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ArticleProceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences2020

Deriving pairwise transfer entropy from network structure and motifs.

Leonardo Novelli, Fatihcan M Atay, Jürgen Jost, Joseph T Lizier

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Leonardo NovelliCentre for Complex Systems, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-6081-3367
Fatihcan M AtayDepartment of Mathematics, Bilkent University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey.ORCID 0000-0001-6277-6830
Jürgen JostMax Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Inselstraße 22, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5258-6590
Joseph T LizierCentre for Complex Systems, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-9910-8972

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Transfer entropy (TE) is an established method for quantifying directed statistical dependencies in neuroimaging and complex systems datasets. The pairwise (or bivariate) TE from a source to a target node in a network does not depend solely on the local source-target link weight, but on the wider network structure that the link is embedded in. This relationship is studied using a discrete-time linearly coupled Gaussian model, which allows us to derive the TE for each link from the network topology. It is shown analytically that the dependence on the directed link weight is only a first approximation, valid for weak coupling. More generally, the TE increases with the in-degree of the source and decreases with the in-degree of the target, indicating an asymmetry of information transfer between hubs and low-degree nodes. In addition, the TE is directly proportional to weighted motif counts involving common parents or multiple walks from the source to the target, which are more abundant in networks with a high clustering coefficient than in random networks. Our findings also apply to Granger causality, which is equivalent to TE for Gaussian variables. Moreover, similar empirical results on random Boolean networks suggest that the dependence of the TE on the in-degree extends to nonlinear dynamics.

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