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We consider estimating a piecewise-constant image, or a gradient-sparse signal on a general graph, from noisy linear measurements. We propose and study an iterative algorithm to minimize a penalized least-squares objective, with a penalty…

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As constituent parts of image objects, superpixels can improve several higher-level operations. However, image segmentation methods might have their accuracy seriously compromised for reduced numbers of superpixels. We have investigated a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-10 F. C. Belem , S. J. F. Guimaraes , A. X. Falcao

Graphs are a fundamental abstraction for modeling relational data. However, graphs are discrete and combinatorial in nature, and learning representations suitable for machine learning tasks poses statistical and computational challenges. In…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-16 Aditya Grover , Aaron Zweig , Stefano Ermon

Sampling technique has become one of the recent research focuses in the graph-related fields. Most of the existing graph sampling algorithms tend to sample the high degree or low degree nodes in the complex networks because of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Junpeng Zhu , Hui Li , Mei Chen , Zhenyu Dai , Ming Zhu

We study estimation of piecewise smooth signals over a graph. We propose a $\ell_{2,0}$-norm penalized Graph Trend Filtering (GTF) model to estimate piecewise smooth graph signals that exhibit inhomogeneous levels of smoothness across the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Xiaoqing Huang , Andersen Ang , Kun Huang , Jie Zhang , Yijie Wang

The purpose of this article is to introduce a new iterative algorithm with properties resembling real life bipartite graphs. The algorithm enables us to generate wide range of random bigraphs, which features are determined by a set of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-11-03 Szymon Chojnacki , Mieczysław Kłopotek

We develop the first pure node-differentially-private algorithms for learning stochastic block models and for graphon estimation with polynomial running time for any constant number of blocks. The statistical utility guarantees match those…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Hongjie Chen , Jingqiu Ding , Tommaso d'Orsi , Yiding Hua , Chih-Hung Liu , David Steurer

For distributed graph processing on massive graphs, a graph is partitioned into multiple equally-sized parts which are distributed among machines in a compute cluster. In the last decade, many partitioning algorithms have been developed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Nikolai Merkel , Ruben Mayer , Tawkir Ahmed Fakir , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

Non-parametric approaches for analyzing network data based on exchangeable graph models (ExGM) have recently gained interest. The key object that defines an ExGM is often referred to as a graphon. This non-parametric perspective on network…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-11-14 Edoardo M Airoldi , Thiago B Costa , Stanley H Chan

Stepwise inference protocols, such as scratchpads and chain-of-thought, help language models solve complex problems by decomposing them into a sequence of simpler subproblems. Despite the significant gain in performance achieved via these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Mikail Khona , Maya Okawa , Jan Hula , Rahul Ramesh , Kento Nishi , Robert Dick , Ekdeep Singh Lubana , Hidenori Tanaka

In this paper, we present two localized graph filtering based methods for interpolating graph signals defined on the vertices of arbitrary graphs from only a partial set of samples. The first method is an extension of previous work on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-10-11 Sunil K. Narang , Akshay Gadde , Eduard Sanou , Antonio Ortega

When translating UI design prototypes to code in industry, automatically generating code from design prototypes can expedite the development of applications and GUI iterations. However, in design prototypes without strict design…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Liuqing Chen , Yunnong Chen , Shuhong Xiao , Yaxuan Song , Lingyun Sun , Yankun Zhen , Tingting Zhou , Yanfang Chang

Isotonic regression provides a flexible, tuning-free approach to estimating monotonic functions without imposing global curvature constraints, yet the estimated regression function is inherently a step function. This paper addresses a key…

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This paper proposes a novel algorithm for the problem of structural image segmentation through an interactive model-based approach. Interaction is expressed in the model creation, which is done according to user traces drawn over a given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2008-05-16 Alexandre Noma , Ana B. V. Graciano , Luis Augusto Consularo , Roberto M. Cesar-Jr , Isabelle Bloch

Graph classification aims to categorise graphs based on their structure and node attributes. In this work, we propose to tackle this task using tools from graph signal processing by deriving spectral features, which we then use to design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Felix L. Opolka , Yin-Cong Zhi , Pietro Liò , Xiaowen Dong

In this paper we propose an algorithm for the detection of edges in images that is based on topological asymptotic analysis. Motivated from the Mumford--Shah functional, we consider a variational functional that penalizes oscillations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-12 E. Beretta , M. Grasmair , M. Muszkieta , O. Scherzer

We propose a new algorithm for solving the graph-fused lasso (GFL), a method for parameter estimation that operates under the assumption that the signal tends to be locally constant over a predefined graph structure. Our key insight is to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-02 Wesley Tansey , James G. Scott

Similar to community detection, partitioning the nodes of a network according to their structural roles aims to identify fundamental building blocks of a network. The found partitions can be used, e.g., to simplify descriptions of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Michael Scholkemper , Michael T. Schaub

Skeletonization extracts thin representations from images that compactly encode their geometry and topology. These representations have become an important topological prior for preserving connectivity in curvilinear structures, aiding…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Luis D. Reyes Vargas , Martin J. Menten , Johannes C. Paetzold , Nassir Navab , Mohammad Farid Azampour

Applications on inference of biological networks have raised a strong interest in the problem of graph estimation in high-dimensional Gaussian graphical models. To handle this problem, we propose a two-stage procedure which first builds a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-02-17 Christophe Giraud , Sylvie Huet , Nicolas Verzelen