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Scalings in which the graph Laplacian approaches a differential operator in the large graph limit are used to develop understanding of a number of algorithms for semi-supervised learning; in particular the extension, to this graph setting,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-01 Matthew M. Dunlop , Dejan Slepčev , Andrew M. Stuart , Matthew Thorpe

Graph connection Laplacian (GCL) is a modern data analysis technique that is starting to be applied for the analysis of high dimensional and massive datasets. Motivated by this technique, we study matrices that are akin to the ones…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-11-18 Noureddine El Karoui , Hau-tieng Wu

We provide a theoretical analysis of the representation learning problem aimed at learning the latent variables (design matrix) $\Theta$ of observations $Y$ with the knowledge of the coefficient matrix $X$. The design matrix is learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Kaige Yang , Xiaowen Dong , Laura Toni

Graph-based methods have been quite successful in solving unsupervised and semi-supervised learning problems, as they provide a means to capture the underlying geometry of the dataset. It is often desirable for the constructed graph to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Aamir Anis , Aly El Gamal , Salman Avestimehr , Antonio Ortega

Consider any random graph model where potential edges appear independently, with possibly different probabilities, and assume that the minimum expected degree is omega(ln n). We prove that the adjacency matrix and the Laplacian of that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-02-10 Roberto Imbuzeiro Oliveira

Many problems in machine learning can be expressed by means of a graph with nodes representing training samples and edges representing the relationship between samples in terms of similarity, temporal proximity, or label information. Graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Laurenz Wiskott , Fabian Schönfeld

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

Geometric variations like rotation, scaling, and viewpoint changes pose a significant challenge to visual understanding. One common solution is to directly model certain intrinsic structures, e.g., using landmarks. However, it then becomes…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-13 Xiuyuan Cheng , Zichen Miao , Qiang Qiu

This paper is devoted to the investigation of the spectral theory and dynamical properties of periodic graphs which are not locally finite but carry non-negative, symmetric and summable edge weights. These graphs are shown to exhibit rather…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Joachim Kerner , Olaf Post , Mostafa Sabri , Matthias Täufer

An account is given on newest developments on $p$-adic boundary value problems on $p$-adic analytic manifolds and their relationship with diffusion. In particular, novel coordinate Laplacians on $p$-adic analytic $n$-manifolds constructed…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Patrick Erik Bradley

In this paper, we examine the controllability of Laplacian dynamic networks on cographs. Cographs appear in modeling a wide range of networks and include as special instances, the threshold graphs. In this work, we present necessary and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-25 Shima Sadat Mousavi , Mohammad Haeri , Mehran Mesbahi

Segmentation is an essential operation of image processing. The convolution operation suffers from a limited receptive field, while global modelling is fundamental to segmentation tasks. In this paper, we apply graph convolution into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Yanda Meng , Hongrun Zhang , Dongxu Gao , Yitian Zhao , Xiaoyun Yang , Xuesheng Qian , Xiaowei Huang , Yalin Zheng

Graphs with diverse structural characteristics play a central role in modelling and optimization tasks. The ability to generate different types of graphs that exhibit shared properties is likewise essential for algorithm selection and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Hendrik Richter , Frank Neumann

Hypergraphs extend traditional graphs by enabling the representation of N-ary relationships through higher-order edges. Akin to a common approach of deriving graph Laplacians, we define function spaces and corresponding symmetric products…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Jo Andersson Stokke , Ronny Bergmann , Martin Hanik , Christoph von Tycowicz

The spectrum of the normalized graph Laplacian yields a very comprehensive set of invariants of a graph. In order to understand the information contained in those invariants better, we systematically investigate the behavior of this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-19 Anirban Banerjee , Jürgen Jost

Quantum graphs have attracted attention from mathematicians for some time. A quantum graph is defined by having a Laplacian on each edge of a metric graph and imposing boundary conditions at the vertices to get an eigenvalue problem. A…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Mats-Erik Pistol , Pavel Kurasov

The increasing availability of geometric data has motivated the need for information processing over non-Euclidean domains modeled as manifolds. The building block for information processing architectures with desirable theoretical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-22 Zhiyang Wang , Luana Ruiz , Alejandro Ribeiro

Based on the Riemannian manifold model, we study the asymptotic behavior of a widely applied unsupervised learning algorithm, locally linear embedding (LLE), when the point cloud is sampled from a compact, smooth manifold with boundary. We…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-27 Hau-tieng Wu , Nan Wu

Theoretical analyses for graph learning methods often assume a complete observation of the input graph. Such an assumption might not be useful for handling any-size graphs due to the scalability issues in practice. In this work, we develop…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Takanori Maehara , Hoang NT

We consider the problem of offline, pool-based active semi-supervised learning on graphs. This problem is important when the labeled data is scarce and expensive whereas unlabeled data is easily available. The data points are represented by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-05-20 Akshay Gadde , Aamir Anis , Antonio Ortega