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Probabilistic logical rule learning has shown great strength in logical rule mining and knowledge graph completion. It learns logical rules to predict missing edges by reasoning on existing edges in the knowledge graph. However, previous…

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This paper proposes probabilistic conformal prediction (PCP), a predictive inference algorithm that estimates a target variable by a discontinuous predictive set. Given inputs, PCP construct the predictive set based on random samples from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-22 Zhendong Wang , Ruijiang Gao , Mingzhang Yin , Mingyuan Zhou , David M. Blei

Statistical inference for exponential-family models of random graphs with dependent edges is challenging. We stress the importance of additional structure and show that additional structure facilitates statistical inference. A simple…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-13 Michael Schweinberger , Jonathan Stewart

In this work, we provide the first practical evaluation of the structural rounding framework for approximation algorithms. Structural rounding works by first editing to a well-structured class, efficiently solving the edited instance, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Brian Lavallee , Hayley Russell , Blair D. Sullivan , Andrew van der Poel

Extremal Graph Theory aims to determine bounds for graph invariants as well as the graphs attaining those bounds. We are currently developping PHOEG, an ecosystem of tools designed to help researchers in Extremal Graph Theory. It uses a big…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Gauvain Devillez , Pierre Hauweele , Hadrien Mélot

Graph embeddings have become a key and widely used technique within the field of graph mining, proving to be successful across a broad range of domains including social, citation, transportation and biological. Graph embedding techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Stephen Bonner , Ibad Kureshi , John Brennan , Georgios Theodoropoulos , Andrew Stephen McGough , Boguslaw Obara

For joint inference over multiple variables, a variety of structured prediction techniques have been developed to model correlations among variables and thereby improve predictions. However, many classical approaches suffer from one of two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Colin Graber , Alexander Schwing

The performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) is increasingly governed by data efficiency rather than raw scaling volume. However, existing selection methods often decouple global distribution balancing from local instance selection,…

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We introduce an algorithm for estimating the entropy of pairwise, probabilistic graph models by leveraging bridges between social communities and an accurate entropy estimator on sparse samples. We propose using a measure of investment from…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-01-13 Edward D. Lee

The Graphical House Allocation problem asks: how can $n$ houses (each with a fixed non-negative value) be assigned to the vertices of an undirected graph $G$, so as to minimize the "aggregate local envy", i.e., the sum of absolute…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Hadi Hosseini , Andrew McGregor , Rik Sengupta , Rohit Vaish , Vignesh Viswanathan

Model-based approaches bear great promise for decision making of agents interacting with the physical world. In the context of spatial environments, different types of problems such as localisation, mapping, navigation or autonomous…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-21 Atanas Mirchev , Baris Kayalibay , Maximilian Soelch , Patrick van der Smagt , Justin Bayer

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are powerful tools on graph data. However, their predictions are mis-calibrated and lack interpretability, limiting their adoption in critical applications. To address this issue, we propose a new…

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Despite the flexibility and popularity of mixture models, their associated parameter spaces are often difficult to represent due to fundamental identification problems. This paper looks at a novel way of representing such a space for…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-10-16 Vahed Maroufy , Paul Marriott

Gaussian processes (GPs) defined through intrinsic random fields provide a flexible framework for modeling spatial phenomena, and have been advocated in a variety of applications over the past several decades. Nevertheless, their adoption…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Christopher Beattie , David Higdon , Leanna House , Colby Stakun-Pickering , Jared Clark

We consider probabilistic topic models and more recent word embedding techniques from a perspective of learning hidden semantic representations. Inspired by a striking similarity of the two approaches, we merge them and learn probabilistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Anna Potapenko , Artem Popov , Konstantin Vorontsov

Bayesian nonparametric mixtures and random partition models are powerful tools for probabilistic clustering. However, standard independent mixture models can be restrictive in some applications such as inference on cell lineage due to the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-15 Giovanni Rebaudo , Peter Mueller

Trustworthy decision making in networked, dynamic environments calls for innovative uncertainty quantification substrates in predictive models for graph time series. Existing conformal prediction (CP) methods have been applied separately to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Sonakshi Dua , Gonzalo Mateos , Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri

This article demonstrates how an understanding of the geometry of a family of cost functions can be used to develop efficient numerical algorithms for real-time optimisation. Crucially, it is not the geometry of the individual functions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-12-11 Jonathan H. Manton

An emerging trend in approximate counting is to show that certain `low-temperature' problems are easy on typical instances, despite worst-case hardness results. For the class of regular graphs one usually shows that expansion can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Charles Carlson , Ewan Davies , Alexandra Kolla

The paper examines the construction and analysis of a new class of mixed exponential statistical structures that combine the properties of stochastic models and linear positive operators. The relevance of the topic is driven by the growing…

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