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We propose a new framework, called Poisson learning, for graph based semi-supervised learning at very low label rates. Poisson learning is motivated by the need to address the degeneracy of Laplacian semi-supervised learning in this regime.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Jeff Calder , Brendan Cook , Matthew Thorpe , Dejan Slepcev

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) addresses the critical challenge of training accurate models when labeled data is scarce but unlabeled data is abundant. Graph-based SSL (GSSL) has emerged as a popular framework that captures data structure…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-10 Nadav Katz , Ariel Jaffe

Finding the mean of sampled data is a fundamental task in machine learning and statistics. However, in cases where the data samples are graph objects, defining a mean is an inherently difficult task. We propose a novel framework for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-04 Isabel Haasler , Pascal Frossard

Semi-supervised semantic segmentation, which leverages a limited set of labeled images, helps to relieve the heavy annotation burden. While pseudo-labeling strategies yield promising results, there is still room for enhancing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yuanbin Fu , Xiaojie Guo

Graph neural networks are widely used tools for graph prediction tasks. Motivated by their empirical performance, prior works have developed generalization bounds for graph neural networks, which scale with graph structures in terms of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Haotian Ju , Dongyue Li , Aneesh Sharma , Hongyang R. Zhang

We study the problem of semi-supervised learning on graphs, for which graph neural networks (GNNs) have been extensively explored. However, most existing GNNs inherently suffer from the limitations of over-smoothing, non-robustness, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Wenzheng Feng , Jie Zhang , Yuxiao Dong , Yu Han , Huanbo Luan , Qian Xu , Qiang Yang , Evgeny Kharlamov , Jie Tang

Studied here are Wasserstein generative adversarial networks (WGANs) with GroupSort neural networks as their discriminators. It is shown that the error bound of the approximation for the target distribution depends on the width and depth…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Yihang Gao , Michael K. Ng , Mingjie Zhou

Deep learning models for semantic segmentation rely on expensive, large-scale, manually annotated datasets. Labelling is a tedious process that can take hours per image. Automatically annotating video sequences by propagating sparsely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Aditya Ganeshan , Alexis Vallet , Yasunori Kudo , Shin-ichi Maeda , Tommi Kerola , Rares Ambrus , Dennis Park , Adrien Gaidon

In this article, we derive Stein's method for approximating a spatial random graph by a generalised random geometric graph, which has vertices given by a finite Gibbs point process and edges based on a general connection function. Our main…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-06 Dominic Schuhmacher , Leoni Carla Wirth

Wasserstein Discriminant Analysis (WDA) is a new supervised method that can improve classification of high-dimensional data by computing a suitable linear map onto a lower dimensional subspace. Following the blueprint of classical Linear…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-21 Rémi Flamary , Marco Cuturi , Nicolas Courty , Alain Rakotomamonjy

Gradient boosting is a sequential ensemble method that fits a new weaker learner to pseudo residuals at each iteration. We propose Wasserstein gradient boosting, a novel extension of gradient boosting that fits a new weak learner to…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-08-30 Takuo Matsubara

In this paper we propose to perform model ensembling in a multiclass or a multilabel learning setting using Wasserstein (W.) barycenters. Optimal transport metrics, such as the Wasserstein distance, allow incorporating semantic side…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Pierre Dognin , Igor Melnyk , Youssef Mroueh , Jerret Ross , Cicero Dos Santos , Tom Sercu

Few-shot learning addresses the issue of classifying images using limited labeled data. Exploiting unlabeled data through the use of transductive inference methods such as label propagation has been shown to improve the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Michalis Lazarou , Yannis Avrithis , Guangyu Ren , Tania Stathaki

Many classification problems involve data instances that are interlinked with each other, such as webpages connected by hyperlinks. Techniques for "collective classification" (CC) often increase accuracy for such data graphs, but usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Luke McDowell , David Aha

We study the problem of the decentralized computation of entropy-regularized semi-discrete Wasserstein barycenters over a network. Building upon recent primal-dual approaches, we propose a sampling gradient quantization scheme that allows…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Roman Krawtschenko , César A. Uribe , Alexander Gasnikov , Pavel Dvurechensky

Logistic regression models are widely used in the social and behavioral sciences and in high-stakes domains, due to their simplicity and interpretability properties. At the same time, such domains are permeated by distribution shifts, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Qingshi Sun , Nathan Justin , Andres Gomez , Phebe Vayanos

A common assumption in semi-supervised learning with graph models is that the class label function varies smoothly on the data graph, resulting in the rather strict prior that the label function has low-frequency content. Meanwhile, in many…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-05 Mehmet Pilanci , Elif Vural

Using i.i.d. data to estimate a high-dimensional distribution in Wasserstein distance is a fundamental instance of the curse of dimensionality. We explore how structural knowledge about the data-generating process which gives rise to the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Daniel Bartl , Stephan Eckstein

We present graph partition neural networks (GPNN), an extension of graph neural networks (GNNs) able to handle extremely large graphs. GPNNs alternate between locally propagating information between nodes in small subgraphs and globally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Renjie Liao , Marc Brockschmidt , Daniel Tarlow , Alexander L. Gaunt , Raquel Urtasun , Richard Zemel

We propose a distributionally robust approach to learning hyperparameters for first-order methods in convex optimization. Given a dataset of problem instances, we minimize a Wasserstein distributionally robust version of the performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Vinit Ranjan , Jisun Park , Bartolomeo Stellato