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Characterizing motif (i.e., locally connected subgraph patterns) statistics is important for understanding complex networks such as online social networks and communication networks. Previous work made the strong assumption that the graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-02-25 Pinghui Wang , John C. S. Lui , Don Towsley

Suppose a graph $G$ is stochastically created by uniformly sampling vertices along a line segment and connecting each pair of vertices with a probability that is a known decreasing function of their distance. We ask if it is possible to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Yu Chen , Sampath Kannan , Sanjeev Khanna

Undirected graphical models are powerful tools for uncovering complex relationships among high-dimensional variables. This paper aims to fully recover the structure of an undirected graphical model when the data naturally take matrix form,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-08 Minsub Shin , Johan Lim , Seongoh Park

We consider the problem of sampling an edge almost uniformly from an unknown graph, $G = (V, E)$. Access to the graph is provided via queries of the following types: (1) uniform vertex queries, (2) degree queries, and (3) neighbor queries.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Talya Eden , Will Rosenbaum

This paper considers the problem of inferring the structure of a network from indirect observations. Each observation (a "trace") is the unordered set of nodes which are activated along a path through the network. Since a trace does not…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-30 Vincent Gripon , Michael Rabbat

Linear sketching and recovery of sparse vectors with randomly constructed sparse matrices has numerous applications in several areas, including compressive sensing, data stream computing, graph sketching, and combinatorial group testing.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-07 Bubacarr Bah , Luca Baldassarre , Volkan Cevher

The problem of computing the vertex expansion of a graph is an NP-hard problem. The current best worst-case approximation guarantees for computing the vertex expansion of a graph are a $O(\sqrt{\log n})$-approximation algorithm due to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Anand Louis , Rakesh Venkat

This paper studies the problem of jointly estimating multiple network processes driven by a common unknown input, thus effectively generalizing the classical blind multi-channel identification problem to graphs. More precisely, we model…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-01 Yu Zhu , Fernando J. Iglesias , Antonio G. Marques , Santiago Segarra

Neighborhood selection is a widely used method used for estimating the support set of sparse precision matrices, which helps determine the conditional dependence structure in undirected graphical models. However, reporting only point…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-12-29 Yiling Huang , Snigdha Panigrahi , Walter Dempsey

We consider the problem of signal recovery on graphs as graphs model data with complex structure as signals on a graph. Graph signal recovery implies recovery of one or multiple smooth graph signals from noisy, corrupted, or incomplete…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Siheng Chen , Aliaksei Sandryhaila , José M. F. Moura , Jelena Kovačević

The graph reconstruction problem has been extensively studied under various query models. In this paper, we propose a new query model regarding the number of connected components, which is one of the most basic and fundamental graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Hadley Black , Arya Mazumdar , Barna Saha , Yinzhan Xu

Graph reconstruction can efficiently detect the underlying topology of massive networks such as the Internet. Given a query oracle and a set of nodes, the goal is to obtain the edge set by performing as few queries as possible. An algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Clara Stegehuis , Lotte Weedage

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

New schemes to recover signals defined in the nodes of a graph are proposed. Our focus is on reconstructing bandlimited graph signals, which are signals that admit a sparse representation in a frequency domain related to the structure of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Santiago Segarra , Antonio G. Marques , Geert Leus , Alejandro Ribeiro

We study a well known noisy model of the graph isomorphism problem. In this model, the goal is to perfectly recover the vertex correspondence between two edge-correlated Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi random graphs, with an initial seed set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Elchanan Mossel , Jiaming Xu

Suppose that a cascade (e.g., an epidemic) spreads on an unknown graph, and only the infection times of vertices are observed. What can be learned about the graph from the infection times caused by multiple distinct cascades? Most of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Elchanan Mossel , Anirudh Sridhar

Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGMs) are generative models of complex systems. They rely on conditional independence assumptions between variables to learn sparse representations which can be visualized in a form of a graph. Such models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Harsh Shrivastava , Urszula Chajewska , Robin Abraham , Xinshi Chen

We consider structure discovery of undirected graphical models from observational data. Inferring likely structures from few examples is a complex task often requiring the formulation of priors and sophisticated inference procedures.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-04 Eugene Belilovsky , Kyle Kastner , Gaël Varoquaux , Matthew Blaschko

Generative graph models struggle to scale due to the need to predict the existence or type of edges between all node pairs. To address the resulting quadratic complexity, existing scalable models often impose restrictive assumptions such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Yiming Qin , Clement Vignac , Pascal Frossard

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