Fig. 3: Comparisons on real temporal networks.

a Dissimilarity between a temporal network and its aggregated static network. b Temporal dissimilarity between the original data and the temporal networks derived from null models. c Temporal dissimilarity between the original and perturbed temporal networks. f denotes the fraction of contacts added (f  > 0) or deleted (f < 0) from the original temporal network (f = 0). Each data point is averaged over 100 realizations. d, e Temporal dissimilarity between different daily divided sub-networks, e.g., sub1 and sub2 represent the temporal sub-networks of the first and second day, respectively. sub1-2 represents the cumulative temporal sub-network for the first two days. f The ratio of nodes and edges of different sub-networks. b−f show comparisons on HS2013, for more results of other networks, see Figs. S11−S13 in Supplementary Note 2.