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Networks found in the real-world are numerous and varied. A common type of network is the heterogeneous network, where the nodes (and edges) can be of different types. Accordingly, there have been efforts at learning representations of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Lili Wang , Chongyang Gao , Chenghan Huang , Ruibo Liu , Weicheng Ma , Soroush Vosoughi

Network models are increasingly vital in psychometrics for analyzing relational data, which are often accompanied by high-dimensional node attributes. Joint latent space models (JLSM) provide an elegant framework for integrating these data…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-24 Bin Lv , Yincai Tang , Siliang Zhang

Hyperbolic spaces have recently gained momentum in the context of machine learning due to their high capacity and tree-likeliness properties. However, the representational power of hyperbolic geometry is not yet on par with Euclidean…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Octavian-Eugen Ganea , Gary Bécigneul , Thomas Hofmann

It has been shown beneficial for many types of data which present an underlying hierarchical structure to be embedded in hyperbolic spaces. Consequently, many tools of machine learning were extended to such spaces, but only few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Clément Bonet , Laetitia Chapel , Lucas Drumetz , Nicolas Courty

We introduce Mercator, a reliable embedding method to map real complex networks into their hyperbolic latent geometry. The method assumes that the structure of networks is well described by the Popularity$\times$Similarity…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-04-25 Guillermo García-Pérez , Antoine Allard , M. Ángeles Serrano , Marián Boguñá

Clustering is a fundamental unsupervised learning task for uncovering patterns in data. While Gaussian Blurring Mean Shift (GBMS) has proven effective for identifying arbitrarily shaped clusters in Euclidean space, it struggles with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Arghya Pratihar , Arnab Seal , Swagatam Das , Inesh Chattopadhyay

Latent space models are frequently used for modeling single-layer networks and include many popular special cases, such as the stochastic block model and the random dot product graph. However, they are not well-developed for more complex…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-07-09 Peter W. MacDonald , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

Network embedding is a fervid topic in current networks science and observes that most real complex systems can be embedded in hidden metrics space and emerge as the geometrical property, where the geometric distance between nodes…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-04-28 Zongning Wu , Zengru Di , Ying Fan

Due to its geometric properties, hyperbolic space can support high-fidelity embeddings of tree- and graph-structured data, upon which various hyperbolic networks have been developed. Existing hyperbolic networks encode geometric priors not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Tao Yu , Christopher De Sa

Given data, deep generative models, such as variational autoencoders (VAE) and generative adversarial networks (GAN), train a lower dimensional latent representation of the data space. The linear Euclidean geometry of data space pulls back…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Line Kuhnel , Tom Fletcher , Sarang Joshi , Stefan Sommer

Many scientific fields study data with an underlying structure that is a non-Euclidean space. Some examples include social networks in computational social sciences, sensor networks in communications, functional networks in brain imaging,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Michael M. Bronstein , Joan Bruna , Yann LeCun , Arthur Szlam , Pierre Vandergheynst

Diffusion generative models (DMs) have achieved promising results in image and graph generation. However, real-world graphs, such as social networks, molecular graphs, and traffic graphs, generally share non-Euclidean topologies and hidden…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Lingfeng Wen , Xuan Tang , Mingjie Ouyang , Xiangxiang Shen , Jian Yang , Daxin Zhu , Mingsong Chen , Xian Wei

Random geometric graphs are a popular choice for a latent points generative model for networks. Their definition is based on a sample of $n$ points $X_1,X_2,\cdots,X_n$ on the Euclidean sphere~$\mathbb{S}^{d-1}$ which represents the latent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-17 Ernesto Araya , Yohann De Castro

Over the last two decades, the Latent Position Model (LPM) has become a prominent tool to obtain model-based visualizations of networks. However, the geometric structure of the LPM is inherently symmetric, in the sense that outgoing and…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-02 Chaoyi Lu , Riccardo Rastelli

Most real-world networks are embedded in latent geometries. If a node in a network is found in the vicinity of another node in the latent geometry, the two nodes have a disproportionately high probability of being connected by a link. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-06-19 Bukyoung Jhun

Network geometry, characterized by nodes with associated latent variables, is a fundamental feature of real-world networks. Still, when only the network edges are given, it may be difficult to assess whether the network contains an…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-02-13 R. Michielan , C. Stegehuis

Latent Euclidean embedding models a given network by representing each node in a Euclidean space, where the probability of two nodes sharing an edge is a function of the distances between the nodes. This implies that for two nodes to share…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Clifford Anderson-Bergman , Phan Nguyen , Jose Cadena Pico

Multidimensional network data can have different levels of complexity, as nodes may be characterized by heterogeneous individual-specific features, which may vary across the networks. This paper introduces a class of models for…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-01 Silvia D'Angelo , Marco Alfò , Thomas Brendan Murphy

Hyperbolic space and hyperbolic embeddings are becoming a popular research field for recommender systems. However, it is not clear under what circumstances the hyperbolic space should be considered. To fill this gap, This paper provides…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Sixiao Zhang , Hongxu Chen , Xiao Ming , Lizhen Cui , Hongzhi Yin , Guandong Xu

Hyperbolic geometry has emerged as a powerful tool for modeling complex, structured data, particularly where hierarchical or tree-like relationships are present. By enabling embeddings with lower distortion, hyperbolic neural networks offer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Pol Arévalo , Alexis Molina , Álvaro Ciudad