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Critical, or scale independent, systems are so ubiquitous, that gaining theoretical insights on their nature and properties has many direct repercussions in social and natural sciences. In this report, we start from the simplest possible…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-11-07 Laurent Hébert-Dufresne , Antoine Allard , Louis J. Dubé

Networks and graphs provide a simple but effective model to a vast set of systems which building blocks interact throughout pairwise interactions. Unfortunately, such models fail to describe all those systems which building blocks interact…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-09-21 Mauro Faccin

Cooperation is fundamental to human societies, and the interaction structure among individuals profoundly shapes its emergence and evolution. In real-world scenarios, cooperation prevails in multi-group (higher-order) populations, beyond…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-01-28 Dini Wang , Peng Yi , Yiguang Hong , Jie Chen , Gang Yan

Theoretical and computational frameworks of modern science are dominated by binary structures. This binary bias, seen in the ubiquity of pair-wise networks and formal operations of two arguments in mathematical models, limits our capacity…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-01-19 Carlos Zapata-Carratalá , Maximilian Schich , Taliesin Beynon , Xerxes D. Arsiwalla

In this paper we examine the percolation properties of higher-order networks that have non-trivial clustering and subgraph-based assortative mixing (the tendency of vertices to connect to other vertices based on subgraph joint degree). Our…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-10-07 Peter Mann , Lei Fang , Simon Dobson

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,…

Large-scale network systems describe a wide class of complex dynamical systems composed of many interacting subsystems. A large number of subsystems and their high-dimensional dynamics often result in highly complex topology and dynamics,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-02 Xiaodong Cheng , Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen , Harry L. Trentelman

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

Ecological models traditionally explain stability and coexistence through pairwise interactions among species. These interactions can also involve groups of three or more species, higher-order interactions, which recent theory suggests can…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-07 Marc Duran-Sala , Sandro Meloni , Violeta Calleja-Solanas

We show that, in contrast to classical random graph models, many real-world complex systems -- including a variety of biological regulatory networks and technological networks such as the internet -- spontaneously self-organize to a richly…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 B. D. MacArthur , J. W. Anderson

Higher-order networks encode the many-body interactions of complex systems ranging from the brain to biological transportation networks. Simplicial and cell complexes are ideal higher-order network representations for investigating…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-18 Runyue Wang , Timoteo Carletti , Ginestra Bianconi

Transformer architectures, capable of capturing sequential dependencies in the history of user interactions, have become the dominant approach in sequential recommender systems. Despite their success, such models consider sequence elements…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Artur Gimranov , Viacheslav Yusupov , Elfat Sabitov , Tatyana Matveeva , Anton Lysenko , Ruslan Israfilov , Evgeny Frolov

Emergent behavior in complex systems arises from nonlinear interactions among components, yet the intricate nature of self-organization often obscures the underlying causal relationships, long regarded as the "holy grail" of complexity…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-10-14 Lina Yan , Jeffrey Huy Khong , Aleksandar Kostadinov , Wen-Jun Chen , Jerry Ying Hsi Fuh , Chih-Ming Ho

To better understand the structure and function of complex systems, researchers often represent direct interactions between components in complex systems with networks, assuming that indirect influence between distant components can be…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-06-18 Renaud Lambiotte , Martin Rosvall , Ingo Scholtes

Dynamic systems that consist of a set of interacting elements can be abstracted as temporal networks. Recently, higher-order patterns that involve multiple interacting nodes have been found crucial to indicate domain-specific laws of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Yunyu Liu , Jianzhu Ma , Pan Li

We present the results of detailed numerical study of a model for the sharing and sorting of informations in a community consisting of a large number of agents. The information gathering takes place in a sequence of mutual bipartite…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-16 Biplab Bhattacherjee , S. S. Manna , Animesh Mukherjee

Globular clusters (GCs) constitute a system which is evolving because of various interactions with the galactic environment. Evolution may be the explanation of many observed features of Globular Cluster Systems (GCSs); the different radial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta

Higher-order networks are gaining significant scientific attention due to their ability to encode the many-body interactions present in complex systems. However, higher-order networks have the limitation that they only capture many-body…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-12-20 Sanjukta Krishnagopal , Ginestra Bianconi

Complex systems often involve higher-order interactions which require us to go beyond their description in terms of pairwise networks. Triadic interactions are a fundamental type of higher-order interaction that occurs when one node…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-02-03 Marta Niedostatek , Anthony Baptista , Jun Yamamoto , Jurgen Kurths , Ruben Sanchez Garcia , Ben MacArthur , Ginestra Bianconi

We introduce a model of a randomly growing interface in multidimensional Euclidean space. The growth model incorporates a random order model as an ingredient of its graphical construction, in a way that replicates the connection between the…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-09-12 Timo Seppäläinen