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Estimation of the Sample Frechet Mean: A Convolutional Neural Network Approach

Machine Learning 2022-10-17 v1 Social and Information Networks Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability Machine Learning

Abstract

This work addresses the rising demand for novel tools in statistical and machine learning for "graph-valued random variables" by proposing a fast algorithm to compute the sample Frechet mean, which replaces the concept of sample mean for graphs (or networks). We use convolutional neural networks to learn the morphology of the graphs in a set of graphs. Our experiments on several ensembles of random graphs demonstrate that our method can reliably recover the sample Frechet mean.

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@article{arxiv.2210.07401,
  title  = {Estimation of the Sample Frechet Mean: A Convolutional Neural Network Approach},
  author = {Adam Sanchez and François G. Meyer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.07401},
  year   = {2022}
}
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