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Many complex networks in the real world have community structures -- groups of well-connected nodes with important functional roles. It has been well recognized that the identification of communities bears numerous practical applications.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Chien-Chun Ni , Yu-Yao Lin , Feng Luo , Jie Gao

Community detection in complex networks is a fundamental problem, open to new approaches in various scientific settings. We introduce a novel community detection method, based on Ricci flow on graphs. Our technique iteratively updates edge…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Arsenii Onuchin , Konstantin Sorokin , Maxim Beketov , Liubov Tupikina

In the present work, we study the properties of biological networks by applying analogous notions of fundamental concepts in Riemannian geometry and optimal mass transport to discrete networks described by weighted graphs. Specifically, we…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2017-12-11 Maryam Pouryahya , James Mathews , Allen Tannenbaum

Discrete curvatures are quantities associated to the nodes and edges of a graph that reflect the local geometry around them. These curvatures have a rich mathematical theory and they have recently found success as a tool to analyze networks…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-08-02 Michelle Roost , Karel Devriendt , Giulio Zucal , Jürgen Jost

Motivated by the methods and results of manifold sampling based on Ricci curvature, we propose a similar approach for networks. To this end we make appeal to three types of discrete curvature, namely the graph Forman-, full Forman- and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Vladislav Barkanass , Jürgen Jost , Emil Saucan

We prove the existence of Ricci flow starting from a class of metrics with unbounded curvature, which are doubly-warped products over an interval with a spherical factor pinched off at an end. These provide a forward evolution from some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-25 Timothy Carson

In this work, we propose to utilize discrete graph Ricci flow to alter network entropy through feedback control. Given such feedback input can reverse entropic changes, we adapt the moniker of Maxwells Demon to motivate our approach. In…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-11 Romeil Sandhu , Ji Liu

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

Characterizing shapes of high-dimensional objects via Ricci curvatures plays a critical role in many research areas in mathematics and physics. However, even though several discretizations of Ricci curvatures for discrete combinatorial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Bhaskar DasGupta , Elena Grigorescu , Tamalika Mukherjee

We introduce Forman-Ricci curvature and its corresponding flow as characteristics for complex networks attempting to extend the common approach of node-based network analysis by edge-based characteristics. Following a theoretical…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Melanie Weber , Emil Saucan , Jürgen Jost

We propose RicciFlowRec, a geometric recommendation framework that performs root cause attribution via Ricci curvature and flow on dynamic financial graphs. By modelling evolving interactions among stocks, macroeconomic indicators, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Zhongtian Sun , Anoushka Harit

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

We design strategies in nonlinear geometric analysis to temper the effects of adversarial learning for sufficiently smooth data of numerical method-type dynamics in encoder-decoder methods, variational and deterministic, through the use of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Andrew Gracyk

The Ricci flow is one of the most important topics in differential geometry, and a central focus of modern geometric analysis. In this paper, we give an illustrated introduction to the subject which is intended for a general audience. The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-17 Gabriel Khan

We use the discrete Ollivier-Ricci graph curvature with Ricci flow to examine the intrinsic geometry of financial markets through the empirical correlation graph of the NASDAQ 100 index. Our main result is the development of a technique to…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-01-30 Bhargavi Srinivasan

The Ricci flow is a partial differential equation for evolving the metric in a Riemannian manifold to make it more regular. On the other hand, neural networks seem to have similar geometric behavior for specific tasks. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Jun Chen , Tianxin Huang , Wenzhou Chen , Yong Liu

In this paper, we consider the Ricci curvature of a directed graph, based on Lin-Lu-Yau's definition. We give some properties of the Ricci curvature, including conditions for a directed regular graph to be Ricci-flat. Moreover, we calculate…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-24 Taiki Yamada

We analyse Ricci flow (normalised/un-normalised) of product manifolds --unwarped as well as warped, through a study of generic examples. First, we investigate such flows for the unwarped scenario with manifolds of the type $\mathbb…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-09 Sanjit Das , Kartik Prabhu , Sayan Kar

In recent years extensions of manifold Ricci curvature to discrete combinatorial objects such as graphs and hypergraphs (popularly called as "network shapes"), have found a plethora of applications in a wide spectrum of research areas…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Bhaskar DasGupta , Katie Kruzan

The Ricci flow is an evolution system on metrics. For a given metric as initial data, its local existence and uniqueness on compact manifolds was first established by Hamilton \cite{Ha1}. Later on, De Turck \cite{De} gave a simplified…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bing-Long Chen , Xi-Ping Zhu