Emerging Activity Temporal Hypergraph: a model for generating realistic time-varying hypergraphs
Marco Mancastroppa, Giulia Cencetti, Alain Barrat

TL;DR
The paper introduces the Emerging Activity Temporal Hypergraph (EATH) model, which generates realistic synthetic time-varying hypergraphs based on empirical data, capturing complex group interactions and enabling better analysis of dynamical processes.
Contribution
The EATH model is a novel generative framework that creates synthetic hypergraphs with properties similar to real datasets, incorporating node activity dynamics and memory mechanisms.
Findings
EATH can replicate temporal and topological features of empirical face-to-face interaction data.
Synthetic hypergraphs produced by EATH are effective for simulating higher-order contagion dynamics.
The model can generate hybrid hypergraphs combining properties from different datasets.
Abstract
Time-varying group interactions constitute the building blocks of many complex systems. The framework of temporal hypergraphs makes it possible to represent them by taking into account the higher-order and temporal nature of the interactions. However, the corresponding datasets are often incomplete and/or limited in size and duration, and surrogate time-varying hypergraphs able to reproduce their statistical features constitute interesting substitutions, especially to understand how dynamical processes unfold on group interactions. Here, we present a new temporal hypergraph model, the Emerging Activity Temporal Hypergraph (EATH), which can be fed by parameters measured in a dataset and create synthetic datasets with similar properties. In the model, each node has an independent underlying activity dynamic and the overall system activity emerges from the nodes dynamics, with temporal…
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