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We report on an experimental observation of classical diffusion distinguishing between structural universality classes of disordered systems in one dimension. Samples of hyperuniform and short-range disorder were designed, characterized by…

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We study the diffusion behavior of real-time information. Typically, real-time information is valuable only for a limited time duration, and hence needs to be delivered before its "deadline." Therefore, real-time information is much easier…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-04-03 Dajun Qian , Osman Yağan , Lei Yang , Junshan Zhang

Social media is profoundly changing our society with its unprecedented spreading power. Due to the complexity of human behaviors and the diversity of massive messages, the information spreading dynamics are complicated, and the reported…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-02-12 Fanhui Meng , Jiarong Xie , Jiachen Sun , Cong Xu , Yutian Zeng , Xiangrong Wang , Tao Jia , Shuhong Huang , Youjin Deng , Yanqing Hu

Several systems can be modeled as sets of interconnected networks or networks with multiple types of connections, here generally called multilayer networks. Spreading processes such as information propagation among users of an online social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-03 Mostafa Salehi , Rajesh Sharma , Moreno Marzolla , Matteo Magnani , Payam Siyari , Danilo Montesi

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

Aggregation-diffusion equations are foundational tools for modelling biological aggregations. Their principal use is to link the collective movement mechanisms of organisms to their emergent space use patterns in a concrete mathematical…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-16 Jonathan R. Potts

Diffusion in an evolving environment is studied by continuos-time Monte Carlo simulations. Diffusion is modelled by continuos-time random walkers on a lattice, in a dynamic environment provided by bubbles between two one-dimensional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-11-22 Janne Juntunen , Juha Merikoski

Humans can recognize the same actions despite large context and viewpoint variations, such as differences between species (walking in spiders vs. horses), viewpoints (egocentric vs. third-person), and contexts (real life vs movies). Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Rogerio Guimaraes , Frank Xiao , Pietro Perona , Markus Marks

Local diffusion coefficients in disordered materials such as living cells are highly heterogeneous. Quenched disorder is utilized substantially to study such complex systems, whereas its analytical treatment is difficult to handle. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-02 Takuma Akimoto , Eli Barkai , Keiji Saito

In online social media systems users are not only posting, consuming, and resharing content, but also creating new and destroying existing connections in the underlying social network. While each of these two types of dynamics has…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-03-13 Seth A. Myers , Jure Leskovec

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative models in the text-to-image domain. This paper studies their application as observation-to-action models for imitating human behaviour in sequential environments. Human behaviour is…

We propose Context Diffusion, a diffusion-based framework that enables image generation models to learn from visual examples presented in context. Recent work tackles such in-context learning for image generation, where a query image is…

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A partial differential equation governing the global evolution of the joint probability distribution of an arbitrary number of local flow observations, drawn randomly from a control volume, is derived and applied to examples involving…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-14 John Craske , Paul Mannix

We report on a data-driven investigation aimed at understanding the dynamics of message spreading in a real-world dynamical network of human proximity. We use data collected by means of a proximity-sensing network of wearable sensors that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-08-09 André Panisson , Alain Barrat , Ciro Cattuto , Wouter Van den Broeck , Giancarlo Ruffo , Rossano Schifanella

Recent empirical studies have confirmed the key roles of complex contagion mechanisms such as memory, social reinforcement, and decay effects in information diffusion and behaviour spreading. Inspired by this fact, we here propose a new…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-08-20 Pengbi Cui , Ming Tang , Zhi-Xi Wu

Density-dependent diffusion is a widespread phenomenon in nature. We have examined the density-dependent diffusion behavior of some biological processes such as tumor growth and invasion [23]. Here, we extend our previous work by developing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-14 Ahmed M. Fouad , Marwa M. Fouad

The reaction of volatile matter plays an important role in the process of bringing matter from the surface of the planet to the atmosphere. Therefore, by simulating the mixing and chemical reaction process of volatile matter in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-06 Zihan Huang , Xuewei Yang

Spreading phenomena on networks are essential for the collective dynamics of various natural and technological systems, from information spreading in gene regulatory networks to neural circuits or from epidemics to supply networks…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-06-01 Justine Wolter , Benedict Lünsmann , Xiaozhu Zhang , Malte Schröder , Marc Timme

Mathematical models of motility are often based on random-walk descriptions of discrete individuals that can move according to certain rules. It is usually the case that large masses concentrated in small regions of space have a great…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-11-23 Carles Falcó

Reaction-diffusion processes are the foundational model for a diverse range of complex systems, ranging from biochemical reactions to social agent-based phenomena. The underlying dynamics of these systems occur at the individual…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-15 Mauricio J. del Razo , Margarita Kostré