{"id":212784,"date":"2025-04-29T17:06:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T22:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/mapping-dynamical-systems-new-algorithm-infers-hypergraph-structure-from-time-series-data-without-prior-knowledge"},"modified":"2025-04-29T17:06:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T22:06:14","slug":"mapping-dynamical-systems-new-algorithm-infers-hypergraph-structure-from-time-series-data-without-prior-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/mapping-dynamical-systems-new-algorithm-infers-hypergraph-structure-from-time-series-data-without-prior-knowledge","title":{"rendered":"Mapping dynamical systems: New algorithm infers hypergraph structure from time-series data without prior knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mapping-dynamical-systems-new-algorithm-infers-hypergraph-structure-from-time-series-data-without-prior-knowledge.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a network, pairs of individual elements, or nodes, connect to each other; those connections can represent a sprawling system with myriad individual links. A hypergraph goes deeper: It gives researchers a way to model complex, dynamical systems where interactions among three or more individuals\u2014or even among groups of individuals\u2014may play an important part.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of edges that connect pairs of nodes, it is based on hyperedges that connect groups of nodes. Hypergraphs can represent higher-order interactions that represent collective behaviors like swarming in fish, birds, or bees, or processes in the brain.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists usually use a hypergraph <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/model\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">model<\/a> to predict dynamic behaviors. But the opposite problem is interesting, too. What if researchers can observe the dynamics but don\u2019t have access to a reliable model? Yuanzhao Zhang, an SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow, has an answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a network, pairs of individual elements, or nodes, connect to each other; those connections can represent a sprawling system with myriad individual links. A hypergraph goes deeper: It gives researchers a way to model complex, dynamical systems where interactions among three or more individuals\u2014or even among groups of individuals\u2014may play an important part. Instead [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1965,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-mapping","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}