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Ordinal measures provide a valuable collection of tools for analyzing correlated data series. However, using these methods to understand the information interchange in networks of dynamical systems, and uncover the interplay between…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-08-02 Juan A. Almendral , I. Leyva , Irene Sendiña-Nadal

While many approaches to make neural networks more fathomable have been proposed, they are restricted to interrogating the network with input data. Measures for characterizing and monitoring structural properties, however, have not been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Bastian Rieck , Matteo Togninalli , Christian Bock , Michael Moor , Max Horn , Thomas Gumbsch , Karsten Borgwardt

Critical phase transitions have proven to be a powerful concept to capture the phenomenology of many systems, including deeply non-equilibrium ones like living systems. The study of these phase transitions has overwhelmingly relied on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-12 Leone V. Luzzatto , Mathias Casiulis , Stefano Martiniani , István A. Kovács

We study the relationship between topological scales and dynamic time scales in complex networks. The analysis is based on the full dynamics towards synchronization of a system of coupled oscillators. In the synchronization process, modular…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Alex Arenas , Albert Diaz-Guilera , Conrad J. Perez-Vicente

In topology, one averages over local geometrical details to reveal robust global features. This approach proves crucial for understanding quantized bulk transport and exotic boundary effects of linear wave propagation in (meta-)materials.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Greta Villa , Javier del Pino , Vincent Dumont , Gianluca Rastelli , Mateusz Michałek , Alexander Eichler , Oded Zilberberg

In this paper, we present a flexible and probabilistic framework for tracking topological features in time-varying scalar fields using merge trees and partial optimal transport. Merge trees are topological descriptors that record the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Mingzhe Li , Xinyuan Yan , Lin Yan , Tom Needham , Bei Wang

Simplicial complexes capture the underlying network topology and geometry of complex systems ranging from the brain to social networks. Here we show that algebraic topology is a fundamental tool to capture the higher-order dynamics of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-07-12 Reza Ghorbanchian , Juan G. Restrepo , Joaquín J. Torres , Ginestra Bianconi

Degree correlation is an important topological property common to many real-world networks. In this paper, the statistical measures for characterizing the degree correlation in networks are investigated analytically. We give an exact proof…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-09-03 Ju Xiang , Ke Hu , Tao Hu , Yan Zhang , Jian-Ming Li

The control of complex systems is an ongoing challenge of complexity research. Recent advances using concepts of structural control deduce a wide range of control related properties from the network representation of complex systems. Here,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-12-31 Márton Pósfai , Philipp Hövel

A key issue in complex systems regards the relationship between topology and dynamics. In this work, we use a recently introduced network property known as steering coefficient as a means to approach this issue with respect to different…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-11-27 Paulo J. P. de Souza , Cesar H. Comin , Luciano da F. Costa

We study synchronization dynamics in networks of coupled oscillators with bimodal distribution of natural frequencies. This setup can be interpreted as a simple model of frequency synchronization dynamics among generators and loads working…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-07-03 Sergi Lozano , Lubos Buzna , Albert Díaz-Guilera

In the past decade, synchronization on complex networks has attracted increasing attentions from various research disciplines. Most previous works, however, focus only on the dynamic behaviors of synchronization process in the stable…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-10-26 Zhao Zhuo , Shimin Cai , Jie Zhang , Zhongqian Fu

Many dynamical phenomena in complex systems concern spreading that plays out on top of networks with changing architecture over time -- commonly known as temporal networks. A complex system's proneness to facilitate spreading phenomena,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-05-06 Mark M. Dekker , Raoul D. Schram , Jiamin Ou , Debabrata Panja

We propose a novel measure of degree heterogeneity, for unweighted and undirected complex networks, which requires only the degree distribution of the network for its computation. We show that the proposed measure can be applied to all…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-10-03 Rinku Jacob , K. P. Harikrishnan , R. Misra , G. Ambika

It has been hypothesized that some form of "modular" structure in artificial neural networks should be useful for learning, compositionality, and generalization. However, defining and quantifying modularity remains an open problem. We cast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Richard D. Lange , David S. Rolnick , Konrad P. Kording

Heterogeneity is a key aspect of complex networks, often emerging by looking at the distribution of node properties, from the milestone observations on the degree to the recent developments in mixing pattern estimation. Mixing patterns, in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Salvatore Citraro , Letizia Milli , Rémy Cazabet , Giulio Rossetti

This work describes how the formalization of complex network concepts in terms of discrete mathematics, especially mathematical morphology, allows a series of generalizations and important results ranging from new measurements of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-09-19 Luciano da Fontoura Costa , Luis Enrique C. da Rocha

Agglomerative clustering is a well established strategy for identifying communities in networks. Communities are successively merged into larger communities, coarsening a network of actors into a more manageable network of communities. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-01-16 Michael J. Barber

This work presents a topology detection method combining home smart meter information and sparse line flow measurements. The problem is formulated as a spanning tree detection problem over a graph given partial nodal and edge flow…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Raffi Avo Sevlian , Ram Rajagopal

Distribution grids constitute complex networks of lines often times reconfigured to minimize losses, balance loads, alleviate faults, or for maintenance purposes. Topology monitoring becomes a critical task for optimal grid scheduling.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-24 Guido Cavraro , Vassilis Kekatos , Sriharsha Veeramachaneni