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We establish an explicit rate of convergence for some systems of mean-field interacting diffusions with logistic binary branching towards the solutions of nonlinear evolution equations with non-local self-diffusion and logistic mass growth,…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-09-29 Joaquín Fontbona , Felipe Muñoz-Hernández

We consider constrained ergodic resource optimization in wireless networks with graph-structured interference. We train a diffusion model policy to match expert conditional distributions over resource allocations. By leveraging a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Yigit Berkay Uslu , Samar Hadou , Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti , Alejandro Ribeiro

We study diffusion of information packets on several classes of structured networks. Packets diffuse from a randomly chosen node to a specified destination in the network. As local transport rules we consider random diffusion and an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Bosiljka Tadic , Stefan Thurner

We introduce the diffusion and superposition distances as two metrics to compare signals supported in the nodes of a network. Both metrics consider the given vectors as initial temperature distributions and diffuse heat trough the edges of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Santiago Segarra , Weiyu Huang , Alejandro Ribeiro

Link prediction in complex networks--identifying the missing or future connections--remains a cornerstone problem for understanding network evolution and function, yet existing methods struggle to balance computational efficiency with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Huilin Wang Wenjun Zhang Weibing Deng

We study the belief propagation algorithm for the graph bi-partitioning problem, i.e. the ground state of the ferromagnetic Ising model at a fixed magnetization. Application of a message passing scheme to a model with a fixed global…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-06-16 P. Sulc , L. Zdeborova

We develop and analyze methods for computing provably optimal {\em maximum a posteriori} (MAP) configurations for a subclass of Markov random fields defined on graphs with cycles. By decomposing the original distribution into a convex…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Martin J. Wainwright , Tommi S. Jaakkola , Alan S. Willsky

This paper develops methods of distributed Bayesian hypothesis tests for fault detection and diagnosis that are based on belief propagation and optimization in graphical models. The main challenges in developing distributed statistical…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-01-20 Kwang-Ki K. Kim

We survey continuous-time generative modeling methods based on transporting a simple reference distribution to a data distribution via stochastic or deterministic dynamics. We present a unified framework in which diffusion models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Aditya Ranganath , Mukesh Singhal

Belief propagation is a fundamental message-passing algorithm for numerous applications in machine learning. It is known that belief propagation algorithm is exact on tree graphs. However, belief propagation is run on loopy graphs in most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Yitao Chen , Deepanshu Vasal

We study the worst-case communication complexity of distributed algorithms computing a path problem based on stationary distributions of random walks in a network $G$ with the caveat that $G$ is also the communication network. The problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-10-30 Rahul Sami , Andy Twigg

We consider the problem of interactive partially observable Markov decision processes (I-POMDPs), where the agents are located at the nodes of a communication network. Specifically, we assume a certain message type for all messages.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Yitao Chen , Deepanshu Vasal

Network systems have become a ubiquitous modeling tool in many areas of science where nodes in a graph represent distributed processes and edges between nodes represent a form of dynamic coupling. When a network topology is already known…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-05-30 Donatello Materassi , Murti V. Salapaka

Representation learning on graphs that evolve has recently received significant attention due to its wide application scenarios, such as bioinformatics, knowledge graphs, and social networks. The propagation of information in graphs is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Mingyi Liu , Zhiying Tu , Xiaofei Xu , Zhongjie Wang

Numerous explanation methods have been recently developed to interpret the decisions made by deep neural network (DNN) models. For image classifiers, these methods typically provide an attribution score to each pixel in the image to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Ruo Yang , Binghui Wang , Mustafa Bilgic

We propose a Label Propagation based algorithm for weakly supervised text classification. We construct a graph where each document is represented by a node and edge weights represent similarities among the documents. Additionally, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Sachin Pawar , Nitin Ramrakhiyani , Swapnil Hingmire , Girish K. Palshikar

Clustering large datasets is a fundamental problem with a number of applications in machine learning. Data is often collected on different sites and clustering needs to be performed in a distributed manner with low communication. We would…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-02 Jiecao Chen , He Sun , David P. Woodruff , Qin Zhang

The max-product algorithm, a local message-passing scheme that attempts to compute the most probable assignment (MAP) of a given probability distribution, has been successfully employed as a method of approximate inference for applications…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-07 Nicholas Ruozzi , Sekhar Tatikonda

While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have recently become the de facto standard for modeling relational data, they impose a strong assumption on the availability of the node or edge features of the graph. In many real-world applications,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Emanuele Rossi , Henry Kenlay , Maria I. Gorinova , Benjamin Paul Chamberlain , Xiaowen Dong , Michael Bronstein

Diffusion models are state-of-the-art generative models, yet their samples often fail to satisfy application objectives such as safety constraints or domain-specific validity. Existing techniques for alignment require gradients, internal…