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stat.ME2026

From Statistical to Structural Synergy: A Predictability Framework to Quantify the Effects due to High-Order Mechanisms

Yuri Antonacci, Chiara Barà, Laura Sparacino +3

High-order interactions are increasingly recognized as a hallmark of collective dynamics in complex systems. The relationship between high-order behaviours (HOBs), observed as syne…

stat.ME2026

Dissecting Spectral Granger Causality through Partial Information Decomposition

Luca Faes, Gorana Mijatovic, Riccardo Pernice +3

Granger causality (GC), a popular statistical method for the inference of directional influences between time series measured from a complex network, is sensitive to high-order (no…

nlin.CD2025

Redundant and synergistic interactions in a complex network of single-transistor electronic chaotic oscillators and in neurophysiological recordings

Chiara Barà, Yuri Antonacci, Laura Sparacino +8

Complex networks often exhibit emergent behaviors, where simple dyadic interactions yield collective dynamics that cannot be explained by examining the system's units individually…

q-bio.QM2025

Investigating High-Order Behaviors in Multivariate Cardiovascular Interactions via Nonlinear Prediction and Information-Theoretic Tools

Chiara Barà, Yuri Antonacci, Laura Sparacino +4

Assessing the synergistic high-order behaviors (HOBs) that emerge from underlying structural mechanisms is crucial to characterize complex systems. This work leverages the combined…

cs.LG2025

Information-theoretic Quantification of High-order Feature Effects in Classification Problems

Ivan Lazic, Chiara Barà, Marta Iovino +3

Understanding the contribution of individual features in predictive models remains a central goal in interpretable machine learning, and while many model-agnostic methods exist to…

q-bio.QM2025

Localizing synergies of hidden factors across complex systems: resting brain networks and HeLa gene expression profile as case studies

Marlis Ontivero-Ortega, Gorana Mijatovic, Luca Faes +2

Factor analysis is a well-known statistical method to describe the variability of observed variables in terms of a smaller number of unobserved latent variables called factors. Eve…

stat.AP2025

A Method for the Time-Frequency Analysis of High-Order Interactions in Non-Stationary Physiological Networks

Yuri Antonacci, Chiara Bara', Laura Sparacino +3

Several data-driven approaches based on information theory have been proposed for analyzing high-order interactions involving three or more components of a network system. Most of…

stat.AP2025

Predictive Information Decomposition as a Tool to Quantify Emergent Dynamical Behaviors In Physiological Networks

Luca Faes, Gorana Mijatovic, Laura Sparacino +1

Objective: This work introduces a framework for multivariate time series analysis aimed at detecting and quantifying collective emerging behaviors in the dynamics of physiological…

stat.ME2025

Decomposing Multivariate Information Rates in Networks of Random Processes

Laura Sparacino, Gorana Mijatovic, Yuri Antonacci +4

The Partial Information Decomposition (PID) framework has emerged as a powerful tool for analyzing high-order interdependencies in complex network systems. However, its application…

stat.ME2025★ 1 cited

Partial Information Rate Decomposition

Luca Faes, Laura Sparacino, Gorana Mijatovic +4

Partial Information Decomposition (PID) is a principled and flexible method to unveil complex high-order interactions in multi-unit network systems. Though being defined exclusivel…

physics.data-an2024★ 9 cited

Assessing high-order effects in feature importance via predictability decomposition

Marlis Ontivero-Ortega, Luca Faes, Jesus M Cortes +2

Leveraging the large body of work devoted in recent years to describe redundancy and synergy in multivariate interactions among random variables, we propose a novel approach to qua…

q-bio.OT2024★ 22 cited

Measures and Models of Brain-Heart Interactions

Diego Candia-Rivera, Luca Faes, Fabrizio De Vico Fallani +1

The exploration of brain-heart interactions within various paradigms, including affective computing, human-computer interfaces, and sensorimotor evaluation, stands as a significant…

physics.data-an2024

Partial information decomposition for mixed discrete and continuous random variables

Chiara Barà, Yuri Antonacci, Marta Iovino +2

The framework of Partial Information Decomposition (PID) unveils complex nonlinear interactions in network systems by dissecting the mutual information (MI) between a target variab…

q-bio.NC2024

A Model-Free Method to Quantify Memory Utilization in Neural Point Processes

Gorana Mijatovic, Sebastiano Stramaglia, Luca Faes

Quantifying the predictive capacity of a neural system, intended as the capability to store information and actively use it for dynamic system evolution, is a key component of neur…

stat.ME2024

Network Representation of Higher-Order Interactions Based on Information Dynamics

Gorana Mijatovic, Yuri Antonacci, Michal Javorka +3

Many complex systems in science and engineering are modeled as networks whose nodes and links depict the temporal evolution of each system unit and the dynamic interaction between…