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Hierarchical probabilistic models are able to use a large number of parameters to create a model with a high representation power. However, it is well known that increasing the number of parameters also increases the complexity of the model…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-01 Simon Luo , Mahito Sugiyama

Understanding how species interactions shape biodiversity is a core challenge in ecology. While much focus has been on long-term stability, there is rising interest in transient dynamics-the short-lived periods when ecosystems respond to…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-27 Sourin Chatterjee , Sayantan Nag Chowdhury

Individuals interact and cooperate in structured systems. Many studies represent this structure using static networks, where each link represents a permanent connection between two nodes. However, real interactions are generally not…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-23 Xiaochen Wang , Lei Zhou , Alex McAvoy , Zhenglong Tian , Aming Li

Opinion dynamics aims to understand how individuals' opinions evolve through local interactions. Recently, opinion dynamics have been modeled as network games, where individuals update their opinions in order to minimize the social pressure…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Yuchen Xu , Yi Han , Chuanzhe Zhang , Miao Wang , Wenjun Mei

The persistence of biodiversity of species is a challenging proposition in ecological communities in the face of Darwinian selection. The present article investigates beyond the pairwise competitive interactions and provides a novel…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-09 Sourin Chatterjee , Sayantan Nag Chowdhury , Dibakar Ghosh , Chittaranjan Hens

Understanding human mobility is essential for applications ranging from urban planning to public health. Traditional mobility models such as flow networks and colocation matrices capture only pairwise interactions between discrete…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Prathyush Sambaturu , Bernardo Gutierrez , Moritz U. G. Kraemer

In traditional models of opinion dynamics, each agent in a network has an opinion and changes in opinions arise from pairwise (i.e., dyadic) interactions between agents. However, in many situations, groups of individuals possess a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-15 Corbit R. Sampson , Juan G. Restrepo , Mason A. Porter

Higher-order interactions shape collective dynamics, but how they affect transitions between different states in swarmalator systems is yet to be determined. To that effect, we here study an analytically tractable swarmalator model that…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-04-11 Md Sayeed Anwar , Gourab Kumar Sar , Matjaz Perc , Dibakar Ghosh

Imitation is a basic updating mechanism for strategy evolution in structured populations, determining how individuals sample social information and translate it into behavioral changes. Higher-order networks, such as hypergraphs, generalize…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-11 Bingxin Lin , Lei Zhou , Hao Fang

Understanding the dynamics of opinion depolarization is pivotal to reducing the political divide in our society. We propose an opinion dynamics model, which we name the social compass model, for interdependent topics represented in a polar…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-25 Jaume Ojer , Michele Starnini , Romualdo Pastor-Satorras

Most statistical models for networks focus on pairwise interactions between nodes. However, many real-world networks involve higher-order interactions among multiple nodes, such as co-authors collaborating on a paper. Hypergraphs provide a…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-16 Yichao Chen , Jingfei Zhang , Ji Zhu

Higher-order interactions provide a nuanced understanding of the relational structure of complex systems beyond traditional pairwise interactions. However, higher-order network analyses also incur more cumbersome interpretations and greater…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-07 Alec Kirkley , Helcio Felippe , Federico Battiston

Disease spreading models such as the ubiquitous SIS compartmental model and its numerous variants are widely used to understand and predict the behaviour of a given epidemic or information diffusion process. A common approach to imbue more…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Eugene Tan , Michael Small , Shannon D. Algar

This article is concerned with a general class of stochastic spatial models for the dynamics of opinions. Like in the voter model, individuals are located on the vertex set of a connected graph and update their opinion at a constant rate…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-12-16 Nicolas Lanchier , Stylianos Scarlatos

We provide a numerical study of the macroscopic model of [3] derived from an agent-based model for a system of particles interacting through a dynamical network of links. Assuming that the network remodelling process is very fast, the…

We study phase transitions in models of opinion formation which are based on the social impact theory. Two different models are discussed: (i) a cellular--automata based model of a finite group with a strong leader where persons can change…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Janusz A. Holyst , Krzysztof Kacperski , Frank Schweitzer

We study a simple two-dimensional swarmalator model that incorporates higher-order phase interactions, uncovering a diverse range of collective states. The latter include spatially coherent and gas-like configurations, neither of which…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-04-24 Md Sayeed Anwar , Gourab Kumar Sar , Timoteo Carletti , Dibakar Ghosh

Diffusion models are loosely modelled based on non-equilibrium thermodynamics, where \textit{diffusion} refers to particles flowing from high-concentration regions towards low-concentration regions. In statistics, the meaning is quite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Inga Strümke , Helge Langseth

The analysis of complex and time-evolving interactions like social dynamics represents a current challenge for the science of complex systems. Temporal networks stand as a suitable tool to schematise such systems, encoding all the appearing…

The effect of inclusion of higher-order interactions in the {\it XY} model on critical properties is studied by Monte Carlo simulations. It is found that an increasing number of the higher-order terms in the Hamiltonian modifies the shape…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-07 Milan Žukovič