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Hypergraphs provide a natural way to represent polyadic relationships in network data. For large hypergraphs, it is often difficult to visually detect structures within the data. Recently, a scalable polygon-based visualization approach was…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Peter Oliver , Eugene Zhang , Yue Zhang

Hypergraph is a topological model for networks. In order to study the topology of hypergraphs, the homology of the associated simplicial complexes and the embedded homology have been invented. In this paper, we give some algorithms to…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-01-03 Shiquan Ren , Chengyuan Wu , Stephane Bressan , Jie Wu

Hypergraphs, as a generalization of simplicial complexes, have long been a subject of interest in their geometric interpretation. The subdivision of simplicial complexes can, to some extent, provide insights into the geometry of simplicial…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-11-17 Jian Liu , Ran Liu , Jie Wu

The acknowledged model for networks of collaborations is the hypergraph model. Nonetheless when it comes to be visualized hypergraphs are transformed into simple graphs. Very often, the transformation is made by clique expansion of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Xavier Ouvrard , Jean-Marie Le Goff , Stéphane Marchand-Maillet

In this survey, we explore recent literature on finding the cores of higher graphs using geometric and topological means. We study graphs, hypergraphs, and simplicial complexes, all of which are models of higher graphs. We study the notion…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Inés García-Redondo , Claudia Landi , Sarah Percival , Anda Skeja , Bei Wang , Ling Zhou

The continuous and rapid growth of highly interconnected datasets, which are both voluminous and complex, calls for the development of adequate processing and analytical techniques. One method for condensing and simplifying such datasets is…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Angela Bonifati , Stefania Dumbrava , Haridimos Kondylakis

Hypergraph visualization has many applications in network data analysis. Recently, a polygon-based representation for hypergraphs has been proposed with demonstrated benefits. However, the polygon-based layout often suffers from excessive…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Peter Oliver , Eugene Zhang , Yue Zhang

Previous hypergraph expansions are solely carried out on either vertex level or hyperedge level, thereby missing the symmetric nature of data co-occurrence, and resulting in information loss. To address the problem, this paper treats…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Chaoqi Yang , Ruijie Wang , Shuochao Yao , Tarek Abdelzaher

Graphs are a basic tool for the representation of modern data. The richness of the topological information contained in a graph goes far beyond its mere interpretation as a one-dimensional simplicial complex. We show how topological…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-11 Mattia G. Bergomi , Massimo Ferri , Lorenzo Zuffi

Random hypergraphs extend the classical notion of random graphs by allowing hyperedges to join more than two vertices, making them well-suited for modeling higher-order interactions in complex systems. Despite their broad applicability,…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Yanna J. Kraakman , Clara Stegehuis

Hypergraphs offer flexible and robust data representations for many applications, but methods that work directly on hypergraphs are not readily available and tend to be prohibitively expensive. Much of the current analysis of hypergraphs…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Xu T. Liu , Jesun Firoz , Sinan Aksoy , Ilya Amburg , Andrew Lumsdaine , Cliff Joslyn , Assefaw H. Gebremedhin , Brenda Praggastis

Persistent homology is a mathematical tool used for studying the shape of data by extracting its topological features. It has gained popularity in network science due to its applicability in various network mining problems, including…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Mehmet Emin Aktas , Thu Nguyen , Rakin Riza , Muhammad Ifte Islam , Esra Akbas

Networks are often studied as graphs, where the vertices stand for entities in the world and the edges stand for connections between them. While relatively easy to study, graphs are often inadequate for modeling real-world situations,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-09-25 David I. Spivak

Hypergraphs are mathematical models for many problems in data sciences. In recent decades, the topological properties of hypergraphs have been studied and various kinds of (co)homologies have been constructed (cf. [3, 4, 12]). In this…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-03-15 Stephane Bressan , Jingyan Li , Shiquan Ren , Jie Wu

In this expository paper we present some ideas of algebraic topology (more precisely, of homology theory) in a language accessible to non-specialists in the area. A $1$-cycle in a graph is a set $C$ of edges such that every vertex is…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2026-01-08 A. Miroshnikov , O. Nikitenko , A. Skopenkov

Complex networks often exhibit community structure, with communities corresponding to denser subgraphs in which nodes are closely linked. When modelling systems where interactions extend beyond node pairs to arbitrary numbers of nodes,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-16 Bianka Kovács , Barnabás Benedek , Gergely Palla

This paper introduces a geometric representation of hypergraphs by representing hyperedges as simplices. Building on this framework, we employ homotopy groups to analyze the topological structure of hypergraphs embedded in high-dimensional…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Qiming Fang , Sihong Shao

We consider hypergraph visualizations that represent vertices as points in the plane and hyperedges as curves passing through the points of their incident vertices. Specifically, we consider several different variants of this problem by (a)…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Alexander Dobler , Stephen Kobourov , Debajyoti Mondal , Martin Nöllenburg

Hypergraphs are an invaluable tool to understand many hidden patterns in large data sets. Among many ways to represent hypergraph, one useful representation is that of weighted clique expansion. In this paper, we consider this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-15 Ashwin Guha , Ambedkar Dukkipati

We present an innovative algorithm that simplifies the topology of a cross-field. Our algorithm works through macro-operations that allow us editing the graph of separatrices, which is extracted from a cross-field, while maintaining it…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-10-15 Daniele Panozzo , Enrico Puppo
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