Researchers propose using path signatures, a mathematical framework, to analyze multivariate dynamical processes governed by structural connections.
Path signatures encode geometric and temporal properties of continuous paths and can reveal lead-lag phenomena in dynamical data.
The study showcases the application of path signatures in detecting structural communities in time series data from the Kuramoto Stochastic Block Model, achieving exact recovery of communities.
The research suggests that path signatures offer a new perspective for analyzing complex neural data and high-dimensional systems, allowing for the inference of underlying structures based on temporal functional relationships.