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Graphical models are useful tools for describing structured high-dimensional probability distributions. Development of efficient algorithms for learning graphical models with least amount of data remains an active research topic.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Marc Vuffray , Sidhant Misra , Andrey Y. Lokhov

We consider the problem of accurately recovering a matrix B of size M by M , which represents a probability distribution over M2 outcomes, given access to an observed matrix of "counts" generated by taking independent samples from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Qingqing Huang , Sham M. Kakade , Weihao Kong , Gregory Valiant

The success of generative modeling in continuous domains has led to a surge of interest in generating discrete data such as molecules, source code, and graphs. However, construction histories for these discrete objects are typically not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Ari Seff , Wenda Zhou , Farhan Damani , Abigail Doyle , Ryan P. Adams

Network reconstruction is the task of inferring the unseen interactions between elements of a system, based only on their behavior or dynamics. This inverse problem is in general ill-posed, and admits many solutions for the same…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-12 Tiago P. Peixoto

Sparse signals can be recovered from a reduced set of samples by using compressive sensing algorithms. In common methods the signal is recovered in the sparse domain. A method for the reconstruction of sparse signal which reconstructs the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Ljubisa Stankovic , Milos Dakovic

This paper considers a Markov-modulated duplication-deletion random graph where at each time instant, one node can either join or leave the network; the probabilities of joining or leaving evolve according to the realization of a finite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-04 Maziyar Hamdi , Vikram Krishnamurthy , George Yin

The state-of-the-art error correcting codes are based on large random constructions (random graphs, random permutations, ...) and are decoded by linear-time iterative algorithms. Because of these features, they are remarkable examples of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-08-31 Silvio Franz , Michele Leone , Andrea Montanari , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi

Can a graph specifying the pattern of connections of a dynamical network be reconstructed from statistical properties of a signal generated by such a system? In this model study, we present an evolutionary algorithm for reconstruction of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-11-07 Mads Ipsen , Alexander S. Mikhailov

We propose generalizations of a number of standard network models, including the classic random graph, the configuration model, and the stochastic block model, to the case of time-varying networks. We assume that the presence and absence of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Xiao Zhang , Cristopher Moore , M. E. J. Newman

We study the recovery of an unknown three-dimensional band-limited signal from multiple noisy observations that are randomly rotated by latent elements of SO(3), where the rotations are drawn from an unknown, non-uniform distribution.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-25 Tamir Bendory , Dan Edidin , Josh Katz , Shay Kreymer , Nir Sharon

Inferring the sequence of states from observations is one of the most fundamental problems in Hidden Markov Models. In statistical physics language, this problem is equivalent to computing the marginals of a one-dimensional model with a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-13 Antoine Sinton

We study the problem of reconstructing a hidden graph given access to a distance oracle. We design randomized algorithms for the following problems: reconstruction of a degree bounded graph with query complexity $\tilde{O}(n^{3/2})$;…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-25 Claire Mathieu , Hang Zhou

We present the first sub-quadratic time algorithm that with high probability correctly reconstructs phylogenetic trees for short sequences generated by a Markov model of evolution. Due to rapid expansion in sequence databases, such very…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2012-06-01 Daniel G. Brown , Jakub Truszkowski

We investigate the reconstruction of time series from dynamical networks that are partially observed. In particular, we address the extent to which the time series at a node of the network can be successfully reconstructed when measuring…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2024-10-11 Tyrus Berry , Timothy Sauer

In this work, we study the real-time tracking and reconstruction of an information source with the purpose of actuation. A device monitors the state of the information source and transmits status updates to a receiver over a wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Mehrdad Salimnejad , Marios Kountouris , Nikolaos Pappas

Ordered sequences of univariate or multivariate regressions provide statistical models for analysing data from randomized, possibly sequential interventions, from cohort or multi-wave panel studies, but also from cross-sectional or…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-03-19 Nanny Wermuth , Kayvan Sadeghi

For a tree Markov random field non-reconstruction is said to hold if as the depth of the tree goes to infinity the information that a typical configuration at the leaves gives about the value at the root goes to zero. The distribution of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-07-28 Nayantara Bhatnagar , Elitza Maneva

Recovering hidden graph-like structures from potentially noisy data is a fundamental task in modern data analysis. Recently, a persistence-guided discrete Morse-based framework to extract a geometric graph from low-dimensional data has…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Tamal K. Dey , Jiayuan Wang , Yusu Wang

We consider the problem of learning a graph modeling the statistical relations of the $d$ variables from a dataset with $n$ samples $X \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times d}$. Standard approaches amount to searching for a precision matrix $\Theta$…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-13 Titouan Vayer , Etienne Lasalle , Rémi Gribonval , Paulo Gonçalves

Discrete Markov random fields are undirected graphical models that capture complex conditional dependencies between discrete variables. Conducting exact posterior inference in these models is often computationally challenging because…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-10 Giuseppe Arena , Maarten Marsman