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The mining of pattern subgraphs, known as motifs, is a core task in the field of graph mining. Edges in real-world networks often have timestamps, so there is a need for temporal motif mining. A temporal motif is a richer structure that…

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Many real-world networks describe systems in which interactions decay with the distance between nodes. Examples include systems constrained in real space such as transportation and communication networks, as well as systems constrained in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Shalev Itzkovitz , Uri Alon

In the age of social computing, finding interesting network patterns or motifs is significant and critical for various areas such as decision intelligence, intrusion detection, medical diagnosis, social network analysis, fake news…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Shuo Yu , Feng Xia , Yuchen Sun , Tao Tang , Xiaoran Yan , Ivan Lee

Network motifs are recurrent, small-scale patterns of interactions observed frequently in a system. They shed light on the interplay between the topology and the dynamics of complex networks across various domains. In this work, we focus on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Quintino Francesco Lotito , Federico Musciotto , Federico Battiston , Alberto Montresor

Exploring statistics of locally connected subgraph patterns (also known as network motifs) has helped researchers better understand the structure and function of biological and online social networks (OSNs). Nowadays the massive size of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-03-28 Pinghui Wang , John C. S. Lui , Bruno Ribeiro , Don Towsley , Junzhou Zhao , Xiaohong Guan

Networks are a fundamental and flexible way of representing various complex systems. Many domains such as communication, citation, procurement, biology, social media, and transportation can be modeled as a set of entities and their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Sumit Purohit , Lawrence B. Holder , George Chin

Motifs are patterns of subgraphs of complex networks. We studied the impact of such patterns of connectivity on the level of correlated, or synchronized, spiking activity among pairs of cells in a recurrent network model of integrate and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-05 Yu Hu , James Trousdale , Kresimir Josic , Eric Shea-Brown

Temporal networks are commonly used to represent systems where connections between elements are active only for restricted periods of time, such as networks of telecommunication, neural signal processing, biochemical reactions and human…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-11-15 Lauri Kovanen , Márton Karsai , Kimmo Kaski , János Kertész , Jari Saramäki

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

A growing set of applications consider the process of network formation by using subgraphs as a tool for generating the network topology. One of the pressing research challenges is thus to be able to use these subgraphs to understand the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Soumajyoti Sarkar , Hamidreza Alvari , Paulo Shakarian

Several natural and theoretical networks can be broken down into smaller portions, or subgraphs corresponding to neighborhoods. The more frequent of these neighborhoods can then be understood as motifs of the network, being therefore…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-04-21 Guilherme S. Domingues , Eric K. Tokuda , Luciano da F. Costa

Temporal information is increasingly available as part of large network data sets. This information reveals sequences of link activations between network entities, which can expose underlying processes in the data. Examples include the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Ursula Redmond , Pádraig Cunningham

We introduce a new method for finding network motifs: interesting or informative subgraph patterns in a network. Subgraphs are motifs when their frequency in the data is high compared to the expected frequency under a null model. To compute…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Peter Bloem , Steven de Rooij

Studying the topology of so-called {\em real networks}, that is networks obtained from sociological or biological data for instance, has become a major field of interest in the last decade. One way to deal with it is to consider that…

Applications · Statistics 2010-11-23 Etienne Birmele

Frequent and structurally related subgraphs, also known as network motifs, are valuable features of many graph datasets. However, the high computational complexity of identifying motif sets in arbitrary datasets (motif mining) has limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Carlos Oliver , Dexiong Chen , Vincent Mallet , Pericles Philippopoulos , Karsten Borgwardt

Network motifs are characteristic patterns which occur in the networks essentially more frequently than the other patterns. For five motifs found in S. Itzkovitz, U. Alon, Phys. Rev.~E, 2005, 71, 026117-1, hierarchical random graphs are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-04-02 Monika Kotorowicz , Yuri Kozitsky

Graph generative models are highly important for sharing surrogate data and benchmarking purposes. Real-world complex systems often exhibit dynamic nature, where the interactions among nodes change over time in the form of a temporal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Penghang Liu , A. Erdem Sarıyüce

Motifs are thought to be some fundamental components of social face-to-face interaction temporal networks. However, the motifs previously considered are either limited to a handful of nodes and edges, or do not include triangles, which are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-19 Didier Le Bail

The mining of graphs in terms of their local substructure is a well-established methodology to analyze networks. It was hypothesized that motifs - subgraph patterns which appear significantly more often than expected at random - play a key…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-16 Marco Winkler , Joerg Reichardt

Detecting strong ties among users in social and information networks is a fundamental operation that can improve performance on a multitude of personalization and ranking tasks. Strong-tie edges are often readily obtained from the social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Rahmtin Rotabi , Krishna Kamath , Jon Kleinberg , Aneesh Sharma