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In the last 15 years, statistical physics has been a very successful framework to model complex networks. On the theoretical side, this approach has brought novel insights into a variety of physical phenomena, such as self-organisation,…

Network models are widely used to represent relational information among interacting units and the structural implications of these relations. Recently, social network studies have focused a great deal of attention on random graph models of…

Applications · Statistics 2010-10-06 Mark S. Handcock , Krista J. Gile

Latent space models have been widely adopted in modeling network data. Developing statistical inference for estimated model parameters enables quantifying associated uncertainty and is pivotal for downstream tasks. Despite recent progress…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Yuang Tian , Jiajin Sun , Yinqiu He

Stochastic network models play a central role across a wide range of scientific disciplines, and questions of statistical inference arise naturally in this context. In this paper we investigate goodness-of-fit and two-sample testing…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Subhro Ghosh , Rathindra Nath Karmakar , Samriddha Lahiry

We study the emerging large-scale structures in networks subject to selective pressures that simultaneously drive towards higher modularity and robustness against random failures. We construct maximum-entropy null models that isolate the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-09-30 Sebastian Morel-Balbi , Tiago P. Peixoto

Aiming at the disorder problem (i.e. uncertainty problem) of the utilization of network resources commonly existing in multi-hop transmission networks, the paper proposes the idea and the corresponding supporting theory, i.e. theory of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Bo Li , Mao Yang , Zhongjiang Yan

Networks play a central role in modern data analysis, enabling us to reason about systems by studying the relationships between their parts. Most often in network analysis, the edges are given. However, in many systems it is difficult or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-02-06 Scott W. Linderman , Ryan P. Adams

In social networks, it is conventionally thought that two individuals with more overlapped friends tend to establish a new friendship, which could be stated as homophily breeding new connections. While the recent hypothesis of maximum…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-02-17 Jichang Zhao , Xiao Liang , Ke Xu

We study network properties of networks evolving in time based on optimal transport principles. These evolve from a structure covering uniformly a continuous space towards an optimal design in terms of optimal transport theory. At…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-25 Diego Baptista , Caterina De Bacco

In the 21st century, many of the crucial scientific and technical issues facing humanity can be understood as problems associated with understanding, modelling, and ultimately controlling complex systems: systems comprised of a large number…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Thomas F. Varley

Networks with underlying metric spaces attract increasing research attention in network science, statistical physics, applied mathematics, computer science, sociology, and other fields. This attention is further amplified by the current…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-04-22 Marian Boguna , Dmitri Krioukov , Pedro Almagro , M. Angeles Serrano

Complex networks are usually characterized in terms of their topological, spatial, or information-theoretic properties and combinations of the associated metrics are used to discriminate networks into different classes or categories.…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-10-25 Marc Wiedermann , Jonathan F. Donges , Jürgen Kurths , Reik V. Donner

The subject of this paper is the long-standing open problem of developing a general capacity theory for wireless networks, particularly a theory capable of describing the fundamental performance limits of mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). A…

As individuals communicate, their exchanges form a dynamic network. We demonstrate, using time series analysis of communication in three online settings, that network structure alone can be highly revealing of the diversity and novelty of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-05-23 Chun-Yuen Teng , Liuling Gong , Avishay Livne , Celso Brunetti , Lada A. Adamic

Complex network null models based on entropy maximization are becoming a powerful tool to characterize and analyze data from real systems. However, it is not easy to extract good and unbiased information from these models: A proper…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-12-09 Oleguer Sagarra , Conrad J. Pérez Vicente , Albert Díaz-Guilera

The aim of this work is to enable inference of deep networks that retain high accuracy for the least possible model complexity, with the latter deduced from the data during inference. To this end, we revisit deep networks that comprise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Konstantinos P. Panousis , Sotirios Chatzis , Sergios Theodoridis

An information-theoretic framework is introduced to analyze last-layer embedding, focusing on learned representations for regression tasks. We define representation-rate and derive limits on the reliability with which input-output…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Deborah Pereg , Michael Wand

This article is an exposition on some recent theoretical advances in learning latent structured models, with a primary focus on the fundamental roles that optimal transport distances play in the statistical theory. We aim at what may be the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-19 XuanLong Nguyen , Yun Wei

Distributions of the resilience of transport networks are studied numerically, in particular the large-deviation tails. Thus, not only typical quantities like average or variance but the distributions over the (almost) full support can be…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-18 Alexander K. Hartmann

A framework integrating information theory and network science is proposed, giving rise to a potentially new area. By incorporating and integrating concepts such as complexity, coding, topological projections and network dynamics, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Henrique F. de Arruda , Filipi N. Silva , Cesar H. Comin , Diego R. Amancio , Luciano da F. Costa