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In this paper, the problem of decentralized eigenvalue decomposition of a general symmetric matrix that is important, e.g., in Principal Component Analysis, is studied, and a decentralized online learning algorithm is proposed. Instead of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-14 Yufan Fan , Minh Trinh-Hoang , Cemil Emre Ardic , Marius Pesavento

Typically, graph structures are represented by one of three different matrices: the adjacency matrix, the unnormalised and the normalised graph Laplacian matrices. The spectral (eigenvalue) properties of these different matrices are…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-01-27 J. F. Lutzeyer , A. T. Walden

Semi-supervised learning is highly useful in common scenarios where labeled data is scarce but unlabeled data is abundant. The graph (or nonlocal) Laplacian is a fundamental smoothing operator for solving various learning tasks. For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Or Streicher , Guy Gilboa

Motivated by discrete Laplacian differential operators with various accuracy orders in numerical analysis, we introduce new matrices attached to a simple graph that can be considered graph Laplacians with higher accuracy. In particular, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Mary Yoon

We present a new method for upper bounding the second eigenvalue of the Laplacian of graphs. Our approach uses multi-commodity flows to deform the geometry of the graph; we embed the resulting metric into Euclidean space to recover a bound…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-08-09 Punyashloka Biswal , James R. Lee , Satish Rao

Matching articulated shapes represented by voxel-sets reduces to maximal sub-graph isomorphism when each set is described by a weighted graph. Spectral graph theory can be used to map these graphs onto lower dimensional spaces and match…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Diana Mateus , Radu Horaud , David Knossow , Fabio Cuzzolin , Edmond Boyer

The original contributions of this paper are twofold: a new understanding of the influence of noise on the eigenvectors of the graph Laplacian of a set of image patches, and an algorithm to estimate a denoised set of patches from a noisy…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2012-03-01 Francois G. Meyer , Xilin Shen

The Fiedler vector of a graph, namely the eigenvector corresponding to the second smallest eigenvalue of a graph Laplacian matrix, plays an important role in spectral graph theory with applications in problems such as graph bi-partitioning…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-10-13 Vishwaraj Doshi , Do Young Eun

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have proven to be successful tools for semi-supervised classification on graph-based datasets. We propose a new GCN variant whose three-part filter space is targeted at dense graphs. Examples include…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Dominik Alfke , Martin Stoll

We study the design of local algorithms for massive graphs. A local algorithm is one that finds a solution containing or near a given vertex without looking at the whole graph. We present a local clustering algorithm. Our algorithm finds a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-09-19 Daniel A. Spielman , Shang-Hua Teng

The eigenvalue problem of a graph Laplacian matrix $L$ arising from a simple, connected and undirected graph has been given more attention due to its extensive applications, such as spectral clustering, community detection, complex network,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-23 Wei-Qiang Huang , Wen-Wei Lin , Henry Horng-Shing Lu , Shing-Tung Yau

In this paper we investigate some properties of the Fiedler vector, the so-called first non-trivial eigenvector of the Laplacian matrix of a graph. There are important results about the Fiedler vector to identify spectral cuts in graphs but…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Julien Lefevre , Justine Fraize , David Germanaud

Modern graph clustering applications require the analysis of large graphs and this can be computationally expensive. In this regard, local spectral graph clustering methods aim to identify well-connected clusters around a given "seed set"…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Kimon Fountoulakis , Farbod Roosta-Khorasan , Julian Shun , Xiang Cheng , Michael W. Mahoney

This note introduces a result on the location of eigenvalues, i.e., the spectrum, of the Laplacian for a family of undirected graphs with self-loops. We extend on the known results for the spectrum of undirected graphs without self-loops or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-09 Behcet Acikmese

In this paper, we detail the improvement of the Cascadic Multigrid algorithm with the addition of the Gauss Seidel algorithm in order to compute the Fiedler vector of a graph Laplacian, which is the eigenvector corresponding to the second…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-16 Shivam Gandhi

The area of Data Analytics on graphs promises a paradigm shift as we approach information processing of classes of data, which are typically acquired on irregular but structured domains (social networks, various ad-hoc sensor networks).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Ljubisa Stankovic , Danilo Mandic , Milos Dakovic , Milos Brajovic , Bruno Scalzo , Tony Constantinides

With the development of quantum algorithms, high-cost computations are being scrutinized in the hope of a quantum advantage. While graphs offer a convenient framework for multiple real-world problems, their analytics still comes with high…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-11 Slimane Thabet , Jean-Francois Hullo

Laplacian mixture models identify overlapping regions of influence in unlabeled graph and network data in a scalable and computationally efficient way, yielding useful low-dimensional representations. By combining Laplacian eigenspace and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-03 Daniel Korenblum

The smallest eigenvalues and the associated eigenvectors (i.e., eigenpairs) of a graph Laplacian matrix have been widely used for spectral clustering and community detection. However, in real-life applications the number of clusters or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Pin-Yu Chen , Baichuan Zhang , Mohammad Al Hasan , Alfred O. Hero

The eigenvectors for graph $1$-Laplacian possess some sort of localization property: On one hand, any nodal domain of an eigenvector is again an eigenvector with the same eigenvalue; on the other hand, one can pack up an eigenvector for a…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-01-04 K. C. Chang , Sihong Shao , Dong Zhang