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The advantages of temporal networks in capturing complex dynamics, such as diffusion and contagion, has led to breakthroughs in real world systems across numerous fields. In the case of human behavior, face-to-face interaction networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Nicolò Alessandro Girardini , Antonio Longa , Gaia Trebucchi , Giulia Cencetti , Andrea Passerini , Bruno Lepri

Motifs, which have been established as building blocks for network structure, move beyond pair-wise connections to capture longer-range correlations in connections and activity. In spite of this, there are few generative graph models that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Giselle Zeno , Timothy La Fond , Jennifer Neville

In many real-world applications, the evolving relationships between entities can be modeled as temporal graphs, where each edge has a timestamp representing the interaction time. As a fundamental problem in graph analysis, {\it community…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Yue Zhang , Yankai Chen , Yingli Zhou , Yucan Guo , Xiaolin Han , Chenhao Ma

Temporal networks are essential for modeling and understanding systems whose behavior varies in time, from social interactions to biological systems. Often, however, real-world data are prohibitively expensive to collect in a large scale or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Antonio Longa , Giulia Cencetti , Sune Lehmann , Andrea Passerini , Bruno Lepri

A $k$-motif (or graphlet) is a subgraph on $k$ nodes in a graph or network. Counting of motifs in complex networks has been a well-studied problem in network analysis of various real-word graphs arising from the study of social networks and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Taha Sevim , Muhammet Selçuk Güvel , Lale Özkahya

Motifs are thought to be some fundamental components of social face-to-face interaction temporal networks. However, the motifs previously considered are either limited to a handful of nodes and edges, or do not include triangles, which are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-19 Didier Le Bail

Finding densely connected subsets of vertices in an unsupervised setting, called clustering or community detection, is one of the fundamental problems in network science. The edge clustering approach instead detects communities by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Ryan DeWolfe , François Théberge

Within many real-world networks the links between pairs of nodes change over time. Thus, there has been a recent boom in studying temporal graphs. Recognizing patterns in temporal graphs requires a proximity measure to compare different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Vincent Froese , Brijnesh Jain , Rolf Niedermeier , Malte Renken

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

We introduce Tiered Sampling, a novel technique for approximate counting sparse motifs in massive graphs whose edges are observed in a stream. Our technique requires only a single pass on the data and uses a memory of fixed size $M$, which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Lorenzo De Stefani , Erisa Terolli , Eli Upfal

Identifying central entities and interactions is a fundamental problem in network science. While well-studied for graphs (pairwise relations), many biological and social systems exhibit higher-order interactions best modeled by hypergraphs.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-02 Jaewan Chun , Fanchen Bu , Yeongho Kim , Atsushi Miyauchi , Francesco Bonchi , Kijung Shin

Predicting human mobility is inherently challenging due to complex long-range dependencies and multi-scale periodic behaviors. To address this, we introduce RHYTHM (Reasoning with Hierarchical Temporal Tokenization for Human Mobility), a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Haoyu He , Haozheng Luo , Yan Chen , Qi R. Wang

Dynamic graph learning methods have recently emerged as powerful tools for modelling relational data evolving through time. However, despite extensive benchmarking efforts, it remains unclear whether current Temporal Graph Neural Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Alireza Dizaji , Benedict Aaron Tjandra , Mehrab Hamidi , Shenyang Huang , Guillaume Rabusseau

Community search, retrieving the cohesive subgraph which contains the query vertex, has been widely touched over the past decades. The existing studies on community search mainly focus on static networks. However, real-world networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Yifei Zhang , Longlong Lin , Pingpeng Yuan , Hai Jin

We present a method to extract temporal hypergraphs from sequences of 2-dimensional functions obtained as solutions to Optimal Transport problems. We investigate optimality principles exhibited by these solutions from the point of view of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Diego Baptista , Caterina De Bacco

The widespread application of Large Language Models (LLMs) has motivated a growing interest in their capacity for processing dynamic graphs. Temporal motifs, as an elementary unit and important local property of dynamic graphs which can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Bing Hao , Minglai Shao , Zengyi Wo , Yunlong Chu , Yuhang Liu , Ruijie Wang

Temporal graphs serve as a critical foundation for modeling evolving interactions in domains ranging from financial networks to social media. Mining temporal motifs is essential for applications such as fraud detection, cybersecurity, and…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Sanjay Sri Vallabh Singapuram , Ronald Dreslinski , Nishil Talati

Interactions between two entities often occur at specific timestamps, which can be modeled as a temporal graph. Exploring the relationships between vertices based on temporal paths is one of the fundamental tasks. In this paper, we conduct…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zhiyang Tang , Yanping Wu , Xiangjun Zai , Chen Chen , Xiaoyang Wang , Ying Zhang

Modularity is a very widely used measure of the level of clustering or community structure in networks. Here we consider a recent generalisation of the definition of modularity to temporal graphs, whose edge-sets change over discrete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Vilhelm Agdur , Jessica Enright , Laura Larios-Jones , Kitty Meeks , Fiona Skerman , Ella Yates

Subgraph counting aims to count the number of occurrences of a subgraph T (aka as a template) in a given graph G. The basic problem has found applications in diverse domains. The problem is known to be computationally challenging - the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Langshi Chen , Bo Peng , Sabra Ossen , Anil Vullikanti , Madhav Marathe , Lei Jiang , Judy Qiu