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A directed hypergraph (dihypergraph) consists of a set of vertices and a set of hyperarcs, where each hyperarc is partitioned into a head and a tail. Directed hypergraphs are useful in many applications, including the study of chemical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Catherine Greenhill , Tamás Makai

The conventional definition of hypergraph has two major issues: (1) there is not a standard definition of directed hypergraph and (2) there is not a formal definition of nested hypergraph. To resolve these issues, we propose a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Daniel T. Chang

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

We demonstrate that graph-based models are fully capable of representing higher-order interactions, and have a long history of being used for precisely this purpose. This stands in contrast to a common claim in the recent literature on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-20 Tiago P. Peixoto , Leto Peel , Thilo Gross , Manlio De Domenico

Directed graphs are widely used in modelling of nonsymmetric relations in various sciences and engineering disciplines. We discuss invariants of strongly connected directed graphs - minimal number of vertices or edges necessary to remove to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-10-21 Peteris Daugulis

Hypergraphs are a generalization of graphs in which edges can connect any number of vertices. They allow the modeling of complex networks with higher-order interactions, and their spectral theory studies the qualitative properties that can…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-01 Raffaella Mulas

In this paper we consider aspects of geometric observability for hypergraphs, extending our earlier work from the uniform to the nonuniform case. Hypergraphs, a generalization of graphs, allow hyperedges to connect multiple nodes and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-04-12 Joshua Pickard , Cooper Stansbury , Amit Surana , Indika Rajapakse , Anthony Bloch

We study the inverse eigenvector centrality problem on connected undirected graphs, namely, whether a given positive vector can be realized by assigning suitable edge weights. We provide a complete characterization in terms of stable sets…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Mauro Passacantando , Fabio Raciti

Nonstandard graphs have been defined and examined in prior works. The present work does the same for nonstandard digraphs. Since digraphs have more structure than do graphs, the present discussion requires more complicated definitions and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-04-28 A. H. Zemanian

An oriented hypergraph is a hypergraph where each vertex-edge incidence is given a label of $+1$ or $-1$. We define the adjacency, incidence and Laplacian matrices of an oriented hypergraph and study each of them. We extend several matrix…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Nathan Reff , Lucas J. Rusnak

The notions of spectral measures and spectral classes, which are well known for graphs, are generalized and investigated for oriented hypergraphs.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Raffaella Mulas

Identifying central entities and interactions is a fundamental problem in network science. While well-studied for graphs (pairwise relations), many biological and social systems exhibit higher-order interactions best modeled by hypergraphs.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-02 Jaewan Chun , Fanchen Bu , Yeongho Kim , Atsushi Miyauchi , Francesco Bonchi , Kijung Shin

We describe various path homology theories constructed for a directed hypergraph. We introduce the category of directed hypergraphs and the notion of a homotopy in this category. Also, we investigate the functoriality and the homotopy…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Yuri Muranov , Anna Szczepkowska , Vladimir Vershinin

While there has been tremendous activity in the area of statistical network inference on graphs, hypergraphs have not enjoyed the same attention, on account of their relative complexity and the lack of tractable statistical models. We…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-15 Ga-Ming Angus Chan , Zachary Lubberts

Higher-order networks have emerged as a powerful framework to model complex systems and their collective behavior. Going beyond pairwise interactions, they encode structured relations among arbitrary numbers of units through representations…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-03-24 Yuanzhao Zhang , Maxime Lucas , Federico Battiston

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have been widely used due to their outstanding performance in processing graph-structured data. However, the undirected graphs limit their application scope. In this paper, we extend spectral-based graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Zekun Tong , Yuxuan Liang , Changsheng Sun , David S. Rosenblum , Andrew Lim

Graph representation learning has made major strides over the past decade. However, in many relational domains, the input data are not suited for simple graph representations as the relationships between entities go beyond pairwise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Balasubramaniam Srinivasan , Da Zheng , George Karypis

Hypergraphs are useful mathematical models for describing complex relationships among members of a structured graph, while hyperdigraphs serve as a generalization that can encode asymmetric relationships in the data. However, obtaining…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-04-10 Dong Chen , Jian Liu , Jie Wu , Guo-Wei Wei

Higher-order interactions provide a nuanced understanding of the relational structure of complex systems beyond traditional pairwise interactions. However, higher-order network analyses also incur more cumbersome interpretations and greater…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-07 Alec Kirkley , Helcio Felippe , Federico Battiston

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