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20132024
most citedCommunity detection, link prediction, and layer interdependence in multilayer networks

211 citations · 859 across the 32 of their papers we have counts for

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33 papers

physics.soc-ph2024★ 10 cited

Cohesive urban bicycle infrastructure design through optimal transport routing in multilayer networks

Alessandro Lonardi, Michael Szell, Caterina De Bacco

Bicycle infrastructure networks must meet the needs of cyclists to position cycling as a viable transportation choice in cities. In particular, protected infrastructure should be p…

cs.SI2024

Community detection and anomaly prediction in dynamic networks

Hadiseh Safdari, Caterina De Bacco

Anomaly detection is an essential task in the analysis of dynamic networks, offering early warnings of abnormal behavior. We present a principled approach to detect anomalies in dy…

cs.SI2023★ 5 cited

Message-Passing on Hypergraphs: Detectability, Phase Transitions and Higher-Order Information

Nicolò Ruggeri, Alessandro Lonardi, Caterina De Bacco

Hypergraphs are widely adopted tools to examine systems with higher-order interactions. Despite recent advancements in methods for community detection in these systems, we still la…

cs.SI2023★ 18 cited

Structure and inference in hypergraphs with node attributes

Anna Badalyan, Nicolò Ruggeri, Caterina De Bacco

Many networked datasets with units interacting in groups of two or more, encoded with hypergraphs, are accompanied by extra information about nodes, such as the role of an individu…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 2 cited

A model for efficient dynamical ranking in networks

Andrea Della Vecchia, Kibidi Neocosmos, Daniel B. Larremore +2

We present a physics-inspired method for inferring dynamic rankings in directed temporal networks - networks in which each directed and timestamped edge reflects the outcome and ti…

nlin.AO2023★ 8 cited

Bilevel Optimization for Traffic Mitigation in Optimal Transport Networks

Alessandro Lonardi, Caterina De Bacco

Global infrastructure robustness and local transport efficiency are critical requirements for transportation networks. However, since passengers often travel greedily to maximize t…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 40 cited

Hypergraphx: a library for higher-order network analysis

Quintino Francesco Lotito, Martina Contisciani, Caterina De Bacco +6

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…

cs.SI2023

Anomaly, reciprocity, and community detection in networks

Hadiseh Safdari, Martina Contisciani, Caterina De Bacco

Anomaly detection algorithms are a valuable tool in network science for identifying unusual patterns in a network. These algorithms have numerous practical applications, including…

cs.DM2023

Convergence properties of optimal transport-based temporal hypernetworks

Diego Baptista, Caterina De Bacco

We present a method to extract temporal hypergraphs from sequences of 2-dimensional functions obtained as solutions to Optimal Transport problems. We investigate optimality princip…

cs.SI2023★ 72 cited

Community Detection in Large Hypergraphs

Nicolò Ruggeri, Martina Contisciani, Federico Battiston +1

Hypergraphs, describing networks where interactions take place among any number of units, are a natural tool to model many real-world social and biological systems. In this work we…

cs.SI2022★ 16 cited

A framework to generate hypergraphs with community structure

Nicolò Ruggeri, Federico Battiston, Caterina De Bacco

In recent years hypergraphs have emerged as a powerful tool to study systems with multi-body interactions which cannot be trivially reduced to pairs. While highly structured method…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 24 cited

Urban transportation networks and optimal transport-based infrastructures: similarity and economy of scale

Daniela Leite, Caterina De Bacco

Designing and optimizing the structure of urban transportation networks is a challenging task. In this study, we propose a method inspired by optimal transport theory and the princ…

cs.SI2022

Modeling Node Exposure for Community Detection in Networks

Sameh Othman, Johannes Schulz, Marco Baity-Jesi +1

In community detection, datasets often suffer a sampling bias for which nodes which would normally have a high affinity appear to have zero affinity. This happens for example when…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 4 cited

Community Detection in networks by Dynamical Optimal Transport Formulation

Daniela Leite, Diego Baptista, Abdullahi Ibrahim +2

Detecting communities in networks is important in various domains of applications. While a variety of methods exists to perform this task, recent efforts propose Optimal Transport…

cs.SI2022★ 15 cited

Anomaly detection and community detection in networks

Hadiseh Safdari, Caterina De Bacco

Anomaly detection is a relevant problem in the area of data analysis. In networked systems, where individual entities interact in pairs, anomalies are observed when pattern of inte…

cs.CV2022★ 3 cited

Immiscible Color Flows in Optimal Transport Networks for Image Classification

Alessandro Lonardi, Diego Baptista, Caterina De Bacco

In classification tasks, it is crucial to meaningfully exploit the information contained in data. While much of the work in addressing these tasks is devoted to building complex al…

cs.SI2022★ 117 cited

Inference of hyperedges and overlapping communities in hypergraphs

Martina Contisciani, Federico Battiston, Caterina De Bacco

Hypergraphs, encoding structured interactions among any number of system units, have recently proven a successful tool to describe many real-world biological and social networks. H…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 15 cited

Sustainable optimal transport in multilayer networks

Abdullahi Adinoyi Ibrahim, Daniela Leite, Caterina De Bacco

Traffic congestion is one of the major challenges faced by the transportation industry. While this problem carries a high economical and environmental cost, the need for an efficie…

cs.SI2021★ 27 cited

Reciprocity, community detection, and link prediction in dynamic networks

Hadiseh Safdari, Martina Contisciani, Caterina De Bacco

Many complex systems change their structure over time, in these cases dynamic networks can provide a richer representation of such phenomena. As a consequence, many inference metho…

cs.SI2021★ 5 cited

The interplay between ranking and communities in networks

Laura Iacovissi, Caterina De Bacco

Community detection and hierarchy extraction are usually thought of as separate inference tasks on networks. Considering only one of the two when studying real-world data can be an…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 8 cited

Infrastructure adaptation and emergence of loops in network routing with time-dependent loads

Alessandro Lonardi, Enrico Facca, Mario Putti +1

Network routing approaches are widely used to study the evolution in time of self-adapting systems. However, few advances have been made for problems where adaptation is governed b…

cs.SI2021★ 14 cited

Community detection and reciprocity in networks by jointly modeling pairs of edges

Martina Contisciani, Hadiseh Safdari, Caterina De Bacco

To unravel the driving patterns of networks, the most popular models rely on community detection algorithms. However, these approaches are generally unable to reproduce the structu…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 13 cited

Multicommodity routing optimization for engineering networks

Alessandro Lonardi, Mario Putti, Caterina De Bacco

Optimizing passengers routes is crucial to design efficient transportation networks. Recent results show that optimal transport provides an efficient alternative to standard optimi…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 4 cited

Convergence properties of optimal transport-based temporal networks

Diego Baptista, Caterina De Bacco

We study network properties of networks evolving in time based on optimal transport principles. These evolve from a structure covering uniformly a continuous space towards an optim…