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In this paper we consider aspects of geometric observability for hypergraphs, extending our earlier work from the uniform to the nonuniform case. Hypergraphs, a generalization of graphs, allow hyperedges to connect multiple nodes and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-04-12 Joshua Pickard , Cooper Stansbury , Amit Surana , Indika Rajapakse , Anthony Bloch

Hypergraphs, describing networks where interactions take place among any number of units, are a natural tool to model many real-world social and biological systems. In this work we propose a principled framework to model the organization of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Nicolò Ruggeri , Martina Contisciani , Federico Battiston , Caterina De Bacco

Hypergraphs are higher-order networks that capture the interactions between two or more nodes. Hypergraphs can always be represented by factor graphs, i.e. bipartite networks between nodes and factor nodes (representing groups of nodes).…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-10-08 Ginestra Bianconi , Sergey N. Dorogovtsev

Leveraging hypergraph structures to model advanced processes has gained much attention over the last few years in many areas, ranging from protein-interaction in computational biology to image retrieval using machine learning. Hypergraph…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Maximilian T. Fischer , Alexander Frings , Daniel A. Keim , Daniel Seebacher

In recent years hypergraphs have emerged as a powerful tool to study systems with multi-body interactions which cannot be trivially reduced to pairs. While highly structured methods to generate synthetic data have proved fundamental for the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Nicolò Ruggeri , Federico Battiston , Caterina De Bacco

Hypergraphs provide a fundamental framework for representing complex systems involving interactions among three or more entities. As empirical hypergraphs grow in size, characterizing their structural properties becomes increasingly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Kazuki Nakajima , Masanao Kodakari , Masaki Aida

Networks representing social, biological, technological or other systems are often characterized by higher-order interaction involving any number of nodes. Temporal hypergraphs are given by ordered sequences of hyperedges representing sets…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-27 Jürgen Lerner , Marian-Gabriel Hâncean , Matjaz Perc

Here we introduce simple structures for the analysis of complex hypergraphs, hypergraph animals. These structures are designed to describe the local node neighbourhoods of nodes in hypergraphs. We establish their relationships to lattice…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-08 Michael P. H. Stumpf

Knowledge hypergraphs generalize knowledge graphs using hyperedges to connect multiple entities and depict complicated relations. Existing methods either transform hyperedges into an easier-to-handle set of binary relations or view…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Mengfan Li , Xuanhua Shi , Chenqi Qiao , Teng Zhang , Hai Jin

Contagion processes in social systems often involve interactions that go beyond pairwise contacts. Higher-order networks, represented as hypergraphs, have been widely used to model multi-body interactions, and their presence can drastically…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-26 Andrés Guzmán , Federico Malizia , István Z. Kiss

Networks are a widely used and efficient paradigm to model real-world systems where basic units interact pairwise. Many body interactions are often at play, and cannot be modelled by resorting to binary exchanges. In this work, we consider…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-06-03 Timoteo Carletti , Duccio Fanelli , Sara Nicoletti

We propose that hypergraphs can be used to model social networks with overlapping communities. The nodes of the hypergraphs represent the communities. The hyperlinks of the hypergraphs denote the individuals who may participate in multiple…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2010-12-14 D. Liu , N. Blenn , P. Van Mieghem

Interactions involving multiple objects simultaneously are ubiquitous across many domains. The systems these interactions inhabit can be modelled using hypergraphs, a generalization of traditional graphs in which each edge can connect any…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Cazamere Comrie , Jon Kleinberg

Groups with complex set intersection relations are a natural way to model a wide array of data, from the formation of social groups to the complex protein interactions which form the basis of biological life. One approach to representing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Sepideh Maleki , Josh Vekhter , Keshav Pingali

Going beyond networks, to include higher-order interactions of arbitrary sizes, is a major step to better describe complex systems. In the resulting hypergraph representation, tools to identify structures and central nodes are scarce. We…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-11 Marco Mancastroppa , Iacopo Iacopini , Giovanni Petri , Alain Barrat

A common approach for analyzing hypergraphs is to consider the projected adjacency or Laplacian matrices for each order of interactions (e.g., dyadic, triadic, etc.). However, this method can lose information about the hypergraph structure…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-07-30 Anastasiya Salova , Raissa M. D'Souza

Many problems such as node classification and link prediction in network data can be solved using graph embeddings. However, it is difficult to use graphs to capture non-binary relations such as communities of nodes. These kinds of complex…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Sepideh Maleki , Donya Saless , Dennis P. Wall , Keshav Pingali

The largest eigenvalue of the matrix describing a network's contact structure is often important in predicting the behavior of dynamical processes. We extend this notion to hypergraphs and motivate the importance of an analogous eigenvalue,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-05-11 Nicholas W. Landry , Juan G. Restrepo

While network science has become an indispensable tool for studying complex systems, the conventional use of pairwise links often shows limitations in describing high-order interactions properly. Hypergraphs, where each edge can connect…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-12-20 Zhao Li , Jing Zhang , Jiqiang Zhang , Guozhong Zheng , Weiran Cai , Li Chen

The hyperbolic random graph model (HRG) has proven useful in the analysis of scale-free networks, which are ubiquitous in many fields, from social network analysis to biology. However, working with this model is algorithmically and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Dorota Celińska-Kopczyńska , Eryk Kopczyński