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Many modern data analytics applications on graphs operate on domains where graph topology is not known a priori, and hence its determination becomes part of the problem definition, rather than serving as prior knowledge which aids the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Ljubisa Stankovic , Danilo Mandic , Milos Dakovic , Milos Brajovic , Bruno Scalzo , Shengxi Li , Anthony G. Constantinides

How to obtain a graph from data samples is an important problem in graph signal processing. One way to formulate this graph learning problem is based on Gaussian maximum likelihood estimation, possibly under particular topology constraints.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-02 Keng-Shih Lu , Antonio Ortega

In recent years, graph signal processing (GSP) technology has become popular in various fields, and graph Laplacian regularizers have also been introduced into convolutional sparse representation. This paper proposes a convolutional sparse…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Xuefeng Peng , Fei Chen , Hang Cheng , Meiqing Wang

We introduce a new notion of graph sparsificaiton based on spectral similarity of graph Laplacians: spectral sparsification requires that the Laplacian quadratic form of the sparsifier approximate that of the original. This is equivalent to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-07-22 Daniel A. Spielman , Shang-Hua Teng

We introduce the computational problem of graphlet transform of a sparse large graph. Graphlets are fundamental topology elements of all graphs/networks. They can be used as coding elements to encode graph-topological information at…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Dimitris Floros , Nikos Pitsianis , Xiaobai Sun

Graphs serve as generic tools to encode the underlying relational structure of data. Often this graph is not given, and so the task of inferring it from nodal observations becomes important. Traditional approaches formulate a convex inverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Max Wasserman , Gonzalo Mateos

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

Multimodal MRI offers complementary multi-scale information to characterize the brain structure. However, it remains challenging to effectively integrate multimodal MRI while achieving neuroscience interpretability. Here we propose to use…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-15 Chengzhi Xia , Jianwei Chen , Yixuan Jiang , Qi Yan , Chao Li

Multilayer graphs are appealing mathematical tools for modeling multiple types of relationship in the data. In this paper, we aim at analyzing multilayer graphs by properly combining the information provided by individual layers, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Mireille El Gheche , Pascal Frossard

Effective information analysis generally boils down to properly identifying the structure or geometry of the data, which is often represented by a graph. In some applications, this structure may be partly determined by design constraints or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-07 Dorina Thanou , Xiaowen Dong , Daniel Kressner , Pascal Frossard

Graph learning from data represents a canonical problem that has received substantial attention in the literature. However, insufficient work has been done in incorporating prior structural knowledge onto the learning of underlying…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-23 Sandeep Kumar , Jiaxi Ying , José Vinícius de M. Cardoso , Daniel Palomar

In this work, we present a theoretical study of signals with sparse representations in the vertex domain of a graph, which is primarily motivated by the discrepancy arising from respectively adopting a synthesis and analysis view of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-16 Madeleine S. Kotzagiannidis , Mike E. Davies

To accelerate the training of graph convolutional networks (GCNs) on real-world large-scale sparse graphs, downsampling methods are commonly employed as a preprocessing step. However, the effects of graph sparsity and topological structure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Qinji Shu , Hang Sheng , Feng Ji , Hui Feng , Bo Hu

How might one "reduce" a graph? That is, generate a smaller graph that preserves the global structure at the expense of discarding local details? There has been extensive work on both graph sparsification (removing edges) and graph…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Gecia Bravo-Hermsdorff , Lee M. Gunderson

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

We present the Topology Transformation Equivariant Representation learning, a general paradigm of self-supervised learning for node representations of graph data to enable the wide applicability of Graph Convolutional Neural Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Xiang Gao , Wei Hu , Guo-Jun Qi

Recovering sparse conditional independence graphs from data is a fundamental problem in machine learning with wide applications. A popular formulation of the problem is an $\ell_1$ regularized maximum likelihood estimation. Many convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Harsh Shrivastava , Xinshi Chen , Binghong Chen , Guanghui Lan , Srinvas Aluru , Han Liu , Le Song

The ability to learn good representations of states is essential for solving large reinforcement learning problems, where exploration, generalization, and transfer are particularly challenging. The Laplacian representation is a promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Diego Gomez , Michael Bowling , Marlos C. Machado

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a powerful framework for optimizing expensive black-box objectives, yet extending it to graph-structured domains remains challenging due to the discrete and combinatorial nature of graphs. Existing approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Shu Hong , Yongsheng Mei , Mahdi Imani , Tian Lan

Typically, graph structures are represented by one of three different matrices: the adjacency matrix, the unnormalised and the normalised graph Laplacian matrices. The spectral (eigenvalue) properties of these different matrices are…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-01-27 J. F. Lutzeyer , A. T. Walden