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The explosion of digital information and the growing involvement of people in social networks led to enormous research activity to develop methods that can extract meaningful information from interaction data. Commonly, interactions are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Tony Gracious , Ambedkar Dukkipati

Here we introduce simple structures for the analysis of complex hypergraphs, hypergraph animals. These structures are designed to describe the local node neighbourhoods of nodes in hypergraphs. We establish their relationships to lattice…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-08 Michael P. H. Stumpf

Network theory has often disregarded many-body relationships, solely focusing on pairwise interactions: neglecting them, however, can lead to misleading representations of complex systems. Hypergraphs represent a suitable framework for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Fabio Saracco , Giovanni Petri , Renaud Lambiotte , Tiziano Squartini

Hypergraphs provide an effective modeling approach for modeling high-order relationships in many real-world datasets. To capture such complex relationships, several hypergraph neural networks have been proposed for learning hypergraph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Rongping Ye , Xiaobing Pei , Haoran Yang , Ruiqi Wang

Interaction graphs, such as those recording emails between individuals or transactions between institutions, tend to be sparse yet structured, and often grow in an unbounded manner. Such behavior can be well-captured by structured,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Elahe Ghalebi , Hamidreza Mahyar , Radu Grosu , Graham W. Taylor , Sinead A. Williamson

Most statistical models for networks focus on pairwise interactions between nodes. However, many real-world networks involve higher-order interactions among multiple nodes, such as co-authors collaborating on a paper. Hypergraphs provide a…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-16 Yichao Chen , Jingfei Zhang , Ji Zhu

In this work we present a hierarchical framework for solving discrete stochastic pursuit-evasion games (PEGs) in large grid worlds. With a partition of the grid world into superstates (e.g., "rooms"), the proposed approach creates a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Yue Guan , Mohammad Afshari , Qifan Zhang , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Large ensembles of stochastically evolving interacting particles describe phenomena in diverse fields including statistical physics, neuroscience, biology, and engineering. In such systems, the infinitesimal evolution of each particle…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-02 Kavita Ramanan

This paper considers structures of systems beyond dyadic (pairwise) interactions and investigates mathematical modeling of multi-way interactions and connections as hypergraphs, where captured relationships among system entities are…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Xu T. Liu , Jesun Firoz , Andrew Lumsdaine , Cliff Joslyn , Sinan Aksoy , Brenda Praggastis , Assefaw Gebremedhin

Higher order interactions are increasingly recognised as a fundamental aspect of complex systems ranging from the brain to social contact networks. Hypergraph as well as simplicial complexes capture the higher-order interactions of complex…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-09-23 Hanlin Sun , Ginestra Bianconi

The past few years have witnessed the great success of a new family of paradigms, so-called folksonomy, which allows users to freely associate tags to resources and efficiently manage them. In order to uncover the underlying structures and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-18 Zi-Ke Zhang , Chuang Liu

Networks can describe the structure of a wide variety of complex systems by specifying which pairs of entities in the system are connected. While such pairwise representations are flexible, they are not necessarily appropriate when the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Jean-Gabriel Young , Giovanni Petri , Tiago P. Peixoto

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increasing interest in the modeling and analysis of infectious diseases. The pandemic has made a significant impact on the way we behave and interact in our daily life. The past year has witnessed…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Shutian Liu , Yuhan Zhao , Quanyan Zhu

This tutorial article puts forth a framework to analyze the noncooperative strategic interactions among the members of a large population of bounded rationality agents. Our approach hinges on, unifies and generalizes existing methods and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Shinkyu Park , Nuno C. Martins , Jeff S. Shamma

The phenomenon of group cooperation constitutes a fundamental mechanism underlying various social and biological systems. Complex networks provide a structural framework for group interactions, where individuals can not only obtain…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-29 Hongqian Wu , Hongzhong Deng , Jichao Li , Chengxing Wu , Zhuoting Yu , Haidong Zhang , Gaoxin Qi

We introduce a spatial graph and hypergraph model that smoothly interpolates between a graph with purely pairwise edges and a graph where all connections are in large hyperedges. The key component is a spatial clustering resolution…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Omar Eldaghar , Yu Zhu , David F. Gleich

Networks are a widely used and efficient paradigm to model real-world systems where basic units interact pairwise. Many body interactions are often at play, and cannot be modelled by resorting to binary exchanges. In this work, we consider…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-06-03 Timoteo Carletti , Duccio Fanelli , Sara Nicoletti

Network Models with couplings between link pairs are the simplest models for a class of networks with Higher Order interactions. In this paper we give an analytic, general solution to this family of Random Graph Models extending previous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-28 Alessio Catanzaro , Subodh Patil , Diego Garlaschelli

The complexity of many biological, social and technological systems stems from the richness of the interactions among their units. Over the past decades, a great variety of complex systems has been successfully described as networks whose…

From social to biological systems, many real-world systems are characterized by higher-order, non-dyadic interactions. Such systems are conveniently described by hypergraphs, where hyperedges encode interactions among an arbitrary number of…