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This paper presents rigorous forward error bounds for linear conic optimization problems. The error bounds are formulated in a quite general framework; the underlying vector spaces are not required to be finite-dimensional, and the convex…

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We describe a convex programming approach to the calculation of lower bounds on the minimum cost of constrained decentralized control problems with nonclassical information structures. The class of problems we consider entail the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Weixuan Lin , Eilyan Bitar

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) leverage the graph structure to transmit information between nodes, typically through the message-passing mechanism. While these models have found a wide variety of applications, they are known to suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Hugh Blayney , Álvaro Arroyo , Xiaowen Dong , Michael M. Bronstein

We prove a lower bound to quantum Max Cut of a graph in terms of the Lov\'asz theta function of its complement. For a graph with $m$ edges, $\text{qmc}(G) \geq \tfrac{m}{4}\big( 1 + \tfrac{8}{3\pi}\tfrac{1}{\vartheta(\bar{G}) -1} \big)$,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Felix Huber

An interference alignment perspective is used to identify the simplest instances (minimum possible number of edges in the alignment graph, no more than 2 interfering messages at any destination) of index coding problems where non-Shannon…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-29 Hua Sun , Syed A. Jafar

In this paper, the authors provide a weak decoding version of the traditional source coding theorem of Claude Shannon. The central bound that is obtained is \[ \chi>\log_{\epsilon}(2^{-n(H(X)+\epsilon)}) \] where \[…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Aman Chawla

In this paper we prove a conjecture by Wocjan, Elphick and Anekstein (2018) which upper bounds the sum of the squares of the positive (or negative) eigenvalues of the adjacency matrix of a graph by an expression that behaves monotonically…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-14 Gabriel Coutinho , Thomás Jung Spier , Shengtong Zhang

Semidefinite programs (SDP) are one of the most versatile frameworks in numerical optimization, serving as generalizations of many conic programs and as relaxations of NP-hard combinatorial problems. Their main drawback is their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-28 Biel Roig-Solvas , Mario Sznaier

Computing the number of realizations of a minimally rigid graph is a notoriously difficult problem. Towards this goal, for graphs that are minimally rigid in the plane, we take advantage of a recently published algorithm, which is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-12 Georg Grasegger , Christoph Koutschan , Elias Tsigaridas

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have recently achieved great empirical success in learning graph-structured data. To address its scalability issue due to the recursive embedding of neighboring features, graph topology sampling has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Hongkang Li , Meng Wang , Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Jinjun Xiong

Graphons are analytic objects representing limits of convergent sequences of graphs. Lov\'asz and Szegedy conjectured that every finitely forcible graphon, i.e. any graphon determined by finitely many graph densities, has a simple…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-29 Jacob W. Cooper , Tomas Kaiser , Daniel Kral , Jonathan A. Noel

We investigate the existence of a statistical-computational gap in multiple Gaussian graph alignment. We first generalize a previously established informational threshold from Vassaux and Massouli\'e (2025) to regimes where the number of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-02 Bertrand Even , Luca Ganassali

Recent research has made significant progress on the problem of bounding log partition functions for exponential family graphical models. Such bounds have associated dual parameters that are often used as heuristic estimates of the marginal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Pradeep Ravikumar , John Lafferty

The scramble number of a graph, a natural generalization of bramble number, is an invariant recently developed to study chip-firing games and graph gonality. We introduce the carton number of a graph, defined to be the minimum size of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Seamus Connor , Steven DiSilvio , Sasha Kononova , Ralph Morrison , Krish Singal

Recent advancements in graph learning have revolutionized the way to understand and analyze data with complex structures. Notably, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), i.e. neural network architectures designed for learning graph representations,…

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For the discrete-time additive white generalized Gaussian noise channel with a generalized input power constraint, with the respective shape and power parameters >= 1, we derive an upper bound on the optimal block error exponent. Explicit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Sergey Tridenski , Anelia Somekh-Baruch

The problem of graphical model selection is to correctly estimate the graph structure of a Markov random field given samples from the underlying distribution. We analyze the information-theoretic limitations of the problem of graph…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-19 Narayana Santhanam , Martin J. Wainwright

Let $W$ be a binary-input memoryless symmetric (BMS) channel with Shannon capacity $I(W)$ and fix any $\alpha > 0$. We construct, for any sufficiently small $\delta > 0$, binary linear codes of block length $O(1/\delta^{2+\alpha})$ and rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Venkatesan Guruswami , Andrii Riazanov , Min Ye

Recently, it has been shown that the max flow capacity can be achieved in a multicast network using network coding. In this paper, we propose and analyze a more realistic model for wireless random networks. We prove that the capacity of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-11-11 Salah A. Aly , Vishal Kapoor , Jie Meng , Andreas Klappenecker

In this paper, we leverage an information-theoretic upper bound on the maximum admissible level of noise (MALN) in convex Lipschitz-continuous zeroth-order optimisation to establish corresponding upper bounds for classes of strongly convex…

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