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most citedMachine learning meets network science: dimensionality reduction for fast and efficient embedding of networks in the hyperbolic space

193 citations · 502 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.NE2025

Cannistraci-Hebb Training on Ultra-Sparse Spiking Neural Networks

Yuan Hua, Jilin Zhang, Yingtao Zhang +5

Inspired by the brain's spike-based computation, spiking neural networks (SNNs) inherently possess temporal activation sparsity. However, when it comes to the sparse training of SN…

cs.LG2025

Brain network science modelling of sparse neural networks enables Transformers and LLMs to perform as fully connected

Yingtao Zhang, Diego Cerretti, Jialin Zhao +4

Dynamic sparse training (DST) can reduce the computational demands in ANNs, but faces difficulties in keeping peak performance at high sparsity levels. The Cannistraci-Hebb trainin…

cs.LG2025

Pivoting Factorization: A Compact Meta Low-Rank Representation of Sparsity for Efficient Inference in Large Language Models

Jialin Zhao, Yingtao Zhang, Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci

The rapid growth of Large Language Models has driven demand for effective model compression techniques to reduce memory and computation costs. Low-rank pruning has gained attention…

cs.LG2024

Sparse Spectral Training and Inference on Euclidean and Hyperbolic Neural Networks

Jialin Zhao, Yingtao Zhang, Xinghang Li +2

The growing demands on GPU memory posed by the increasing number of neural network parameters call for training approaches that are more memory-efficient. Previous memory reduction…

cs.SI2020★ 1 cited

Geometrical congruence and efficient greedy navigability of complex networks

Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci, Alessandro Muscoloni

Hyperbolic networks are supposed to be congruent with their underlying latent geometry and following geodesics in the hyperbolic space is believed equivalent to navigate through to…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 99 cited

Modular gateway-ness connectivity and structural core organization in maritime network science

Mengqiao Xu, Qian Pan, Alessandro Muscoloni +2

Around 80% of global trade by volume is transported by sea, and thus the maritime transportation system is fundamental to the world economy. To better exploit new international shi…

q-bio.QM2020★ 15 cited

Cell Mechanics Based Computational Classification of Red Blood Cells Via Machine Intelligence Applied to Morpho-Rheological Markers

Yan Ge, Philipp Rosendahl, Claudio Durán +4

Despite fluorescent cell-labelling being widely employed in biomedical studies, some of its drawbacks are inevitable, with unsuitable fluorescent probes or probes inducing a functi…

cs.LG2019★ 2 cited

Measuring group-separability in geometrical space for evaluation of pattern recognition and embedding algorithms

A. Acevedo, S. Ciucci, MJ. Kuo +2

Evaluating data separation in a geometrical space is fundamental for pattern recognition. A plethora of dimensionality reduction (DR) algorithms have been developed in order to rev…

cs.LG2019★ 3 cited

Angular separability of data clusters or network communities in geometrical space and its relevance to hyperbolic embedding

Alessandro Muscoloni, Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci

Analysis of 'big data' characterized by high-dimensionality such as word vectors and complex networks requires often their representation in a geometrical space by embedding. Recen…

physics.soc-ph2019★ 35 cited

Navigability evaluation of complex networks by greedy routing efficiency

Alessandro Muscoloni, Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci

Network navigability is a key feature of complex networked systems. For a network embedded in a geometrical space, maximization of greedy routing (GR) measures based on the node ge…

cs.LG2018★ 2 cited

Latent Geometry Inspired Graph Dissimilarities Enhance Affinity Propagation Community Detection in Complex Networks

Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci, Alessandro Muscoloni

Affinity propagation is one of the most effective unsupervised pattern recognition algorithms for data clustering in high-dimensional feature space. However, the numerous attempts…

physics.soc-ph2018★ 14 cited

Minimum curvilinear automata with similarity attachment for network embedding and link prediction in the hyperbolic space

Alessandro Muscoloni, Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci

The idea of minimum curvilinearity (MC) is that the hidden geometry of complex networks, in particular when they are sufficiently sparse, clustered, small-world and heterogeneous,…

physics.soc-ph2017★ 96 cited

A nonuniform popularity-similarity optimization (nPSO) model to efficiently generate realistic complex networks with communities

Alessandro Muscoloni, Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci

The hidden metric space behind complex network topologies is a fervid topic in current network science and the hyperbolic space is one of the most studied, because it seems associa…

physics.soc-ph2017★ 14 cited

Local-ring network automata and the impact of hyperbolic geometry in complex network link-prediction

Alessandro Muscoloni, Umberto Michieli, Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci

Topological link-prediction can exploit the entire network topology (global methods) or only the neighbourhood (local methods) of the link to predict. Global methods are believed t…

q-bio.NC2017★ 23 cited

Coalescent embedding in the hyperbolic space unsupervisedly discloses the hidden geometry of the brain

Alberto Cacciola, Alessandro Muscoloni, Vaibhav Narula +9

The human brain displays a complex network topology, whose structural organization is widely studied using diffusion tensor imaging. The original geometry from which emerges the ne…

physics.soc-ph2017★ 5 cited

Rich-clubness test: how to determine whether a complex network has or doesn't have a rich-club?

Alessandro Muscoloni, Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci

The rich-club concept has been introduced in order to characterize the presence of a cohort of nodes with a large number of links (rich nodes) that tend to be well connected betwee…

cond-mat.dis-nn2016★ 193 cited

Machine learning meets network science: dimensionality reduction for fast and efficient embedding of networks in the hyperbolic space

Josephine Maria Thomas, Alessandro Muscoloni, Sara Ciucci +2

Complex network topologies and hyperbolic geometry seem specularly connected, and one of the most fascinating and challenging problems of recent complex network theory is to map a…