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We propose a novel graph visualization method leveraging random walk-based embeddings to replace costly graph-theoretical distance computations. Using word2vec-inspired embeddings, our approach captures both structural and semantic…

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In many real-world scenarios, an autonomous agent often encounters various tasks within a single complex environment. We propose to build a graph abstraction over the environment structure to accelerate the learning of these tasks. Here,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Wenling Shang , Alex Trott , Stephan Zheng , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher

Many problems can be presented in an abstract form through a wide range of binary objects and relations which are defined over problem domain. In these problems, graphical demonstration of defined binary objects and solutions is the most…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-03-24 Mohammadreza Ashouri , Ali Golshani , Dara Moazzmi , Mandana Ghasemi

Visual analysis of relational data is essential for many real-world analytics tasks, with layout quality being key to interpretability. However, existing layout algorithms often require users to navigate complex parameters to express their…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Hasan Balci , Augustin Luna

Graph Neural Networks (GNN) exhibit superior performance in graph representation learning, but their inference cost can be high, due to an aggregation operation that can require a memory fetch for a very large number of nodes. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yaochen Hu , Mai Zeng , Ge Zhang , Pavel Rumiantsev , Liheng Ma , Yingxue Zhang , Mark Coates

We present a family of distributed forward-backward methods with variable stepsizes to find a solution of structured monotone inclusion problems. The framework is constructed by means of relocated fixed-point iterations, extending the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Felipe Atenas , Minh N. Dao , Matthew K. Tam

Stress models are a promising approach for graph drawing. They minimize the weighted sum of the squared errors of the Euclidean and desired distances for each node pair. The desired distance typically uses the graph-theoretic distances…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yosuke Onoue

In designing and applying graph neural networks, we often fall into some optimization pitfalls, the most deceptive of which is that we can only build a deep model by solving over-smoothing. The fundamental reason is that we do not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Xue Li , Yuanzhi Cheng

High-dimensional graphical models are often estimated using regularization that is aimed at reducing the number of edges in a network. In this work, we show how even simpler networks can be produced by aggregating the nodes of the graphical…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-02-01 Ines Wilms , Jacob Bien

We study the problem of learning high dimensional regression models regularized by a structured-sparsity-inducing penalty that encodes prior structural information on either input or output sides. We consider two widely adopted types of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-02-20 Xi Chen , Qihang Lin , Seyoung Kim , Jaime G. Carbonell , Eric P. Xing

In this letter, we propose an algorithm for learning a sparse weighted graph by estimating its adjacency matrix under the assumption that the observed signals vary smoothly over the nodes of the graph. The proposed algorithm is based on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-11 Ghania Fatima , Aakash Arora , Prabhu Babu , Petre Stoica

Deep representation learning has become one of the most widely adopted approaches for visual search, recommendation, and identification. Retrieval of such representations from a large database is however computationally challenging.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Biswajit Paria , Chih-Kuan Yeh , Ian E. H. Yen , Ning Xu , Pradeep Ravikumar , Barnabás Póczos

We develop a method to reconstruct, from measured displacements of an underlying elastic substrate, the spatially dependent forces that cells or tissues impart on it. Given newly available high-resolution images of substrate displacements,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-01-22 Joshua C. Chang , Yanli Liu , Tom Chou

Although design optimization has shown its great power of automatizing the whole design process and providing an optimal design, using sophisticated computational models, its process can be formidable due to a computationally expensive…

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Recent research has shown growing interest in modeling hypergraphs, which capture polyadic interactions among entities beyond traditional dyadic relations. However, most existing methodologies for hypergraphs face significant limitations,…

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We explore various techniques to incorporate grid-like layout conventions into a force-directed, constraint-based graph layout framework. In doing so we are able to provide high-quality layout---with predominantly axis-aligned edges---that…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2013-08-30 Steve Kieffer , Tim Dwyer , Kim Marriott , Michael Wybrow

Efficient layout of large-scale graphs remains a challenging problem: the force-directed and dimensionality reduction-based methods suffer from high overhead for graph distance and gradient computation. In this paper, we present a new graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Minfeng Zhu , Wei Chen , Yuanzhe Hu , Yuxuan Hou , Liangjun Liu , Kaiyuan Zhang

We study methods to manipulate weights in stress-graph embeddings to improve convex straight-line planar drawings of 3-connected planar graphs. Stress-graph embeddings are weighted versions of Tutte embeddings, where solving a linear system…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Alvin Chiu , David Eppstein , Michael T. Goodrich

Order diagrams allow human analysts to understand and analyze structural properties of ordered data. While an experienced expert can create easily readable order diagrams, the automatic generation of those remains a hard task. In this work,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Dominik Dürrschnabel , Gerd Stumme

Training diffusion models is always a computation-intensive task. In this paper, we introduce a novel speed-up method for diffusion model training, called, which is based on a closer look at time steps. Our key findings are: i) Time steps…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Kai Wang , Mingjia Shi , Yukun Zhou , Zekai Li , Zhihang Yuan , Yuzhang Shang , Xiaojiang Peng , Hanwang Zhang , Yang You