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We consider the problem of computing the k-sparse approximation to the discrete Fourier transform of an n-dimensional signal. We show: * An O(k log n)-time randomized algorithm for the case where the input signal has at most k non-zero…

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We propose a simple subsampling scheme for fast randomized approximate computation of optimal transport distances. This scheme operates on a random subset of the full data and can use any exact algorithm as a black-box back-end, including…

Computation · Statistics 2020-12-17 Max Sommerfeld , Jörn Schrieber , Yoav Zemel , Axel Munk

We devise methods for finding approximations of the generalized inverse of the graph Laplacian matrix, which arises in many graph-theoretic applications. Finding this matrix in its entirety involves solving a matrix inversion problem, which…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-05-23 Enrico Bozzo , Massimo Franceschet

We study the task of clustering in directed networks. We show that using the eigenvalue/eigenvector decomposition of the adjacency matrix is simpler than all common methods which are based on a combination of data regularization and SVD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Simon Coste , Ludovic Stephan

Let G=(V,E) be an undirected graph, lambda_k be the k-th smallest eigenvalue of the normalized laplacian matrix of G. There is a basic fact in algebraic graph theory that lambda_k > 0 if and only if G has at most k-1 connected components.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-12-09 Shayan Oveis Gharan , Luca Trevisan

We study the problem of efficiently summarizing a short video into several keyframes, leveraging recent progress in fast graph sampling. Specifically, we first construct a similarity path graph (SPG) $\mathcal{G}$, represented by graph…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Sadid Sahami , Gene Cheung , Chia-Wen Lin

The detection and estimation of signals in noisy, limited data is a problem of interest to many scientific and engineering communities. We present a computationally simple, sample eigenvalue based procedure for estimating the number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 N. Raj Rao , Alan Edelman

Spectral clustering is one of the most important algorithms in data mining and machine intelligence; however, its computational complexity limits its application to truly large scale data analysis. The computational bottleneck in spectral…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Christos Boutsidis , Alex Gittens , Prabhanjan Kambadur

Laplacian eigenvectors capture natural community structures on graphs and are widely used in spectral clustering and manifold learning. The use of Laplacian eigenvectors as embeddings for the purpose of multiscale graph comparison has…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-07 Edric Tam , David Dunson

We consider the problem of estimating the number of clusters (k) in a dataset. We propose a non-parametric approach to the problem that utilizes similarity graphs to construct a robust statistic that effectively captures similarity…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-13 Yichuan Bai , Lynna Chu

We study random k-lifts of large, but otherwise arbitrary graphs G. We prove that, with high probability, all eigenvalues of the adjacency matrix of the lift that are not eigenvalues of G are of the order (D ln (kn))^{1/2}, where D is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-09-07 Roberto Imbuzeiro Oliveira

In this paper, we investigate the learning-augmented $k$-median clustering problem, which aims to improve the performance of traditional clustering algorithms by preprocessing the point set with a predictor of error rate $\alpha \in [0,1)$.…

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We develop a novel parallel decomposition strategy for unweighted, undirected graphs, based on growing disjoint connected clusters from batches of centers progressively selected from yet uncovered nodes. With respect to similar previous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-09 Matteo Ceccarello , Andrea Pietracaprina , Geppino Pucci , Eli Upfal

We develop a new sampling method to estimate eigenvector centrality on incomplete networks. Our goal is to estimate this global centrality measure having at disposal a limited amount of data. This is the case in many real-world scenarios…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Nicolò Ruggeri , Caterina De Bacco

Boundary detection has long been a fundamental tool for image processing and computer vision, supporting the analysis of static and time-varying data. In this work, we built upon the theory of Graph Signal Processing to propose a novel…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Luis Gustavo Nonato , Fabiano Petronetto e Claudio Silva

Laplacian Eigenvectors of the graph constructed from a data set are used in many spectral manifold learning algorithms such as diffusion maps and spectral clustering. Given a graph constructed from a random sample of a $d$-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-10-29 Xu Wang

We analyze eigenvalues fluctuations of the Laplacian of various networks under the random matrix theory framework. Analyses of random networks, scale-free networks and small-world networks show that nearest neighbor spacing distribution of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Sarika Jalan , Jayendra N. Bandyopadhyay

Closeness is an important centrality measure widely used in the analysis of real-world complex networks. In particular, the problem of selecting the k most central nodes with respect to this measure has been deeply analyzed in the last…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-07 Michele Borassi , Pierluigi Crescenzi , Andrea Marino

Many important problems are characterized by the eigenvalues of a large matrix. For example, the difficulty of many optimization problems, such as those arising from the fitting of large models in statistics and machine learning, can be…

The non-backtracking operator of a graph is a powerful tool in spectral graph theory and random matrix theory. Most existing results for the non-backtracking operator of a random graph concern only eigenvalues or top eigenvectors. In this…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-05-29 Xiangyi Zhu , Yizhe Zhu