English
Related papers

Related papers: Power Law Distributions in Class Relationships

200 papers

Even though power-law or close-to-power-law degree distributions are ubiquitously observed in a great variety of large real networks, the mathematically satisfactory treatment of random power-law graphs satisfying basic statistical…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Pim van der Hoorn , Gabor Lippner , Dmitri Krioukov

For taxonomic levels higher than species, the abundance distributions of number of subtaxa per taxon tend to approximate power laws, but often show strong deviationns from such a law. Previously, these deviations were attributed to…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Johan Chu , Chris Adami

Preferential attachment models are a common class of graph models which have been used to explain why power-law distributions appear in the degree sequences of real network data. One of the things they lack, however, is higher-order network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Nicole Eikmeier , David F. Gleich

Complex systems theory pays much attention to simple mechanisms producing nontrivial patterns, especially power laws. However, power laws with exponent close to one also result from complex mixtures of mechanisms that, in isolation, would…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2013-12-13 Salvador Pueyo

A mechanism is proposed for the appearance of power law distributions in various complex systems. It is shown that in a conservative mechanical system composed of subsystems with different numbers of degrees of freedom a robust power-law…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-03 Anirban Chakraborti , Marco Patriarca

A class of conserved models of wealth distributions are studied where wealth (or money) is assumed to be exchanged between a pair of agents in a population like the elastically colliding molecules of a gas exchanging energy. All sorts of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-12-02 Abhijit Kar Gupta

Scale-free networks, in which the distribution of the degrees obeys a power-law, are ubiquitous in the study of complex systems. One basic network property that relates to the structure of the links found is the degree assortativity, which…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-22 Oliver Williams , Charo I. Del Genio

Neural scaling laws have revolutionized the design and optimization of large-scale AI models by revealing predictable relationships between model size, dataset volume, and computational resources. Early research established power-law…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Ayan Sengupta , Yash Goel , Tanmoy Chakraborty

There is an abundance of literature on complex networks describing a variety of relationships among units in social, biological, and technological systems. Such networks, consisting of interconnected nodes, are often self-organized,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2011-08-18 Paul J. Laurienti , Karen E. Joyce , Qawi K. Telesford , Jonathan H. Burdette , Satoru Hayasaka

Recently several authors have proposed stochastic evolutionary models for the growth of complex networks that give rise to power-law distributions. These models are based on the notion of preferential attachment leading to the ``rich get…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Trevor Fenner , Mark Levene , George Loizou

The rate equations are used to study the scale-free behavior of the weight distribution in evolving networks whose topology is determined only by degrees of preexisting vertices. An analysis of these equations shows that the degree…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Jezewski

The object-oriented class is, in general, the most utilized element in programming and modeling. It is employed throughout the software development process, from early domain analysis phases to later maintenance phases. A class diagram…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Sabah Al-Fedaghi

A family of models of growing hypergraphs with preferential rules of new linking is introduced and studied. The model hypergraphs evolve via the hyperedge-based growth as well as the node-based one, thus generalizing the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-09-04 Dahae Roh , Kwang-Il Goh

In this second part of our survey on the social and natural distributions, we investigate some models, which intend to explain the statistical regularity of the natural and social distributions. There is a large variety of models and in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-07-05 L. Benguigui , M. Marinov

The topology of the Internet has typically been measured by sampling traceroutes, which are roughly shortest paths from sources to destinations. The resulting measurements have been used to infer that the Internet's degree distribution is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-05-29 Aaron Clauset , Cristopher Moore

Hierarchical networks actually have many applications in the real world. Firstly, we propose a new class of hierarchical networks with scale-free and fractal structure, which are the networks with triangles compared to traditional…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Jia-Bao Liu , Yan Bao , Wu-Ting Zheng

We study the dynamics of a system composed of interacting units each with a complex internal structure comprising many subunits. We consider the case in which each subunit grows in a multiplicative manner. We propose a model for such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 L. A. N. Amaral , S. V. Buldyrev , S. Havlin , M. A. Salinger , H. E. Stanley

We study the frequency distribution of family names. From a common data base, we count the number of people who share the same family name. This is the size of the family. We find that (i) the total number of different family names in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sasuke Miyazima , Youngki Lee , Tomomasa Nagamine , Hiroaki Miyajima

Many social, technological and biological interactions involve network relationships whose outcome intimately depends on the structure of the network and on the strengths of the connections. Yet, although much information is now available…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Guido Caldarelli , Fabrizio Coccetti , Paolo De Los Rios

Neural scaling laws--power-law relationships between generalization errors and characteristics of deep learning models--are vital tools for developing reliable models while managing limited resources. Although the success of large language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Tilen Cadez , Kyoung-Min Kim