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Graph data often exhibits complex geometric heterogeneity, where structures with varying local curvature, such as tree-like hierarchies and dense communities, coexist within a single network. Existing geometric GNNs, which embed graphs into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Xudong Wang , Chris Ding , Tongxin Li , Jicong Fan

This paper presents a methodology for image classification using Graph Neural Network (GNN) models. We transform the input images into region adjacency graphs (RAGs), in which regions are superpixels and edges connect neighboring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Pedro H. C. Avelar , Anderson R. Tavares , Thiago L. T. da Silveira , Cláudio R. Jung , Luís C. Lamb

A two-class mixture model, where the density of one of the components is known, is considered. We address the issue of the nonparametric adaptive estimation of the unknown probability density of the second component. We propose a randomly…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-08 Gaelle Chagny , Antoine Channarond , Van Ha Hoang , Angelina Roche

We consider the problem of inferring the unobserved edges of a graph from data supported on its nodes. In line with existing approaches, we propose a convex program for recovering a graph Laplacian that is approximately diagonalizable by a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-16 T. Mitchell Roddenberry , Madeline Navarro , Santiago Segarra

We discuss a general framework for recovering edges in piecewise smooth functions with finitely many jump discontinuities, where $[f](x):=f(x+)-f(x-) \neq 0$. Our approach is based on two main aspects--localization using appropriate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Anne Gelb , Eitan Tadmor

Graph-based transforms have been shown to be powerful tools in terms of image energy compaction. However, when the support increases to best capture signal dependencies, the computation of the basis functions becomes rapidly untractable.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Mira Rizkallah , Thomas Maugey , Christine Guillemot

Graph-based methods pervade the inference toolkits of numerous disciplines including sociology, biology, neuroscience, physics, chemistry, and engineering. A challenging problem encountered in this context pertains to determining the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Daniel Romero , Vassilis N. Ioannidis , Georgios B. Giannakis

This work proposes a framework LGKDE that learns kernel density estimation for graphs. The key challenge in graph density estimation lies in effectively capturing both structural patterns and semantic variations while maintaining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Xudong Wang , Ziheng Sun , Chris Ding , Jicong Fan

This article deals with adaptive nonparametric estimation for L\'evy processes observed at low frequency. For general linear functionals of the L\'evy measure, we construct kernel estimators, provide upper risk bounds and derive rates of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-15 Johanna Kappus

Sparse graph recovery methods work well where the data follows their assumptions but often they are not designed for doing downstream probabilistic queries. This limits their adoption to only identifying connections among the input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Harsh Shrivastava , Urszula Chajewska

Can neural networks learn to compare graphs without feature engineering? In this paper, we show that it is possible to learn representations for graph similarity with neither domain knowledge nor supervision (i.e.\ feature engineering or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Rami Al-Rfou , Dustin Zelle , Bryan Perozzi

Motivated by applications in statistics and machine learning, we consider a problem of unmixing convex combinations of nonparametric densities. Suppose we observe $n$ groups of samples, where the $i$th group consists of $N_i$ independent…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Jianqing Fan , Zheng Tracy Ke , Zhaoyang Shi

The scene graph is a new data structure describing objects and their pairwise relationship within image scenes. As the size of scene graph in vision applications grows, how to losslessly and efficiently store such data on disks or transmit…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Yufeng Zhang , Weiyao Lin , Wenrui Dai , Huabin Liu , Hongkai Xiong

Many supervised learning problems involve high-dimensional data such as images, text, or graphs. In order to make efficient use of data, it is often useful to leverage certain geometric priors in the problem at hand, such as invariance to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-08 Alberto Bietti , Luca Venturi , Joan Bruna

We estimate on a compact interval densities with isolated irregularities, such as discontinuities or discontinuities in some derivatives. From independent and identically distributed observations we construct a kernel estimator with…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Céline Duval , Émeline Schmisser

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

This work is concerned with the study of the adaptivity properties of nonparametric regression estimators over the $d$-dimensional sphere within the global thresholding framework. The estimators are constructed by means of a form of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-27 Claudio Durastanti

Recently there has been increased interest in fitting generative graph models to real-world networks. In particular, Bl\"asius et al. have proposed a framework for systematic evaluation of the expressivity of random graph models. We extend…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Benjamin Dayan , Marc Kaufmann , Ulysse Schaller

In this paper, we aim at recovering an undirected weighted graph of $N$ vertices from the knowledge of a perturbed version of the eigenspaces of its adjacency matrix $W$. For instance, this situation arises for stationary signals on graphs…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-03-16 Yohann De Castro , Thibault Espinasse , Paul Rochet

Embedding graphs in a geographical or latent space, i.e.\ inferring locations for vertices in Euclidean space or on a smooth manifold or submanifold, is a common task in network analysis, statistical inference, and graph visualization. We…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Varsha Dani , Josep Díaz , Thomas P. Hayes , Cristopher Moore