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Knowing which nodes are influential in a complex network and whether the network can be influenced by a small subset of nodes is a key part of network analysis. However, many traditional measures of importance focus on node level…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-06-27 Niall Rodgers , Peter Tino , Samuel Johnson

Traditional graph analysis focuses on nodes and edges, that is, pairwise relationships. Yet many real-world networks, including biological, social, and communication networks, involve higher-order relationships in which multiple nodes…

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Understanding how network structure constrains and enables information processing is a central problem in the statistical mechanics of interacting systems. Here we study random networks across the structural percolation transition and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-14 Galen J. Wilkerson

We investigate the impact of network heterogeneity on synergistic contagion dynamics. By extending a synergistic contagion model to diverse heterogeneous network topologies, we uncover the emergence of novel dynamical regimes characterized…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-09 Francisco J. Perez-Reche , Sergei N. Taraskin

A hypergraph is a data structure composed of nodes and hyperedges, where each hyperedge is an any-sized subset of nodes. Due to the flexibility in hyperedge size, hypergraphs represent group interactions (e.g., co-authorship by more than…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Minyoung Choe , Sunwoo Kim , Jaemin Yoo , Kijung Shin

The urban networks of London and New York City are investigated as directed graphs within the paradigm of graph percolation. It has been recently observed that urban networks show a critical percolation transition when a fraction of edges…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-10-20 Marco Cogoni , Giovanni Busonera

We study limits of the largest connected components (viewed as metric spaces) obtained by critical percolation on uniformly chosen graphs and configuration models with heavy-tailed degrees. For rank-one inhomogeneous random graphs, such…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-05-11 Shankar Bhamidi , Souvik Dhara , Remco van der Hofstad , Sanchayan Sen

Weighted networks capture the structure of complex systems where interaction strength is meaningful. This information is essential to a large number of processes, such as threshold dynamics, where link weights reflect the amount of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-28 Samuel Unicomb , Gerardo Iñiguez , Márton Karsai

The function of a real network depends not only on the reliability of its own components, but is affected also by the simultaneous operation of other real networks coupled with it. Robustness of systems composed of interdependent network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-07-10 Filippo Radicchi

Networks in the real world do not exist as isolated entities, but they are often part of more complicated structures composed of many interconnected network layers. Recent studies have shown that such mutual dependence makes real networked…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-04-23 Filippo Radicchi

Network geometry is currently a topic of growing scientific interest as it opens the possibility to explore and interpret the interplay between structure and dynamics of complex networks using geometrical arguments. However the field is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-08-21 Ivan Kryven , Robert M. Ziff , Ginestra Bianconi

Percolation processes on random networks have been the subject of intense research activity over the last decades: the overall phenomenology of standard percolation on uncorrelated and unclustered topologies is well known. Still some…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-06 Lorenzo Cirigliano , Gábor Timár , Claudio Castellano

Directed graphs naturally model systems with asymmetric, ordered relationships, essential to applications in biology, transportation, social networks, and visual understanding. Generating such graphs enables tasks such as simulation, data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Alba Carballo-Castro , Manuel Madeira , Yiming Qin , Dorina Thanou , Pascal Frossard

A large number of complex systems, naturally emerging in various domains, are well described by directed networks, resulting in numerous interesting features that are absent from their undirected counterparts. Among these properties is a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-05-19 Joseph D. O'Brien , Kleber A. Oliveira , James P. Gleeson , Malbor Asllani

The threshold model has been widely adopted as a prototype for studying contagion processes on social networks. In this paper, we consider individual interactions in groups of three or more vertices and study the threshold model on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-03-01 Xin-Jian Xu , Shuang He , Li-Jie Zhang

Percolation is a model for random damage to a network. It is one of the simplest models that displays a phase transition: when the network is severely damaged, it falls apart in many small connected components, while if the damage is light,…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Remco van der Hofstad

We reconsider the problem of percolation on an equilibrium random network with degree-degree correlations between nearest-neighboring vertices focusing on critical singularities at a percolation threshold. We obtain criteria for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. V. Goltsev , S. N. Dorogovtsev , J. F. F. Mendes

Complex systems are often driven by higher-order interactions among multiple units, naturally represented as hypergraphs. Understanding dependency structures within these hypergraphs is crucial for understanding and predicting the behavior…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-29 John Hood , Caterina De Bacco , Aaron Schein

Hypergraph data, which capture multi-way interactions among entities, are increasingly prevalent in the big data era. Generating new hyperlinks from an observed, usually high-dimensional hypergraph is an important yet challenging task with…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-14 Shihao Wu , Junyi Yang , Gongjun Xu , Ji Zhu

Many processes of spreading and diffusion take place on temporal networks, and their outcomes are influenced by correlations in the times of contact. These correlations have a particularly strong influence on processes where the spreading…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-09-19 Mikko Kivelä , Jordan Cambe , Jari Saramäki , Márton Karsai