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Simplicial complexes are generalized network structures able to encode interactions occurring between more than two nodes. Simplicial complexes describe a large variety of complex interacting systems ranging from brain networks, to social…

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Network topology is a flourishing interdisciplinary subject that is relevant for different disciplines including quantum gravity and brain research. The discrete topological objects that are investigated in network topology are simplicial…

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This paper presents the foundational ideas for a new way of modeling social aggregation. Traditional approaches have been using network theory, and the theory of random networks. Under that paradigm, every social agent is represented by a…

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Numerous networked systems feature a structure of nontrivial communities, which often correspond to their functional modules. Such communities have been detected in real-world biological, social and technological systems, as well as in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-08 Charo I. del Genio

As a generalization of the use of graphs to describe pairwise interactions, simplicial complexes can be used to model higher-order interactions between three or more objects in complex systems. There has been a recent surge in activity for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Braxton Osting , Sourabh Palande , Bei Wang

Community detection has been one of the central problems in network studies and directed network is particularly challenging due to asymmetry among its links. In this paper, we found that incorporating the direction of links reveals new…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-09-24 Sungmin Kim , Tao Shi

We introduce a method for the detection of Statistically Validated Simplices in higher-order networks. Statistically validated simplices represent the maximal sets of nodes of any size that consistently interact collectively and do not…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-09-27 Federico Musciotto , Federico Battiston , Rosario N. Mantegna

Higher-order networks are gaining significant scientific attention due to their ability to encode the many-body interactions present in complex systems. However, higher-order networks have the limitation that they only capture many-body…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-12-20 Sanjukta Krishnagopal , Ginestra Bianconi

Bipartite graphs are a fundamental concept in graph theory with diverse applications. A graph is bipartite iff it contains no odd cycles, a characteristic that has many implications in diverse fields ranging from matching problems to the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Marzieh Eidi , Sayan Mukherjee

Collective behavior plays a key role in the function of a wide range of physical, biological, and neurological systems where empirical evidence has recently uncovered the prevalence of higher-order interactions, i.e., structures that…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-06-14 Per Sebastian Skardal , Lluís Arola-Fernández , Dane Taylor , Alex Arenas

Because of the significant increase in size and complexity of the networks, the distributed computation of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of graph matrices has become very challenging and yet it remains as important as before. In this paper…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-27 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Philippe Jacquet , Jithin Sreedharan

Heterogeneous and complex networks represent intertwined interactions between real-world elements or agents. Determining the multi-scale mesoscopic organization of clusters and intertwined structures is still a fundamental and open problem…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-01-20 Pablo Villegas , Andrea Gabrielli , Anna Poggialini , Tommaso Gili

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

This article considers spectral community detection in the regime of sparse networks with heterogeneous degree distributions, for which we devise an algorithm to efficiently retrieve communities. Specifically, we demonstrate that a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-12 Lorenzo Dall'Amico , Romain Couillet , Nicolas Tremblay

Hypergraphs, encoding structured interactions among any number of system units, have recently proven a successful tool to describe many real-world biological and social networks. Here we propose a framework based on statistical inference to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Martina Contisciani , Federico Battiston , Caterina De Bacco

Lattice structures play a central role in spectral graph theory, offering analytical insight into diffusion, synchronization, and transport processes on regular discrete spaces. While their spectral properties are completely characterized…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Eleonora Andreotti

Many methods have been proposed for community detection in networks. Some of the most promising are methods based on statistical inference, which rest on solid mathematical foundations and return excellent results in practice. In this paper…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-08-13 M. E. J. Newman

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

Complex networks represent the natural backbone to study epidemic processes in populations of interacting individuals. Such a modeling framework, however, is naturally limited to pairwise interactions, making it less suitable to properly…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-10-04 Sandeep Chowdhary , Aanjaneya Kumar , Giulia Cencetti , Iacopo Iacopini , Federico Battiston

Despite the recent successes of vanilla Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) on various tasks, their foundation on pairwise networks inherently limits their capacity to discern latent higher-order interactions in complex systems. To bridge this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Yiming Huang , Yujie Zeng , Qiang Wu , Linyuan Lü