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Instance segmentation is one of the actively studied research topics in computer vision in which many objects of interest should be separated individually. While many feed-forward networks produce high-quality segmentation on different…

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Graphs are important data representations for describing objects and their relationships, which appear in a wide diversity of real-world scenarios. As one of a critical problem in this area, graph generation considers learning the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Xiaojie Guo , Liang Zhao

Sampling is a critical operation in Graph Neural Network (GNN) training that helps reduce the cost. Previous literature has explored improving sampling algorithms via mathematical and statistical methods. However, there is a gap between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Xin Liu , Mingyu Yan , Shuhan Song , Zhengyang Lv , Wenming Li , Guangyu Sun , Xiaochun Ye , Dongrui Fan

Problems in scientific computing, such as distributing large sparse matrix operations, have analogous formulations as hypergraph partitioning problems. A hypergraph is a generalization of a traditional graph wherein "hyperedges" may connect…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Justin Sybrandt , Ruslan Shaydulin , Ilya Safro

In this paper, we propose Continuous Graph Flow, a generative continuous flow based method that aims to model complex distributions of graph-structured data. Once learned, the model can be applied to an arbitrary graph, defining a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Zhiwei Deng , Megha Nawhal , Lili Meng , Greg Mori

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown promising results in modeling graphs in various tasks. The training of GNNs, especially on specialized tasks such as bioinformatics, demands extensive expert annotations, which are expensive and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Minhua Lin , Enyan Dai , Junjie Xu , Jinyuan Jia , Xiang Zhang , Suhang Wang

Hypothesis testing for graphs has been an important tool in applied research fields for more than two decades, and still remains a challenging problem as one often needs to draw inference from few replicates of large graphs. Recent studies…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-03 Debarghya Ghoshdastidar , Ulrike von Luxburg

In parameter estimation problems one computes a posterior distribution over uncertain parameters defined jointly by a prior distribution, a model, and noisy data. Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is often used for the numerical solution of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Matthias Morzfeld , Marcus S. Day , Ray W. Grout , George Shu Heng Pau , Stefan A. Finsterle , John B. Bell

Pixel-wise classification in remote sensing identifies entities in large-scale satellite-based images at the pixel level. Few fully annotated large-scale datasets for pixel-wise classification exist due to the challenges of annotating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Hyungtae Lee , Heesung Kwon , Wonkook Kim

Improving the scalability of GNNs is critical for large graphs. Existing methods leverage three sampling paradigms including node-wise, layer-wise and subgraph sampling, then design unbiased estimator for scalability. However, the high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Yang Li , Bingbing Xu , Qi Cao , Yige Yuan , Huawei Shen

Graph diffusion models have emerged as state-of-the-art techniques in graph generation; yet, integrating domain knowledge into these models remains challenging. Domain knowledge is particularly important in real-world scenarios, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Manuel Madeira , Clement Vignac , Dorina Thanou , Pascal Frossard

Generative diffusions are a powerful class of Monte Carlo samplers that leverage bridging Markov processes to approximate complex, high-dimensional distributions, such as those found in image processing and language models. Despite their…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-20 Zheng Zhao , Ziwei Luo , Jens Sjölund , Thomas B. Schön

We study which property testing and sublinear time algorithms can be transformed into graph streaming algorithms for random order streams. Our main result is that for bounded degree graphs, any property that is constant-query testable in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Morteza Monemizadeh , S. Muthukrishnan , Pan Peng , Christian Sohler

Sampling random graphs is essential in many applications, and often algorithms use Markov chain Monte Carlo methods to sample uniformly from the space of graphs. However, often there is a need to sample graphs with some property that we are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Caitlin Gray , Lewis Mitchell , Matthew Roughan

This paper gives a new algorithm for sampling tree-weighted partitions of a large class of planar graphs. Formally, the tree-weighted distribution on $k$-partitions of a graph weights $k$-partitions proportional to the product of the number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Sarah Cannon , Topher Pankow , Wesley Pegden , Jamie Tucker-Foltz

Understanding the data-generating process is essential for building machine learning models that generalise well while ensuring robustness and interpretability. This paper addresses the fundamental challenge of modelling the data generation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Bohan Tang , Keyue Jiang , Laura Toni , Siheng Chen , Xiaowen Dong

Recent works leveraging Graph Neural Networks to approach graph matching tasks have shown promising results. Recent progress in learning discrete distributions poses new opportunities for learning graph matching models. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Linfeng Liu , Michael C. Hughes , Soha Hassoun , Li-Ping Liu

Sampling a target probability distribution with an unknown normalization constant is a fundamental challenge in computational science and engineering. Recent work shows that algorithms derived by considering gradient flows in the space of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-12 Yifan Chen , Daniel Zhengyu Huang , Jiaoyang Huang , Sebastian Reich , Andrew M Stuart

Recently, deep neural networks have significant progress and successful application in various fields, but they are found vulnerable to attack instances, e.g., adversarial examples. State-of-art attack methods can generate attack images by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Ping Yu , Kaitao Song , Jianfeng Lu

We consider the problem of learning a graph from a finite set of noisy graph signal observations, the goal of which is to find a smooth representation of the graph signal. Such a problem is motivated by the desire to infer relational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Xiaolu Wang , Yuen-Man Pun , Anthony Man-Cho So