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Understanding the topological characteristics of complex networks and how they affect navigability is one of the most important goals in science today, as it plays a central role in various economic, biological, ecological and social…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-04-29 M. S. Chaves , T. G. Mattos , A. P. F. Atman

Multiplex networks are networks composed of multiple layers such that the number of nodes in all layers is the same and the adjacency matrices between the layers are diagonal. We consider the special class of multiplex networks where the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-06-25 Rico Berner , Volker Mehrmann , Eckehard Schöll , Serhiy Yanchuk

Averaging neural network parameters is an intuitive method for fusing the knowledge of two independent models. It is most prominently used in federated learning. If models are averaged at the end of training, this can only lead to a good…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Linara Adilova , Maksym Andriushchenko , Michael Kamp , Asja Fischer , Martin Jaggi

Our work is motivated by and illustrated with application of association networks in computational biology, specifically in the context of gene/protein regulatory networks. Association networks represent systems of interacting elements,…

Applications · Statistics 2012-05-01 Natallia Katenka , Eric D. Kolaczyk

Assortative mixing in networks is the tendency for nodes with the same attributes, or metadata, to link to each other. It is a property often found in social networks manifesting as a higher tendency of links occurring between people with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Leto Peel , Jean-Charles Delvenne , Renaud Lambiotte

Networks are convenient mathematical models to represent the structure of complex systems, from cells to societies. In the past decade, multilayer network science -- the branch of the field dealing with units interacting in multiple…

The study of how diseases spread has greatly benefited from advances in network modeling. Recently, a class of networks known as multilayer graphs has been shown to describe more accurately many real systems, making it possible to address…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-04-16 Xiangrong Wang , Alberto Aleta , Dan Lu , Yamir Moreno

Understanding the process by which a contagion disseminates throughout a network is of great importance in many real world applications. The required sophistication of the inference approach depends on the type of information we want to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-05-26 Shohreh Shaghaghian , Mark Coates

Quantum communication is a growing area of research, with quantum internet being one of the most promising applications. Studying the statistical properties of this network is essential to understanding its connectivity and the efficiency…

Online learning with streaming data in a distributed and collaborative manner can be useful in a wide range of applications. This topic has been receiving considerable attention in recent years with emphasis on both single-task and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Jie Chen , Cédric Richard , Ali H. Sayed

We develop the theory of sparse multiplex networks with partially overlapping links based on their local tree-likeness. This theory enables us to find the giant mutually connected component in a two-layer multiplex network with arbitrary…

Understanding the structural complexity and predictability of complex networks is a central challenge in network science. Although recent studies have revealed a relationship between compression-based entropy and link prediction…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Sebastián Brzovic , Cristóbal Rojas , Andrés Abeliuk

Improving the understanding of diffusive processes in networks with complex topologies is one of the main challenges of today's complexity science. Each network possesses an intrinsic diffusive potential that depends on its structural…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-11-02 T. A. Schieber , L. C. Carpi , P. M. Pardalos , C. Masoller , A. Díaz-Guilera , M. G. Ravetti

Some networked systems can be better modelled by multilayer structure where the individual nodes develop relationships in multiple layers. Multilayer networks with similar nodes across layers are also known as multiplex networks. This…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Shaghayegh Najari , Mostafa Salehi , Vahid Ranjbar , Mahdi Jalili

Modern social networks frequently encompass multiple distinct types of connectivity information; for instance, explicitly acknowledged friend relationships might complement behavioral measures that link users according to their actions or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Brandon Oselio , Alex Kulesza , Alfred O. Hero

The utilization of multi-layer network structures now enables the explanation of complex systems in nature from multiple perspectives. Multi-layer academic networks capture diverse relationships among academic entities, facilitating the…

Applications · Statistics 2023-08-23 Tianchen Gao , Yan Zhang , Rui Pan , Hansheng Wang

We study diffusion-driven pattern-formation in networks of networks, a class of multilayer systems, where different layers have the same topology, but different internal dynamics. Agents are assumed to disperse within a layer by undergoing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-03-28 Andreas Brechtel , Philipp Gramlich , Daniel Ritterskamp , Barbara Drossel , Thilo Gross

Recently much attention has been paid to the study of the robustness of interdependent and multiplex networks and, in particular, networks of networks. The robustness of interdependent networks can be evaluated by the size of a mutually…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Ginestra Bianconi , Sergey N. Dorogovtsev

Many real-world network are multilayer, with nontrivial correlations across layers. Here we show that these correlations amplify geometry in networks. We focus on mutual clustering--a measure of the amount of triangles that are present in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-24 Jasper van der Kolk , Dmitri Krioukov , Marián Boguñá , M. Ángeles Serrano

Many complex systems can be described in terms of networks of interacting units. Recent studies have shown that a wide class of both natural and artificial nets display a surprisingly widespread feature: the presence of highly heterogeneous…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Ferrer i Cancho , R. V. Sole