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arxiv: 1906.09068 · v1 · pith:7IKEH3BPnew · submitted 2019-06-21 · ⚛️ physics.soc-ph · cs.LG· cs.SI· math.AT

Simplex2Vec embeddings for community detection in simplicial complexes

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classification ⚛️ physics.soc-ph cs.LGcs.SImath.AT
keywords simplicial complexescommunity detectionembeddingshigher-order interactionssocial networksbrain networkstopological representations
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The pith

Higher-order interactions in simplicial complexes improve community detection when embedded with Simplex2Vec.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper applies Simplex2Vec embeddings to simplicial complexes in order to detect and visualize communities. It first checks stability on synthetic complexes that include varying levels of higher-order interactions, then moves to empirical complexes built from social and brain functional data. The central demonstration is that including these higher-order terms produces better clustering and makes it possible to measure how such terms affect individual nodes. A reader would care because standard graph methods ignore multi-way relations that are known to shape many real systems.

Core claim

Simplex2Vec embeddings computed on simplicial complexes allow higher-order interactions to be leveraged for improved clustering detection and for assessing the effect of those interactions on individual nodes in social and brain data.

What carries the argument

Simplex2Vec embeddings, an adaptation of node2vec-style random walks that operates directly on the faces of a simplicial complex to produce vector representations usable for clustering.

If this is right

  • Clustering performance on social and brain networks rises when higher-order interactions are retained in the complex.
  • The contribution of higher-order faces to the embedding of any given node can be quantified and compared across nodes.
  • Embeddings of synthetic simplicial complexes stay consistent under controlled addition or removal of higher-order faces.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same embedding approach could be applied to simplicial complexes built from genomic or ecological interaction data to test whether higher-order terms also sharpen communities there.
  • Combining the embedding vectors with existing homological invariants might produce hybrid descriptors that capture both local community structure and global topology.
  • The method could be extended to time-varying simplicial complexes to track how higher-order community roles evolve.

Load-bearing premise

Simplex2Vec embeddings remain stable and meaningfully capture community structure when applied to simplicial complexes derived from empirical social and brain data.

What would settle it

Running Simplex2Vec on the paper's social or brain simplicial complexes and finding that clustering quality does not improve, or that recovered communities fail to align with known labels, when higher-order faces are added.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 1906.09068 by Adrian Onicas, Alexey N. Medvedev, Andrea Santoro, Francesco Mottes, Giovanni Petri, Giulia Lerda, Jacob Charles Wright Billings, Mirko Hu.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Random walk on simplices. At each time-step t, a walker located on a k-simplex i of the Hasse diagram can jump to a simplex j with a certain probability τji, which is proportional to the weight of the simplex ωj . In our analysis we use two different weighting schemes, namely, with a) the bias towards lower order simplices and b) the bias towards higher order simplices [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p0… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Mapping simplicial complexes to metric spaces: Simplex2Vec. The collection of simplices, representing d-dimensional group interactions are glued together in a simplicial complex (a). The simplicial complex is then represented through a Hasse diagram (b), which is a directed acyclic graph on the partially ordered set of simplices. A random walk on the nodes (k-simplex) of the Hasse diagram, graphically repr… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Effect of higher order interactions. (a) Sliced Wasserstein distance d SW S 1 (X[p1, 0], X[p1, p2]) between one￾dimensional persistent homology group H1 of the embedding corresponding to a pure network (p2 = 0) and the embed￾ding obtained for simplicial complexes as a function of p2 (walks length L = 30) and the number of nodes N of the network. (b) d SW S 1 distance for the embeddings of Costa￾Farber simp… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Higher-order interactions disrupt cluster structures. (a) Clustering similarity between the cluster par￾titions obtained at p2 = 0 and those obtained for positive p2 (N = 200). Interestingly, even with a small increase in p2, we clearly find that the partitions obtained are very dissimilar from the one obtained considering only the edge structure. Analougous results are obtained when comparing partition ac… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Simplicial Communities for face-to-face interaction data in a primary school. We present the Sim￾plex2Vec embedding of group gatherings of students of a primary school (LyonSchool). The real labelling of the node embedding is represented in (a) and (c), where the colors represent attribution to the same class and crosses (+) denote teachers. Random walk bias towards lower order simplices (b) produces less … view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Simplicial communities for face-to-face interaction data in a high school. We present the Simplex2Vec embedding of group gatherings of students of a high school (Thiers13). The real labelling of the node embedding is represented in (a) and (c), where the colors represent attribution to the same class. This dataset does not have separate labels for teachers. Random walk bias towards lower order simplices (b… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Similarity between simplicial embedding partitions and ground data grows with maximal simplicial dimension.. We plot the NMI values for the partition (obtained via agglomerative clustering) from the Simplex2Vec embeddings using random walks that are biased towards (a) lower order simplices and (b) higher order simplices for two datasets of face-to-face interactions. We clearly find that biasing towards hig… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Functional Connectivity Embeddings. We show the results of the Simplex2Vec construction for increasing maximum simplicial dimension. We find a large variability across brain regions in the embedding and clustering (colors) results. [1] Réka Albert and Albert-László Barabási. Statistical mechanics of complex networks. Rev. Mod. Phys., 74(1):47–97, 2002. [2] Mark Newman. Networks: An Introduction. Oxford Uni… view at source ↗
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Topological representations are rapidly becoming a popular way to capture and encode higher-order interactions in complex systems. They have found applications in disciplines as different as cancer genomics, brain function, and computational social science, in representing both descriptive features of data and inference models. While intense research has focused on the connectivity and homological features of topological representations, surprisingly scarce attention has been given to the investigation of the community structures of simplicial complexes. To this end, we adopt recent advances in symbolic embeddings to compute and visualize the community structures of simplicial complexes. We first investigate the stability properties of embedding obtained for synthetic simplicial complexes to the presence of higher order interactions. We then focus on complexes arising from social and brain functional data and show how higher order interactions can be leveraged to improve clustering detection and assess the effect of higher order interaction on individual nodes. We conclude delineating limitations and directions for extension of this work.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes Simplex2Vec embeddings to detect and visualize community structure in simplicial complexes. It first tests embedding stability under addition of higher-order simplices on synthetic data, then applies the method to empirical simplicial complexes from social and brain functional networks, claiming that higher-order interactions improve clustering detection and allow assessment of node-level effects. The work concludes by noting limitations and future directions.

