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Networks - collections of interacting elements or nodes - abound in the natural and manmade worlds. For many networks, complex spatiotemporal dynamics stem from patterns of physical interactions unknown to us. To infer these interactions,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-13 Mark A. Kramer , Uri T. Eden , Sydney S. Cash , Eric D. Kolaczyk

The study of networks leads to a wide range of high dimensional inference problems. In many practical applications, one needs to draw inference from one or few large sparse networks. The present paper studies hypothesis testing of graphs in…

Replicability is a cornerstone of science. The partial conjunction (PC) hypothesis testing framework objectively quantifies replicability across disciplines. Although several statistical methodologies for testing PC hypotheses exist, it is…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-18 Monitirtha Dey , Anna Vesely , Thorsten Dickhaus

Most empirical studies of networks assume that the network data we are given represent a complete and accurate picture of the nodes and edges in the system of interest, but in real-world situations this is rarely the case. More often the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-01-02 M. E. J. Newman

To improve our understanding of connected systems, different tools derived from statistics, signal processing, information theory and statistical physics have been developed in the last decade. Here, we will focus on the graph comparison…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-23 Johann H. Martínez , Mario Chavez

We perform a massive evaluation of neural networks with architectures corresponding to random graphs of various types. We investigate various structural and numerical properties of the graphs in relation to neural network test accuracy. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Romuald A. Janik , Aleksandra Nowak

An information theoretic approach inspired by quantum statistical mechanics was recently proposed as a means to optimize network models and to assess their likelihood against synthetic and real-world networks. Importantly, this method does…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-12 Carlo Nicolini , Vladimir Vlasov , Angelo Bifone

We consider the multiple hypothesis testing (MHT) problem over the joint domain formed by a graph and a measure space. On each sample point of this joint domain, we assign a hypothesis test and a corresponding $p$-value. The goal is to make…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-05 Xingchao Jian , Martin Gölz , Feng Ji , Wee Peng Tay , Abdelhak M. Zoubir

Inferring brain connectivity network and quantifying the significance of interactions between brain regions are of paramount importance in neuroscience. Although there have recently emerged some tests for graph inference based on…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-08-23 Yuting Ye , Yin Xia , Lexin Li

Networks arise in many applications, such as in the analysis of text documents, social interactions and brain activity. We develop a general framework for extrinsic statistical analysis of samples of networks, motivated by networks…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-09-17 Katie E. Severn , Ian L. Dryden , Simon P. Preston

Modern scientific fields face the challenge of integrating a wealth of data, analyses, and results. We recently showed that a neglect of this integration can lead to circular analyses and redundant explanations. Here, we help advance…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-15 Mika Rubinov

Networked data, in which every training example involves two objects and may share some common objects with others, is used in many machine learning tasks such as learning to rank and link prediction. A challenge of learning from networked…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Yuanhong Wang , Yuyi Wang , Xingwu Liu , Juhua Pu

The theory of random graphs is being applied in recent years to model neural interactions in the brain. While the probabilistic properties of random graphs has been extensively studied in the literature, the development of statistical…

Applications · Statistics 2015-04-27 Andressa Cerqueira , Daniel Fraiman , Claudia D. Vargas , Florencia Leonardi

Psychological network approaches propose to see symptoms or questionnaire items as interconnected nodes, with links between them reflecting pairwise statistical dependencies evaluated cross-sectional, time-series, or panel data. These…

Graphs are a powerful data structure for representing relational data and are widely used to describe complex real-world systems. Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGMs) and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) can both leverage graph-structured…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-26 Michela Lapenna , Caterina De Bacco

Network theory provides a principled abstraction of the human brain: reducing a complex system into a simpler representation from which to investigate brain organisation. Recent advancement in the neuroimaging field are towards representing…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-05-02 Ai Wern Chung , Emanuele Pesce , Ricardo Pio Monti , Giovanni Montana

Complex functional brain network analyses have exploded over the last eight years, gaining traction due to their profound clinical implications. The application of network science (an interdisciplinary offshoot of graph theory) has…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-10-28 Sean L. Simpson , F. DuBois Bowman , Paul J. Laurienti

Whole-brain network analyses remain the vanguard in neuroimaging research, coming to prominence within the last decade. Network science approaches have facilitated these analyses and allowed examining the brain as an integrated system.…

Applications · Statistics 2015-05-04 Sean L. Simpson , Paul J. Laurienti

Graph theory has drawn a lot of attention in the field of Neuroscience during the last decade, mainly due to the abundance of tools that it provides to explore the interactions of elements in a complex network like the brain. The local and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-11-16 Sofia Ira Ktena , Sarah Parisot , Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach , Daniel Rueckert

The vast corpus of physics equations forms an implicit network of mathematical relationships that traditional analysis cannot fully explore. This work introduces a graph-based framework combining neural networks with symbolic analysis to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Massimiliano Romiti