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Assortativity, i.e. the tendency of a vertex to bond with another based on their similarity, such as degree, is an important network characteristic that is well-known to be relevant for the network's robustness against attacks. Commonly it…

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Confining an answer to the question whether and how the coherent operation of network elements is determined by the the network structure is the topic of our work. We map the structure of signal flow in directed networks by analysing the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-06-22 M. Bányai , L. Négyessy , F. Bazsó

We propose a new approach to the study of compact Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature and strictly convex boundary or positive Ricci curvature and convex boundary. Several conjectures are formulated. Some partial results…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-27 Xiaodong Wang

Geometric data analysis and learning has emerged as a distinct and rapidly developing research area, increasingly recognized for its effectiveness across diverse applications. At the heart of this field lies curvature, a powerful and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yasharth Yadav , Kelin Xia

Complex networks are graphs representing real-life systems that exhibit unique characteristics not found in purely regular or completely random graphs. The study of such systems is vital but challenging due to the complexity of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Hafida Benhidour , Lama Almeshkhas , Said Kerrache

This study addresses the limitations of the traditional analysis of message-passing, central to graph learning, by defining {\em \textbf{generalized propagation}} with directed and weighted graphs. The significance manifest in two ways.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Chen Lin , Liheng Ma , Yiyang Chen , Wanli Ouyang , Michael M. Bronstein , Philip H. S. Torr

Semidirected networks have received interest in evolutionary biology as the appropriate generalization of unrooted trees to networks, in which some but not all edges are directed. Yet these networks lack proper theoretical study. We define…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-14 Michael Maxfield , Jingcheng Xu , Cécile Ané

We show that hypernetworks can be regarded as posets which, in their turn, have a natural interpretation as simplicial complexes and, as such, are endowed with an intrinsic notion of curvature, namely the Forman Ricci curvature, that…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Emil Saucan

We study directed random graphs (random graphs whose edges are directed) as they evolve in discrete time by the addition of nodes and edges. For two distinct evolution strategies, one that forces the graph to a condition of near acyclicity…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Valmir C. Barbosa , Raul Donangelo , Sergio R. Souza

Online social networks are a dominant medium in everyday life to stay in contact with friends and to share information. In Twitter, users can connect with other users by following them, who in turn can follow back. In recent years,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Christoph Schweimer , Christine Gfrerer , Florian Lugstein , David Pape , Jan A. Velimsky , Robert Elsässer , Bernhard C. Geiger

We introduce new algebro-topological invariants of directed networks, based on the topological construction of the directed clique complex. The shape of the underlying directed graph is encoded in a way that can be studied mathematically to…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-04-06 Paolo Masulli , Alessandro E. P. Villa

We introduce the notion of balance for directed graphs: a weighted directed graph is $\alpha$-balanced if for every cut $S \subseteq V$, the total weight of edges going from $S$ to $V\setminus S$ is within factor $\alpha$ of the total…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-31 Alina Ene , Gary Miller , Jakub Pachocki , Aaron Sidford

A degree-corrected distribution-free model is proposed for weighted social networks with latent structural information. The model extends the previous distribution-free models by considering variation in node degree to fit real-world…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Huan Qing

How do vertices exert influence in graph data? We develop a framework for edge clustering, a new method for exploratory data analysis that reveals how both vertices and edges collaboratively accomplish directed influence in graphs,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Manohar Murthi , Kamal Premaratne

In many studies, it is common to use binary (i.e., unweighted) edges to examine networks of entities that are either adjacent or not adjacent. Researchers have generalized such binary networks to incorporate edge weights, which allow one to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-02-29 Lucas Böttcher , Mason A. Porter

This thesis is an exposition of Ollivier-Ricci Curvature of metric spaces as introduced by Yann Ollivier, which is based upon the 1-Wasserstein Distance and optimal transport theory. We present some of the major results and proofs that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Eleanor Wiesler

Many real-world networks are intrinsically directed. Such networks include activation of genes, hyperlinks on the internet, and the network of followers on Twitter among many others. The challenge, however, is to create a network model that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Jesse Michel , Sushruth Reddy , Rikhav Shah , Sandeep Silwal , Ramis Movassagh

We recently introduced a formalism for the modeling of temporal networks, that we call stream graphs. It emphasizes the streaming nature of data and allows rigorous definitions of many important concepts generalizing classical graphs. This…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Matthieu Latapy , Clémence Magnien , Tiphaine Viard

In this survey, we study three different notions of curvature that are defined on graphs, namely, combinatorial curvature, Bakry-\'Emery curvature, and Ollivier's Ricci curvature. For each curvature notion, the definition and its motivation…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-26 Supanat Kamtue

This article is an overview of the results obtained in recent years on symplectic connections. We present what is known about preferred connections (critical points of a variational principle). The class of Ricci-type connections (for which…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Pierre Bieliavsky , Michel Cahen , Simone Gutt , John Rawnsley , Lorenz Schwachhofer