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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…

A directed hypergraph, which consists of nodes and hyperarcs, is a higher-order data structure that naturally models directional group interactions (e.g., chemical reactions of molecules). Although there have been extensive studies on local…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Heechan Moon , Hyunju Kim , Sunwoo Kim , Kijung Shin

The spectral properties of traditional (dyadic) graphs, where an edge connects exactly two vertices, are widely studied in different applications. These spectral properties are closely connected to the structural properties of dyadic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Hao Tian , Shengmin Jin , Reza Zafarani

This work introduces a novel algorithm for finding the connected components of a graph where the vertices and edges are grouped into sets defining a Set--Based Graph. The algorithm, under certain restrictions on those sets, has the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Ernesto Kofman , Denise Marzorati , Joaquín Fernández

The study of hypergraphs has received a lot of attention over the past few years, however up until recently there has been no interest in systems where higher order interactions are not undirected. In this article we introduce the notion of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 Gonzalo Contreras-Aso , Regino Criado , Miguel Romance

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

Causal structure learning has long been the central task of inferring causal insights from data. Despite the abundance of real-world processes exhibiting higher-order mechanisms, however, an explicit treatment of interactions in causal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 James Enouen , Yujia Zheng , Ignavier Ng , Yan Liu , Kun Zhang

Traditional graph analysis focuses on nodes and edges, that is, pairwise relationships. Yet many real-world networks, including biological, social, and communication networks, involve higher-order relationships in which multiple nodes…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Heitor Baldo , Luiz A. Baccalá , André Fujita , Koichi Sameshima

We consider high-order connectivity in $k$-uniform hypergraphs defined as follows: Two $j$-sets are $j$-connected if there is a walk of edges between them such that two consecutive edges intersect in at least $j$ vertices. We describe the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-20 Oliver Cooley , Mihyun Kang , Christoph Koch

Hypergraphs are a powerful abstraction for modeling high-order relations, which are ubiquitous in many fields. A hypergraph consists of nodes and hyperedges (i.e., subsets of nodes); and there have been a number of attempts to extend the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Fanchen Bu , Geon Lee , Kijung Shin

Hypergraph is a data structure that enables us to model higher-order associations among data entities. Conventional graph-structured data can represent pairwise relationships only, whereas hypergraph enables us to associate any number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Md. Tanvir Alam , Chowdhury Farhan Ahmed , Carson K. Leung

Hypergraphs, increasingly utilised to model complex and diverse relationships in modern networks, have gained significant attention for representing intricate higher-order interactions. Among various challenges, cohesive subgraph discovery…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Dahee Kim , Hyewon Kim , Song Kim , Minseok Kim , Junghoon Kim , Yeon-Chang Lee , Sungsu Lim

In this paper, we present new incremental algorithms for maintaining data structures that represent all connectivity cuts of size one in directed graphs (digraphs), and the strongly connected components that result by the removal of each of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Loukas Georgiadis , Giuseppe F. Italiano , Nikos Parotsidis

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

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

Complex systems are often driven by higher-order interactions among multiple units, naturally represented as hypergraphs. Understanding dependency structures within these hypergraphs is crucial for understanding and predicting the behavior…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-29 John Hood , Caterina De Bacco , Aaron Schein

Higher order interactions are increasingly recognised as a fundamental aspect of complex systems ranging from the brain to social contact networks. Hypergraph as well as simplicial complexes capture the higher-order interactions of complex…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-09-23 Hanlin Sun , Ginestra Bianconi

A hypergraph is a data structure composed of nodes and hyperedges, where each hyperedge is an any-sized subset of nodes. Due to the flexibility in hyperedge size, hypergraphs represent group interactions (e.g., co-authorship by more than…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Minyoung Choe , Sunwoo Kim , Jaemin Yoo , Kijung Shin

Many real-world complex systems are characterized by non-pairwise -- higher-order -- interactions among system's units, and can be effectively modeled as hypergraphs. Directed hypergraphs distinguish between source and target sets within…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-17 Quintino Francesco Lotito , Alberto Vendramini , Alberto Montresor , Federico Battiston

Many networked datasets with units interacting in groups of two or more, encoded with hypergraphs, are accompanied by extra information about nodes, such as the role of an individual in a workplace. Here we show how these node attributes…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Anna Badalyan , Nicolò Ruggeri , Caterina De Bacco