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A network is said to have the properties of a small world if a suitably defined average distance between any two nodes is proportional to the logarithm of the number of nodes, $N$. In this paper, we present a novel derivation of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-26 Andrew D. Jackson , Subodh P. Patil

Quantum networks are often modelled using Schroedinger operators on metric graphs. To give meaning to such models one has to know how to interpret the boundary conditions which match the wave functions at the graph vertices. In this article…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pavel Exner , Olaf Post

Mostly acyclic directed networks, treated mathematically as directed graphs, arise in machine learning, biology, social science, physics, and other applications. Newman [1] has noted the mathematical challenges of such networks. In this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-03-26 B. Dribus , A. Sumner , K. Bist , N. Regmi , J. Sircar , S. Upreti

A fundamental challenge in understanding graph neural networks (GNNs) lies in characterizing their optimization dynamics and loss landscape geometry, critical for improving interpretability and robustness. While mode connectivity, a lens…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Bingheng Li , Zhikai Chen , Haoyu Han , Shenglai Zeng , Jingzhe Liu , Jiliang Tang

Networks of disparate phenomena-- be it the global ecology, human social institutions, within the human brain, or in micro-scale protein interactions-- exhibit broadly consistent architectural features. To explain this, we propose a new…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-01-26 Keith M. Smith

Many real-world networks exhibit scale-free feature, have a small diameter and a high clustering tendency. We have studied the properties of a growing network, which has all these features, in which an incoming node is connected to its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Parongama Sen , S. S. Manna

In the context of canonical quantum gravity in 3+1 dimensions, we introduce a new notion of bubble network that represents discrete 3d space geometries. These are natural extensions of twisted geometries, which represent the geometrical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-14 Laurent Freidel , Etera R. Livine

The simplest null models for networks, used to distinguish significant features of a particular network from {\it a priori} expected features, are random ensembles with the degree sequence fixed by the specific network of interest. These…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jacob G. Foster , David V. Foster , Peter Grassberger , Maya Paczuski

Network models are an essential block of modern networks. For example, they are widely used in network planning and optimization. However, as networks increase in scale and complexity, some models present limitations, such as the assumption…

This work describes how the formalization of complex network concepts in terms of discrete mathematics, especially mathematical morphology, allows a series of generalizations and important results ranging from new measurements of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-09-19 Luciano da Fontoura Costa , Luis Enrique C. da Rocha

Using a generalized random recurrent neural network model, and by extending our recently developed mean-field approach [J. Aljadeff, M. Stern, T. Sharpee, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 088101 (2015)], we study the relationship between the network…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-02-09 Johnatan Aljadeff , David Renfrew , Marina Vegué , Tatyana O. Sharpee

Why do deep neural networks (DNNs) benefit from very high dimensional parameter spaces? Their huge parameter complexities vs stunning performance in practice is all the more intriguing and not explainable using the standard theory of model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Ke Sun , Frank Nielsen

Large real-life complex networks are often modeled by various random graph constructions and hundreds of further references therein. In many cases it is not at all clear how the modeling strength of differently generated random graph model…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-01 András Faragó , Rupei Xu

Graphs are ubiquitous in social networks and biochemistry, where Graph Neural Networks (GNN) are the state-of-the-art models for prediction. Graphs can be evolving and it is vital to formally model and understand how a trained GNN responds…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Yazheng Liu , Xi Zhang , Sihong Xie

The dynamics of networks of neuronal cultures has been recently shown to be strongly dependent on the network geometry and in particular on their dimensionality. However, this phenomenon has been so far mostly unexplored from the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-07-09 Ana P. Millán , Joaquín J. Torres , Ginestra Bianconi

Neural network field theory (NN-FT) formulates field theory in terms of a network architecture and a density on its parameters. We derive Schwinger--Dyson equations and Ward identities in NN-FT and utilize them to study anomalies. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-13 Christian Ferko , Samuel Frank , James Halverson , Vishnu Jejjala

We generalize the degree-organizational view of real-world networks with broad degree-distributions in a landscape analogue with mountains (high-degree nodes) and valleys (low-degree nodes). For example, correlated degrees between adjacent…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-02-01 Jacob Bock Axelsen , Sebastian Bernhardsson , Martin Rosvall , Kim Sneppen , Ala Trusina

All real networks are different, but many have some structural properties in common. There seems to be no consensus on what the most common properties are, but scale-free degree distributions, strong clustering, and community structure are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-01 Konstantin Zuev , Marian Boguna , Ginestra Bianconi , Dmitri Krioukov

The inherent properties of specific physical systems can be used as metaphors for investigation of the behavior of complex networks. This insight has already been put into practice in previous work, e.g., studying the network evolution in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-08-15 Marco Alberto Javarone , Giuliano Armano

Entangled quantum networks provide great flexibilities and scalabilities for quantum information processing or quantum Internet. Most of results are focused on the nonlocalities of quantum networks. Our goal in this work is to explore new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-06 Ming-Xing Luo