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Simplicial complexes are now a popular alternative to networks when it comes to describing the structure of complex systems, primarily because they encode multi-node interactions explicitly. With this new description comes the need for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-09-27 Jean-Gabriel Young , Giovanni Petri , Francesco Vaccarino , Alice Patania

We present the `Basic S*' algorithm for computing shortest path through a metric simplicial complex. In particular, given a metric graph, $G$, which is constructed as a discrete representation of an underlying configuration space (a larger…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Subhrajit Bhattacharya

Computation of persistent homology of simplicial representations such as the Rips and the C\v{e}ch complexes do not efficiently scale to large point clouds. It is, therefore, meaningful to devise approximate representations and evaluate the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Naheed Anjum Arafat , Debabrota Basu , Stéphane Bressan

Distributed abstract programs are a novel class of distributed optimization problems where (i) the number of variables is much smaller than the number of constraints and (ii) each constraint is associated to a network node. Abstract…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-11-02 Giuseppe Notarstefano , Francesco Bullo

The website reductions.network serves as a comprehensive database for exploring problems and reductions between them. It presents several complexity classes in the form of an interconnected graph where problems are represented as vertices,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Christoph Grüne , Femke Pfaue

In this work, we propose a novel representation of complex multi-relational networks, which is compact and allows very efficient network analysis. Multi-relational networks capture complex data relationships and have a variety of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Konstantinos Bougiatiotis , Georgios Paliouras

Deep networks often exhibit a preference for "simple" solutions, and such a simplicity bias is widely believed to play a key role in generalization. Yet a broadly applicable, quantitative measure of simplicity remains elusive. We introduce…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Tianren Zhang , Xiangxin Li , Minghao Xiao , Guanyu Chen , Feng Chen

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are revolutionary enablers for next-generation wireless communication networks, with the ability to customize the radio propagation environment. To fully exploit the potential of IRS-assisted wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Yifan Ma , Yifei Shen , Xianghao Yu , Jun Zhang , S. H. Song , Khaled B. Letaief

We provide dual algorithms for sampling the space of abstract simplicial complexes on a fixed number of vertices. We develop a generative and descriptive sampler designed with heuristics to help balance the combinatorial multiplicities of…

Computation · Statistics 2018-07-03 John Lombard

Boolean networks have been successfully used in modelling gene regulatory networks. In this paper we propose a reduction method that reduces the complexity of a Boolean network but keeps dynamical properties and topological features and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2009-07-06 Alan Veliz-Cuba

The large size of multiscale, distribution and transmission, power grids hinder fast system-wide estimation and real-time control and optimization of operations. This paper studies graph reduction methods of power grids that are favorable…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Colin Grudzien , Deepjyoti Deka , Michael Chertkov , Scott N Backhaus

We present simplicial neural networks (SNNs), a generalization of graph neural networks to data that live on a class of topological spaces called simplicial complexes. These are natural multi-dimensional extensions of graphs that encode not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Stefania Ebli , Michaël Defferrard , Gard Spreemann

Complex networks representing social interactions, brain activities, molecular structures have been studied widely to be able to understand and predict their characteristics as graphs. Models and algorithms for these networks are used in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Murat Çelik , Ali Baran Taşdemir , Lale Özkahya

We apply a Bethe-Peierls approach to statistical-mechanics models defined on random networks of arbitrary degree distribution and arbitrary correlations between the degrees of neighboring vertices. Using the NP-hard optimization problem of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Alexei Vazquez , Martin Weigt

Hypergraphs and simplical complexes both capture the higher-order interactions of complex systems, ranging from higher-order collaboration networks to brain networks. One open problem in the field is what should drive the choice of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-09-28 Federica Baccini , Filippo Geraci , Ginestra Bianconi

We propose a graph-based process calculus for modeling and reasoning about wireless networks with local broadcasts. Graphs are used at syntactical level to describe the topological structures of networks. This calculus is equipped with a…

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We present an algorithm that efficiently computes nearly-optimal solutions to a class of combinatorial reconfiguration problems on weighted, undirected graphs. Inspired by societally relevant applications in networked infrastructure…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Samuel Talkington , Dmitrii M. Ostrovskii , Daniel K. Molzahn

This paper introduces a data structure, called simplex tree, to represent abstract simplicial complexes of any dimension. All faces of the simplicial complex are explicitly stored in a trie whose nodes are in bijection with the faces of the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Jean-Daniel Boissonnat , Clément Maria

The Vietoris-Rips filtration is a versatile tool in topological data analysis. It is a sequence of simplicial complexes built on a metric space to add topological structure to an otherwise disconnected set of points. It is widely used…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-03-07 Donald R. Sheehy

Complex molecules and mesoscopic structures are naturally described by general networks of elementary building blocks and tight-binding is one of the simplest quantum model suitable for studying the physical properties arising from the…

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