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The interaction of distinct units in physical, social, biological and technological systems naturally gives rise to complex network structures. Networks have constantly been in the focus of research for the last decade, with considerable…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-08-20 Tamás Nepusz , Tamás Vicsek

Multilayer (or deep) networks are powerful probabilistic models based on multiple stages of a linear transform followed by a non-linear (possibly random) function. In general, the linear transforms are defined by matrices and the non-linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Galen Reeves

Boolean networks are a popular modeling framework in computational biology to capture the dynamics of molecular networks, such as gene regulatory networks. It has been observed that many published models of such networks are defined by…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2019-12-06 Elijah Paul , Gleb Pogudin , William Qin , Reinhard Laubenbacher

This paper studies the mathematical properties of collectively canalizing Boolean functions, a class of functions that has arisen from applications in systems biology. Boolean networks are an increasingly popular modeling framework for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Claus Kadelka , Benjamin Keilty , Reinhard Laubenbacher

The traditional way of studying temporal networks is to aggregate the dynamics of the edges to create a static weighted network. This implicitly assumes that the edges are governed by Poisson processes, which is not typically the case in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-03 Till Hoffmann , Mason A. Porter , Renaud Lambiotte

Estimating individual and average treatment effects from observational data is an important problem in many domains such as healthcare and e-commerce. In this paper, we advocate balance regularization of multi-head neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Mehrdad Farajtabar , Andrew Lee , Yuanjian Feng , Vishal Gupta , Peter Dolan , Harish Chandran , Martin Szummer

We outline a representation for discrete multivariate distributions in terms of interventional potential functions that are globally normalized. This representation can be used to model the effects of interventions, and the independence…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-05-14 Mark Schmidt , Kevin Murphy

We have considered a Boolean control network where the state evolution equations depend on past states, controls and first derivatives of a function with respect to controls. Total approach has been the efficient use of matrix semi tensor…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-20 Souma Mazumdar

Design of experiments and estimation of treatment effects in large-scale networks, in the presence of strong interference, is a challenging and important problem. Most existing methods' performance deteriorates as the density of the network…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-12-15 Preetam Nandy , Kinjal Basu , Shaunak Chatterjee , Ye Tu

In this paper we consider a class of interacting particle systems on dynamic random networks, in which the joint dynamics of vertices and edges acts as one-way feedback, i.e., edges appear and disappear over time depending on the state of…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Simone Baldassarri , Jiesen Wang

Identifying features of molecular regulatory networks is an important problem in systems biology. It has been shown that the combinatorial logic of such networks can be captured in many cases by special functions called nested canalyzing in…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-18 David Murrugarra , Reinhard Laubenbacher

Data-driven methods have become popular to parameterize the effects of mesoscale eddies in ocean models. However, they perform poorly in generalization tasks and may require retuning if the grid resolution or ocean configuration changes. We…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Pavel Perezhogin , Alistair Adcroft , Laure Zanna

We study experimentation under endogenous network interference. Interference patterns are mediated by an endogenous graph, where edges can be formed or eliminated as a result of treatment. We show that conventional estimators are biased in…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-21 Wenshuo Wang , Edvard Bakhitov , Dominic Coey

Evaluating node influence is fundamental for identifying key nodes in complex networks. Existing methods typically rely on generic indicators to rank node influence across diverse networks, thereby ignoring the individualized features of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Bingyu Zhu , Qingyun Sun , Jianxin Li , Daqing Li

With improvements in data resolution and quality, researchers can now represent complex systems as signed, weighted, and directed networks. In this article, we introduce a framework for measuring net and indirect effects without simplifying…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-10 Carlos Gómez-Ambrosi , Violeta Calleja-Solanas

This paper provides the analysis for functional approaches of complex network systems research. In order to study the behavior of these systems the flow adjacency matrices were introduced. The concepts of strength, power, domain and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-07-26 Olexandr Polishchuk

The stability of Boolean networks has attracted much attention due to its wide applications in describing the dynamics of biological systems. During the past decades, much effort has been invested in unveiling how network structure and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-03-21 Jiannan Wang , Sen Pei , Wei Wei , Xiangnan Feng , Zhiming Zheng

By interpreting the forward dynamics of the latent representation of neural networks as an ordinary differential equation, Neural Ordinary Differential Equation (Neural ODE) emerged as an effective framework for modeling a system dynamics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Daehoon Gwak , Gyuhyeon Sim , Michael Poli , Stefano Massaroli , Jaegul Choo , Edward Choi

Boolean Networks have been used to study numerous phenomena, including gene regulation, neural networks, social interactions, and biological evolution. Here, we propose a general method for determining the critical behavior of Boolean…

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