challenge across disciplines for people to decipher their underlying information. Recently, hyperbolic geometry of latent spaces has gained…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Kai Zheng , Qilong Feng , Yaohang Li , Qichang Zhao , Jinhui Xu , Jianxin Wang

Complex systems, ranging from soft materials to wireless communication, are often organised as random geometric networks in which nodes and edges evenly fill up the volume of some space. Studying such networks is difficult because they…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Ivan Kryven , Rik Versendaal

Network models with latent geometry have been used successfully in many applications in network science and other disciplines, yet it is usually impossible to tell if a given real network is geometric, meaning if it is a typical element in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-23 Dmitri Krioukov

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have excelled in predicting graph properties in various applications ranging from identifying trends in social networks to drug discovery and malware detection. With the abundance of new architectures and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Roya Aliakbarisani , Robert Jankowski , M. Ángeles Serrano , Marián Boguñá

Geometry can be used to explain many properties commonly observed in real networks. It is therefore often assumed that real networks, especially those with high average local clustering, live in an underlying hidden geometric space.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-04-11 J. van der Kolk , M. Á. Serrano , M. Boguñá

From social interactions to the human brain, higher-order networks are key to describe the underlying network geometry and topology of many complex systems. While it is well known that network structure strongly affects its function, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-11 Ana P Millán , Reza Ghorbanchian , Nicolò Defenu , Federico Battiston , Ginestra Bianconi

Recent years have shown a promising progress in understanding geometric underpinnings behind the structure, function, and dynamics of many complex networks in nature and society. However these promises cannot be readily fulfilled and lead…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Fragkiskos Papadopoulos , Constantinos Psomas , Dmitri Krioukov

Real-world networks, like social networks or the internet infrastructure, have structural properties such as large clustering coefficients that can best be described in terms of an underlying geometry. This is why the focus of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Karl Bringmann , Ralph Keusch , Johannes Lengler

We introduce hyperbolic attention networks to endow neural networks with enough capacity to match the complexity of data with hierarchical and power-law structure. A few recent approaches have successfully demonstrated the benefits of…

Transport in crowded, complex environments occurs across many spatial scales. Geometric restrictions can hinder the motion of individuals and, combined with crowding between individuals, can have drastic effects on global transport…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-08-11 Daniel B. Wilson , Francis G. Woodhouse , Matthew J. Simpson , Ruth E. Baker

Multilayer networks offer a powerful framework for modeling complex systems across diverse domains, effectively capturing multiple types of connections and interdependent subsystems commonly found in real world scenarios. To analyze these…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Martin Guillemaud , Vera Dinkelacker , Mario Chavez

Generative network models play an important role in algorithm development, scaling studies, network analysis, and realistic system benchmarks for graph data sets. The commonly used graph-based benchmark model R-MAT has some drawbacks…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-07-01 Moritz von Looz , Mustafa Özdayi , Sören Laue , Henning Meyerhenke

The concept of 'complexity' plays a central role in complex network science. Traditionally, this term has been taken to express heterogeneity of the node degrees of a therefore complex network. However, given that the degree distribution is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-07-01 Éverton F. da Cunha , Luciano da F. Costa

Networked structures arise in a wide array of different contexts such as technological and transportation infrastructures, social phenomena, and biological systems. These highly interconnected systems have recently been the focus of a great…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alain Barrat , Marc Barthelemy , Romualdo Pastor-Satorras , Alessandro Vespignani

The relations, rather than the elements, constitute the structure of networks. We therefore develop a systematic approach to the analysis of networks, modelled as graphs or hypergraphs, that is based on structural properties of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Marzieh Eidi , Amirhossein Farzam , Wilmer Leal , Areejit Samal , Jürgen Jost

Hyperbolic models are known to produce networks with properties observed empirically in most network datasets, including heavy-tailed degree distribution, high clustering, and hierarchical structures. As a result, several embeddings…

Computation · Statistics 2025-05-16 Simon Lizotte , Jean-Gabriel Young , Antoine Allard

Graph representation learning in Euclidean space, despite its widespread adoption and proven utility in many domains, often struggles to effectively capture the inherent hierarchical and complex relational structures prevalent in real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Menglin Yang , Min Zhou , Tong Zhang , Jiahong Liu , Zhihao Li , Lujia Pan , Hui Xiong , Irwin King

Complex networks have become increasingly popular for modeling various real-world phenomena. Realistic generative network models are important in this context as they avoid privacy concerns of real data and simplify complex network research…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-24 Moritz von Looz , Christian L. Staudt , Henning Meyerhenke , Roman Prutkin