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Area of Science:

  • Complex Systems Science
  • Network Science
  • Information Theory

Background:

  • Complex systems exhibit both pairwise and higher-order interactions, crucial for collective phenomena.
  • Higher-order network models offer superior description but increase complexity and computational cost.
  • A quantitative method is needed to justify higher-order modeling versus pairwise approaches.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a quantitative framework for assessing the necessity of higher-order interactions in complex systems.
  • To determine when higher-order network models are advantageous compared to pairwise models.
  • To quantify the information preserved when reducing higher-order structures to lower-order ones.

Main Methods:

  • An information-theoretic framework was proposed to quantify the entropic cost and distinguishability of higher-order interactions.
  • The framework assesses how network structures influence diffusion behaviors.
  • Controlled randomization procedures were used to investigate reducibility, focusing on nestedness and degree heterogeneity.

Main Results:

  • Empirical analyses revealed that some systems preserve essential higher-order structure.
  • Other technological and biological networks showed higher-order structures collapsing to pairwise interactions.
  • Nestedness and degree heterogeneity play roles in the reducibility of higher-order structures.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed framework provides a method to evaluate the reducibility of complex systems' network structures.
  • It helps in minimizing model dimensionality while preserving essential functional information.
  • Findings guide the selection of appropriate network models for diverse empirical systems.