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Recovering the random graph model from an observed collection of networks is known to present significant challenges in the setting, where the networks do not share a common node set and have different sizes. More specifically, the goal is…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-17 Roland Boniface Sogan , Tabea Rebafka

Estimating the probabilities of linkages in a network has gained increasing interest in recent years. One popular model for network analysis is the exchangeable graph model (ExGM) characterized by a two-dimensional function known as a…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-09-05 Yi Su , Raymond K. W. Wong , Thomas C. M. Lee

We consider the problem of estimating the topology of multiple networks from nodal observations, where these networks are assumed to be drawn from the same (unknown) random graph model. We adopt a graphon as our random graph model, which is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-21 Madeline Navarro , Santiago Segarra

We study graphons as a non-parametric generalization of stochastic block models, and show how to obtain compactly represented estimators for sparse networks in this framework. Our algorithms and analysis go beyond previous work in several…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-25 Christian Borgs , Jennifer T. Chayes , Henry Cohn , Shirshendu Ganguly

Nowadays, analysing data from different classes or over a temporal grid has attracted a great deal of interest. As a result, various multiple graphical models for learning a collection of graphical models simultaneously have been derived by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-23 Ning Zhang , Yangjing Zhang , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh

We consider the problem of estimating the topology of multiple networks from nodal observations, where these networks are assumed to be drawn from the same (unknown) random graph model. We adopt a graphon as our random graph model, which is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-14 Madeline Navarro , Santiago Segarra

We study an extention of total variation denoising over images to over Cartesian power graphs and its applications to estimating non-parametric network models. The power graph fused lasso (PGFL) segments a matrix by exploiting a known…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-28 Shitong Wei , Oscar Hernan Madrid-Padilla , James Sharpnack

We propose a nonparametric framework for the analysis of networks, based on a natural limit object termed a graphon. We prove consistency of graphon estimation under general conditions, giving rates which include the important practical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-09-30 Patrick J. Wolfe , Sofia C. Olhede

We consider the problem of learning the nearest neighbor graph of a dataset of n items. The metric is unknown, but we can query an oracle to obtain a noisy estimate of the distance between any pair of items. This framework applies to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-03 Blake Mason , Ardhendu Tripathy , Robert Nowak

This paper focuses on the comparison of networks on the basis of statistical inference. For that purpose, we rely on smooth graphon models as a nonparametric modeling strategy that is able to capture complex structural patterns. The graphon…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-21 Benjamin Sischka , Göran Kauermann

We take a first step towards a rigorous asymptotic analysis of graph-based approaches for finding (approximate) nearest neighbors in high-dimensional spaces, by analyzing the complexity of (randomized) greedy walks on the approximate near…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Thijs Laarhoven

We propose a new algorithm for solving the graph-fused lasso (GFL), a method for parameter estimation that operates under the assumption that the signal tends to be locally constant over a predefined graph structure. Our key insight is to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-02 Wesley Tansey , James G. Scott

Graphon is a nonparametric model that generates graphs with arbitrary sizes and can be induced from graphs easily. Based on this model, we propose a novel algorithmic framework called \textit{graphon autoencoder} to build an interpretable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Hongteng Xu , Peilin Zhao , Junzhou Huang , Dixin Luo

The estimation of probabilities of network edges from the observed adjacency matrix has important applications to predicting missing links and network denoising. It has usually been addressed by estimating the graphon, a function that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-11 Yuan Zhang , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

In this work, we propose to train a graph neural network via resampling from a graphon estimate obtained from the underlying network data. More specifically, the graphon or the link probability matrix of the underlying network is first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Ziqing Hu , Yihao Fang , Lizhen Lin

The fused lasso, also known as total-variation denoising, is a locally-adaptive function estimator over a regular grid of design points. In this paper, we extend the fused lasso to settings in which the points do not occur on a regular…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-07-09 Oscar Hernan Madrid Padilla , James Sharpnack , Yanzhen Chen , Daniela M. Witten

Graphons offer a powerful framework for modeling large-scale networks, yet estimation remains challenging. We propose a novel approach that leverages a low-rank additive representation, yielding both a low-rank connection probability matrix…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-14 Xinyuan Fan , Feiyan Ma , Chenlei Leng , Weichi Wu

Nearest neighbor (NN) graph based visual re-ranking has emerged as a powerful approach for improving retrieval accuracy, offering the advantages of effectively exploring high-dimensional manifolds without requiring additional fine-tuning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Jaeyoon Kim , Yoonki Cho , Taeyoung Kim , Sung-Eui Yoon

Network-valued data are encountered in a wide range of applications and pose challenges in learning due to their complex structure and absence of vertex correspondence. Typical examples of such problems include classification or grouping of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Mahalakshmi Sabanayagam , Leena Chennuru Vankadara , Debarghya Ghoshdastidar

We propose a consistent polynomial-time method for the unseeded node matching problem for networks with smooth underlying structures. Despite widely conjectured by the research community that the structured graph matching problem to be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-24 Yuan Zhang
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