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Markov networks are models for compactly representing complex probability distributions. They are composed by a structure and a set of numerical weights. The structure qualitatively describes independences in the distribution, which can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-07-31 Alejandro Edera , Yanela Strappa , Facundo Bromberg

We characterize the effectiveness of a classical algorithm for recovering the Markov graph of a general discrete pairwise graphical model from i.i.d. samples. The algorithm is (appropriately regularized) maximum conditional log-likelihood,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Shanshan Wu , Sujay Sanghavi , Alexandros G. Dimakis

Sampling random graphs is essential in many applications, and often algorithms use Markov chain Monte Carlo methods to sample uniformly from the space of graphs. However, often there is a need to sample graphs with some property that we are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Caitlin Gray , Lewis Mitchell , Matthew Roughan

Bayesian networks are probabilistic graphical models widely employed to understand dependencies in high dimensional data, and even to facilitate causal discovery. Learning the underlying network structure, which is encoded as a directed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-03 Jack Kuipers , Polina Suter , Giusi Moffa

This paper considers learning of the graphical structure of a $p$-dimensional random vector $X \in R^p$ using both parametric and non-parametric methods. Unlike the previous works which observe $x$ directly, we consider the indirect…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-10 Hang Zhang , Afshin Abdi , Faramarz Fekri

Undirected graphical models known as Markov networks are popular for a wide variety of applications ranging from statistical physics to computational biology. Traditionally, learning of the network structure has been done under the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-26 Johan Pensar , Henrik Nyman , Juha Niiranen , Jukka Corander

We propose an extension of the Contextual Graph Markov Model, a deep and probabilistic machine learning model for graphs, to model the distribution of edge features. Our approach is architectural, as we introduce an additional Bayesian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Daniele Atzeni , Federico Errica , Davide Bacciu , Alessio Micheli

Autoregressive models enable tractable sampling from learned probability distributions, but their performance critically depends on the variable ordering used in the factorization via complexities of the resulting conditional distributions.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-04 Shiba Biswal , Marc Vuffray , Andrey Y. Lokhov

This paper addresses the problem of learning an undirected graph from data gathered at each nodes. Within the graph signal processing framework, the topology of such graph can be linked to the support of the conditional correlation matrix…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Thu Ha Phi , Alexandre Hippert-Ferrer , Florent Bouchard , Arnaud Breloy

The probabilistic graphs framework models the uncertainty inherent in real-world domains by means of probabilistic edges whose value quantifies the likelihood of the edge existence or the strength of the link it represents. The goal of this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-05-25 Claudio Taranto , Nicola Di Mauro , Floriana Esposito

Gaussian Graphical Models (GGMs) or Gauss Markov random fields are widely used in many applications, and the trade-off between the modeling capacity and the efficiency of learning and inference has been an important research problem. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Ying Liu , Alan S. Willsky

We give a simple, multiplicative-weight update algorithm for learning undirected graphical models or Markov random fields (MRFs). The approach is new, and for the well-studied case of Ising models or Boltzmann machines, we obtain an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Adam Klivans , Raghu Meka

We study the problem of learning sparse structure changes between two Markov networks $P$ and $Q$. Rather than fitting two Markov networks separately to two sets of data and figuring out their differences, a recent work proposed to learn…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-04-11 Song Liu , Taiji Suzuki , Raissa Relator , Jun Sese , Masashi Sugiyama , Kenji Fukumizu

In this paper we consider the problem of learning undirected graphical models from data generated according to the Glauber dynamics. The Glauber dynamics is a Markov chain that sequentially updates individual nodes (variables) in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-02 Guy Bresler , David Gamarnik , Devavrat Shah

In this paper, we consider the problem of learning an unknown graph via queries on groups of nodes, with the result indicating whether or not at least one edge is present among those nodes. While learning arbitrary graphs with $n$ nodes and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Zihan Li , Matthias Fresacher , Jonathan Scarlett

The quality of graph-structured data is fundamental to the success of modern graph analysis techniques such as Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). However, real-world graph data is often suboptimal, suffering from issues such as noise and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Shen Han , Zhiyao Zhou , Jiawei Chen , Sheng Zhou , Canghong Jin , Hai Lin , Da Zhong Li , Bingde Hu , Can Wang

This work focuses on the estimation of multiple change-points in a time-varying Ising model that evolves piece-wise constantly. The aim is to identify both the moments at which significant changes occur in the Ising model, as well as the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-01 Batiste Le Bars , Pierre Humbert , Argyris Kalogeratos , Nicolas Vayatis

Learning on large graphs presents significant challenges, with traditional Message Passing Neural Networks suffering from computational and memory costs scaling linearly with the number of edges. We introduce the Intersecting Block Graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Jonathan Kouchly , Ben Finkelshtein , Michael Bronstein , Ron Levie

Traditionally, graph neural networks have been trained using a single observed graph. However, the observed graph represents only one possible realization. In many applications, the graph may encounter uncertainties, such as having…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 See Hian Lee , Feng Ji , Kelin Xia , Wee Peng Tay

We consider random graphs in which the edges are allowed to be dependent. In our model the edge dependence is quite general, we call it $p$-robust random graph. It means that every edge is present with probability at least $p$, regardless…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Zohre Ranjbar-Mojaveri , Andras Farago