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In this paper, we consider the problem of distributed inference in tree based networks. In the framework considered in this paper, distributed nodes make a 1-bit local decision regarding a phenomenon before sending it to the fusion center…

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We propose TD-GEN, a graph generation framework based on tree decomposition, and introduce a reduced upper bound on the maximum number of decisions needed for graph generation. The framework includes a permutation invariant tree generation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Hamed Shirzad , Hossein Hajimirsadeghi , Amir H. Abdi , Greg Mori

Graph clustering is a fundamental technique in data analysis with applications in many different fields. While there is a large body of work on clustering undirected graphs, the problem of clustering directed graphs is much less understood.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-01-31 James Martin , Tim Rogers , Luca Zanetti

We consider the problem of explaining the predictions of graph neural networks (GNNs), which otherwise are considered as black boxes. Existing methods invariably focus on explaining the importance of graph nodes or edges but ignore the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Hao Yuan , Haiyang Yu , Jie Wang , Kang Li , Shuiwang Ji

We present an approach to the solution of decision problems formulated as influence diagrams. This approach involves a special triangulation of the underlying graph, the construction of a junction tree with special properties, and a message…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-28 Frank Jensen , Finn Verner Jensen , Soren L. Dittmer

A novel graph-to-tree conversion mechanism called the deep-tree generation (DTG) algorithm is first proposed to predict text data represented by graphs. The DTG method can generate a richer and more accurate representation for nodes (or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Fenxiao Chen , Bin Wang , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Attributed graph clustering is challenging as it requires joint modelling of graph structures and node attributes. Recent progress on graph convolutional networks has proved that graph convolution is effective in combining structural and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Xiaotong Zhang , Han Liu , Qimai Li , Xiao-Ming Wu

Foundation models are pretrained on large-scale corpora to learn generalizable patterns across domains and tasks -- such as contours, textures, and edges in images, or tokens and sentences in text. In contrast, discovering such generalities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zehong Wang , Zheyuan Zhang , Tianyi Ma , Nitesh V Chawla , Chuxu Zhang , Yanfang Ye

Graphs, and sequences of growing graphs, can be used to specify the architecture of mathematical models in many fields including machine learning and computational science. Here we define structured graph "lineages" (ordered by level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Eric Mjolsness , Cory B. Scott

Stochastic Block Models (SBMs) are a popular approach to modeling single real-world graphs. The key idea of SBMs is to partition the vertices of the graph into blocks with similar edge densities within, as well as between different blocks.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Iiro Kumpulainen , Sebastian Dalleiger , Jilles Vreeken , Nikolaj Tatti

We introduce a cluster evaluation technique called Tree Index. Our Tree Index algorithm aims at describing the structural information of the clustering rather than the quantitative format of cluster-quality indexes (where the representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-25 A. H. Beg , Md Zahidul Islam , Vladimir Estivill-Castro

Graph-based convolutional model such as non-local block has shown to be effective for strengthening the context modeling ability in convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, its pixel-wise computational overhead is prohibitive which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Xiangtai Li , Xia Li , Ansheng You , Li Zhang , Guangliang Cheng , Kuiyuan Yang , Yunhai Tong , Zhouchen Lin

Outstanding achievements of graph neural networks for spatiotemporal time series analysis show that relational constraints introduce an effective inductive bias into neural forecasting architectures. Often, however, the relational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Andrea Cini , Daniele Zambon , Cesare Alippi

Clustering points in a vector space or nodes in a graph is a ubiquitous primitive in statistical data analysis, and it is commonly used for exploratory data analysis. In practice, it is often of interest to "refine" or "improve" a given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-03 K. Fountoulakis , M. Liu , D. F. Gleich , M. W. Mahoney

We present a graph-theoretical approach to data clustering, which combines the creation of a graph from the data with Markov Stability, a multiscale community detection framework. We show how the multiscale capabilities of the method allow…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Zijing Liu , Mauricio Barahona

Graph neural networks are useful for learning problems, as well as for combinatorial and graph problems such as the Subgraph Isomorphism Problem and the Traveling Salesman Problem. We describe an approach for computing Steiner Trees by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Reyan Ahmed , Mithun Ghosh , Kwang-Sung Jun , Stephen Kobourov

Graph analytics for large scale graphs has gained interest in recent years. Many graph algorithms have been designed for vertex-centric distributed graph processing frameworks to operate on large graphs with 100 M vertices and edges, using…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Diptanshu Kakwani , Yogesh Simmhan

Graphical network inference is used in many fields such as genomics or ecology to infer the conditional independence structure between variables, from measurements of gene expression or species abundances for instance. In many practical…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-03-22 Geneviève Robin , Christophe Ambroise , Stéphane Robin

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are shown to be successful in modeling applications with graph structures. However, training an accurate GNN model requires a large collection of labeled data and expressive features, which might be inaccessible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Ziniu Hu , Changjun Fan , Ting Chen , Kai-Wei Chang , Yizhou Sun

A spanning tree of a network or graph is a subgraph that connects all nodes with the least number or weight of edges. The spanning tree is one of the most straightforward techniques for network simplification and sampling, and for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Lovro Šubelj