So happy to finally see this collaboration with Rion Correia and @alainbarrat out. The distance backbone is a unique, algebraically-principled network subgraph that preserves all shortest paths. We were were excited to find out (with #sociopatterns and other data) that the backbones of #socialnetworks contain large amounts of redundant interactions that can be removed with very little impact on #communitystructure and #epidemic spread.

#complexsystems #dynamics
#Networkscience #Sparsification #complexnetworks
#PLOSCompBio:

https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010854

If you are interested in network #sparsification methods, come see Felipe Xavier Costa show that distance #backbones can be applied to #directedgraphs, session 3C at #ComplexNetworks 2022.