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Community detection is an important problem in graph neural networks. Recently, algorithms based on Ricci curvature flows have gained significant attention. It was suggested by Ollivier (2009), and applied to community detection by Ni et al…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-22 Jicheng Ma , Yunyan Yang

We propose a novel entropy flow on weighted graphs, which provides a principled framework that characterizes the evolution of probability distributions over graph structures while sharing geometric intuition with discrete Ricci flow. We…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Juan Zhao , Jicheng Ma , Yunyan Yang , Liang Zhao

On a connected finite graph, we propose an evolution of weights including Ollivier's Ricci flow as a special case. During the evolution process, on each edge, the speed of change of weight is exactly the difference between the Wasserstein…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Jicheng Ma , Yunyan Yang

We study the existence of solutions of Ricci flow equations of Ollivier-Lin-Lu-Yau curvature defined on weighted graphs. Our work is motivated by\cite{NLLG} in which the discrete time Ricci flow algorithm has been applied successfully as a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Shuliang Bai , Yong Lin , Linyuan Lu , Zhiyu Wang , Shing-Tung Yau

Community detection in complex networks is a fundamental problem, open to new approaches in various scientific settings. We introduce a novel community detection method, based on Ricci flow on graphs. Our technique iteratively updates edge…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Arsenii Onuchin , Konstantin Sorokin , Maxim Beketov , Liubov Tupikina

Ricci curvature and Ricci flow have proven to be powerful tools for analyzing the geometry of discrete structures, particularly on undirected graphs, where they have been applied to tasks ranging from community detection to graph…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Shuliang Bai , Rui Li , Shuang Liu , Xin Lai

Graph Ricci curvature is crucial as it geometrically quantifies network structure. It pinpoints bottlenecks via negative curvature, identifies cohesive communities with positive curvature, and highlights robust hubs. This guides network…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Juan Zhao , Jicheng Ma , Yunyan Yang , Liang Zhao

Community detection in hypergraphs is both instrumental for functional module identification and intricate due to higher-order interactions among nodes. We define a hypergraph Ricci flow that directly operates on higher-order interactions…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yulu Tian , Jicheng Ma , Yunyan Yang , Liang Zhao

Many complex networks in the real world have community structures -- groups of well-connected nodes with important functional roles. It has been well recognized that the identification of communities bears numerous practical applications.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Chien-Chun Ni , Yu-Yao Lin , Feng Luo , Jie Gao

In this paper, we introduce a novel method for extending Ricci flow to hypergraphs by defining probability measures on the edges and transporting them on the line expansion. This approach yields a new weighting on the edges, which proves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Olympio Hacquard

We present a viable solution to the challenging question of change detection in complex networks inferred from large dynamic data sets. Building on Forman's discretization of the classical notion of Ricci curvature, we introduce a novel…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Melanie Weber , Jürgen Jost , Emil Saucan

Ricci curvature and its associated flow offer powerful geometric methods for analyzing complex networks. While existing research heavily focuses on applications for undirected graphs such as community detection and core extraction, there…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Juan Zhao , Jicheng Ma , Yunyan Yang , Liang Zhao

The notion of curvature on graphs has recently gained traction in the networks community, with the Ollivier-Ricci curvature (ORC) in particular being used for several tasks in network analysis, such as community detection. In this work, we…

In this paper, we consider the Ricci flow with prescribed curvature on the finite graph $G=(V,E)$. For any $e$ in $E$, $$\frac{d\omega(t,e)}{dt} = -(\kappa(t,e)-\kappa^*(e))\omega(t,e), t > 0,$$ where $\omega$ is the weight function,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Yong Lin , Shuang Liu

This study introduces the Lower Ricci Curvature (LRC), a novel, scalable, and scale-free discrete curvature designed to enhance community detection in networks. Addressing the computational challenges posed by existing curvature-based…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-01-30 Yun Jin Park , Didong Li

A novel method to identify salient computational paths within randomly wired neural networks before training is proposed. The computational graph is pruned based on a node mass probability function defined by local graph measures and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Samuel Glass , Simeon Spasov , Pietro Liò

Community detection remains an important problem in data mining, owing to the lack of scalable algorithms that exploit all aspects of available data - namely the directionality of flow of information and the dynamics thereof. Most existing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Rajagopal Venkatesaramani , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

Many biological and social systems are naturally represented as edge-weighted directed or undirected hypergraphs since they exhibit group interactions involving three or more system units as opposed to pairwise interactions that can be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Prithviraj Sengupta , Nazanin Azarhooshang , Reka Albert , Bhaskar DasGupta

We introduce a community detection algorithm (Fluid Communities) based on the idea of fluids interacting in an environment, expanding and contracting as a result of that interaction. Fluid Communities is based on the propagation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Ferran Parés , Dario Garcia-Gasulla , Armand Vilalta , Jonatan Moreno , Eduard Ayguadé , Jesús Labarta , Ulises Cortés , Toyotaro Suzumura

Unsupervised node clustering (or community detection) is a classical graph learning task. In this paper, we study algorithms, which exploit the geometry of the graph to identify densely connected substructures, which form clusters or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Yu Tian , Zachary Lubberts , Melanie Weber
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