Modeling memory in time-respecting paths on temporal networks

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Autori principali: Guerrini, Silvia, Cattuto, Ciro, Dall'Amico, Lorenzo
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author Guerrini, Silvia
Cattuto, Ciro
Dall'Amico, Lorenzo
author_facet Guerrini, Silvia
Cattuto, Ciro
Dall'Amico, Lorenzo
contents Human close-range proximity interactions are the key determinant for spreading processes like knowledge diffusion, norm adoption, and infectious disease transmission. These dynamical processes can be modeled with time-respecting paths on temporal networks. Here, we propose a framework to quantify memory in time-respecting paths and evaluate it on several empirical datasets encoding proximity between humans collected in different settings. Our results show strong memory effects, robust across settings, model parameters, and statistically significant when compared to memoryless null models. We further propose a generative model to create synthetic temporal graphs with memory and use it to show that memory in time-respecting paths decreases the diffusion speed, affecting the dynamics of spreading processes on temporal networks.
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spellingShingle Modeling memory in time-respecting paths on temporal networks
Guerrini, Silvia
Cattuto, Ciro
Dall'Amico, Lorenzo
Physics and Society
Social and Information Networks
Human close-range proximity interactions are the key determinant for spreading processes like knowledge diffusion, norm adoption, and infectious disease transmission. These dynamical processes can be modeled with time-respecting paths on temporal networks. Here, we propose a framework to quantify memory in time-respecting paths and evaluate it on several empirical datasets encoding proximity between humans collected in different settings. Our results show strong memory effects, robust across settings, model parameters, and statistically significant when compared to memoryless null models. We further propose a generative model to create synthetic temporal graphs with memory and use it to show that memory in time-respecting paths decreases the diffusion speed, affecting the dynamics of spreading processes on temporal networks.
title Modeling memory in time-respecting paths on temporal networks
topic Physics and Society
Social and Information Networks
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17108