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Joint network topology inference represents a canonical problem of jointly learning multiple graph Laplacian matrices from heterogeneous graph signals. In such a problem, a widely employed assumption is that of a simple common component…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-09 Yanli Yuan , De Wen Soh , Xiao Yang , Kun Guo , Tony Q. S. Quek

We propose consensus propagation, an asynchronous distributed protocol for averaging numbers across a network. We establish convergence, characterize the convergence rate for regular graphs, and demonstrate that the protocol exhibits better…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Ciamac C. Moallemi , Benjamin Van Roy

This paper investigates limit points of the deformed Laplacian matrix, which merges the Laplacian and signless Laplacian matrices of a graph through a quadractic one-parameter family of matrices. First, we show that any value greater or…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Elismar R. Oliveira , Jonas Szutkoski , VIlmar Trevisan

The renormalization group is the cornerstone of the modern theory of universality and phase transitions, a powerful tool to scrutinize symmetries and organizational scales in dynamical systems. However, its network counterpart is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-11 Pablo Villegas , Tommaso Gili , Guido Caldarelli , Andrea Gabrielli

The pseudoinverse of a graph Laplacian is used in many applications and fields, such as for instance in the computation of the effective resistance in electrical networks, in the calculation of the hitting/commuting times for a Markov chain…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-30 Angela Fontan , Claudio Altafini

This paper focuses on the consensus and formation problems of multiagent systems under unknown persistent disturbances. Specifically, we propose a novel method that combines an existing consensus (or formation) algorithm with a new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-10-15 Tansel Yucelen , Magnus Egerstedt

In this paper, we introduce a generalization of corona of graphs. This construction generalizes the generalized corona of graphs (consequently, the corona of graphs), the cluster of graphs, the corona-vertex subdivision graph of graphs and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-13 R. Rajkumar , M. Gayathri

In this paper, we study the leaderless consensus problem for multiple Lagrangian systems in the presence of parametric uncertainties and external disturbances under directed graphs. For achieving asymptotic behavior, a robust continuous…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-26 Jie Mei

In this paper, we propose matrix-scaled consensus algorithms for linear dynamical agents interacting over an undirected network. Under the proposed algorithms, the state vectors of all agents to asymptotically agree up to some matrix…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Minh Hoang Trinh , Hoang Huy Vu , Nhat-Minh Le-Phan , Quyen Ngoc Nguyen

Signed graphs encode positive (attractive) and negative (repulsive) relations between nodes. We extend spectral clustering to signed graphs via the one-parameter family of Signed Power Mean Laplacians, defined as the matrix power mean of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Pedro Mercado , Francesco Tudisco , Matthias Hein

An oriented hypergraph is an oriented incidence structure that generalizes and unifies graph and hypergraph theoretic results by examining its locally signed graphic substructure. In this paper we obtain a combinatorial characterization of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Gina Chen , Vivian Liu , Ellen Robinson , Lucas J. Rusnak , Kyle Wang

We introduce a family of new centralities, the k-spectral centralities. k-Spectral centrality is a measurement of importance with respect to the deformation of the graph Laplacian associated with the graph. Due to this connection,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-05-30 Scott D. Pauls , Daniel Remondini

Inverse imaging problems are inherently under-determined, and hence it is important to employ appropriate image priors for regularization. One recent popular prior---the graph Laplacian regularizer---assumes that the target pixel patch is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Jiahao Pang , Gene Cheung

Several invariants of polarized metrized graphs and their applications in Arithmetic Geometry are studied recently. In this paper, we give fast algorithms to compute these invariants by expressing them in terms of the discrete Laplacian…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2012-02-22 Zubeyir Cinkir

The normalized distance Laplacian matrix $\mathcal{D}^{\mathcal{L}}(G)$ of a graph $G$ is a natural generalization of the normalized Laplacian matrix, arising from the matrix of pairwise distances between vertices rather than the adjacency…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-17 John Byrne , Jacob Johnston , Carl Schildkraut , Michael Tait

The graph Laplacian is an important tool in Graph Signal Processing (GSP) as its eigenvalue decomposition acts as an analogue to the Fourier transform and is known as the Graph Fourier Transform (GFT). The line graph has a GFT that is a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-23 Ian M. T. Rooney , Parker S. Kuklinski , David A. Hague

Bi-stochastic normalization provides an alternative normalization of graph Laplacians in graph-based data analysis and can be computed efficiently by Sinkhorn-Knopp (SK) iterations. This paper proves the convergence of bi-stochastically…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-19 Xiuyuan Cheng , Boris Landa

Graphs are fundamental mathematical structures used in various fields to represent data, signals and processes. In this paper, we propose a novel framework for learning/estimating graphs from data. The proposed framework includes (i)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Hilmi E. Egilmez , Eduardo Pavez , Antonio Ortega

In this paper, a consensus algorithm is proposed for interacting multi-agents, which can be modeled as simple Mechanical Control Systems (MCS) evolving on a general Lie group. The standard Laplacian flow consensus algorithm for double…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Akhil B Krishna , Farshad Khorrami , Anthony Tzes

Decentralized optimization is well studied for smooth unconstrained problems. However, constrained problems or problems with composite terms are an open direction for research. We study structured (or composite) optimization problems, where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-10 Alexander Rogozin , Anton Novitskii , Alexander Gasnikov