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Graph neural networks use relational information as an inductive bias to enhance prediction performance. Not rarely, task-relevant relations are unknown and graph structure learning approaches have been proposed to learn them from data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Alessandro Manenti , Daniele Zambon , Cesare Alippi

Undirected probabilistic graphical models represent the conditional dependencies, or Markov properties, of a collection of random variables. Knowing the sparsity of such a graphical model is valuable for modeling multivariate distributions…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-28 Ricardo Baptista , Youssef Marzouk , Rebecca E. Morrison , Olivier Zahm

We introduce Ising-H\"usler-Reiss processes, a new class of multivariate L\'evy processes that allows for sparse modeling of the path-wise conditional independence structure between marginal stable processes with different stability…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-13 Florian Brück , Sebastian Engelke , Stanislav Volgushev

We introduce a new embarrassingly parallel parameter learning algorithm for Markov random fields with untied parameters which is efficient for a large class of practical models. Our algorithm parallelizes naturally over cliques and, for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-02-06 Yariv Dror Mizrahi , Misha Denil , Nando de Freitas

We analyze the complexity of learning directed acyclic graphical models from observational data in general settings without specific distributional assumptions. Our approach is information-theoretic and uses a local Markov boundary search…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Ming Gao , Bryon Aragam

Markov random fields are used to model high dimensional distributions in a number of applied areas. Much recent interest has been devoted to the reconstruction of the dependency structure from independent samples from the Markov random…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-03-09 Guy Bresler , Elchanan Mossel , Allan Sly

We consider structure discovery of undirected graphical models from observational data. Inferring likely structures from few examples is a complex task often requiring the formulation of priors and sophisticated inference procedures.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-04 Eugene Belilovsky , Kyle Kastner , Gaël Varoquaux , Matthew Blaschko

Probabilistic graphical models (PGMs) provide a compact and flexible framework to model very complex real-life phenomena. They combine the probability theory which deals with uncertainty and logical structure represented by a graph which…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-01 Maryia Shpak

Understanding causal relationships between variables is a fundamental problem with broad impact in numerous scientific fields. While extensive research has been dedicated to learning causal graphs from data, its complementary concept of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Jiaqi Zhang , Kirankumar Shiragur , Caroline Uhler

We consider the problem of reconstructing the graph underlying an Ising model from i.i.d. samples. Over the last fifteen years this problem has been of significant interest in the statistics, machine learning, and statistical physics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-02 Guy Bresler

We study the problem of learning the structure and parameters of the Ising model, a fundamental model of high-dimensional data, when observing the evolution of an associated Markov chain. A recent line of work has studied the natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Jason Gaitonde , Ankur Moitra , Elchanan Mossel

Graph structure learning aims to learn connectivity in a graph from data. It is particularly important for many computer vision related tasks since no explicit graph structure is available for images for most cases. A natural way to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Yaohua Wang , FangYi Zhang , Ming Lin , Senzhang Wang , Xiuyu Sun , Rong Jin

Inferring the graph structure from observed data is a key task in graph machine learning to capture the intrinsic relationship between data entities. While significant advancements have been made in learning the structure of homogeneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Keyue Jiang , Bohan Tang , Xiaowen Dong , Laura Toni

Identifying the Markov properties or conditional independencies of a collection of random variables is a fundamental task in statistics for modeling and inference. Existing approaches often learn the structure of a probabilistic graphical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Sarah Liaw , Rebecca Morrison , Youssef Marzouk , Ricardo Baptista

Learning a graph topology to reveal the underlying relationship between data entities plays an important role in various machine learning and data analysis tasks. Under the assumption that structured data vary smoothly over a graph, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-23 Xingyue Pu , Tianyue Cao , Xiaoyun Zhang , Xiaowen Dong , Siheng Chen

The change detection problem is to determine if the Markov network structures of two Markov random fields differ from one another given two sets of samples drawn from the respective underlying distributions. We study the trade-off between…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Aditya Gangrade , Bobak Nazer , Venkatesh Saligrama

Learning the structure of Markov random fields (MRFs) plays an important role in multivariate analysis. The importance has been increasing with the recent rise of statistical relational models since the MRF serves as a building block of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-04 Yuya Takashina , Shuyo Nakatani , Masato Inoue

We study the problem of learning a latent tree graphical model where samples are available only from a subset of variables. We propose two consistent and computationally efficient algorithms for learning minimal latent trees, that is, trees…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-09-15 Myung Jin Choi , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Animashree Anandkumar , Alan S. Willsky

We consider the problem of learning the underlying graph of a sparse Ising model with $p$ nodes from $n$ i.i.d. samples. The most recent and best performing approaches combine an empirical loss (the logistic regression loss or the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-17 Antoine Dedieu , Miguel Lázaro-Gredilla , Dileep George

We describe a new method for the random sampling of connected networks with a specified degree sequence. We consider both the case of simple graphs and that of loopless multigraphs. The constraints of fixed degrees and of connectedness are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-12-03 Szabolcs Horvát , Carl D. Modes