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Recent advances in emergent geometry and discretized approaches to quantum gravity have relied upon the notion of a discrete measure of graph curvature. We focus on the two main measures that have been studied, the so-called Ollivier-Ricci…

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Characterizing shapes of high-dimensional objects via Ricci curvatures plays a critical role in many research areas in mathematics and physics. However, even though several discretizations of Ricci curvatures for discrete combinatorial…

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Similarity notions between vertices in a graph, such as structural and regular equivalence, are one of the main ingredients in clustering tools in complex network science. We generalise structural and regular equivalences for undirected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Marzieh Eidi , Nina Otter

We study the relationship between discrete analogues of Ricci and scalar curvature that are defined for point clouds and graphs. In the discrete setting, Ricci curvature is replaced by Ollivier-Ricci curvature. Scalar curvature can be…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Abigail Hickok , Andrew J. Blumberg

We are concerned with the study of different notions of curvature on graphs. We show that if a graph has stronger inner-outer curvature growth than a model graph, then it has faster volume growth too. We also study the relationhips of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Andrea Adriani , Alberto G. Setti

Evaluating Ollivier-Ricci (OR) curvature on large-scale graphs is computationally prohibitive due to the necessity of solving an optimal transport problem for every edge. We bypass this computational bottleneck by deriving explicit,…

Computation · Statistics 2026-04-15 Giorgio Micaletto , Tebe Nigrelli

This article introduces a new approach to discrete curvature based on the concept of effective resistances. We propose a curvature on the nodes and links of a graph and present the evidence for their interpretation as a curvature. Notably,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-26 Karel Devriendt , Renaud Lambiotte

Let $M$ denote a low-dimensional manifold embedded in Euclidean space and let ${X}= \{ x_1, \dots, x_n \}$ be a collection of points uniformly sampled from it. We study the relationship between the curvature of a random geometric graph…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Nicolas Garcia Trillos , Melanie Weber

Recently, data-driven simulators based on graph neural networks have gained attention in modeling physical systems on unstructured meshes. However, they struggle with long-range dependencies in fluid flows, particularly in refined mesh…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Youn-Yeol Yu , Jeongwhan Choi , Jaehyeon Park , Kookjin Lee , Noseong Park

Describing networks geometrically through low-dimensional latent metric spaces has helped design efficient learning algorithms, unveil network symmetries and study dynamical network processes. However, latent space embeddings are limited to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-04-10 Adam Gosztolai , Alexis Arnaudon

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) had been demonstrated to be inherently susceptible to the problems of over-smoothing and over-squashing. These issues prohibit the ability of GNNs to model complex graph interactions by limiting their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Khang Nguyen , Hieu Nong , Vinh Nguyen , Nhat Ho , Stanley Osher , Tan Nguyen

We prove the following estimate for the spectrum of the normalized Laplace operator $\Delta$ on a finite graph $G$, \begin{equation*}1- (1- k[t])^{\frac{1}{t}}\leq \lambda_1 \leq \cdots \leq \lambda_{N-1}\leq 1+ (1- k[t])^{\frac{1}{t}},…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-08-19 Frank Bauer , Jürgen Jost , Shiping Liu

The coarse Ricci curvature of graphs introduced by Ollivier as well as its modification by Lin-Lu-Yau have been studied from various aspects. In this paper, we propose a new transport distance appropriate for hypergraphs and study a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-07 Tomoya Akamatsu

We give a new upper bound for the average graph distance in terms of the average Ollivier curvature. Here, the average Ollivier curvature is weighted with the edge betweenness centrality. Moreover, we prove that equality is attained…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-03 Florentin Münch

Ricci curvature is a fundamental concept in differential geometry for encoding local geometric structure, and its graph-based analogues have recently gained prominence as practical tools for reweighting, pruning, and reshaping network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Kyoichi Iwasaki , Tam Le , Hideitsu Hino

In contrast to graph-based models for complex networks, hypergraphs are more general structures going beyond binary relations of graphs. For graphs, statistics gauging different aspects of their structures have been devised and there is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Wilmer Leal , Guillermo Restrepo , Peter F. Stadler , Jürgen Jost

We have performed an empirical comparison of two distinct notions of discrete Ricci curvature for graphs or networks, namely, the Forman-Ricci curvature and Ollivier-Ricci curvature. Importantly, these two discretizations of the Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Areejit Samal , R. P. Sreejith , Jiao Gu , Shiping Liu , Emil Saucan , Jürgen Jost

Graph Neural Networks are highly effective at learning from relational data, leveraging node and edge features while maintaining the symmetries inherent to graph structures. However, many real-world systems, such as social or biological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Michael Banf , Dominik Filipiak , Max Schattauer , Liliya Imasheva

We study the curvature-dimension inequality in regular graphs. We develop techniques for calculating the curvature of such graphs, and we give characterizations of classes of graphs with positive, zero, and negative curvature. Our main…

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