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We propose a robust method for estimating dynamic 3D curvilinear branching structure from monocular images. While 3D reconstruction from images has been widely studied, estimating thin structure has received less attention. This problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Kyle Simek , Ravishankar Palanivelu , Kobus Barnard

Recent spectral graph sparsification techniques have shown promising performance in accelerating many numerical and graph algorithms, such as iterative methods for solving large sparse matrices, spectral partitioning of undirected graphs,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Ying Zhang , Zhiqiang Zhao , Zhuo Feng

Graph condensation reduces the size of large graphs while preserving performance, addressing the scalability challenges of Graph Neural Networks caused by computational inefficiencies on large datasets. Existing methods often rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Lin Wang , Qing Li

The problems of detecting and recovering planted structures/subgraphs in Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi random graphs, have received significant attention over the past three decades, leading to many exciting results and mathematical techniques.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Dor Elimelech , Wasim Huleihel

Modern 3D semantic scene graph estimation methods utilize ground truth 3D annotations to accurately predict target objects, predicates, and relationships. In the absence of given 3D ground truth representations, we explore leveraging only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Qi Xun Yeo , Yanyan Li , Gim Hee Lee

Establishing dense correspondence across 3D shapes is crucial for fundamental downstream tasks, including texture transfer, shape interpolation, and robotic manipulation. However, learning these mappings without manual supervision remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Qinfeng Xiao , Guofeng Mei , Qilong Liu , Chenyuan Yi , Fabio Poiesi , Jian Zhang , Bo Yang , Yick Kit-lun

With the technology development, the need of analyze and extraction of useful information is increasing. Bayesian networks contain knowledge from data and experts that could be used for decision making processes But they are not easily…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Mostafa Sepahvand , Ghasem Alikhajeh , Meysam Ghaffari , Abdolreza Mirzaei

We consider structure learning of linear Gaussian structural equation models with weak edges. Since the presence of weak edges can lead to a loss of edge orientations in the true underlying CPDAG, we define a new graphical object that can…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-07-25 Marco F. Eigenmann , Preetam Nandy , Marloes H. Maathuis

Recent claims of achieving exponential quantum advantage have attracted attention to Gaussian boson sampling (GBS), a potential application of which is dense subgraph finding. We investigate the effects of sources of error including loss…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-01 Naomi R. Solomons , Oliver F. Thomas , Dara P. S. McCutcheon

Graphical Lasso (GL) is a popular method for learning the structure of an undirected graphical model, which is based on an $l_1$ regularization technique. The objective of this paper is to compare the computationally-heavy GL technique with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-02 Salar Fattahi , Somayeh Sojoudi

We consider the problem of matrix completion with graphs as side information depicting the interrelations between variables. The key challenge lies in leveraging the similarity structure of the graph to enhance matrix recovery. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Yao Wang , Yiyang Yang , Kaidong Wang , Shanxing Gao , Xiuwu Liao

Gaussian processes are powerful, yet analytically tractable models for supervised learning. A Gaussian process is characterized by a mean function and a covariance function (kernel), which are determined by a model selection criterion. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-05 Benjamin Fischer , Nico Gorbach , Stefan Bauer , Yatao Bian , Joachim M. Buhmann

Given a Gaussian Markov random field, we consider the problem of selecting a subset of variables to observe which minimizes the total expected squared prediction error of the unobserved variables. We first show that finding an exact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-09-27 Satyaki Mahalanabis , Daniel Stefankovic

We use a new non-parametric gravitational modelling tool -- \Glass{} -- to determine what quality of data (strong lensing, stellar kinematics, and/or stellar masses) are required to measure the circularly averaged mass profile of a lens and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Jonathan P. Coles , Justin I. Read , Prasenjit Saha

Graph similarity search is a common and fundamental operation in graph databases. One of the most popular graph similarity measures is the Graph Edit Distance (GED) mainly because of its broad applicability and high interpretability.…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Zijian Li , Xun Jian , Xiang Lian , Lei Chen

Gaussian graphical models are widely utilized to infer and visualize networks of dependencies between continuous variables. However, inferring the graph is difficult when the sample size is small compared to the number of variables. To…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-30 Emilie Devijver , Mélina Gallopin

Genetic Gaussian network of multiple phenotypes constructed through the genetic correlation matrix is informative for understanding their biological dependencies. However, its interpretation may be challenging because the estimated genetic…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-12-31 Yihe Yang , Noah Lorincz-Comi , Xiaofeng Zhu

How to obtain a graph from data samples is an important problem in graph signal processing. One way to formulate this graph learning problem is based on Gaussian maximum likelihood estimation, possibly under particular topology constraints.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-02 Keng-Shih Lu , Antonio Ortega

In this paper, we address the problem of learning the structure of a pairwise graphical model from samples in a high-dimensional setting. Our first main result studies the sparsistency, or consistency in sparsity pattern recovery,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-02-28 Ali Jalali , Chris Johnson , Pradeep Ravikumar