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Across all scales of the physical world, dynamical systems can often be usefully represented as abstract networks that encode the system's units and inter-unit interactions. Understanding how physical rules shape the topological structure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Abigail N. Poteshman , Mathieu Ouellet , Lee C. Bassett , Danielle S. Bassett

In this article, we investigate the transient behavior of a sequence of packets/bits traversing a multi-hop wireless network. Our work is motivated by novel applications from the domain of process automation, Machine-Type Communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Jaya Prakash Champati , Hussein Al-Zubaidy , James Gross

Networks are ubiquitous throughout science and engineering. A number of methods, including some from our own group, have explored how one goes about computing or predicting the dynamics of networks given information about internal models of…

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Pairwise temporal interactions between entities can be represented as temporal networks, which code the propagation of processes such as epidemic spreading or information cascades, evolving on top of them. The largest outcome of these…

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By dividing potential energy landscapes into basins of attractions surrounding minima and linking those basins that are connected by transition state valleys, a network description of energy landscapes naturally arises. These networks are…

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Pasque et al. showed that using a tropical symmetric metric as an activation function in the last layer can improve the robustness of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) against state-of-the-art attacks, including the Carlini-Wagner…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Gillian Grindstaff , Julia Lindberg , Daniela Schkoda , Miruna-Stefana Sorea , Ruriko Yoshida

Network embedding aims to embed nodes into a low-dimensional space, while capturing the network structures and properties. Although quite a few promising network embedding methods have been proposed, most of them focus on static networks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Yuanfu Lu , Xiao Wang , Chuan Shi , Philip S. Yu , Yanfang Ye

Weight thresholding is a simple technique that aims at reducing the number of edges in weighted networks that are otherwise too dense for the application of standard graph theoretical methods. We show that the group structure of real…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-10-17 Xiaoran Yan , Lucas G. S. Jeub , Alessandro Flammini , Filippo Radicchi , Santo Fortunato

We study the evolution of a random weighted network with complex nonlinear dynamics at each node, whose activity may cease as a result of interactions with other nodes. Starting from a knowledge of the micro-level behaviour at each node, we…

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Network motifs are recurrent, small-scale patterns of interactions observed frequently in a system. They shed light on the interplay between the topology and the dynamics of complex networks across various domains. In this work, we focus on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Quintino Francesco Lotito , Federico Musciotto , Federico Battiston , Alberto Montresor

This paper studies the controllability backbone problem in dynamical networks defined over graphs. The main idea of the controllability backbone is to identify a small subset of edges in a given network such that any subnetwork containing…

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We investigate the susceptible-infected-susceptible dynamics on configuration model networks. In an effort for the unification of current approaches, we consider a network whose edges are constantly being rearranged, with a tunable rewiring…

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Online load balancing for heterogeneous machines aims to minimize the makespan (maximum machine workload) by scheduling arriving jobs with varying sizes on different machines. In the adversarial setting, where an adversary chooses not only…

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In this work we evaluate the excitation and measurement patterns (EMP) for networks with tree topology. We investigate guidelines for the selection of the minimal EMPs, i.e. those with the least number of excited and measured nodes…

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Observability of complex systems/networks is the focus of this paper, which is shown to be closely related to the concept of contraction. Indeed, for observable network tracking it is necessary/sufficient to have one node in each…

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Why does the mammalian vascular tree maintain a conserved branching exponent $\alpha^* \approx 2.72$ across a $10^7$-fold range in body mass, despite a fundamental shift from viscous to wave-dominated transport? We prove this universality…

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Neural circuits in the brain perform a variety of essential functions, including input classification, pattern completion, and the generation of rhythms and oscillations that support processes such as breathing and locomotion. There is also…

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In this note, we propose a novel technique to reduce the algorithmic complexity of neural network training by using matrices of tropical real numbers instead of matrices of real numbers. Since the tropical arithmetics replaces…

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