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The hyperbolic random graph model (HRG) has proven useful in the analysis of scale-free networks, which are ubiquitous in many fields, from social network analysis to biology. However, working with this model is algorithmically and…

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To capture the inherent geometric features of many community detection problems, we propose to use a new random graph model of communities that we call a Geometric Block Model. The geometric block model generalizes the random geometric…

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Degree heterogeneity and latent geometry, also referred to as popularity and similarity, are key explanatory components underlying the structure of real-world networks. The relationship between these components and the statistical…

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Triangles are an important building block and distinguishing feature of real-world networks, but their structure is still poorly understood. Despite numerous reports on the abundance of triangles, there is very little information on what…

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Many complex networks exhibit hierarchical, tree-like structures, making hyperbolic space a natural candidate wherein to learn representations of them. Based on this observation, Hyperbolic Graph Neural Networks (HGNNs) have been widely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Dionisia Naddeo , Jonas Linkerhägner , Nicola Toschi , Geri Skenderi , Veronica Lachi

Triangles are abundant in real-world networks but rare in standard null models for sparse graphs. Existing explanations typically rely on explicit triadic closure mechanisms or geometry-based connection rules. We propose an alternative…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-19 M. N. Mooij , M. Baudena , A. S. von der Heydt , L. Miele , I. Kryven

The coexistence of sparsity and clustering (non-vanishing average fraction of triangles per node) is one of the few structural features that, irrespective of finer details, are ubiquitously observed across large real-world networks. This…

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Networks are mathematical structures that are universally used to describe a large variety of complex systems such as the brain or the Internet. Characterizing the geometrical properties of these networks has become increasingly relevant…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-26 Zhihao Wu , Giulia Menichetti , Christoph Rahmede , Ginestra Bianconi

A large variety of interacting complex systems are characterized by interactions occurring between more than two nodes. These systems are described by simplicial complexes. Simplicial complexes are formed by simplices (nodes, links,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-05-04 Ginestra Bianconi , Christoph Rahmede

We introduce hyperbolic attention networks to endow neural networks with enough capacity to match the complexity of data with hierarchical and power-law structure. A few recent approaches have successfully demonstrated the benefits of…

Centrality measures quantify the importance of a node in a network based on different geometric or diffusive properties, and focus on different scales. Here, we adopt a geometrical viewpoint to define a multi-scale centrality in networks.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-09-21 Shazia'Ayn Babul , Karel Devriendt , Renaud Lambiotte

Large real-world networks are typically scale-free. Recent research has shown that such graphs are described best in a geometric space. More precisely, the internet can be mapped to a hyperbolic space such that geometric greedy routing…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-12-03 Tobias Friedrich , Anton Krohmer

First principle network models are crucial to make sense of the intricate topology of real complex networks. While modeling efforts have been quite successful in undirected networks, generative models for networks with asymmetric…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-02-20 Antoine Allard , M. Ángeles Serrano , Marián Boguñá

Over the years, web content has evolved from simple text and static images hosted on a single server to a complex, interactive and multimedia-rich content hosted on different servers. As a result, a modern website during its loading time…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Costas Iordanou , Fragkiskos Papadopoulos

Recent papers in the graph machine learning literature have introduced a number of approaches for hyperbolic representation learning. The asserted benefits are improved performance on a variety of graph tasks, node classification and link…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Isay Katsman , Anna Gilbert

Recent progress towards unraveling the hidden geometric organization of real multiplexes revealed significant correlations across the hyperbolic node coordinates in different network layers, which facilitated applications like trans-layer…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Fragkiskos Papadopoulos , Kaj-Kolja Kleineberg

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have excelled in predicting graph properties in various applications ranging from identifying trends in social networks to drug discovery and malware detection. With the abundance of new architectures and…

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The representation of complex systems as networks is inappropriate for the study of certain problems. We show several examples of social, biological, ecological and technological systems where the use of complex networks gives very limited…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-04-02 Ernesto Estrada , Juan A. Rodriguez-Velazquez

Hypergraphs are generalizations of simple graphs that allow for the representation of complex group interactions beyond pairwise relationships. Clustering coefficients quantify local link density in networks and have been widely studied for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Rikuya Miyashita , Shiori Hironaka , Kazuyuki Shudo

Subgraph counts - in particular the number of occurrences of small shapes such as triangles - characterize properties of random networks, and as a result have seen wide use as network summary statistics. However, subgraphs are typically…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-30 P-A. Maugis