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Multi-body interactions can reveal higher-order dynamical effects that are not captured by traditional two-body network models. In this work, we derive and analyse models for consensus dynamics on hypergraphs, where nodes interact in groups…

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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

The studies of collective oscillations induced by higher-order interactions point out the necessity of group effect in coupling modelization. As yet the related advances are mainly concentrated on nonlinear coupling patterns and cannot be…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-03-31 Cong Liu , Chong-Yang Wang , Zhi-Xi Wu , Jian-Yue Guan

A social interaction (so-called higher-order event/interaction) can be regarded as the activation of the hyperlink among the corresponding individuals. Social interactions can be, thus, represented as higher-order temporal networks, that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-12-17 Mathieu Jung-Muller , Alberto Ceria , Huijuan Wang

Temporal Graph Neural Networks (TGNNs) have gained growing attention for modeling and predicting structures in temporal graphs. However, existing TGNNs primarily focus on pairwise interactions while overlooking higher-order structures that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Jingzhe Liu , Zhigang Hua , Yan Xie , Bingheng Li , Harry Shomer , Yu Song , Kaveh Hassani , Jiliang Tang

The emergence of collective behaviors in networks of dynamical units in pairwise interaction has been explained as the effect of diffusive coupling. How does the presence of higher-order interaction impact the onset of spontaneous or…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-10-05 Fabio Della Rossa , Davide Liuzza , Francesco Lo Iudice , Pietro De Lellis

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

Ecological models traditionally explain stability and coexistence through pairwise interactions among species. These interactions can also involve groups of three or more species, higher-order interactions, which recent theory suggests can…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-07 Marc Duran-Sala , Sandro Meloni , Violeta Calleja-Solanas

In recent years, networks with higher-order interactions have emerged as a powerful tool to model complex systems. Comparing these higher-order systems remains however a challenge. Traditional similarity measures designed for pairwise…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-24 Cosimo Agostinelli , Marco Mancastroppa , Alain Barrat

The spread of information through socio-technical systems determines which individuals are the first to gain access to opportunities and insights. Yet, the pathways through which information flows can be skewed, leading to systematic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-12 Moritz Laber , Samantha Dies , Joseph Ehlert , Brennan Klein , Tina Eliassi-Rad

We study the evolution of networks through `triplets' - three-node graphlets. We develop a method to compute a transition matrix to describe the evolution of triplets in temporal networks. To identify the importance of higher-order…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-08-02 Qing Yao , Bingsheng Chen , Kim Christensen , Tim S. Evans

In complex systems research, the study of higher-order interactions has exploded in recent years. Researchers have formalized various types of group interactions, such as public goods games, biological contagion, and information…

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

Our understanding of the dynamics of complex networked systems has increased significantly in the last two decades. However, most of our knowledge is built upon assuming pairwise relations among the system's components. This is often an…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-04-15 Guilherme Ferraz de Arruda , Giovanni Petri , Yamir Moreno

Cooperation enables teams to solve complex problems that one individual alone cannot address. In science, collaborative teams have become the predominant way through which progress is achieved. These scientific collaborations arise though…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-04 Emma Zajdela , Nicholas W. Landry

In functionally complex systems, higher-order connectivity is often revealed in the underlying geometry of networked units. Furthermore, such systems often show signatures of self-organized criticality, a specific type of non-equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-11 Bosiljka Tadic , Roderick Melnik

A social-ecological network is a formal representation of a corresponding social-ecological system, and encodes a relation within a given system as an interaction. Conventionally, such networks have been defined as encoding and representing…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Sudeepto Bhattacharya

Many real-world complex systems are characterized by non-pairwise -- higher-order -- interactions among system's units, and can be effectively modeled as hypergraphs. Directed hypergraphs distinguish between source and target sets within…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-17 Quintino Francesco Lotito , Alberto Vendramini , Alberto Montresor , Federico Battiston

Many complex systems often contain interactions between more than two nodes, known as higher-order interactions, which can change the structure of these systems in significant ways. Researchers often assume that all interactions paint a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-02-16 Nicholas W. Landry , Ilya Amburg , Mirah Shi , Sinan G. Aksoy

Understanding how group interactions influence opinion dynamics is fundamental to the study of collective behavior. In this work, we propose and study a model of opinion dynamics on $d$-uniform hypergraphs, where individuals interact…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-18 Thierry Njougouo , Timoteo Carletti , Elio Tuci