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It has been observed that many complex real-world networks have certain properties, such as a high clustering coefficient, a low diameter, and a power-law degree distribution. A network with a power-law degree distribution is known as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Ankit Chauhan , Tobias Friedrich , Francesco Quinzan

Fixed-energy sandpile (FES) models, introduced to understand the self-organized criticality, show a continuous phase transition between absorbing and active phases. In this work, we study the dynamics of the deterministic FES models on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-21 Davood Fazli , Nahid Azimi-Tafreshi

The dramatic mobile data traffic growth is not only resulting in the spectrum crunch but is also leading to exorbitant energy consumption. It is thus desirable to liberate mobile and wireless networks from the constraint of the spectrum…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-08-25 Nirwan Ansari , Tao Han

A wide variety of real-life networks share two remarkable generic topological properties: scale-free behavior and modular organization, and it is natural and important to study how these two features affect the dynamical processes taking…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-21 Zhongzhi Zhang , Yuan Lin , Shuyang Gao , Shuigeng Zhou , Jihong Guan , Mo Li

Physical AI agents, such as robots and other embodied systems operating under tight and fluctuating resource constraints, remain far less capable than biological agents in open-ended real-world environments. This paper argues that Active…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-24 Bert de Vries

Connectivity correlations play an important role in the structure of scale-free networks. While several empirical studies exist, there is no general theoretical analysis that can explain the largely varying behavior of real networks. Here,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Lazaros K. Gallos , Chaoming Song , Hernan A. Makse

Many biological systems collectively construct complex, adaptive, and functional architectures, where function emerges from bottom-up building processes rather than top-down planning or centralized control. However, general strategies for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-15 Andrew Slezak , Varda F. Hagh

We discuss how various models of scale-free complex networks approach their limiting properties when the size N of the network grows. We focus mainly on equilibrated networks and their finite-size degree distributions. Our results show that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Waclaw , L. Bogacz , W. Janke

In this article, we investigate an artificial traffic model on scale-free networks. Instead of using the routing strategy of the shortest path, a generalized routing algorithm is introduced to improve the transportation throughput, which is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Shi-Min Cai , Gang Yan , Tao Zhou , Pei-Ling Zhou , Zhong-Qian Fu , Bing-Hong Wang

Understanding how network function constrains neural connectivity is a central challenge in neuroscience. An influential approach is to train neural networks with gradient descent on cognitive tasks and characterize the resulting…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-26 Ludwig Hruza , Srdjan Ostojic

It is known that the heterogeneity of scale-free networks helps enhancing the efficiency of trapping processes performed on them. In this paper, we show that transport efficiency is much lower in a fractal scale-free network than in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-18 Zhongzhi Zhang , Wenlei Xie , Shuigeng Zhou , Shuyang Gao , Jihong Guan

Power law degree distribution was shown in many complex networks. However, in most real systems, deviation from power-law behavior is observed in social and economical networks and emergence of giant hubs is obvious in real network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-01-22 A. H. Shirazi , A. Namaki , A. A. Roohi , G. R. Jafari

In the past few years, several studies have explored the topology of interactions in different complex systems. Areas of investigation span from biology to engineering, physics and the social sciences. Although having different microscopic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Bartolozzi , D. B. Leinweber , T. Surungan , A. W. Thomas , A. G. Williams

We introduce the Free Energy Manifold (FEM), a score-trained conditional energy model specialized for inference in hybrid Bayesian networks with discrete and continuous variables. FEM represents each conditional factor as an energy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Cheol Young Park , Shou Matsumoto

The quest to understand structure-function relationships in networks across scientific disciplines has intensified. However, the optimal network architecture remains elusive, particularly for complex information processing. Therefore, we…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-03-27 Manish Yadav , Sudeshna Sinha , Merten Stender

The conformation space of a 20-residue antiparallel $\beta$-sheet peptide, sampled by molecular dynamics simulations, is mapped to a network. Conformations are nodes of the network, and the transitions between them are links. The…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Francesco Rao , Amedeo Caflisch

Specialization and hierarchical organization are important features of efficient collaboration in economical, artificial, and biological systems. Here, we investigate the hypothesis that both features can be explained by the fact that each…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Sebastian Gottwald , Daniel A. Braun

We investigate the fundamental principles that drive the development of scalable algorithms for network optimization. Despite the significant amount of work on parallel and decentralized algorithms in the optimization community, the methods…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-15 Patrick Rebeschini , Sekhar Tatikonda

Scale-free networks (SFN) arise from simple growth processes, which can encourage efficient, centralized and fault tolerant communication (1). Recently its been shown that stable network hub structure is governed by a phase transition at…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-05-31 S. J. Hanson , D. Mastrovito , C. Hanson , J. Ramsey , C. Glymour

The free energy principle (FEP) in the neurosciences stipulates that all viable agents induce and minimize informational free energy in the brain to fit their environmental niche. In this study, we continue our effort to make the FEP a more…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-25 Chang Sub Kim