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When studying a complex system it is often useful to think of the system as a network of interacting units. One can then ask if some properties of the entire network are already explained by a small part of the network - a network motif. A…

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In complex systems, groups of interacting objects may form prevalent and persistent spatiotemporal patterns, which we refer to as motifs. These motifs can exhibit features that reveal how individual objects interact with one another.…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Ying Chen Lim , Rakesh Das , Tetsuya Hiraiwa , N. Duane Loh

Random network models, constrained to reproduce specific statistical features, are often used to represent and analyze network data and their mathematical descriptions. Chief among them, the configuration model constrains random networks by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Laurent Hébert-Dufresne , Jean-Gabriel Young , Alexander Daniels , Alec Kirkley , Antoine Allard

Link prediction plays an important role in network analysis and applications. Recently, approaches for link prediction have evolved from traditional similarity-based algorithms into embedding-based algorithms. However, most existing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Lei Wang , Jing Ren , Bo Xu , Jianxin Li , Wei Luo , Feng Xia

Patterns often appear in a variety of large, real-world networks, and interesting physical phenomena are often explained by network topology as in the case of the bow-tie structure of the World Wide Web, or the small world phenomenon in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Corey Pennycuff , Tim Weninger

Network motifs are patterns of over-represented node interactions in a network which have been previously used as building blocks to understand various aspects of the social networks. In this paper, we use motif patterns to characterize the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Soumajyoti Sarkar , Ruocheng Guo , Paulo Shakarian

Recent evidence indicates that the abundance of recurring elementary interaction patterns in complex networks, often called subgraphs or motifs, carry significant information about their function and overall organization. Yet, the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Vazquez , R. Dobrin , D. Sergi , J. -P. Eckmann , Z. N. Oltvai , A. -L. Barabasi

Understanding why some cellular components are conserved across species, while others evolve rapidly is a key question of modern biology. Here we demonstrate that in S. cerevisiae proteins organized in cohesive patterns of interactions are…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 S. Wuchty , Z. N. Oltvai , A. -L. Barabasi

Network motifs are small building blocks of complex networks. Statistically significant motifs often perform network-specific functions. However, the precise nature of the connection between motifs and the global structure and function of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-03 Almerima Jamakovic , Priya Mahadevan , Amin Vahdat , Marian Boguna , Dmitri Krioukov

Topological features of gene regulatory networks can be successfully reproduced by a model population evolving under selection for short dynamical attractors. The evolved population of networks exhibit motif statistics, summarized by…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2016-08-11 Burçin Danacı , Mehmet Ali Anıl , Ayşe Erzan

Detecting strong ties among users in social and information networks is a fundamental operation that can improve performance on a multitude of personalization and ranking tasks. Strong-tie edges are often readily obtained from the social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Rahmtin Rotabi , Krishna Kamath , Jon Kleinberg , Aneesh Sharma

Food webs have been found to exhibit remarkable motif profiles, patterns in the relative prevalences of all possible three-species sub-graphs, and this has been related to ecosystem properties such as stability and robustness. Analysing 46…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2016-09-15 Janis Klaise , Samuel Johnson

The subject of conversational mining has become of great interest recently due to the explosion of social and other online media. Supplementing this explosion of text is the advancement in pre-trained language models which have helped us to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Nicolle Garber , Vukosi Marivate

Community detection, the decomposition of a graph into essential building blocks, has been a core research topic in network science over the past years. Since a precise notion of what constitutes a community has remained evasive, community…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-17 Michael T. Schaub , Jean-Charles Delvenne , Martin Rosvall , Renaud Lambiotte

Network motif provides a way to uncover the basic building blocks of most complex networks. This task usually demands high computer processing, specially for motif with 5 or more vertices. This paper presents an extended methodology with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Luis A. A. Meira , Vinícius R. Máximo , Alvaro L. Fazenda , Arlindo F. da Conceição

Interacting particles on graphs are routinely used to study magnetic behaviour in physics, disease spread in epidemiology, and opinion dynamics in social sciences. The literature on mean-field approximations of such systems for large graphs…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-07-15 Kai Cui , Wasiur R. KhudaBukhsh , Heinz Koeppl

Due to the limited resources and the scale of the graphs in modern datasets, we often get to observe a sampled subgraph of a larger original graph of interest, whether it is the worldwide web that has been crawled or social connections that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Ashish Khetan , Harshay Shah , Sewoong Oh

Diffusion models simulate the propagation of influence in networks. The design and evaluation of diffusion models has been subjective and empirical. When being applied to a network represented by a graph, the diffusion model generates a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Fangqi Li

Great part of the interest in complex networks has been motivated by the presence of structured, frequently non-uniform, connectivity. Because diverse connectivity patterns tend to result in distinct network dynamics, and also because they…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 Paulino R. Villas Boas , Francisco A. Rodrigues , Gonzalo Travieso , Luciano da F. Costa

We derive a modular fluid-flow network congestion control model based on a law of fundamental nature in networks: the conservation of information. Network elements such as queues, users, and transmission channels and network performance…

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