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Complex networks in natural, social, and technological systems generically exhibit an abundance of rich information. Extracting meaningful structural features from data is one of the most challenging tasks in network theory. Many methods…

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Our goal is to develop a design framework for multifunctional mechanical metamaterials that can tune their rigidity while optimizing other desired properties. Towards this goal, we first demonstrate that underconstrained central force…

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Real-world networks exhibit universal structural properties such as sparsity, small-worldness, heterogeneous degree distributions, high clustering, and community structures. Geometric network models, particularly Random Hyperbolic Graphs…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Stefano Guarino , Davide Torre , Enrico Mastrostefano

Multi-scale structures are prevalent in both natural and artificial systems, as they can handle increasing complexity. Several terms are employed almost interchangeably across various application domains to refer to the multi-scale concept…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-04 Ada Diaconescu , Louisa Jane Di Felice , Patricia Mellodge

From the pragmatic to the symbolic, textiles play a prominent role in some of the most demanding yet ubiquitous scenarios, such as covering the complex and dynamic geometries of the human body. Textiles are made by repeated manipulations of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-08 Lauren Dreier , Trevor J. Jones , Abigail Plummer , Andrej Košmrlj , P. -T. Brun

Deep Material Network (DMN) has recently emerged as a data-driven surrogate model for heterogeneous materials. Given a particular microstructural morphology, the effective linear and nonlinear behaviors can be successfully approximated by…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Tianyi Li

Large-scale white matter pathways crisscrossing the cortex create a complex pattern of connectivity that underlies human cognitive function. Generative mechanisms for this architecture have been difficult to identify in part because little…

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Within a decade of fruitful developments, metamaterials became a prominent area of research, bridging theoretical and applied electrodynamics, electrical engineering and material science. Being man-made structures, metamaterials offer a…

Understanding the structural complexity and predictability of complex networks is a central challenge in network science. Although recent studies have revealed a relationship between compression-based entropy and link prediction…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Sebastián Brzovic , Cristóbal Rojas , Andrés Abeliuk

A network is a typical expressive form of representing complex systems in terms of vertices and links, in which the pattern of interactions amongst components of the network is intricate. The network can be static that does not change over…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Hayat Dino Bedru , Shuo Yu , Xinru Xiao , Da Zhang , Liangtian Wan , He Guo , Feng Xia

Heterogeneous and complex networks represent intertwined interactions between real-world elements or agents. Determining the multi-scale mesoscopic organization of clusters and intertwined structures is still a fundamental and open problem…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-01-20 Pablo Villegas , Andrea Gabrielli , Anna Poggialini , Tommaso Gili

Multiple scales coexist in complex networks. However, the small world property makes them strongly entangled. This turns the elucidation of length scales and symmetries a defiant challenge. Here, we define a geometric renormalization group…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-07-04 Guillermo García-Pérez , Marián Boguñá , M. Ángeles Serrano

While the design of always new metamaterials with exotic static and dynamic properties is attracting deep attention in the last decades, little effort is made to explore their interactions with other materials. This prevents the conception…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-07-30 Gianluca Rizzi , Manuel Collet , Félix Demore , Bernhard Eidel , Patrizio Neff , Angela Madeo

Mechanism - collections of rigid elements coupled by perfect hinges which exhibit a zero-energy motion -- motivate the design of a variety of mechanical metamaterials. We significantly enlarge this design space by considering…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-23 Nitin Singh , Martin van Hecke

A variety of scale-free networks have been created since the pioneer work by A.-L. Barab\'{a}si and R. Albert. All this networks are homogeneous since they are composed of the same kind of nodes. In the realistic world, however, one element…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Shi-Jie Yang , Hu Zhao

Semantic segmentation is a process of partitioning an image into multiple segments for recognizing humans and objects, which can be widely applied in scenarios such as healthcare and safety monitoring. To avoid privacy violation, using RF…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-07 Jingzhi Hu , Hongliang Zhang , Kaigui Bian , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor , Lingyang Song

There is a growing mechanics literature concerning the macroscopic properties of mechanism-based mechanical metamaterials. This amounts mathematically to a homogenization problem involving nonlinear elasticity. A key goal is to identify the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Xuenan Li , Robert V. Kohn

While renormalization groups are fundamental in physics, renormalization of complex networks remains vague in its conceptual definition and methodology. Here, we propose a novel strategy to renormalize complex networks. Rather than…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-13 Sungwon Jung , Sang Hoon Lee , Jaeyoon Cho

Memristive systems, namely resistive systems with memory, are attracting considerable attention due to their ubiquity in several phenomena and technological applications. Here, we show that even the simplest one-dimensional network formed…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-03-01 Y. V. Pershin , V. A. Slipko , M. Di Ventra

Heterogeneous information network (HIN) embedding aims to embed multiple types of nodes into a low-dimensional space. Although most existing HIN embedding methods consider heterogeneous relations in HINs, they usually employ one single…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Yuanfu Lu , Chuan Shi , Linmei Hu , Zhiyuan Liu