Significance. If the empirical claims were supported by quantitative metrics and baselines, the approach would offer a concrete way to incorporate higher-order interactions into network embedding methods for community detection, with potential relevance to topological data analysis in social science and neuroscience. The synthetic stability tests are a positive step, but the absence of numerical validation on real data limits the assessed impact.

major comments (2)
  1. [Empirical results on social and brain data] The central claim that higher-order interactions improve clustering on social and brain data (stated in the abstract and the empirical application section) is not supported by any quantitative metrics. No modularity scores, ARI/NMI values, ablation comparisons (with vs. without k>2 simplices), baseline embeddings, or statistical tests are reported; only qualitative visualizations and node-level observations are described. This directly undermines the claim that the method 'leverages' higher-order structure for improved detection.
  2. [Transition from synthetic to empirical experiments] The stability analysis is performed only on synthetic complexes; the manuscript provides no corresponding quantitative stability or sensitivity checks (e.g., embedding variance, parameter sweeps) when the same pipeline is applied to the empirical complexes. This leaves the weakest assumption—that Simplex2Vec remains stable and meaningful on real simplicial data—unexamined.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Methods] Notation for the simplicial complex construction from the underlying graphs (e.g., how 2-simplices are added) should be made explicit with a short algorithmic description or pseudocode.
  2. [Node-level analysis] The abstract states that the method 'assess[es] the effect of higher order interaction on individual nodes' but the manuscript does not define the precise node-level statistic used; a clear definition would improve reproducibility.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments, which identify key opportunities to strengthen the quantitative validation of our empirical results. We address each major point below and commit to revisions that directly respond to the concerns raised.

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  1. Referee: [Empirical results on social and brain data] The central claim that higher-order interactions improve clustering on social and brain data (stated in the abstract and the empirical application section) is not supported by any quantitative metrics. No modularity scores, ARI/NMI values, ablation comparisons (with vs. without k>2 simplices), baseline embeddings, or statistical tests are reported; only qualitative visualizations and node-level observations are described. This directly undermines the claim that the method 'leverages' higher-order structure for improved detection.

    Authors: We agree that the empirical claims would be substantially strengthened by quantitative metrics. In the revised manuscript we will add modularity scores computed on the detected communities for the social and brain datasets, direct ablation comparisons of clustering quality with versus without k>2 simplices, and, where appropriate, baseline comparisons against standard graph embeddings such as Node2Vec applied to the 1-skeleton. These additions will provide numerical evidence for the benefit of higher-order structure. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Transition from synthetic to empirical experiments] The stability analysis is performed only on synthetic complexes; the manuscript provides no corresponding quantitative stability or sensitivity checks (e.g., embedding variance, parameter sweeps) when the same pipeline is applied to the empirical complexes. This leaves the weakest assumption—that Simplex2Vec remains stable and meaningful on real simplicial data—unexamined.

    Authors: We acknowledge that stability and sensitivity analyses on the empirical complexes are currently absent. We will incorporate quantitative checks in the revised version, including embedding variance across multiple random initializations and parameter sweeps (e.g., walk length, embedding dimension) applied to the social and brain simplicial complexes, thereby confirming that the observed community structures are robust. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: method applies external embedding techniques to simplicial data without self-referential reductions

full rationale

The paper adopts existing symbolic embedding advances (e.g., extensions of node2vec-style methods) to compute community structures in simplicial complexes, then reports stability on synthetic cases and qualitative effects on social/brain data. No equations, predictions, or central claims reduce by construction to fitted inputs, self-definitions, or self-citation chains; the derivation chain remains independent of the target results. Self-citations, if present, are not load-bearing for the clustering claims.

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