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Structural reducibility of hypergraphs

Published: January 5, 2026 | arXiv ID: 2601.02603v1

By: Alec Kirkley, Helcio Felippe, Federico Battiston

Potential Business Impact:

Finds important connections in complicated groups.

Business Areas:
Human Computer Interaction Design, Science and Engineering

Higher-order interactions provide a nuanced understanding of the relational structure of complex systems beyond traditional pairwise interactions. However, higher-order network analyses also incur more cumbersome interpretations and greater computational demands than their pairwise counterparts. Here we present an information-theoretic framework for determining the extent to which a hypergraph representation of a networked system is structurally redundant, and for identifying its most critical higher orders of interaction that allow us to remove these redundancies while preserving essential higher-order structure.

Page Count
19 pages

Category
Physics:
Physics and Society