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Spectral graph signal processing is traditionally built on self-adjoint Laplacians, where orthogonal eigenbases yield an energy-preserving Fourier transform and a variational frequency ordering via a real Dirichlet form. Directed networks…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Chandrasekhar Gokavarapu , Komala Lakshmi Chinnam

We tackle the network topology inference problem by utilizing Laplacian constrained Gaussian graphical models, which recast the task as estimating a precision matrix in the form of a graph Laplacian. Recent research \cite{ying2020nonconvex}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jiaxi Ying , Xi Han , Rui Zhou , Xiwen Wang , Hing Cheung So

Graph embedding seeks to build a low-dimensional representation of a graph G. This low-dimensional representation is then used for various downstream tasks. One popular approach is Laplacian Eigenmaps, which constructs a graph embedding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Leo Torres , Kevin S Chan , Tina Eliassi-Rad

Graph signals offer a very generic and natural representation for data that lives on networks or irregular structures. The actual data structure is however often unknown a priori but can sometimes be estimated from the knowledge of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Hermina Petric Maretic , Dorina Thanou , Pascal Frossard

Quantifying the relations (e.g., similarity) between complex networks paves the way for studying the latent information shared across networks. However, fundamental relation metrics are not well-defined between networks. As a compromise,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Yang Tian , Hedong Hou , Guangzheng Xu , Ziyang Zhang , Pei Sun

Learning the graph Laplacian from observed data is one of the most investigated and fundamental tasks in Graph Signal Processing (GSP). Different variants of the Laplacian, such as the combinatorial, signless or signed Laplacians have been…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Stefania Sardellitti

Classical spectral graph theory relies on the symmetry of the adjacency and Laplacian operators, which guarantees orthogonal eigenbases and energy-preserving Fourier transforms. However, real-world networks are intrinsically directed and…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Chandrasekhar Gokavarapu

Traditional graph signal processing (GSP) methods applied to brain networks focus on signals defined on the nodes. Thus, they are unable to capture potentially important dynamics occurring on the edges. In this work, we adopt an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Andrea Santoro , Marco Nurisso , Giovanni Petri

Graph neural networks have developed by leaps and bounds in recent years due to the restriction of traditional convolutional filters on non-Euclidean structured data. Spectral graph theory mainly studies fundamental graph properties using…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-08 Xinye Chen

We propose a supervised learning approach for predicting an underlying graph from a set of graph signals. Our approach is based on linear regression. In the linear regression model, we predict edge-weights of a graph as the output, given a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Arun Venkitaraman , Hermina Petric Maretic , Saikat Chatterjee , Pascal Frossard

We introduce a graph renormalization procedure based on the coarse-grained Laplacian, which generates reduced-complexity representations for characteristic scales identified through the spectral gap. This method retains both diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-20 M. Schmidt , F. Caccioli , T. Aste

This paper introduces topological Slepians, i.e., a novel class of signals defined over topological spaces (e.g., simplicial complexes) that are maximally concentrated on the topological domain (e.g., over a set of nodes, edges, triangles,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-27 Claudio Battiloro , Paolo Di Lorenzo , Sergio Barbarossa

Complex real-world phenomena across a wide range of scales, from aviation and internet traffic to signal propagation in electronic and gene regulatory circuits, can be efficiently described through dynamic network models. In many such…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-12-11 Aden Forrow , Francis G. Woodhouse , Jörn Dunkel

We consider spectral methods that uncover hidden structures in directed networks. We establish and exploit connections between node reordering via (a) minimizing an objective function and (b) maximizing the likelihood of a random graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Xue Gong , Desmond John Higham , Konstantinos Zygalakis

The application of graph theory to model the complex structure and function of the brain has shed new light on its organization and function, prompting the emergence of network neuroscience. Despite the tremendous progress that has been…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-29 Giulia Lioi , Vincent Gripon , Abdelbasset Brahim , François Rousseau , Nicolas Farrugia

The area of Data Analytics on graphs promises a paradigm shift as we approach information processing of classes of data, which are typically acquired on irregular but structured domains (social networks, various ad-hoc sensor networks).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Ljubisa Stankovic , Danilo Mandic , Milos Dakovic , Milos Brajovic , Bruno Scalzo , Tony Constantinides

Existing approaches to analyzing the asymptotics of graph Laplacians typically assume a well-behaved kernel function with smoothness assumptions. We remove the smoothness assumption and generalize the analysis of graph Laplacians to include…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-01-31 Daniel Ting , Ling Huang , Michael Jordan

Graph sampling theory extends the traditional sampling theory to graphs with topological structures. As a key part of the graph sampling theory, subset selection chooses nodes on graphs as samples to reconstruct the original signal. Due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Zhengpin Li , Zheng Wei , Jian Wang , Yun Lin , Byonghyo Shim

A metrized graph is a finite weighted graph whose edges are thought of as line segments. In this expository paper, we study the Laplacian operator on a metrized graph and some important functions related to it, including the ``j-function'',…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Matthew Baker , Xander Faber

We consider a network of interconnected dynamical systems. Spectral network identification consists in recovering the eigenvalues of the network Laplacian from the measurements of a very limited number (possibly one) of signals. These…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Alexandre Mauroy , Julien Hendrickx