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Graphons are continuous models that represent the structure of graphs and allow the generation of graphs of varying sizes. We propose Scalable Implicit Graphon Learning (SIGL), a scalable method that combines implicit neural representations…

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Estimating the expected value of a graph statistic is an important inference task for using and learning graph models. This note presents a scalable estimation procedure for expected motif counts, a widely used type of graph statistic. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Oliver Schulte

The availability of larger and larger graph datasets, growing exponentially over the years, has created several new algorithmic challenges to be addressed. Sequential approaches have become unfeasible, while interest on parallel and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-03-26 Alessio Guerrieri , Alberto Montresor

We propose a class of methods for graphon estimation based on exploiting connections with nonparametric regression. The idea is to construct an ordering of the nodes in the network, similar in spirit to Chan and Airoldi (2014). However,…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-06-20 Oscar Hernan Madrid Padilla

Graphons, as limit objects of dense graph sequences, play a central role in the statistical analysis of network data. However, existing graphon estimation methods often struggle with scalability to large networks and resolution-independent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Reza Ramezanpour , Victor M. Tenorio , Antonio G. Marques , Ashutosh Sabharwal , Santiago Segarra

We present a stepwise approach to estimate high dimensional Gaussian graphical models. We exploit the relation between the partial correlation coefficients and the distribution of the prediction errors, and parametrize the model in terms of…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-08-21 Ginette Lafit , Francisco J. Nogales , Marcelo Ruiz , Ruben H. Zamar

Modelling exchangeable relational data can be described by \textit{graphon theory}. Most Bayesian methods for modelling exchangeable relational data can be attributed to this framework by exploiting different forms of graphons. However, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-27 Xuhui Fan , Yaqiong Li , Ling Chen , Bin Li , Scott A. Sisson

Finding frequently occurring subgraph patterns or network motifs in neural architectures is crucial for optimizing efficiency, accelerating design, and uncovering structural insights. However, as the subgraph size increases,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yikang Yang , Zhengxin Yang , Minghao Luo , Luzhou Peng , Hongxiao Li , Wanling Gao , Lei Wang , Jianfeng Zhan

Pooling is a crucial operation in computer vision, yet the unique structure of skeletons hinders the application of existing pooling strategies to skeleton graph modelling. In this paper, we propose an Improved Graph Pooling Network,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Cong Wu , Xiao-Jun Wu , Tianyang Xu , Josef Kittler

Image segmentation is a popular area of research in computer vision that has many applications in automated image processing. A recent technique called piecewise flat embeddings (PFE) has been proposed for use in image segmentation; PFE…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Renee T. Meinhold , Tyler L. Hayes , Nathan D. Cahill

This preliminary paper presents initial explorations in rendering Iterated Function System (IFS) fractals using a differentiable rendering pipeline. Differentiable rendering is a recent innovation at the intersection of computer graphics…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Cory Braker Scott

We consider the problem of high-dimensional Ising (graphical) model selection. We propose a simple algorithm for structure estimation based on the thresholding of the empirical conditional variation distances. We introduce a novel criterion…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-08-21 Animashree Anandkumar , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Furong Huang , Alan S. Willsky

We propose a new score-based model with one-step sampling. Previously, score-based models were burdened with heavy computations due to iterative sampling. For substituting the iterative process, we train a standalone generator to compress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Senmao Ye , Fei Liu

Integrating data from heterogeneous sources is often modeled as merging graphs. Given two or more 'compatible', but not-isomorphic graphs, the first step is to identify a graph alignment, where a potentially partial mapping of vertices…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Abdurrahman Yaşar , Ümit V. Çatalyürek

We consider the problem of spectral clustering under group fairness constraints, where samples from each sensitive group are approximately proportionally represented in each cluster. Traditional fair spectral clustering (FSC) methods…

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Current algorithmic approaches for piecewise affine motion estimation are based on alternating motion segmentation and estimation. We propose a new method to estimate piecewise affine motion fields directly without intermediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Denis Fortun , Martin Storath , Dennis Rickert , Andreas Weinmann , Michael Unser

We investigate the use of iterated function system (IFS) models for data analysis. An IFS is a discrete dynamical system in which each time step corresponds to the application of one of a finite collection of maps. The maps, which represent…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-05-01 Zachary Alexander , Elizabeth Bradley , Joshua Garland , James D. Meiss

In a variety of problems originating in supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning, the loss function is defined by an expectation over a collection of random variables, which might be part of a probabilistic model or the external…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-06 John Schulman , Nicolas Heess , Theophane Weber , Pieter Abbeel

We study the application of graph random features (GRFs) - a recently introduced stochastic estimator of graph node kernels - to scalable Gaussian processes on discrete input spaces. We prove that (under mild assumptions) Bayesian inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Matthew Zhang , Jihao Andreas Lin , Krzysztof Choromanski , Adrian Weller , Richard E. Turner , Isaac Reid

This paper presents a novel {\em Interpolated Factored Green Function} method (IFGF) for the accelerated evaluation of the integral operators in scattering theory and other areas. Like existing acceleration methods in these fields, the IFGF…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Christoph Bauinger , Oscar P. Bruno