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Normalized Laplacian matrices of graphs have recently been studied in the context of quantum mechanics as density matrices of quantum systems. Of particular interest is the relationship between quantum physical properties of the density…

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Graph diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art performance in graph generation but suffer from quadratic complexity in the number of nodes -- and much of their capacity is wasted modeling the absence of edges in sparse graphs. Inspired by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Antoine Siraudin , Christopher Morris

We consider the normalized Laplace operator for directed graphs with positive and negative edge weights. This generalization of the normalized Laplace operator for undirected graphs is used to characterize directed acyclic graphs. Moreover,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-01 Frank Bauer

In this article we show that the fractional Laplacian in $R^{2}$ can be factored into a product of the divergence operator, a Riesz potential operator, and the gradient operator. Using this factored form we introduce a generalization of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-03 Xiangcheng Zheng , V. J. Ervin , Hong Wang

Determining and analyzing the spectra of graphs is an important and exciting research topic in theoretical computer science. The eigenvalues of the normalized Laplacian of a graph provide information on its structural properties and also on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-20 Pinchen Xie , Zhongzhi Zhang , Francesc Comellas

This paper introduces gradient, adjoint, and $p$-Laplacian definitions for oriented hypergraphs as well as differential and averaging operators for unoriented hypergraphs. These definitions are used to define gradient flows in the form of…

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This thesis generalizes the differential operators on standard oriented graphs and oriented hypergraphs introduced in 10.1137/15M1022793 and arXiv:2007.00325. The extended concepts of gradients, adjoints and $p$-Laplacians for vertices and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-14 Ariane Fazeny

Starting from the approach to the Laplacian with respect to coupling measures and undirected weighted graphs, we provide a setting for a general point of view for a Kirchhoff type divergence and a Laplace operators built on the trivial…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-07 Hugo Aimar , Ivana Gómez

We propose a discontinuous Galerkin method for convection-subdiffusion equations with a fractional operator of order $\alpha (1<\alpha<2)$ defined through the fractional Laplacian. The fractional operator of order $\alpha$ is expressed as a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-23 Q. Xu , J. S. Hesthaven

Motivated by the problem of understanding theoretical bounds for the performance of the Belkin-Niyogi Laplacian eigencoordinate approach to dimension reduction in machine learning problems, we consider the convergence of random graph…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-10 Bernard Akwei , Luke Rogers , Alexander Teplyaev

Graph generative modelling has become an essential task due to the wide range of applications in chemistry, biology, social networks, and knowledge representation. In this work, we propose a novel framework for generating graphs by adapting…

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These are notes on the method of normalized graph cuts and its applications to graph clustering. I provide a fairly thorough treatment of this deeply original method due to Shi and Malik, including complete proofs. I include the necessary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Jean Gallier

We propose Gaussian processes for signals over graphs (GPG) using the apriori knowledge that the target vectors lie over a graph. We incorporate this information using a graph- Laplacian based regularization which enforces the target…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-21 Arun Venkitaraman , Saikat Chatterjee , Peter Händel

The work in this thesis concerns the investigation of eigenvalues of the Laplacian matrix, normalized Laplacian matrix, signless Laplacian matrix and distance signless Laplacian matrix of graphs. In Chapter 1, we present a brief…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Bilal A. Rather

Our investigation focuses on the asymptotic spreading behavior of the Fisher-KPP equation with a mixed local-nonlocal operator in the diffusion (see the work by X. Cabr\'e and J.-M. Roquejoffre, 2013, ref.[8]) to the setting of mixed…

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We present a generalization of graph convolutional networks by generalizing the diffusion operation underlying this class of graph neural networks. These sheaf neural networks are based on the sheaf Laplacian, a generalization of the graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Jakob Hansen , Thomas Gebhart

A class of generalized exclusion processes parametrized by the maximal occupancy, $k\geq 1$, is investigated. For these processes with symmetric nearest-neighbor hopping, we compute the diffusion coefficient and show that it is independent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-14 Chikashi Arita , P. L. Krapivsky , Kirone Mallick

This paper investigates the use of methods from partial differential equations and the Calculus of variations to study learning problems that are regularized using graph Laplacians. Graph Laplacians are a powerful, flexible method for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-30 Nicolas Garcia Trillos , Ryan Murray

In this paper we propose a method to compute the solution to the fractional diffusion equation on directed networks, which can be expressed in terms of the graph Laplacian $L$ as a product $f(L^T) \boldsymbol{b}$, where $f$ is a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-16 Michele Benzi , Igor Simunec