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Probabilistic graphical modeling is a branch of machine learning that uses probability distributions to describe the world, make predictions, and support decision-making under uncertainty. Underlying this modeling framework is an elegant…

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Proximity graphs are used in several areas in which a neighborliness relationship for input data sets is a useful tool in their analysis, and have also received substantial attention from the graph drawing community, as they are a natural…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-08-06 Boris Aronov , Muriel Dulieu , Ferran Hurtado

Two types of probabilistic maps are popular in the mobile robotics literature: occupancy grids and geometric maps. Occupancy grids have the advantages of simplicity and speed, but they represent only a restricted class of maps and they make…

Robotics · Computer Science 2012-07-09 Mark Paskin , Sebastian Thrun

We analyse graphs in which each vertex is assigned random coordinates in a geometric space of arbitrary dimensionality and only edges between adjacent points are present. The critical connectivity is found numerically by examining the size…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jesper Dall , Michael Christensen

The problem of continuum percolation in dispersions of rods is reformulated in terms of weighted random geometric graphs. Nodes (or sites or vertices) in the graph represent spatial locations occupied by the centers of the rods. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-30 Avik P. Chatterjee , Claudio Grimaldi

Directed acyclic graphs are a fundamental class of networks that includes citation networks, food webs, and family trees, among others. Here we define a random graph model for directed acyclic graphs and give solutions for a number of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-03-23 Brian Karrer , M. E. J. Newman

Probabilistic graphical models (PGMs) have become a popular tool for computational analysis of biological data in a variety of domains. But, what exactly are they and how do they work? How can we use PGMs to discover patterns that are…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2010-02-22 Edoardo M Airoldi

The characterization of distance-regular Cayley graphs originated from the problem of identifying strongly regular Cayley graphs, or equivalently, regular partial difference sets. In this paper, a classification of distance-regular Cayley…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Xueyi Huang , Kinkar Chandra Das , Lu Lu

Let P_{n,d,D} denote the graph taken uniformly at random from the set of all labelled planar graphs on {1,2,...,n} with minimum degree at least d(n) and maximum degree at most D(n). We use counting arguments to investigate the probability…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-01-28 Chris Dowden

In this paper, we propose a general graph optimization based framework for localization, which can accommodate different types of measurements with varying measurement time intervals. Special emphasis will be on range-based localization.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Xu Fang , Chen Wang , Thien-Minh Nguyen , Lihua Xie

Persistence diagrams are one of the main tools in the field of Topological Data Analysis (TDA). They contain fruitful information about the shape of data. The use of machine learning algorithms on the space of persistence diagrams proves to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Yu-Min Chung , Austin Lawson

Graphs are used to model interactions in a variety of contexts, and there is a growing need to quickly assess the structure of such graphs. Some of the most useful graph metrics are based on triangles, such as those measuring social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-10-21 C. Seshadhri , Ali Pinar , Tamara G. Kolda

Persistence diagrams (PDs), often characterized as sets of death and birth of homology class, have been known for providing a topological representation of a graph structure, which is often useful in machine learning tasks. Prior works rely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Chau Pham , Trung Dang , Peter Chin

Random planar graphs have been the subject of much recent work. Many basic properties of the standard uniform random planar graph P_{n}, by which we mean a graph chosen uniformly at random from the set of all planar graphs with vertex set…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-07-23 Chris Dowden

Research in transportation frequently involve modelling and predicting attributes of events that occur at regular intervals. The event could be arrival of a bus at a bus stop, the volume of a traffic at a particular point, the demand at a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-08-14 Narayanan U. Edakunni , Aditi Raghunathan , Abhishek Tripathi , John Handley , Fredric Roulland

Statistical pattern recognition methods based on the Coherence Length Diagram (CLD) have been proposed for medical image analyses, such as quantitative characterisation of human skin textures, and for polarized light microscopy of liquid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-05-11 A. Sparavigna , R. Marazzato

We consider a special type of interval catch digraph (ICD) family for one-dimensional data in a randomized setting and propose its use for testing uniformity. These ICDs are defined with an expansion and a centrality parameter, hence we…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-01-10 Elvan Ceyhan

While there has been much interest in adapting conventional clustering procedures---and in higher dimensions, persistent homology methods---to directed networks, little is known about the convergence of such methods. In order to even…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Samir Chowdhury , Facundo Mémoli

The connection between contextuality and graph theory has led to many developments in the field. In particular, the sets of probability distributions in many contextuality scenarios can be described using well known convex sets from graph…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-19 Barbara Amaral , Marcelo Terra Cunha

We study a general framework of distributional computational graphs: computational graphs whose inputs are probability distributions rather than point values. We analyze the discretization error that arises when these graphs are evaluated…

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