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Network data is ubiquitous in various scientific disciplines, including sociology, economics, and neuroscience. Latent space models are often employed in network data analysis, but the geometric effect of latent space curvature remains a…

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Social network alignment shows fundamental importance in a wide spectrum of applications. To the best of our knowledge, existing studies mainly focus on network alignment at the individual user level, requiring abundant common information…

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We report on a data-driven investigation aimed at understanding the dynamics of message spreading in a real-world dynamical network of human proximity. We use data collected by means of a proximity-sensing network of wearable sensors that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-08-09 André Panisson , Alain Barrat , Ciro Cattuto , Wouter Van den Broeck , Giancarlo Ruffo , Rossano Schifanella

The Internet infrastructure is severely stressed. Rapidly growing overheads associated with the primary function of the Internet---routing information packets between any two computers in the world---cause concerns among Internet experts…

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The intricate relations between elements in natural and human-made systems sustain the complex processes that shape our world, forming multiscale networks of interactions. These networks can be represented as graphs composed of nodes…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-20 M. Ángeles Serrano

The ever increasing adoption of mobile technologies and ubiquitous services allows to sense human behavior at unprecedented levels of details and scale. Wearable sensors are opening up a new window on human mobility and proximity at the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-15 Alain Barrat , Ciro Cattuto

We consider the development of hyperbolic transport models for the propagation in space of an epidemic phenomenon described by a classical compartmental dynamics. The model is based on a kinetic description at discrete velocities of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-12 Giulia Bertaglia , Lorenzo Pareschi

Recently, there has been a rising surge of momentum for deep representation learning in hyperbolic spaces due to theirhigh capacity of modeling data like knowledge graphs or synonym hierarchies, possessing hierarchical structure. We refer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Wei Peng , Tuomas Varanka , Abdelrahman Mostafa , Henglin Shi , Guoying Zhao

Epidemiological contact network models have emerged as an important tool in understanding and predicting the spread of infectious disease, due to their capacity to engage individual heterogeneity that may underlie essential dynamics of a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-10-28 Jack Leitch , Kathleen A. Alexander , Srijan Sengupta

Finding a low dimensional representation of hierarchical, structured data described by a network remains a challenging problem in the machine learning community. An emerging approach is embedding these networks into hyperbolic space because…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-03 David McDonald , Shan He

Temporal networks have been increasingly used to model a diversity of systems that evolve in time; for example human contact structures over which dynamic processes such as epidemics take place. A fundamental aspect of real-life networks is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-11-08 Luis E C Rocha , Naoki Masuda , Petter Holme

Bipartite networks appear in many real-world contexts, linking entities across two distinct sets. They are often analyzed via one-mode projections, but such projections can introduce artificial correlations and inflated clustering,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-12 Robert Jankowski , Roya Aliakbarisani , M. Ángeles Serrano , Marián Boguñá

The hierarchy and proximity are key dimensions of urban relational processes, but their interplay in shaping intercity interactions and the underlying structures of city systems remain unclear. We develop a novel geometric model of city…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-07 Zhaoya Gong , Bin Liu , Chenglong Wang , Pengjun Zhao , Xiang Li , Kaixiang Zhang , Changcheng Kan , Xingjian Liu

The self-similarity of complex systems has been studied intensely across different domains due to its potential applications in system modeling, complexity analysis, etc., as well as for deep theoretical interest. Existing studies rely on…

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Graph theoretical approaches have been proven to be effective in the characterization of connected systems, as well as in quantifying their dysfunction due to perturbation. In this paper, we show the advantage of a non-Euclidean…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-10 Alice Longhena , Martin Guillemaud , Mario Chavez

Capturing the structured mixing within a population is key to the reliable projection of infectious disease dynamics and hence informed control. Both heterogeneity in the number of contacts and age-structured mixing have been repeatedly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Luke Murray Kearney , Emma L Davis , Matt J Keeling

The availability of new data sources on human mobility is opening new avenues for investigating the interplay of social networks, human mobility and dynamical processes such as epidemic spreading. Here we analyze data on the time-resolved…

We introduce Mercator, a reliable embedding method to map real complex networks into their hyperbolic latent geometry. The method assumes that the structure of networks is well described by the Popularity$\times$Similarity…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-04-25 Guillermo García-Pérez , Antoine Allard , M. Ángeles Serrano , Marián Boguñá

Hyperbolic network models, centered around the idea of placing nodes at random in a hyperbolic space and drawing links according to a probability that decreases as a function of the distance, provide a simple, yet also very capable…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-02-01 Sámuel G. Balogh , Gergely Palla

Recently developed techniques to acquire high-quality human mobility data allow large-scale simulations of the spread of infectious diseases with high spatial and temporal resolution.Analysis of such data has revealed the oversimplification…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-12-08 Naoya Fujiwara , Abhijeet R. Sonawane , Koji Iwayama , Kazuyuki Aihara