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The increasing prevalence of multiplex networks has spurred a critical need to take into account potential dependencies across different layers, especially when the goal is community detection, which is a fundamental learning task in…

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Predicting the evolution of systems that exhibit spatio-temporal dynamics in response to external stimuli is a key enabling technology fostering scientific innovation. Traditional equations-based approaches leverage first principles to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Francesco Regazzoni , Stefano Pagani , Matteo Salvador , Luca Dede' , Alfio Quarteroni

Proximity networks are time-varying graphs representing the closeness among humans moving in a physical space. Their properties have been extensively studied in the past decade as they critically affect the behavior of spreading phenomena…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-11-28 Fragkiskos Papadopoulos , Marco Antonio Rodríguez Flores

This paper proposes a task-agnostic discovery layer for multivariate time series that constructs a relational hypothesis graph over entities without assuming linearity, stationarity, or a downstream objective. The method learns window-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Olusegun Owoeye

Many existing statistical and machine learning tools for social network analysis focus on a single level of analysis. Methods designed for clustering optimize a global partition of the graph, whereas projection based approaches (e.g. the…

Complex systems are often driven by higher-order interactions among multiple units, naturally represented as hypergraphs. Understanding dependency structures within these hypergraphs is crucial for understanding and predicting the behavior…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-29 John Hood , Caterina De Bacco , Aaron Schein

Embedding dyadic data into a latent space has long been a popular approach to modeling networks of all kinds. While clustering has been done using this approach for static networks, this paper gives two methods of community detection within…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-05-19 Daniel K. Sewell , Yuguo Chen

Networks are powerful tools for modeling interactions in complex systems. While traditional networks use scalar edge weights, many real-world systems involve multidimensional interactions. For example, in social networks, individuals often…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Yu Tian , Sadamori Kojaku , Hiroki Sayama , Renaud Lambiotte

We propose a novel class of separable multilayer network models to capture cross-layer dependencies in multilayer networks, enabling the analysis of how interactions in one or more layers may influence interactions in other layers. Our…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-10 Jiaheng Li , Jonathan R. Stewart

We study the mean-field limit of a generic class of dynamic co-evolving latent space networks motivated by the social and opinion dynamics literature. Such models include $n$ agents, whose opinions are given by latent stochastic processes,…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Ankan Ganguly , Konstantinos Spiliopoulos , Daniel Sussman

We target modeling latent dynamics in high-dimension marked event sequences without any prior knowledge about marker relations. Such problem has been rarely studied by previous works which would have fundamental difficulty to handle the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Qitian Wu , Zixuan Zhang , Xiaofeng Gao , Junchi Yan , Guihai Chen

In this chapter, we present a review of latent position models for networks. We review the recent literature in this area and illustrate the basic aspects and properties of this modeling framework. Through several illustrative examples we…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-04-07 Hardeep Kaur , Riccardo Rastelli , Nial Friel , Adrian E. Raftery

Latent space models for network data characterize each node through a vector of latent features whose pairwise similarities define the edge probabilities among the pairs of nodes. Although this formulation has led to successful…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-06 Federico Pavone , Daniele Durante , Robin J. Ryder

Studies on social networks have proved that endogenous and exogenous factors influence dynamics. Two streams of modeling exist on explaining the dynamics of social networks: 1) models predicting links through network properties, and 2)…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-10-22 Julie M. Birkholz , Rena Bakhshi , Ravindra Harige , Maarten van Steen , Peter Groenewegen

The new concept of multilevel network is introduced in order to embody some topological properties of complex systems with structures in the mesoscale which are not completely captured by the classical models. This new model, which…

In this article we focus on dynamic network data which describe interactions among a fixed population through time. We model this data using the latent space framework, in which the probability of a connection forming is expressed as a…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-12-21 Kathryn Turnbull , Christopher Nemeth , Matthew Nunes , Tyler McCormick

This work proposes a unified framework for efficient estimation under latent space modeling of heterogeneous networks. We consider a class of latent space models that decompose latent vectors into shared and network-specific components…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-10 Yuang Tian , Jiajin Sun , Yinqiu He

In the analysis of complex networks, centrality measures and community structures play pivotal roles. For multilayer networks, a critical challenge lies in effectively integrating information across diverse layers while accounting for the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-28 Zhuoye Han , Tiandong Wang , Zhiliang Ying

Deep latent variable models learn condensed representations of data that, hopefully, reflect the inner workings of the studied phenomena. Unfortunately, these latent representations are not statistically identifiable, meaning they cannot be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-02 Stas Syrota , Yevgen Zainchkovskyy , Johnny Xi , Benjamin Bloem-Reddy , Søren Hauberg

Network-linked data, where multivariate observations are interconnected by a network, are becoming increasingly prevalent in fields such as sociology and biology. These data often exhibit inherent noise and complex relational structures,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-11 Jianxiang Wang , Can M. Le , Tianxi Li