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A network's community structure commonly impacts its functions. For instance, networks seeking synchronisation will see this process follow the topology's hierarchical and community structuring. Herein, the interplay of network adjacency…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-12 Agathe Bouis , Ruaridh A. Clark , Malcolm Macdonald

This article deals with the spectra of Laplacians of weighted graphs. In this context, two objects are of fundamental importance for the dynamics of complex networks: the second eigenvalue of such a spectrum (called algebraic connectivity)…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-04-07 Camille Poignard , Tiago Pereira , Jan Philipp Pade

Spectral graph theory gives an algebraical approach to analyze the dynamics of a network by using the matrix that represents the network structure. However, it is not easy for social networks to apply the spectral graph theory because the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Yusuke Sakumoto , Tsukasa Kameyama , Chisa Takano , Masaki Aida

The existing results on controllability of multi-agents networks are mostly based on homogeneous nodes. This paper focuses on controllability of heterogeneous multi-agent networks, where the agents are modeled as two types. One type is that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-11 Bin Zhao , Michael Z. Q. Chen , Yongqiang Guan , Long Wang

Pinning control of a complex network aims at forcing the states of all nodes to track an external signal by controlling a small number of nodes in the network. In this paper, an algebraic graph-theoretic condition is introduced to optimize…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-12 Hui Liu , Xuanhong Xu , Jun-An Lu , Guanrong Chen , Zhigang Zeng

Learning a graph with a specific structure is essential for interpretability and identification of the relationships among data. It is well known that structured graph learning from observed samples is an NP-hard combinatorial problem. In…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-26 Sandeep Kumar , Jiaxi Ying , Jos'e Vin'icius de M. Cardoso , Daniel P. Palomar

The largest eigenvalue of a matrix is always larger or equal than its largest diagonal entry. We show that for a large class of random Laplacian matrices, this bound is essentially tight: the largest eigenvalue is, up to lower order terms,…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-07-28 Afonso S. Bandeira

Networks are a widely used and efficient paradigm to model real-world systems where basic units interact pairwise. Many body interactions are often at play, and cannot be modelled by resorting to binary exchanges. In this work, we consider…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-06-03 Timoteo Carletti , Duccio Fanelli , Sara Nicoletti

Homophily -- the tendency of individuals to interact with similar others -- shapes how networks form and function. Yet existing approaches typically collapse homophily to a single scale, either one parameter for the whole network or one per…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-16 Abbas K. Rizi , Riccardo Michielan , Clara Stegehuis , Mikko Kivelä

A social choice procedure is modeled as a repeated Nash game between the social agents, who are communicating with each other through a social communication network modeled by an undirected graph. The agents' criteria for this game are…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Athanasios-Rafail Lagos , George P. Papavassilopoulos

We consider a network topology design problem in which an initial undirected graph underlying the network is given and the objective is to select a set of edges to add to the graph to optimize the coherence of the resulting network. We show…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-19 Tyler Summers , Iman Shames , John Lygeros , Florian Dörfler

It is reported that dynamical systems over digraphs have superior performance in terms of system damping and tolerance to time delays if the underlying graph Laplacian has a purely real spectrum. This paper investigates the topological…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Tianhao Yu , Shenglu Wang , Mengqi Xue , Yue Song , David J. Hill

Recent studies have been using graph theoretical approaches to model complex networks (such as social, infrastructural or biological networks), and how their hardwired circuitry relates to their dynamic evolution in time. Understanding how…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-07-17 Anca Radulescu

Networks such as organizational network of a global company play an important role in a variety of knowledge management and information diffusion tasks. The nodes in these networks correspond to individuals who are self-interested. The…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-10 Swapnil Dhamal , Y. Narahari

The uniform recursive tree (URT) is one of the most important models and has been successfully applied to many fields. Here we study exactly the topological characteristics and spectral properties of the Laplacian matrix of a deterministic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-07-11 Zhongzhi Zhang , Shuigeng Zhou , Yi Qi , Jihong Guan

All intelligence is collective intelligence, in the sense that it is made of parts which must align with respect to system-level goals. Understanding the dynamics which facilitate or limit navigation of problem spaces by aligned parts thus…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-18 Francesco Sacco , Dalton A R Sakthivadivel , Michael Levin

Network topology inference is a cornerstone problem in statistical analyses of complex systems. In this context, the fresh look advocated here permeates benefits from convex optimization and graph signal processing, to identify the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Santiago Segarra , Antonio G. Marques , Gonzalo Mateos , Alejandro Ribeiro

We explore the problem of inferring the graph Laplacian of a weighted, undirected network from snapshots of a single or multiple discrete-time consensus dynamics, subject to parameter uncertainty, taking place on the network. Specifically,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Yu Zhu , Michael T. Schaub , Ali Jadbabaie , Santiago Segarra

In this paper we investigate the controllability and observability properties of a family of linear dynamical systems, whose structure is induced by the Laplacian of a grid graph. This analysis is motivated by several applications in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-03-02 Giuseppe Notarstefano , Gianfranco Parlangeli

Simplicial complexes constitute the underlying topology of interacting complex systems including among the others brain and social interaction networks. They are generalized network structures that allow to go beyond the framework of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-06-02 Joaquín J. Torres , Ginestra Bianconi