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Hierarchies permeate the structure of real networks, whose nodes can be ranked according to different features. However, networks are far from tree-like structures and the detection of hierarchical ordering remains a challenge, hindered by…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-10-07 Elisenda Ortiz , Guillermo García-Pérez , M. Ángeles Serrano

Deep multi-view clustering seeks to utilize the abundant information from multiple views to improve clustering performance. However, most of the existing clustering methods often neglect to fully mine multi-view structural information and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Jinrong Cui , Xiaohuang Wu , Haitao Zhang , Chongjie Dong , Jie Wen

Bregman divergences play a pivotal role in statistics, machine learning and computational information geometry. Particularly in the context of machine learning, they are central to clustering, exponential families, parameter estimation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Russell Tsuchida , Frank Nielsen

Networks have in recent years emerged as an invaluable tool for describing and quantifying complex systems in many branches of science. Recent studies suggest that networks often exhibit hierarchical organization, where vertices divide into…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2008-11-05 Aaron Clauset , Cristopher Moore , M. E. J. Newman

This article defines a partial order structure to study the relationship between levels and contents of conscious subjective experience in a single mathematical set-up. We understand phenomenal structure as extrapolated relationships among…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-05 J. Díaz-Boils , N. Tsuchiya , CM. Signorelli

Science is increasingly dominated by teams. Understanding patterns of scientific collaboration and their impacts on the productivity and evolution of disciplines is crucial to understand scientific processes. Electronic bibliography offers…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-09-17 Qing Ke , Yong-Yeol Ahn

Random walks are fundamental tools for analyzing complex networked systems, including social networks, biological systems, and communication infrastructures. While classical random walks focus on pairwise interactions, many real-world…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Anqi Dong , Anzhi Sheng , Xin Mao , Can Chen

Experimental designs are tools which can dramatically reduce the number of simulations required by time-consuming computer codes. Because we don't know the true relation between the response and inputs, designs should allow one to fit a…

Methodology · Statistics 2008-11-04 Astrid Jourdan

This paper introduces link functions for transforming one probability distribution to another such that the Kullback-Leibler and R\'enyi divergences between the two distributions are symmetric. Two general classes of link models are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-12 Majid Asadi , Karthik Devarajan , Nader Ebrahimi , Ehsan Soofi , Lauren Spirko-Burns

We use a generalised version of the individual-based Tangled Nature model of evolutionary ecology to study the relationship between ecosystem structure and evolutionary history. Our evolved model ecosystems typically exhibit interaction…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Simon Laird , Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen

We introduce hardness in relative entropy, a new notion of hardness for search problems which on the one hand is satisfied by all one-way functions and on the other hand implies both next-block pseudoentropy and inaccessible entropy, two…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Rohit Agrawal , Yi-Hsiu Chen , Thibaut Horel , Salil Vadhan

We show analytically that abrupt structural transitions can arise in functionally optimal networks, driven by small changes in the level of transport congestion. Our findings are based on an exactly solvable model system which mimics a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-09-08 Timothy C. Jarrett , Douglas J. Ashton , Mark Fricker , Neil F. Johnson

The design and implementation of efficient concurrent data structures have seen significant attention. However, most of this work has focused on concurrent data structures providing good \emph{worst-case} guarantees. In real workloads,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Vitaly Aksenov , Dan Alistarh , Alexandra Drozdova , Amirkeivan Mohtashami

In recent decades, it has been emphasized that the evolving structure of networks may be shaped by interaction principles that yield sparse graphs with a vertex degree distribution exhibiting an algebraic tail, and other structural traits…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-01 Dario Borrelli

The complexity of condensed matter arises from emergent behaviors that cannot be understood by analyzing individual constituents in isolation. While traditional condensed-matter approaches-developed primarily for ideal crystalline…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-30 Elisabetta Nocerino

Despite the common misconception of nearly static organisms, plants do interact continuously with the environment and with each other. It is fair to assume that during their evolution they developed particular features to overcome problems…

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We obtain inequalities involving the entropy of a positive integer and the divergence of two positive integers, respectively the entropy of an ideal and the divergence of two ideals in a ring of algebraic integers. Among the important…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Daniel C. Mayer , Nicusor Minculete , Diana Savin , Vlad Monescu

While most network embedding techniques model the proximity between nodes in a network, recently there has been significant interest in structural embeddings that are based on node equivalences, a notion rooted in sociology: equivalences or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Junchen Jin , Mark Heimann , Di Jin , Danai Koutra

The use of machine learning algorithms in finance, medicine, and criminal justice can deeply impact human lives. As a consequence, research into interpretable machine learning has rapidly grown in an attempt to better control and fix…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Thibaut Vidal , Toni Pacheco , Maximilian Schiffer

This paper proposes a structure-aware driven scheduling graph modeling method to improve the accuracy and representation capability of anomaly identification in scheduling behaviors of complex systems. The method first designs a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ning Lyu , Junjie Jiang , Lu Chang , Chihui Shao , Feng Chen , Chong Zhang