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The emergence of online social platforms, such as social networks and social media, has drastically affected the way people apprehend the information flows to which they are exposed. In such platforms, various information cascades spreading…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Gaspard Abel , Argyris Kalogeratos , Jean-Pierre Nadal , Julien Randon-Furling

Spreading phenomena essentially underlie the dynamics of various natural and technological networked systems, yet how spatiotemporal propagation patterns emerge from such networks remains largely unknown. Here we propose a novel approach…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-03-12 Xiaozhu Zhang , Dirk Witthaut , Marc Timme

We study diffusion of information packets on several classes of structured networks. Packets diffuse from a randomly chosen node to a specified destination in the network. As local transport rules we consider random diffusion and an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Bosiljka Tadic , Stefan Thurner

Traces of user activities recorded in online social networks such as the creation, viewing and forwarding/sharing of information over time open new possibilities to quantitatively and systematically understand the information diffusion…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Liang Liu , Bo Qu , Bin Chen , Alan Hanjalic , Huijuan Wang

Online social networks play a major role in the spread of information at very large scale and it becomes essential to provide means to analyse this phenomenon. In this paper we address the issue of predicting the temporal dynamics of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-03-26 Adrien Guille , Hakim Hacid , Cécile Favre

In this paper, we study the problem of using representation learning to assist information diffusion prediction on graphs. In particular, we aim at estimating the probability of an inactive node to be activated next in a cascade. Despite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Jia Wang , Vincent W. Zheng , Zemin Liu , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang

In many real network systems, nodes usually cooperate with each other and form groups, in order to enhance their robustness to risks. This motivates us to study a new type of percolation, group percolation, in interdependent networks under…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-03-21 Zexun Wang , Dong Zhou , Yanqing Hu

Network motif provides a way to uncover the basic building blocks of most complex networks. This task usually demands high computer processing, specially for motif with 5 or more vertices. This paper presents an extended methodology with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Luis A. A. Meira , Vinícius R. Máximo , Alvaro L. Fazenda , Arlindo F. da Conceição

Assessing where and how information is stored in biological networks (such as neuronal and genetic networks) is a central task both in neuroscience and in molecular genetics, but most available tools focus on the network's structure as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Clifford Bohm , Douglas Kirkpatrick , Victoria Cao , Christoph Adami

Network motifs can capture basic interaction patterns and inform the functional properties of networks. However, real-world complex systems often have multiple types of relationships, which cannot be represented by a monolayer network. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-03-06 Lu Zhong , Qingpeng Zhang , Dong Yang , Guanrong Chen , Shi Yu

Networks are commonly used to define underlying interaction structures where infections, information, or other quantities may spread. Although the standard approach has been to aggregate all links into a static structure, some studies…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-01-23 Luis Enrique Correa Rocha , Vincent D Blondel

Characterizing motif (i.e., locally connected subgraph patterns) statistics is important for understanding complex networks such as online social networks and communication networks. Previous work made the strong assumption that the graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-02-25 Pinghui Wang , John C. S. Lui , Don Towsley

We introduce a method to find network motifs in knowledge graphs. Network motifs are useful patterns or meaningful subunits of the graph that recur frequently. We extend the common definition of a network motif to coincide with a basic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-19 Peter Bloem

The identification of motifs--subgraphs that appear significantly more often in a particular network than in an ensemble of randomized networks--has become a ubiquitous method for uncovering potentially important subunits within networks…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2010-08-27 Reid Ginoza , Andrew Mugler

Great part of the interest in complex networks has been motivated by the presence of structured, frequently non-uniform, connectivity. Because diverse connectivity patterns tend to result in distinct network dynamics, and also because they…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 Paulino R. Villas Boas , Francisco A. Rodrigues , Gonzalo Travieso , Luciano da F. Costa

The analysis of small recurrent substructures, so called network motifs, has become a standard tool of complex network science to unveil the design principles underlying the structure of empirical networks. In many natural systems network…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-07-08 Pavel V. Paulau , Christoph Feenders , Bernd Blasius

Percolation on complex networks is used both as a model for dynamics on networks, such as network robustness or epidemic spreading, and as a benchmark for our models of networks, where our ability to predict percolation measures our ability…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-08-21 Laurent Hébert-Dufresne , Antoine Allard

Complex networks usually exhibit a rich architecture organized over multiple intertwined scales. Information pathways are expected to pervade these scales reflecting structural insights that are not manifest from analyses of the network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-09-16 Pablo Villegas , Andrea Gabrielli , Francesca Santucci , Guido Caldarelli , Tommaso Gili

The identification and counting of small graph patterns, called network motifs, is a fundamental primitive in the analysis of networks, with application in various domains, from social networks to neuroscience. Several techniques have been…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Ilie Sarpe , Fabio Vandin

Information diffusion, spreading of infectious diseases, and spreading of rumors are fundamental processes occurring in real-life networks. In many practical cases, one can observe when nodes become infected, but the underlying network,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Liudmila Prokhorenkova , Alexey Tikhonov , Nelly Litvak