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Background: Network communities help the functional organization and evolution of complex networks. However, the development of a method, which is both fast and accurate, provides modular overlaps and partitions of a heterogeneous network,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-09-06 Istvan A. Kovacs , Robin Palotai , Mate S. Szalay , Peter Csermely

Networks are a widely used and efficient paradigm to model real-world systems where basic units interact pairwise. Many body interactions are often at play, and cannot be modelled by resorting to binary exchanges. In this work, we consider…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-06-03 Timoteo Carletti , Duccio Fanelli , Sara Nicoletti

We study the evolution of networks through `triplets' - three-node graphlets. We develop a method to compute a transition matrix to describe the evolution of triplets in temporal networks. To identify the importance of higher-order…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-08-02 Qing Yao , Bingsheng Chen , Kim Christensen , Tim S. Evans

Networks representing social, biological, technological or other systems are often characterized by higher-order interaction involving any number of nodes. Temporal hypergraphs are given by ordered sequences of hyperedges representing sets…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-27 Jürgen Lerner , Marian-Gabriel Hâncean , Matjaz Perc

Higher-order interactions that nonlinearly couple more than two nodes are important in many networked systems, and their effects on collective dynamics are increasingly being studied. Here we provide an overview of this rapidly growing…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-03-23 Federico Battiston , Christian Bick , Maxime Lucas , Ana P. Millán , Per Sebastian Skardal , Yuanzhao Zhang

Many natural, engineered, and social systems can be represented using the framework of a layered network, where each layer captures a different type of interaction between the same set of nodes. The study of such multiplex networks is a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-05-12 Haochen Wu , Ryan G. James , James P. Crutchfield , Raissa M. D'Souza

Graphs are a standard framework for describing dynamical processes shaped by pairwise interactions among agents. But many systems involve interactions in groups of three or more agents. Here, we develop a method of "$\ell$-hyperedge…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-25 Anzhi Sheng , Alex McAvoy , Ye Tian , Silun Zhang , Angela Fontan , Joshua B. Plotkin

Hypergraphs offer a generalized framework for understanding complex systems, covering group interactions of different orders beyond traditional pairwise interactions. This modelling allows for the simplified description of simultaneous…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-22 Kunwoo Park , Ikbeom Lee , Seungmok Youn , Gitae Lee , Namkyoo Park , Sunkyu Yu

Community structure exists in many real-world networks and has been reported being related to several functional properties of the networks. The conventional approach was partitioning nodes into communities, while some recent studies start…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-08-15 Youngdo Kim , Hawoong Jeong

The analysis of complex and time-evolving interactions like social dynamics represents a current challenge for the science of complex systems. Temporal networks stand as a suitable tool to schematise such systems, encoding all the appearing…

Compound graphs are networks in which vertices can be grouped into larger subsets, with these subsets capable of further grouping, resulting in a nesting that can be many levels deep. In several applications, including biological workflows,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Chang Han , Justin Lieffers , Clayton Morrison , Katherine E. Isaacs

In this paper we propose a conceptual framework for higher-order artificial neural networks. The idea of higher-order networks arises naturally when a model is required to learn some group of transformations, every element of which is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Alexey Potapov , Oleg Shcherbakov , Innokentii Zhdanov , Sergey Rodionov , Nikolai Skorobogatko

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…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-29 John Hood , Caterina De Bacco , Aaron Schein

Over the last two decades, network science has greatly advanced our understanding of how the collective behaviors of a complex system emerge from the interactions among its basic units. Multiplex networks, i.e. networks with many layers,…

Networks have become a key approach to understanding systems of interacting objects, unifying the study of diverse phenomena including biological organisms and human society. One crucial step when studying the structure and dynamics of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-09-16 Yong-Yeol Ahn , James P. Bagrow , Sune Lehmann

Network science has evolved into an indispensable platform for studying complex systems. But recent research has identified limits of classical networks, where links connect pairs of nodes, to comprehensively describe group interactions.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-03-24 Soumen Majhi , Matjaz Perc , Dibakar Ghosh

While network science has become an indispensable tool for studying complex systems, the conventional use of pairwise links often shows limitations in describing high-order interactions properly. Hypergraphs, where each edge can connect…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-12-20 Zhao Li , Jing Zhang , Jiqiang Zhang , Guozhong Zheng , Weiran Cai , Li Chen

From transportation networks to complex infrastructures, and to social and communication networks, a large variety of systems can be described in terms of multiplexes formed by a set of nodes interacting through different networks (layers).…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 Davide Cellai , Eduardo López , Jie Zhou , James P. Gleeson , Ginestra Bianconi

We consider a class of adaptive network models where links can only be created or deleted between nodes in different states. These models provide an approximate description of a set of systems where nodes represent agents moving in physical…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-08-24 Li Chen , Cristián Huepe , Thilo Gross

Higher order networks are able to characterize data as different as functional brain networks, protein interaction networks and social networks beyond the framework of pairwise interactions. Most notably higher order networks include…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-11-26 Daan Mulder , Ginestra Bianconi