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Complex systems are often driven by higher-order interactions among multiple units, naturally represented as hypergraphs. Understanding dependency structures within these hypergraphs is crucial for understanding and predicting the behavior…

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Random K-out graphs are receiving attention as a model to construct sparse yet well-connected topologies in distributed systems including sensor networks, federated learning, and cryptocurrency networks. In response to the growing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Mansi Sood , Osman Yagan

The threshold model has been widely adopted as a prototype for studying contagion processes on social networks. In this paper, we consider individual interactions in groups of three or more vertices and study the threshold model on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-03-01 Xin-Jian Xu , Shuang He , Li-Jie Zhang

Heteroclinic structures organize global features of dynamical systems. We analyze whether heteroclinic structures can arise in network dynamics with higher-order interactions which describe the nonlinear interactions between three or more…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Christian Bick , Sören von der Gracht

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

Complex systems, such as economic, social, biological, and ecological systems, usually feature interactions not only between pairwise entities but also among three or more entities. These multi-entity interactions are known as higher-order…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-06-06 Junhap Bian , Tao Zhou , Yilin Bi

Higher-order interactions (HOIs) are ubiquitous in real-world complex systems and applications. Investigation of deep learning for HOIs, thus, has become a valuable agenda for the data mining and machine learning communities. As networks of…

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When exposed to a contagion phenomenon, individuals may respond to the perceived risk of infection by adopting behavioral changes, aiming to reduce their exposure or their risk of infecting others. The social cost of such adaptive behaviors…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-06 Marco Mancastroppa , Márton Karsai , Alain Barrat

Contagion processes in social systems often involve interactions that go beyond pairwise contacts. Higher-order networks, represented as hypergraphs, have been widely used to model multi-body interactions, and their presence can drastically…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-26 Andrés Guzmán , Federico Malizia , István Z. Kiss

Higher-order interactions have recently emerged as a promising framework for describing new dynamical phenomena in heterogeneous contagion processes. However, a fundamental open question is how to understand their contribution from the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-21 Sandro Meloni , Andrea Gabrielli , Pablo Villegas

Hypergraphs, increasingly utilised to model complex and diverse relationships in modern networks, have gained significant attention for representing intricate higher-order interactions. Among various challenges, cohesive subgraph discovery…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Dahee Kim , Hyewon Kim , Song Kim , Minseok Kim , Junghoon Kim , Yeon-Chang Lee , Sungsu Lim

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

Hypergraphs have emerged as a powerful modeling framework to represent systems with multiway interactions, that is systems where interactions may involve an arbitrary number of agents. Here we explore the properties of real-world…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Timothy LaRock , Renaud Lambiotte

Inhomogeneous random graphs are fundamental models for real-world networks, where prescribed degrees are imposed as soft constraints. A common assumption in such models is that the degree distribution follows a power-law, capturing the…

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We address the problem of defining connected components in hypergraphs, which are models for systems with higher-order interactions. For graphs with dyadic interactions, connected components are defined in terms of paths connecting nodes…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-03 Gyeong-Gyun Ha , Izaak Neri , Alessia Annibale

Higher-order connectivity patterns such as small induced sub-graphs called graphlets (network motifs) are vital to understand the important components (modules/functional units) governing the configuration and behavior of complex networks.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Aldo G. Carranza , Ryan A. Rossi , Anup Rao , Eunyee Koh

Subgraphs and cycles are often used to characterize the local properties of complex networks. Here we show that the subgraph structure of real networks is highly time dependent: as the network grows, the density of some subgraphs remains…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexei Vazquez , Joao G. Oliveira , Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

Although higher-order interactions are known to affect the typical state of dynamical processes giving rise to new collective behavior, how they drive the emergence of rare events and fluctuations is still an open problem. We investigate…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-09-09 Leonardo Di Gaetano , Giorgio Carugno , Federico Battiston , Francesco Coghi

Assessing the synergistic high-order behaviors (HOBs) that emerge from underlying structural mechanisms is crucial to characterize complex systems. This work leverages the combined use of predictability and information measures to detect…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-16 Chiara Barà , Yuri Antonacci , Laura Sparacino , Helder Pinto , Michal Javorka , Sebastiano Stramaglia , Luca Faes