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Fueled by the expressive power of deep neural networks, normalizing flows have achieved spectacular success in generative modeling, or learning to draw new samples from a distribution given a finite dataset of training samples. Normalizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Yuehaw Khoo , Michael Lindsey , Hongli Zhao

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) are a family of neural network models that perform inference on graph data by interleaving vertex-wise operations and message-passing exchanges across nodes. Concerning the latter, two key questions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Indro Spinelli , Simone Scardapane , Aurelio Uncini

Network science provides valuable insights across numerous disciplines including sociology, biology, neuroscience and engineering. A task of major practical importance in these application domains is inferring the network structure from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Vassilis N. Ioannidis , Yanning Shen , Georgios B. Giannakis

We consider the problem of identifying the topology of a weighted, undirected network $\mathcal G$ from observing snapshots of multiple independent consensus dynamics. Specifically, we observe the opinion profiles of a group of agents for a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Santiago Segarra , Michael T. Schaub , Ali Jadbabaie

We study the correspondence between Bayesian Networks and graphical representation of proofs in linear logic. The goal of this paper is threefold: to develop a proof-theoretical account of Bayesian inference (in the spirit of the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Rémi Di Guardia , Thomas Ehrhard , Jérôme Evrard , Claudia Faggian

Quantifying predictive uncertainty of neural networks has recently attracted increasing attention. In this work, we focus on measuring uncertainty of graph neural networks (GNNs) for the task of node classification. Most existing GNNs model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Zhao Xu , Carolin Lawrence , Ammar Shaker , Raman Siarheyeu

A graphical model is a structured representation of locally dependent random variables. A traditional method to reason over these random variables is to perform inference using belief propagation. When provided with the true data generating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Victor Garcia Satorras , Max Welling

In this article, we present a visual introduction to Gaussian Belief Propagation (GBP), an approximate probabilistic inference algorithm that operates by passing messages between the nodes of arbitrarily structured factor graphs. A special…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Joseph Ortiz , Talfan Evans , Andrew J. Davison

Network tomography refers to the use of inference techniques for inferring internal network states from end-to-end probes. Quantum probes, implemented by sending blocks of $n$ coherent-state pulses augmented with continuous-variable (CV)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Yufei Zheng , Zihao Gong , Saikat Guha , Don Towsley

Real-world social and/or operational networks consist of agents with associated states, whose connectivity forms complex topologies. This complexity is further compounded by interconnected information layers, consisting, for instance,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Shahin Mahdizadehaghdam , Han Wang , Hamid Krim , Liyi Dai

The characterisation of quantum networks is fundamental to understanding how energy and information propagates through complex systems, with applications in control, communication, error mitigation and energy transfer. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Conall J. Campbell , Matthew Mackinnon , Mauro Paternostro , Diana A. Chisholm

Inferring network topology from smooth signals is a significant problem in data science and engineering. A common challenge in real-world scenarios is the availability of only partially observed nodes. While some studies have considered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Chuansen Peng , Hanning Tang , Zhiguo Wang , Xiaojing Shen

Network metrics form a fundamental part of the network analysis toolbox. Used to quantitatively measure different aspects of the network, these metrics can give insights into the underlying network structure and function. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-04 Harold Soh

This paper builds on the connection between graph neural networks and traditional dynamical systems. We propose continuous graph neural networks (CGNN), which generalise existing graph neural networks with discrete dynamics in that they can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Louis-Pascal A. C. Xhonneux , Meng Qu , Jian Tang

The expressive power of Bayesian kernel-based methods has led them to become an important tool across many different facets of artificial intelligence, and useful to a plethora of modern application domains, providing both power and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Luca Martino , Jesse Read

Variational inference algorithms such as belief propagation have had tremendous impact on our ability to learn and use graphical models, and give many insights for developing or understanding exact and approximate inference. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Qiang Liu , Alexander T. Ihler

Network data are ubiquitous in modern machine learning, with tasks of interest including node classification, node clustering and link prediction. A frequent approach begins by learning an Euclidean embedding of the network, to which…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-18 Andrew Davison , Morgane Austern

In many areas such as computational biology, finance or social sciences, knowledge of an underlying graph explaining the interactions between agents is of paramount importance but still challenging. Considering that these interactions may…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-29 Mircea Moscu , Ricardo A. Borsoi , Cédric Richard , José-Carlos M. Bermudez

We propose Graph Tree Networks (GTNets), a deep graph learning architecture with a new general message passing scheme that originates from the tree representation of graphs. In the tree representation, messages propagate upward from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Nan Wu , Chaofan Wang

Effectively compressing and optimizing tensor networks requires reliable methods for fixing the latent degrees of freedom of the tensors, known as the gauge. Here we introduce a new algorithm for gauging tensor networks using belief…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-03 Joseph Tindall , Matthew T. Fishman