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In many applications, one has side information, e.g., labels that are provided in a semi-supervised manner, about a specific target region of a large data set, and one wants to perform machine learning and data analysis tasks "nearby" that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-04-30 Toke J. Hansen , Michael W. Mahoney

Partition problems in graphs are extremely important in applications, as shown in the Data science and Machine learning literature. One approach is spectral partitioning based on a Fiedler vector, i.e., an eigenvector corresponding to the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-23 Enide Andrade , Geir Dahl

Graph sparsification has been studied extensively over the past two decades, culminating in spectral sparsifiers of optimal size (up to constant factors). Spectral hypergraph sparsification is a natural analogue of this problem, for which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Michael Kapralov , Robert Krauthgamer , Jakab Tardos , Yuichi Yoshida

In this work we introduce a concept of complexity for undirected graphs in terms of the spectral analysis of the Laplacian operator defined by the incidence matrix of the graph. Precisely, we compute the norm of the vector of eigenvalues of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Diego M. Mateos , Federico Morana , Hugo Aimar

Spectral clustering is widely used to partition graphs into distinct modules or communities. Existing methods for spectral clustering use the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the graph Laplacian, an operator that is closely associated with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Laura M. Smith , Kristina Lerman , Cristina Garcia-Cardona , Allon G. Percus , Rumi Ghosh

A key challenge in network science is the detection of communities, which are sets of nodes in a network that are densely connected internally but sparsely connected to the rest of the network. A fundamental result in community detection is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Lucas Böttcher , Mason A. Porter , Santo Fortunato

Choosing a meaningful subset of features from high-dimensional observations in unsupervised settings can greatly enhance the accuracy of downstream analysis, such as clustering or dimensionality reduction, and provide valuable insights into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Daniel Segal , Ofir Lindenbaum , Ariel Jaffe

Several graph data mining, signal processing, and machine learning downstream tasks rely on information related to the eigenvectors of the associated adjacency or Laplacian matrix. Classical eigendecomposition methods are powerful when the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-23 Mohammad Eini , Abdullah Karaaslanli , Vassilis Kalantzis , Panagiotis A. Traganitis

We consider the problem of the assignment of nodes into communities from a set of hyperedges, where every hyperedge is a noisy observation of the community assignment of the adjacent nodes. We focus in particular on the sparse regime where…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Maria Chiara Angelini , Francesco Caltagirone , Florent Krzakala , Lenka Zdeborová

We study the spectral gap of the Erd\H{o}s--R\'enyi random graph through the connectivity threshold. In particular, we show that for any fixed $\delta > 0$ if $$p \ge \frac{(1/2 + \delta) \log n}{n},$$ then the normalized graph Laplacian of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-16 Christopher Hoffman , Matthew Kahle , Elliot Paquette

Because of the significant increase in size and complexity of the networks, the distributed computation of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of graph matrices has become very challenging and yet it remains as important as before. In this paper…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-27 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Philippe Jacquet , Jithin Sreedharan

Spectral clustering is a fundamental method for graph partitioning, but its reliance on eigenvector computation limits scalability to massive graphs. Classical sparsification methods preserve spectral properties by sampling edges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Kaiwen He , Petros Drineas , Rajiv Khanna

Denote by $A$ the adjacency matrix of an Erdos-Renyi graph with bounded average degree. We consider the problem of maximizing $\langle A-E\{A\},X\rangle$ over the set of positive semidefinite matrices $X$ with diagonal entries $X_{ii}=1$.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-12-25 Andrea Montanari , Subhabrata Sen

Graph embedding learns low-dimensional representations for nodes in a graph and effectively preserves the graph structure. Recently, a significant amount of progress has been made toward this emerging research area. However, there are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Yuan Yin , Zhewei Wei

Partitioning a graph into groups of vertices such that those within each group are more densely connected than vertices assigned to different groups, known as graph clustering, is often used to gain insight into the organisation of large…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-01-28 Charanpal Dhanjal , Romaric Gaudel , Stéphan Clémençon

This paper presents a new Bayesian spectral unmixing algorithm to analyse remote scenes sensed via sparse multispectral Lidar measurements. To a first approximation, in the presence of a target, each Lidar waveform consists of a main peak,…

In this work we propose a random graph model that can produce graphs at different levels of sparsity. We analyze how sparsity affects the graph spectra, and thus the performance of graph neural networks (GNNs) in node classification on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Luana Ruiz , Ningyuan Huang , Soledad Villar

This paper presents the applications of Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors (as part of spectral decomposition) to analyze the bipartivity index of graphs as well as to predict the set of vertices that will constitute the two partitions of graphs…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Natarajan Meghanathan

An efficient spatial regularization method using superpixel segmentation and graph Laplacian regularization is proposed for sparse hyperspectral unmixing method. Since it is likely to find spectrally similar pixels in a homogeneous region,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Taner Ince

In network analysis, developing a unified theoretical framework that can compare methods under different models is an interesting problem. This paper proposes a partial solution to this problem. We summarize the idea of using separation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Huan Qing