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Networks in nature possess a remarkable amount of structure. Via a series of data-driven discoveries, the cutting edge of network science has recently progressed from positing that the random graphs of mathematical graph theory might…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-07-14 Natali Gulbahce , Sune Lehmann

Interactions and relations between objects may be pairwise or higher-order in nature, and so network-valued data are ubiquitous in the real world. The "space of networks", however, has a complex structure that cannot be adequately described…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-09 Stephen Y Zhang , Fangfei Lan , Youjia Zhou , Agnese Barbensi , Michael P H Stumpf , Bei Wang , Tom Needham

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

Traditionally, network analysis is based on local properties of vertices, like their degree or clustering, and their statistical behavior across the network in question. This paper develops an approach which is different in two respects. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-12 Melanie Weber , Emil Saucan , Jürgen Jost

Deep learning models are often considered black boxes due to their complex hierarchical transformations. Identifying suitable architectures is crucial for maximizing predictive performance with limited data. Understanding the geometric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Michael Wienczkowski , Addisu Desta , Paschal Ugochukwu

Network models, which abstractly are given by lax symmetric monoidal functors, are used to construct operads for modeling and designing complex networks. Many common types of networks can be modeled with simple graphs with edges weighted by…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-26 Joe Moeller

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

Complex networks in natural, social, and technological systems generically exhibit an abundance of rich information. Extracting meaningful structural features from data is one of the most challenging tasks in network theory. Many methods…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-06-04 Daniel Grady , Christian Thiemann , Dirk Brockmann

We propose a class of networks which can be regarded as an extension of the graphitic network. These networks are constructed so that surface states with non-bonding character (edge states) are formed in a tight-binding model with one…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Takagi , M. Fujita , K. Wakabayashi , M. Igami , S. Okada , K. Nakada , K. Kusakabe

Network science is a powerful framework allowing to model complex systems, it is capable to describe and take into account the intricate web of connections existing among the constituting basic element of the system. Recently scholars have…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Diego Febbe , Duccio Fanelli , Timoteo Carletti

It was recently shown that a large class of phylogenetic networks, the `labellable' networks, is in bijection with the set of `expanding' covers of finite sets. In this paper, we show how several prominent classes of phylogenetic networks…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-11 Andrew Francis , Daniele Marchei , Mike Steel

Traditional graph analysis focuses on nodes and edges, that is, pairwise relationships. Yet many real-world networks, including biological, social, and communication networks, involve higher-order relationships in which multiple nodes…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Heitor Baldo , Luiz A. Baccalá , André Fujita , Koichi Sameshima

A complex network approach on a rough fracture is developed. In this manner, some hidden metric spaces (similarity measurements) between apertures profiles are set up and a general evolutionary network in two directions (in parallel and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-05-12 H. O. Ghaffari , M. Sharifzadeh , M. Fall , E. Evgin

The fundamental idea of embedding a network in a metric space is rooted in the principle of proximity preservation. Nodes are mapped into points of the space with pairwise distance that reflects their proximity in the network. Popular…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-01-15 Yi-Jiao Zhang , Kai-Cheng Yang , Filippo Radicchi

Complex networks of real-world systems are believed to be controlled by common phenomena, producing structures far from regular or random. These include scale-free degree distributions, small-world structure and assortative mixing by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-05-24 Lovro Šubelj , Marko Bajec

In this work, we use the theory of spatial networks to analyze galaxy distributions. The aim is to develop new approaches to study the spatial galaxy environment properties by means of the network parameters. We investigate how each of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-03 Evelise Gausmann , Fabricio Ferrari

Recent studies of networks representing complex systems from the brain to social graphs have revealed their higher-order architecture, which can be described by aggregates of simplexes (triangles, tetrahedrons, and higher cliques). Current…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-11 Bosiljka Tadic , Neelima Gupte

The coexistence of sparsity and clustering (non-vanishing average fraction of triangles per node) is one of the few structural features that, irrespective of finer details, are ubiquitously observed across large real-world networks. This…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Alessio Catanzaro , Remco van der Hofstad , Diego Garlaschelli

In many networks, including networks of protein-protein interactions, interdisciplinary collaboration networks, and semantic networks, connections are established between nodes with complementary rather than similar properties. While…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-03-08 Gabriel Budel , Maksim Kitsak

Higher-order networks have so far been considered primarily in the context of studying the structure of complex systems, i.e., the higher-order or multi-way relations connecting the constituent entities. More recently, a number of studies…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-03 Michael T. Schaub , Jean-Baptiste Seby , Florian Frantzen , T. Mitchell Roddenberry , Yu Zhu , Santiago Segarra