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How much information do large brain networks integrate as a whole over the sum of their parts? Can the dynamical complexity of such networks be globally quantified in an information-theoretic way and be meaningfully coupled to brain…

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We give diagrammatic tools to reason about information flow within encrypted communication. In particular, we are interested in deducing where information flow (communication or otherwise) has taken place, and fully accounting for all…

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Information Filtering Networks (IFNs) provide a powerful framework for modeling complex systems through globally sparse yet locally dense and interpretable structures that capture multivariate dependencies. This review offers a…

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Due to the pervasive diffusion of personal mobile and IoT devices, many ``smart environments'' (e.g., smart cities and smart factories) will be, among others, generators of huge amounts of data. Currently, this is typically achieved through…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Lorenzo Valerio , Andrea Passarella , Marco Conti

With the rapid growth of knowledge, it shows a steady trend of knowledge fragmentization. Knowledge fragmentization manifests as that the knowledge related to a specific topic in a course is scattered in isolated and autonomous knowledge…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Qinghua Zheng , Jun Liu , Hongwei Zeng , Zhaotong Guo , Bei Wu , Bifan Wei

Over the years, use of smartphones has come to dominate several areas, improving our lives, offering us convenience, and reshaping our daily work circumstances. Beyond traditional use for communication, they are used for many peripheral…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Ashutosh Bhatiaa , Ankit AgrawalaAyush Bahugunaa , Kamlesh Tiwaria , K. Haribabua , Deepak Vishwakarmab

A central task in analyzing complex dynamics is to determine the loci of information storage and the communication topology of information flows within a system. Over the last decade and a half, diagnostics for the latter have come to be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-20 Ryan G. James , Nix Barnett , James P. Crutchfield

Living organisms rely on molecular networks, such as gene circuits and signaling pathways, for information processing and robust decision-making in crowded, noisy environments. Recent advances show that interacting biomolecules…

Biological systems, from a cell to the human brain, are inherently complex. A powerful representation of such systems, described by an intricate web of relationships across multiple scales, is provided by complex networks. Recently, several…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-02-06 M. De Domenico

Political discourse has grown increasingly fragmented across different social platforms, making it challenging to trace how narratives spread and evolve within such a fragmented information ecosystem. Reconstructing social graphs and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Patrick Gerard , Hans W. A. Hanley , Luca Luceri , Emilio Ferrara

Complex networks are frequently employed to model physical or virtual complex systems. When certain entities exist across multiple systems simultaneously, unveiling their corresponding relationships across the networks becomes crucial. This…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-16 Rui Tang , Ziyun Yong , Shuyu Jiang , Xingshu Chen , Yaofang Liu , Yi-Cheng Zhang , Gui-Quan Sun , Wei Wang

Deciphering the underpinnings of the dynamical processes leading to information transmission, processing, and storing in the brain is a crucial challenge in neuroscience. An inspiring but speculative theoretical idea is that such dynamics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-21 Guillermo B. Morales , Serena Di Santo , Miguel A. Muñoz

A cornerstone of our understanding of both biological and artificial neural networks is that they store information in the strengths of synaptic connections among the neurons. However, in contrast to the well-established theory for…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-29 Xinhao Fan , Shreesh P Mysore

Processing large complex networks recently attracted considerable interest. Complex graphs are useful in a wide range of applications from technological networks to biological systems like the human brain. Sometimes these networks are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Christian Schulz

Information theory and the framework of information dynamics have been used to provide tools to characterise complex systems. In particular, we are interested in quantifying information storage, information modification and information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-25 Oliver Obst , Joschka Boedecker , Benedikt Schmidt , Minoru Asada

Correlating neural communication in brain networks with behavior and cognition can provide fundamental insights into the functionality of both healthy and diseased brains. We demonstrate how communication in the brain can be estimated from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Felix Schwock , Julien Bloch , Les Atlas , Shima Abadi , Azadeh Yazdan-Shahmorad

A complex network is a condensed representation of the relational topological framework of a complex system. A main reason for the existence of such networks is the transmission of items through the entities of these complex systems. Here,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-18 María Pereda , Ernesto Estrada

Recently, there has been increased interest in fusing multimodal imaging to better understand brain organization. Specifically, accounting for knowledge of anatomical pathways connecting brain regions should lead to desirable outcomes such…

Applications · Statistics 2018-03-02 Ixavier A. Higgins , Suprateek Kundu , Ying Guo

Computational intelligence is broadly defined as biologically-inspired computing. Usually, inspiration is drawn from neural systems. This article shows how to analyze neural systems using information theory to obtain constraints that help…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-05-11 Michael Wibral , Joseph T. Lizier , Viola Priesemann

Complex systems, from the human brain to the global economy, are made of multiple elements that interact in such ways that the behaviour of the `whole' often seems to be more than what is readily explainable in terms of the `sum of the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-28 Pedro A. M. Mediano , Fernando E. Rosas , Andrea I Luppi , Robin L. Carhart-Harris , Daniel Bor , Anil K. Seth , Adam B. Barrett