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Street intersection counts and densities are ubiquitous measures in transport geography and planning. However, typical street network data and typical street network analysis tools can substantially overcount them. This article explains the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-01 Geoff Boeing

We analyze the hyperbolicity of real-world networks, a geometric quantity that measures if a space is negatively curved. In our interpretation, a network with small hyperbolicity is "aristocratic", because it contains a small set of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-10-07 Michele Borassi , Alessandro Chessa , Guido Caldarelli

In this paper we consider aspects of geometric observability for hypergraphs, extending our earlier work from the uniform to the nonuniform case. Hypergraphs, a generalization of graphs, allow hyperedges to connect multiple nodes and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-04-12 Joshua Pickard , Cooper Stansbury , Amit Surana , Indika Rajapakse , Anthony Bloch

Statistical significance of network clustering has been an unresolved problem since it was observed that community detection algorithms produce false positives even in random graphs. After a phase transition between undetectable and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Jeremi K. Ochab

In this paper we introduce a new method to locate highly connected clusters in a network. Our proposed approach adapts the HyperBall algorithm to localize regions with a high density of small subgraph patterns in large graphs in a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Lotte Weedage , Nelly Litvak , Clara Stegehuis

Turing patterns, arising from the interplay between competing species of diffusive particles, has long been an important concept for describing non-equilibrium self-organization in nature, and has been extensively investigated in many…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-06-26 Jasper van der Kolk , Guillermo García-Pérez , Nikos E. Kouvaris , M. Ángeles Serrano , Marián Boguñá

Detecting the dimensionality of graphs is a central topic in machine learning. While the problem has been tackled empirically as well as theoretically, existing methods have several drawbacks. On the one hand, empirical tools are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Tobias Friedrich , Andreas Göbel , Maximilian Katzmann , Leon Schiller

Many real-world networks exhibit hierarchical, tree-like structure and heavy-tailed degree distributions, phenomena not readily captured by standard statistical models for network data. Extensions of the popular continuous latent space…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-13 Yiwei Gong , Anna L. Smith , Dena Asta , Catherine A. Calder

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…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Dorota Celińska-Kopczyńska , Eryk Kopczyński

A remarkable approach for grasping the relevant statistical features of real networks with the help of random graphs is offered by hyperbolic models, centred around the idea of placing nodes in a low-dimensional hyperbolic space, and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-09-17 Bianka Kovács , Gergely Palla

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 builds on the random geometric graphs…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Sainyam Galhotra , Arya Mazumdar , Soumyabrata Pal , Barna Saha

Multiple scales coexist in complex networks. However, the small world property makes them strongly entangled. This turns the elucidation of length scales and symmetries a defiant challenge. Here, we define a geometric renormalization group…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-07-04 Guillermo García-Pérez , Marián Boguñá , M. Ángeles Serrano

Graphs and networks are used to model interactions in a variety of contexts. There is a growing need to quickly assess the characteristics of a graph in order to understand its underlying structure. Some of the most useful metrics are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-12-02 Tamara G. Kolda , Ali Pinar , Todd Plantenga , C. Seshadhri , Christine Task

While the majority of approaches to the characterization of complex networks has relied on measurements considering only the immediate neighborhood of each network node, valuable information about the network topological properties can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Luciano da Fontoura Costa , Filipi Nascimento Silva

Hyperbolic random graphs inherit many properties that are present in real-world networks. The hyperbolic geometry imposes a scale-free network with a strong clustering coefficient. Other properties like a giant component, the small world…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Samuel Baguley , Yannic Maus , Janosch Ruff , George Skretas

Hyperbolic models are known to produce networks with properties observed empirically in most network datasets, including heavy-tailed degree distribution, high clustering, and hierarchical structures. As a result, several embeddings…

Computation · Statistics 2025-05-16 Simon Lizotte , Jean-Gabriel Young , Antoine Allard

Usual formulations of the clustering coefficient can be shown to be insufficient in the task of describing the local topology of very simple networks. Motivated by this, we review some alternatives in order to present an extension, the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexandre H. Abdo , A. P. S. de Moura

Most real-world networks are embedded in latent geometries. If a node in a network is found in the vicinity of another node in the latent geometry, the two nodes have a disproportionately high probability of being connected by a link. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-06-19 Bukyoung Jhun

Although community detection has drawn tremendous amount of attention across the sciences in the past decades, no formal consensus has been reached on the very nature of what qualifies a community as such. In this article we take an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-07-19 Adrien Friggeri , Guillaume Chelius , Eric Fleury

The study of complex networks is a significant development in modern science, and has enriched the social sciences, biology, physics, and computer science. Models and algorithms for such networks are pervasive in our society, and impact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 C. Seshadhri , Aneesh Sharma , Andrew Stolman , Ashish Goel