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The nonbacktracking matrix, and the related nonbacktracking centrality (NBC) play a crucial role in models of percolation-type processes on networks, such as non-recurrent epidemics. Here we study the localization of NBC in infinite sparse…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-08-29 G. Timár , S. N. Dorogovtsev , J. F. F. Mendes

Message-passing theories have proved to be invaluable tools in studying percolation, non-recurrent epidemics and similar dynamical processes on real-world networks. At the heart of the message-passing method is the nonbacktracking matrix…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-11-25 G. Timár , R. A. da Costa , S. N. Dorogovtsev , J. F. F. Mendes

The non-backtracking matrix and its eigenvalues have many applications in network science and graph mining, such as node and edge centrality, community detection, length spectrum theory, graph distance, and epidemic and percolation…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Leo Torres , Kevin S. Chan , Hanghang Tong , Tina Eliassi-Rad

To measure node importance, network scientists employ centrality scores that typically take a microscopic or macroscopic perspective, relying on node features or global network structure. However, traditional centrality measures such as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Christopher Blöcker , Juan Carlos Nieves , Martin Rosvall

Centrality, which quantifies the "importance" of individual nodes, is among the most essential concepts in modern network theory. As there are many ways in which a node can be important, many different centrality measures are in use. Here,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-02-03 Aleks J. Gurfinkel , Per Arne Rikvold

Spectral centrality measures allow to identify influential individuals in social groups, to rank Web pages by their popularity, and even to determine the impact of scientific researches. The centrality score of a node within a network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-09-22 Vincenzo Nicosia , Regino Criado , Miguel Romance , Giovanni Russo , Vito Latora

Node centrality is one of the integral measures in network analysis with wide range of applications from socio-economic to personalized recommendation. We argue that an effective centrality measure should undertake stability even under…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Chandni Saxena , M. N. Doja , Tanvir Ahmad

Edge centrality measures are functions that evaluate the importance of edges in a network. They can be used to assess the role of a backlink for the popularity of a website as well as the importance of a flight in virus spreading. Various…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Natalia Kucharczuk , Tomasz Was , Oskar Skibski

Many systems, ranging from biological and engineering systems to social systems, can be modeled as directed networks, with links representing directed interaction between two nodes. To assess the importance of a node in a directed network,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-06 Naoki Masuda , Yoji Kawamura , Hiroshi Kori

Measures of node centrality that describe the importance of a node within a network are crucial for understanding the behavior of social networks and graphs. In this paper, we address the problems of distributed estimation and control of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Eduardo Montijano , Gabriele Oliva , Andrea Gasparri

Centrality describes the importance of nodes in a graph and is modeled by various measures. Its global analogue, called centralization, is a general formula for calculating a graph-level centrality score based on the node-level centrality…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Jose Mari E. Ortega , Rolito G. Eballe

We consider the problem of estimating a network's eigenvector centrality only from data on the nodes, with no information about network topology. Leveraging the versatility of graph filters to model network processes, data supported on the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-01 T. Mitchell Roddenberry , Santiago Segarra

Mapping a complex network to an atomic cluster, the Anderson localization theory is used to obtain the load distribution on a complex network. Based upon an intelligence-limited model we consider the load distribution and the congestion and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Huijie Yang , Fangcui Zhao , Tao Zhou , Wenxu Wang , Binghong Wang

Estimating influential nodes in large scale networks including but not limited to social networks, biological networks, communication networks, emerging smart grids etc. is a topic of fundamental interest. To understand influences of nodes…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-06-13 Sima Das

Centrality metrics aim to identify the most relevant nodes in a network. In literature, a broad set of metrics exists, either measuring local or global centrality characteristics. Nevertheless, when networks exhibit a high spectral gap, the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-20 Lorenzo Costantini , Carla Sciarra , Luca Ridolfi , Francesco Laio

We study the inverse eigenvector centrality problem on connected undirected graphs, namely, whether a given positive vector can be realized by assigning suitable edge weights. We provide a complete characterization in terms of stable sets…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Mauro Passacantando , Fabio Raciti

Betweenness is a measure of the centrality of a node in a network, and is normally calculated as the fraction of shortest paths between node pairs that pass through the node of interest. Betweenness is, in some sense, a measure of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. E. J. Newman

Centrality measures have been defined to quantify the importance of a node in complex networks. The relative importance of a node can be measured using its centrality rank based on the centrality value. In the present work, we predict the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Akrati Saxena , Vaibhav Malik , S. R. S. Iyengar

Given a social network, which of its nodes are more central? This question has been asked many times in sociology, psychology and computer science, and a whole plethora of centrality measures (a.k.a. centrality indices, or rankings) were…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-11-08 Paolo Boldi , Sebastiano Vigna

Centrality measures quantify the importance of a node in a network based on different geometric or diffusive properties, and focus on different scales. Here, we adopt a geometrical viewpoint to define a multi-scale centrality in networks.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-09-21 Shazia'Ayn Babul , Karel Devriendt , Renaud Lambiotte