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Motivated by the search for geometric observables in nonperturbative quantum gravity, we define a notion of coarse-grained Ricci curvature. It is based on a particular way of extracting the local Ricci curvature of a smooth Riemannian…

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Deep neural networks (DNNs) are powerful tools for approximating the distribution of complex data. It is known that data passing through a trained DNN classifier undergoes a series of geometric and topological simplifications. While some…

In recent years, network models have become more complex with the development of big data. Therefore, more advanced network analysis is required. In this paper, we introduce a new quantitative measure named combinatorial evaluation, which…

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Many tasks require mapping continuous input data (e.g. images) to discrete task outputs (e.g. class labels). Yet, how neural networks learn to perform such discrete computations on continuous data manifolds remains poorly understood. Here,…

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Discrete forms of the scalar, sectional and Ricci curvatures are constructed on simplicial piecewise flat triangulations of smooth manifolds, depending directly on the simplicial structure and a choice of dual tessellation. This is done by…

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Networks with higher-order interactions, prevalent in biological, social, and information systems, are naturally represented as hypergraphs, yet their structural complexity poses fundamental challenges for geometric characterization. While…

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Discrete Forman-Ricci curvature (FRC) is an efficient tool that characterizes essential geometrical features and associated transitions of real-world networks, extending seamlessly to higher-dimensional computations in simplicial complexes.…

Forman-Ricci curvature (FRC) is a potent and powerful tool for analysing empirical networks, as the distribution of the curvature values can identify structural information that is not readily detected by other geometrical methods.…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2024-05-13 Danillo Barros de Souza , Jonatas T. S. da Cunha , Fernando A. N. Santos , Jürgen Jost , Serafim Rodrigues

Curvature is a fundamental geometric characteristic of smooth spaces. In recent years different notions of curvature have been developed for combinatorial discrete objects such as graphs. However, the connections between such discrete…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Pim van der Hoorn , Gabor Lippner , Carlo Trugenberger , Dmitri Krioukov

We study the relationship between discrete analogues of Ricci and scalar curvature that are defined for point clouds and graphs. In the discrete setting, Ricci curvature is replaced by Ollivier-Ricci curvature. Scalar curvature can be…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Abigail Hickok , Andrew J. Blumberg

The importance of studying properties of networks is manifest in diverse fields ranging from biology, engineering, physics, chemistry, neuroscience, and medicine. The functionality of networks with regard to performance, throughput,…

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In contrast to graph-based models for complex networks, hypergraphs are more general structures going beyond binary relations of graphs. For graphs, statistics gauging different aspects of their structures have been devised and there is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Wilmer Leal , Guillermo Restrepo , Peter F. Stadler , Jürgen Jost

This paper presents a mathematical framework for analyzing machine learning models through the geometry of their induced partitions. By representing partitions as Riemannian simplicial complexes, we capture not only adjacency relationships…

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Graph Neural Networks (GNN) have been extensively used to extract meaningful representations from graph structured data and to perform predictive tasks such as node classification and link prediction. In recent years, there has been a lot…

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Community detection in hypergraphs is both instrumental for functional module identification and intricate due to higher-order interactions among nodes. We define a hypergraph Ricci flow that directly operates on higher-order interactions…

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Consider a sample of $n$ points taken i.i.d from a submanifold $\Sigma$ of Euclidean space. We show that there is a way to estimate the Ricci curvature of $\Sigma$ with respect to the induced metric from the sample. Our method is grounded…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-23 Antonio G. Ache , Micah W. Warren

Ricci flow deforms the Riemannian metric proportionally to the curvature, such that the curvature evolves according to a heat diffusion process and eventually becomes constant everywhere. Ricci flow has demonstrated its great potential by…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-03-31 Min Zhang , Ren Guo , Wei Zeng , Feng Luo , Shing-Tung Yau , Xianfeng Gu

How does one generalize differential geometric constructs such as curvature of a manifold to the discrete world of graphs and other combinatorial structures? This problem carries significant importance for analyzing models of discrete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-27 J. F. Du Plessis , Xerxes D. Arsiwalla

We propose a novel entropy flow on weighted graphs, which provides a principled framework that characterizes the evolution of probability distributions over graph structures while sharing geometric intuition with discrete Ricci flow. We…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Juan Zhao , Jicheng Ma , Yunyan Yang , Liang Zhao

A powerful framework for studying graphs is to consider them as geometric graphs: nodes are randomly sampled from an underlying metric space, and any pair of nodes is connected if their distance is less than a specified neighborhood radius.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Raffaele Paolino , Aleksandar Bojchevski , Stephan Günnemann , Gitta Kutyniok , Ron Levie