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In recent years hypergraphs have emerged as a powerful tool to study systems with multi-body interactions which cannot be trivially reduced to pairs. While highly structured methods to generate synthetic data have proved fundamental for the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Nicolò Ruggeri , Federico Battiston , Caterina De Bacco

The angular synchronization problem is to obtain an accurate estimation (up to a constant additive phase) for a set of unknown angles $\theta_1,...,\theta_n$ from $m$ noisy measurements of their offsets $\theta_i-\theta_j \mod 2\pi$. Of…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2009-11-20 Amit Singer

The microscopic organization of dynamical systems coupled via higher-order interactions plays a pivotal role in understanding their collective behavior. In this paper, we introduce a framework for systematically investigating the impact of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-01-14 Santiago Lamata-Otín , Federico Malizia , Vito Latora , Mattia Frasca , Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes

Networks incorporating higher-order interactions are increasingly recognized for their ability to introduce novel dynamics into various processes, including synchronization. Previous studies on synchronization within multilayer networks…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-07-16 Palash Kumar Pal , Md Sayeed Anwar , Matjaz Perc , Dibakar Ghosh

Synchronization is a fundamental phenomenon in complex systems, observed across a wide range of natural and engineered contexts. The Kuramoto model provides a foundational framework for understanding synchronization among coupled…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-02-03 Riccardo Muolo , Hiroya Nakao , Marco Coraggio

A hypergraph as a generalization of graphs records higher-order interactions among nodes, yields a more flexible network model, and allows non-linear features for a group of nodes. In this article, we propose a hypergraph echo state network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Justin Lien

We investigate group-level synchronization between oscillator groups induced by common noise in the absence of inter-group coupling. Each group receives a common noise shared by all its oscillators and independent local noise inputs to…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-05-29 Tae-Wook Ko

Hypergraphs, encoding structured interactions among any number of system units, have recently proven a successful tool to describe many real-world biological and social networks. Here we propose a framework based on statistical inference to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Martina Contisciani , Federico Battiston , Caterina De Bacco

Hypergraphs provide a powerful framework for modeling complex systems and networks with higher-order interactions beyond simple pairwise relationships. However, graph-based clustering approaches, which focus primarily on pairwise relations,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Giuseppe F. Italiano , Athanasios L. Konstantinidis , Anna Mpanti , Fariba Ranjbar

Rotation averaging is a synchronization process on single or multiple rotation groups, and is a fundamental problem in many computer vision tasks such as multi-view structure from motion (SfM). Specifically, rotation averaging involves the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Xinyi Li , Haibin Ling

Hypergraphs are a useful abstraction for modeling multiway relationships in data, and hypergraph clustering is the task of detecting groups of closely related nodes in such data. Graph clustering has been studied extensively, and there are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Nate Veldt , Austin R. Benson , Jon Kleinberg

The sparse grid combination technique provides a framework to solve high dimensional numerical problems with standard solvers. Hierarchization is preprocessing step facilitating the communication needed for the combination technique. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-09-03 Philipp Hupp

In network analysis and graph mining, closeness centrality is a popular measure to infer the importance of a vertex. Computing closeness efficiently for individual vertices received considerable attention. The NP-hard problem of group…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Eugenio Angriman , Alexander van der Grinten , Henning Meyerhenke

Imitation is a basic updating mechanism for strategy evolution in structured populations, determining how individuals sample social information and translate it into behavioral changes. Higher-order networks, such as hypergraphs, generalize…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-11 Bingxin Lin , Lei Zhou , Hao Fang

Gradient Clock Synchronization (GCS) is the task of minimizing the \emph{local skew,} i.e., the clock offset between neighboring clocks, in a larger network. While asymptotically optimal bounds are known, from a practical perspective they…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Christoph Lenzen

Networks are a fundamental tool for understanding and modeling complex systems in physics, biology, neuroscience, engineering, and social science. Many networks are known to exhibit rich, lower-order connectivity patterns that can be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Austin R. Benson , David F. Gleich , Jure Leskovec

This paper addresses the problem of synchronizing orthogonal matrices over directed graphs. For synchronized transformations (or matrices), composite transformations over loops equal the identity. We formulate the synchronization problem as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-10 Johan Thunberg , Florian Bernard , Jorge Goncalves

Many algorithms formulate graph matching as an optimization of an objective function of pairwise quantification of nodes and edges of two graphs to be matched. Pairwise measurements usually consider local attributes but disregard contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-02 Anjan Dutta , Josep Lladós , Horst Bunke , Umapada Pal

Comparing networks is essential for a number of downstream tasks, from clustering to anomaly detection. Despite higher-order interactions being critical for understanding the dynamics of complex systems, traditional approaches for network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-03 Helcio Felippe , Alec Kirkley , Federico Battiston

The study of vertex centrality measures is a key aspect of network analysis. Naturally, such centrality measures have been generalized to groups of vertices; for popular measures it was shown that the problem of finding the most central…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Eugenio Angriman , Alexander van der Grinten , Aleksandar Bojchevski , Daniel Zügner , Stephan Günnemann , Henning Meyerhenke