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Graph-based collaborative filtering has been established as a prominent approach in recommendation systems, leveraging the inherent graph topology of user-item interactions to model high-order connectivity patterns and enhance…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Fan Huang , Wei Wang

We present Graph Neural Diffusion (GRAND) that approaches deep learning on graphs as a continuous diffusion process and treats Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) as discretisations of an underlying PDE. In our model, the layer structure and…

Average consensus (AC) strategies play a key role in every system that employs cooperation by means of distributed computations. To promote consensus, an $N$-agent network can repeatedly combine certain node estimates until their mean value…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Ricardo Merched

Link prediction is a fundamental task for graph analysis with important applications on the Web, such as social network analysis and recommendation systems, etc. Modern graph link prediction methods often employ a contrastive approach to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Trung-Kien Nguyen , Yuan Fang

In this letter, we study the problem of accelerating reaching average consensus over connected graphs in a discrete-time communication setting. Literature has shown that consensus algorithms can be accelerated by increasing the graph…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-29 Amir-Salar Esteki , Hossein Moradian , Solmaz S. Kia

We consider the problem of achieving average consensus in the minimum number of linear iterations on a fixed, undirected graph. We are motivated by the task of deriving lower bounds for consensus protocols and by the so-called "definitive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-08-30 Julien M. Hendrickx , Raphaël M. Jungers , Alexander Olshevsky , Guillaume Vankeerberghen

Multiplex networks describe systems whose interactions can be of different nature, and are fundamental to understand complexity of networks beyond the framework of simple graphs. Recently it has been pointed out that restricting the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-11-14 Reza Ghorbanchian , Vito Latora , Ginestra Bianconi

We introduce the problem of asymptotic subspace consensus, which requires the outputs of processes to converge onto a common subspace while remaining inside the convex hull of initial vectors.This is a relaxation of asymptotic consensus in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Matthias Függer , Thomas Nowak

Diffusion models have made significant contributions to computer vision, sparking a growing interest in the community recently regarding the application of them to graph generation. Existing discrete graph diffusion models exhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Xingcheng Fu , Yisen Gao , Yuecen Wei , Qingyun Sun , Hao Peng , Jianxin Li , Xianxian Li

Cellular sheaves and sheaf Laplacians provide a far-reaching generalization of graphs and graph Laplacians, resulting in a wide array of applications ranging from machine learning to multi-agent control. In the context of multi-agent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Yichen Zhao , Tyler Hanks , Hans Riess , Samuel Cohen , Matthew Hale , James Fairbanks

Graph convolution is the core of most Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and usually approximated by message passing between direct (one-hop) neighbors. In this work, we remove the restriction of using only the direct neighbors by introducing a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Johannes Gasteiger , Stefan Weißenberger , Stephan Günnemann

Diffusion kernels over graphs have been widely utilized as effective tools in various applications due to their ability to accurately model the flow of information through nodes and edges. However, there is a notable gap in the literature…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Giuseppe Alessio D'Inverno , Kylian Ajavon , Simone Brugiapaglia

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have attracted more and more attentions in recent years. A typical GCN layer consists of a linear feature propagation step and a nonlinear transformation step. Recent works show that a linear GCN can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Yifei Wang , Yisen Wang , Jiansheng Yang , Zhouchen Lin

In this work, we are interested in adaptive and distributed estimation of graph filters from streaming data. We formulate this problem as a consensus estimation problem over graphs, which can be addressed with diffusion LMS strategies. Most…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-13 Fei Hua , Roula Nassif , Cédric Richard , Haiyan Wang , Ali H. Sayed

Scene graphs (SGs) represent objects and their relationships as structured graphs, enabling applications in image generation, robotics, and 3D understanding. Recent work suggests that conditioning image generation on scene graphs improves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Rajalaxmi Rajagopalan , Romit Roy Choudhury

Graph neural networks (GNNs), especially dynamic GNNs, have become a research hotspot in spatio-temporal forecasting problems. While many dynamic graph construction methods have been developed, relatively few of them explore the causal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Guojun Liang , Prayag Tiwari , Sławomir Nowaczyk , Stefan Byttner , Fernando Alonso-Fernandez

Stochastic network influences complicate graph filter design by producing uncertainty in network iteration matrix eigenvalues, the points at which the graph filter response is defined. While joint statistics for the eigenvalues typically…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-01 Stephen Kruzick , José M. F. Moura

A distributed average consensus algorithm in which every sensor transmits with bounded peak power is proposed. In the presence of communication noise, it is shown that the nodes reach consensus asymptotically to a finite random variable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Sivaraman Dasarathan , Cihan Tepedelenlioglu , Mahesh Banavar , Andreas Spanias

A new approach to the modeling of nonfree particle diffusion is presented. The approach uses a general setup based on geometric graphs (networks of curves), which means that particle diffusion in anything from arrays of barriers and pore…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-05 Niels Buhl

The paper studies distributed Dictionary Learning (DL) problems where the learning task is distributed over a multi-agent network with time-varying (nonsymmetric) connectivity. This formulation is relevant, for instance, in big-data…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-23 Amir Daneshmand , Gesualdo Scutari , Francisco Facchinei