There has been recent progress on inferring the structure of interactions in complex networks when they are in stationary states satisfying detailed balance, but little has been done for nonequilibrium systems. Here we introduce an approach to this problem, considering, as an example, the question of recovering the interactions in an asymmetrically coupled, synchronously updated Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model. We derive an exact iterative inversion algorithm and develop efficient approximations based on dynamical mean-field and Thouless-Anderson-Palmer equations that express the interactions in terms of equal-time and one-time-step-delayed correlation functions.

• Received 29 September 2010

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.048702