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Higher-order relations are widespread in nature, with numerous phenomena involving complex interactions that extend beyond simple pairwise connections. As a result, advancements in higher-order processing can accelerate the growth of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Iulia Duta , Giulia Cassarà , Fabrizio Silvestri , Pietro Liò

This paper introduces and demonstrates a computational pipeline for the statistical analysis of shape graph datasets, namely geometric networks embedded in 2D or 3D spaces. Unlike traditional abstract graphs, our purpose is not only to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Murad Hossen , Demetrio Labate , Nicolas Charon

Graph-structured data arise naturally in many different application domains. By representing data as graphs, we can capture entities (i.e., nodes) as well as their relationships (i.e., edges) with each other. Many useful insights can be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-24 John Boaz Lee , Ryan A. Rossi , Sungchul Kim , Nesreen K. Ahmed , Eunyee Koh

Knowledge graphs are an efficient method for representing and connecting information across various concepts, useful in reasoning, question answering, and knowledge base completion tasks. They organize data by linking points, enabling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Saher Mohamed , Kirollos Farah , Abdelrahman Lotfy , Kareem Rizk , Abdelrahman Saeed , Shahenda Mohamed , Ghada Khouriba , Tamer Arafa

Many data sets, crucial for today's applications, consist essentially of enormous networks, containing millions or even billions of elements. Having the possibility of visualizing such networks is of paramount importance. We propose an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Giuseppe Di Battista , Fabrizio Grosso , Silvia Montorselli , Maurizio Patrignani

Complex systems of systems (SoS) are characterized by multiple interconnected subsystems. Typically, each subsystem is designed and analyzed using methodologies and formalisms that are specific to the particular subsystem model of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-02-12 Alberto Speranzon , David I. Spivak , Srivatsan Varadarajan

We generalize the notion of a small sheaf of sets over a topological space or manifold to define the notion of a small stack of groupoids over an \'etale topological or differentiable stack. We then provide a construction analogous to the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2012-03-28 David Carchedi

Data intensive research requires the support of appropriate datasets. However, it is often time-consuming to discover usable datasets matching a specific research topic. We formulate the dataset discovery problem on an attributed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Basmah Altaf , Shichao Pei , Xiangliang Zhang

We introduce an architecture based on deep hierarchical decompositions to learn effective representations of large graphs. Our framework extends classic R-decompositions used in kernel methods, enabling nested part-of-part relations. Unlike…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Francesco Orsini , Daniele Baracchi , Paolo Frasconi

This paper concerns a theoretical approach that combines topological data analysis (TDA) and sheaf theory. Topological data analysis, a rising field in mathematics and computer science, concerns the shape of the data and has been proven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Chuan-Shen Hu , Yu-Min Chung

Knowledge graphs represent real-world entities and their relations in a semantically-rich structure supported by ontologies. Exploring this data with machine learning methods often relies on knowledge graph embeddings, which produce latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Rita T. Sousa , Sara Silva , Catia Pesquita

The inference of network topologies from relational data is an important problem in data analysis. Exemplary applications include the reconstruction of social ties from data on human interactions, the inference of gene co-expression…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Giona Casiraghi , Vahan Nanumyan , Ingo Scholtes , Frank Schweitzer

Role discovery is the task of dividing the set of nodes on a graph into classes of structurally similar roles. Modern strategies for role discovery typically rely on graph embedding techniques, which are capable of recognising complex local…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Eoghan Cunningham , Derek Greene

Hypergraphs provide a natural way to represent polyadic relationships in network data. For large hypergraphs, it is often difficult to visually detect structures within the data. Recently, a scalable polygon-based visualization approach was…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Peter Oliver , Eugene Zhang , Yue Zhang

We introduce new foundations for relative topos theory based on stacks. One of the central results in our theory is an adjunction between the category of toposes over the topos of sheaves on a given site $({\mathcal{C}}, J)$ and that of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-12 Olivia Caramello , Riccardo Zanfa

A graph theoretic perspective is taken for a range of phenomena in continuum physics in order to develop representations for analysis of large scale, high-fidelity solutions to these problems. Of interest are phenomena described by partial…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 R. Banerjee , K. Sagiyama , G. H. Teichert , K. Garikipati

In today's digital age in the dawning era of big data analytics it is not the information but the linking of information through entities and actions which defines the discourse. Any textual data either available on the Internet off…

We propose a novel structure, the data-sharing graph, for characterizing sharing patterns in large-scale data distribution systems. We analyze this structure in two such systems and uncover small-world patterns for data-sharing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Adriana Iamnitchi , Matei Ripeanu , Ian Foster

Graphs and networks provide a canonical representation of relational data, with massive network data sets becoming increasingly prevalent across a variety of scientific fields. Although tools from mathematics and computer science have been…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-08-11 Benjamin P. Olding , Patrick J. Wolfe

Combinatorial and topological structures, such as graphs, simplicial complexes, and cell complexes, form the foundation of geometric and topological deep learning (GDL and TDL) architectures. These models aggregate signals over such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Chuan-Shen Hu