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In many data-driven applications, higher-order relationships among multiple objects are essential in capturing complex interactions. Hypergraphs, which generalize graphs by allowing edges to connect any number of nodes, provide a flexible…

Hypergraphs naturally represent higher-order interactions, which persistently appear from social interactions to neural networks and other natural systems. Although their importance is well recognized, a theoretical framework to describe…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-05-25 Guilherme Ferraz de Arruda , Michele Tizzani , Yamir Moreno

Graphs have been utilized as a powerful tool to model pairwise relationships between people or objects. Such structure is a special type of a broader concept referred to as hypergraph, in which each hyperedge may consist of an arbitrary…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Manh Tuan Do , Se-eun Yoon , Bryan Hooi , Kijung Shin

We provide first a categorical exploration of, and then completion of the mapping of the relationships among, three fundamental perspectives on binary relations: as the incidence matrices of hypergraphs, as the formal contexts of concept…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Robert E. Green , Cliff A. Joslyn , Audun Myers , Michael G. Rawson , Michael Robinson

Graphs are fundamental tools for modeling pairwise interactions in complex systems. However, many real-world systems involve multi-way interactions that cannot be fully captured by standard graphs. Hypergraphs, which generalize graphs by…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-04 Tom Needham , Ethan Semrad

Higher-order relations are widespread in nature, with numerous phenomena involving complex interactions that extend beyond simple pairwise connections. As a result, advancements in higher-order processing can accelerate the growth of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Iulia Duta , Giulia Cassarà , Fabrizio Silvestri , Pietro Liò

Hypergraphs have emerged as a powerful modeling framework to represent systems with multiway interactions, that is systems where interactions may involve an arbitrary number of agents. Here we explore the properties of real-world…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Timothy LaRock , Renaud Lambiotte

What kind of macroscopic structural and dynamical patterns can we observe in real-world hypergraphs? What can be underlying local dynamics on individuals, which ultimately lead to the observed patterns, beyond apparently random evolution?…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Yunbum Kook , Jihoon Ko , Kijung Shin

The complexity of many biological, social and technological systems stems from the richness of the interactions among their units. Over the past decades, a great variety of complex systems has been successfully described as networks whose…

Hypergraphs, capable of representing high-order interactions via hyperedges, have become a powerful tool for modeling real-world biological and social systems. Inherent relationships within these real-world systems, such as the encoding…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Li Ni , Ziqi Deng , Lin Mu , Lei Zhang , Wenjian Luo , Yiwen Zhang

Many networks can be characterised by the presence of communities, which are groups of units that are closely linked. Identifying these communities can be crucial for understanding the system's overall function. Recently, hypergraphs have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Quintino Francesco Lotito , Federico Musciotto , Alberto Montresor , Federico Battiston

Human-Object Interaction (HOI) recognition in videos is important for analyzing human activity. Most existing work focusing on visual features usually suffer from occlusion in the real-world scenarios. Such a problem will be further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Tanqiu Qiao , Qianhui Men , Frederick W. B. Li , Yoshiki Kubotani , Shigeo Morishima , Hubert P. H. Shum

Hypergraphs effectively model higher-order relationships in natural phenomena, capturing complex interactions beyond pairwise connections. We introduce a novel hypergraph message passing framework inspired by interacting particle systems,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yixuan Ma , Kai Yi , Pietro Lio , Shi Jin , Yu Guang Wang

Scientific inquiry requires systems-level reasoning that integrates heterogeneous experimental data, cross-domain knowledge, and mechanistic evidence into coherent explanations. While Large Language Models (LLMs) offer inferential…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Isabella A. Stewart , Markus J. Buehler

Higher-order networks are widely used to describe complex systems in which interactions can involve more than two entities at once. In this paper, we focus on inclusion within higher-order networks, referring to situations where specific…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-22 Nicholas W. Landry , Jean-Gabriel Young , Nicole Eikmeier

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

This paper considers the difficulty in the set-system approach to generalizing graph theory. These difficulties arise categorically as the category of set-system hypergraphs is shown not to be cartesian closed and lacks enough projective…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-06 Will Grilliette , Lucas J. Rusnak

Higher-order information is crucial for relational learning in many domains where relationships extend beyond pairwise interactions. Hypergraphs provide a natural framework for modeling such relationships, which has motivated recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Raphael Pellegrin , Lukas Fesser , Melanie Weber

Leveraging hypergraph structures to model advanced processes has gained much attention over the last few years in many areas, ranging from protein-interaction in computational biology to image retrieval using machine learning. Hypergraph…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Maximilian T. Fischer , Alexander Frings , Daniel A. Keim , Daniel Seebacher

Hypergraphs offer a natural modeling language for studying polyadic interactions between sets of entities. Many polyadic interactions are asymmetric, with nodes playing distinctive roles. In an academic collaboration network, for example,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-11-05 Philip Chodrow , Andrew Mellor