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In this work we provide a new technique to design fast approximation algorithms for graph problems where the points of the graph lie in a metric space. Specifically, we present a sampling approach for such metric graphs that, using a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Hossein Esfandiari , Michael Mitzenmacher

We propose a sampling theory for signals that are supported on either directed or undirected graphs. The theory follows the same paradigm as classical sampling theory. We show that perfect recovery is possible for graph signals bandlimited…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Siheng Chen , Rohan Varma , Aliaksei Sandryhaila , Jelena Kovačević

Graph pooling is a family of operations which take graphs as input and produce shrinked graphs as output. Modern graph pooling methods are trainable and, in general inserted in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) architectures as graph shrinking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Yizhu Chen

Inspired by the conventional pooling layers in convolutional neural networks, many recent works in the field of graph machine learning have introduced pooling operators to reduce the size of graphs. The great variety in the literature stems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Daniele Grattarola , Daniele Zambon , Filippo Maria Bianchi , Cesare Alippi

We investigate structural properties of large, sparse random graphs through the lens of "sampling convergence" (Borgs et. al. (2017)). Sampling convergence generalizes left convergence to sparse graphs, and describes the limit in terms of a…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-07-04 Christian Borgs , Jennifer T. Chayes , Souvik Dhara , Subhabrata Sen

Obtaining sparse, interpretable representations of observable data is crucial in many machine learning and signal processing tasks. For data representing flows along the edges of a graph, an intuitively interpretable way to obtain such…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Josef Hoppe , Michael T. Schaub

Graph sparsification is a powerful tool to approximate an arbitrary graph and has been used in machine learning over homogeneous graphs. In heterogeneous graphs such as knowledge graphs, however, sparsification has not been systematically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Chandan Chunduru , Chun Jiang Zhu , Blake Gains , Jinbo Bi

We consider sampling in the so-called low-temperature regime, which is typically characterised by non-local behaviour and strong global correlations. Canonical examples include sampling independent sets on bipartite graphs and sampling from…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Andreas Galanis , Leslie Ann Goldberg , Paulina Smolarova

Partitioning a graph into three pieces, with two of them large and connected, and the third a small ``separator'' set, is useful for improving the performance of a number of combinatorial algorithms. This is done using the second…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 David De Wit

In this work, we present a theoretical study of signals with sparse representations in the vertex domain of a graph, which is primarily motivated by the discrepancy arising from respectively adopting a synthesis and analysis view of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-16 Madeleine S. Kotzagiannidis , Mike E. Davies

Recently, graph prompt learning has garnered increasing attention in adapting pre-trained GNN models for downstream graph learning tasks. However, existing works generally conduct prompting over all graph elements (e.g., nodes, edges, node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Bo Jiang , Hao Wu , Beibei Wang , Jin Tang , Bin Luo

Recent work has introduced sparse exchangeable graphs and the associated graphex framework, as a generalization of dense exchangeable graphs and the associated graphon framework. The development of this subject involves the interplay…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-02-12 Christian Borgs , Jennifer T. Chayes , Henry Cohn , Victor Veitch

This paper is concerned with applications of the theory of approximation and interpolation based on compensated convex transforms developed in [K. Zhang, E. Crooks, A. Orlando, Compensated convexity methods for approximations and…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-11 Kewei Zhang , Elaine Crooks , Antonio Orlando

We aim to learn a sparse and connected graph from sparse data, where the number of observations K can be substantially smaller than the signal dimension N for signals x in R^N, and the underlying distribution is unknown. In this severely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Bahar Oveisgharan , Gene Cheung , Andrew Eckford

Sparse approximation is important in many applications because of concise form of an approximant and good accuracy guarantees. The theory of compressed sensing, which proved to be very useful in the image processing and data sciences, is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-20 V. Temlyakov

The study of sampling signals on graphs, with the goal of building an analog of sampling for standard signals in the time and spatial domains, has attracted considerable attention recently. Beyond adding to the growing theory on graph…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-02 Yuichi Tanaka , Yonina C. Eldar , Antonio Ortega , Gene Cheung

We present a novel preconditioning technique for proximal optimization methods that relies on graph algorithms to construct effective preconditioners. Such combinatorial preconditioners arise from partitioning the graph into forests. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-22 Thomas Möllenhoff , Zhenzhang Ye , Tao Wu , Daniel Cremers

Statistical analysis of large and sparse graphs is a challenging problem in data science due to the high dimensionality and nonlinearity of the problem. This paper presents a fast and scalable algorithm for partitioning such graphs into…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Hannu Reittu , Lasse Leskelä , Tomi Räty , Marco Fiorucci

In an era of unprecedented deluge of (mostly unstructured) data, graphs are proving more and more useful, across the sciences, as a flexible abstraction to capture complex relationships between complex objects. One of the main challenges…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-10-17 Alaa Saade

Diffusion kernels over graphs have been widely utilized as effective tools in various applications due to their ability to accurately model the flow of information through nodes and edges. However, there is a notable gap in the literature…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Giuseppe Alessio D'Inverno , Kylian Ajavon , Simone Brugiapaglia