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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

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

Hypergraphs are useful mathematical representations of overlapping and nested subsets of interacting units, including groups of genes or brain regions, economic cartels, political or military coalitions, and groups of products that are…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-03 Cornelius Fritz , Yubai Yuan , Michael Schweinberger

Most previous heterogeneous graph embedding models represent elements in a heterogeneous graph as vector representations in a low-dimensional Euclidean space. However, because heterogeneous graphs inherently possess complex structures, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Jongmin Park , Seunghoon Han , Soohwan Jeong , Sungsu Lim

Hyperbolic geometry has emerged as a powerful tool for modeling complex, structured data, particularly where hierarchical or tree-like relationships are present. By enabling embeddings with lower distortion, hyperbolic neural networks offer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Pol Arévalo , Alexis Molina , Álvaro Ciudad

We study the implications of the modeling choice to use a graph, instead of a hypergraph, to represent real-world interconnected systems whose constituent relationships are of higher order by nature. Such a modeling choice typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Yanbang Wang , Jon Kleinberg

Many real-world phenomena are naturally modeled by graphs and networks. However, classical graph models are often limited to pairwise interactions and may not adequately capture the richer structures that arise in practice. Higher-order…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Takaaki Fujita , Florentin Smarandache

High-dimensional multiplex graphs are characterized by their high number of complementary and divergent dimensions. The existence of multiple hierarchical latent relations between the graph dimensions poses significant challenges to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Kamel Abdous , Nairouz Mrabah , Mohamed Bouguessa

Graph-based collaborative filtering is capable of capturing the essential and abundant collaborative signals from the high-order interactions, and thus received increasingly research interests. Conventionally, the embeddings of users and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Yiding Zhang , Chaozhuo Li , Senzhang Wang , Jianxun Lian , Xing Xie

Hypergraphs, encoding structured interactions among any number of system units, have recently proven a successful tool to describe many real-world biological and social networks. Here we propose a framework based on statistical inference to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Martina Contisciani , Federico Battiston , Caterina De Bacco

There is increasing focus on analyzing data represented as hypergraphs, which are better able to express complex relationships amongst entities than are graphs. Much of the critical information about hypergraph structure is available only…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Michael G. Rawson , Audun Myers , Robert Green , Michael Robinson , Cliff Joslyn

A hypergraph is a useful combinatorial object to model ternary or higher-order relations among entities. Clustering hypergraphs is a fundamental task in network analysis. In this study, we develop two clustering algorithms based on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Yuuki Takai , Atsushi Miyauchi , Masahiro Ikeda , Yuichi Yoshida

We introduce a spatial graph and hypergraph model that smoothly interpolates between a graph with purely pairwise edges and a graph where all connections are in large hyperedges. The key component is a spatial clustering resolution…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Omar Eldaghar , Yu Zhu , David F. Gleich

Real-world complex networks are usually being modeled as graphs. The concept of graphs assumes that the relations within the network are binary (for instance, between pairs of nodes); however, this is not always true for many real-life…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Alessia Antelmi , Gennaro Cordasco , Bogumił Kamiński , Paweł Prałat , Vittorio Scarano , Carmine Spagnuolo , Przemyslaw Szufel

The irreducible complexity of natural phenomena has led Graph Neural Networks to be employed as a standard model to perform representation learning tasks on graph-structured data. While their capacity to capture local and global patterns is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Lorenzo Giusti

Graph-level representations are crucial tools for characterising structural differences between graphs. However, comparing graphs with different cardinalities, even when sampled from the same underlying distribution, remains challenging.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Katharina Limbeck , Nadja Häusermann , Martin Carrasco , Guy Wolf , Bastian Rieck

Hypergraphs generalize classical graphs by allowing a single edge to connect multiple vertices, providing a natural language for modeling higher-order interactions. Superhypergraphs extend this paradigm further by accommodating nested,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Takaaki Fujita , Florentin Smarandache

Graph-structured data are widespread in real-world applications, such as social networks, recommender systems, knowledge graphs, chemical molecules etc. Despite the success of Euclidean space for graph-related learning tasks, its ability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Min Zhou , Menglin Yang , Lujia Pan , Irwin King

Complex networks are universal, arising in fields as disparate as sociology, physics, and biology. In the past decade, extensive research into the properties and behaviors of complex systems has uncovered surprising commonalities among the…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-26 Claire Christensen , Reka Albert

The acknowledged model for networks of collaborations is the hypergraph model. Nonetheless when it comes to be visualized hypergraphs are transformed into simple graphs. Very often, the transformation is made by clique expansion of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Xavier Ouvrard , Jean-Marie Le Goff , Stéphane Marchand-Maillet