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We propose a new graph kernel for graph classification and comparison using Ollivier Ricci curvature. The Ricci curvature of an edge in a graph describes the connectivity in the local neighborhood. An edge in a densely connected…

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Similarity notions between vertices in a graph, such as structural and regular equivalence, are one of the main ingredients in clustering tools in complex network science. We generalise structural and regular equivalences for undirected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Marzieh Eidi , Nina Otter

Efficient molecular featurization is one of the major issues for machine learning models in drug design. Here we propose persistent Ricci curvature (PRC), in particular Ollivier persistent Ricci curvature (OPRC), for the molecular…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-11-23 JunJie Wee , Kelin Xia

Groups with complex set intersection relations are a natural way to model a wide array of data, from the formation of social groups to the complex protein interactions which form the basis of biological life. One approach to representing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Sepideh Maleki , Josh Vekhter , Keshav Pingali

In contrast to graph-based models for complex networks, hypergraphs are more general structures going beyond binary relations of graphs. For graphs, statistics gauging different aspects of their structures have been devised and there is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Wilmer Leal , Guillermo Restrepo , Peter F. Stadler , Jürgen Jost

We study Ollivier-Ricci curvature, a discrete version of Ricci curvature, which has gained popularity over the past several years and has found applications in diverse fields. However, the Ollivier-Ricci curvature requires an optimal mass…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-10-05 Siddharth Pal , Feng Yu , Terrence J. Moore , Ram Ramanathan , Amotz Bar-Noy , Ananthram Swami

Graph neural networks(GNNs) have been demonstrated to depend on whether the node effective information is sufficiently passing. Discrete curvature (Ricci curvature) is used to study graph connectivity and information propagation efficiency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Xingcheng Fu , Jian Wang , Yisen Gao , Qingyun Sun , Haonan Yuan , Jianxin Li , Xianxian Li

A goal in network science is the geometrical characterization of complex networks. In this direction, we have recently introduced Forman's discretization of Ricci curvature to the realm of undirected networks. Investigation of this…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-26 Emil Saucan , R. P. Sreejith , R. P. Vivek-Ananth , Jürgen Jost , Areejit Samal

Geometric deep learning has demonstrated a great potential in non-Euclidean data analysis. The incorporation of geometric insights into learning architecture is vital to its success. Here we propose a curvature-enhanced graph convolutional…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-06-27 Cong Shen , Pingjian Ding , Junjie Wee , Jialin Bi , Jiawei Luo , Kelin Xia

In the present paper, we introduce a concept of Ricci curvature on hypergraphs for a nonlinear Laplacian. We prove that our definition of the Ricci curvature is a generalization of Lin-Lu-Yau coarse Ricci curvature for graphs to…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-21 MasaHiro Ikeda , Yu Kitabeppu , Yuuki Takai , Takato Uehara

We have performed an empirical comparison of two distinct notions of discrete Ricci curvature for graphs or networks, namely, the Forman-Ricci curvature and Ollivier-Ricci curvature. Importantly, these two discretizations of the Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Areejit Samal , R. P. Sreejith , Jiao Gu , Shiping Liu , Emil Saucan , Jürgen Jost

Hypergraphs play a pivotal role in the modelling of data featuring higher-order relations involving more than two entities. Hypergraph neural networks emerge as a powerful tool for processing hypergraph-structured data, delivering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Zexi Liu , Bohan Tang , Ziyuan Ye , Xiaowen Dong , Siheng Chen , Yanfeng Wang

Modern graph or network datasets often contain rich structure that goes beyond simple pairwise connections between nodes. This calls for complex representations that can capture, for instance, edges of different types as well as so-called…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Ilya Amburg , Nate Veldt , Austin R. Benson

Looped Transformers have shown exceptional neural algorithmic reasoning capability in simulating traditional graph algorithms, but their application to more complex structures like hypergraphs remains underexplored. Hypergraphs generalize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Zekai Huang , Yingyu Liang , Zhenmei Shi , Zhao Song , Zhen Zhuang

Graph representation learning (GRL) has emerged as an effective technique for modeling graph-structured data. When modeling heterogeneity and dynamics in real-world complex networks, GRL methods designed for complex heterogeneous temporal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Huan Liu , Pengfei Jiao , Mengzhou Gao , Chaochao Chen , Di Jin

In complex systems (e.g., communication, transportation, and biological networks), high robustness ensures sustained functionality and stability even when resisting attacks. However, the inherent structure complexity and the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-06-13 Xilong Qu , Wenbin Pei , Haifang Li , Qiang Zhang , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

Graph neural network (GNN) has been demonstrated powerful in modeling graph-structured data. However, despite many successful cases of applying GNNs to various graph classification and prediction tasks, whether the graph geometrical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Dai Shi , Yi Guo , Zhiqi Shao , Junbin Gao

Discrete Forman-Ricci curvature (FRC) is an efficient tool that characterizes essential geometrical features and associated transitions of real-world networks, extending seamlessly to higher-dimensional computations in simplicial complexes.…

Unsupervised node clustering (or community detection) is a classical graph learning task. In this paper, we study algorithms, which exploit the geometry of the graph to identify densely connected substructures, which form clusters or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Yu Tian , Zachary Lubberts , Melanie Weber

Hypergraphs, describing networks where interactions take place among any number of units, are a natural tool to model many real-world social and biological systems. In this work we propose a principled framework to model the organization of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Nicolò Ruggeri , Martina Contisciani , Federico Battiston , Caterina De Bacco