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With the continuous popularity of deep learning and representation learning, fast vector search becomes a vital task in various ranking/retrieval based applications, say recommendation, ads ranking and question answering. Neural network…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Weijie Zhao , Shulong Tan , Ping Li

In this paper we model the problem of learning preferences of a population as an active learning problem. We propose an algorithm can adaptively choose pairs of items to show to users coming from a heterogeneous population, and use the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-23 Aniruddha Bhargava , Ravi Ganti , Robert Nowak

In many high-impact applications, it is important to ensure the quality of output of a machine learning algorithm as well as its reliability in comparison with the complexity of the algorithm used. In this paper, we have initiated a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Katarina Doctor , Tong Mao , Hrushikesh Mhaskar

A Java parallel streams implementation of the $K$-nearest neighbor descent algorithm is presented using a natural statistical termination criterion. Input data consist of a set $S$ of $n$ objects of type V, and a Function<V, Comparator<V>>,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Jacob D. Baron , R. W. R. Darling

Local learning of sparse image models has proven to be very effective to solve inverse problems in many computer vision applications. To learn such models, the data samples are often clustered using the K-means algorithm with the Euclidean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Julio Cesar Ferreira , Elif Vural , Christine Guillemot

Graph anomaly detection aims to identify irregular patterns in graph-structured data. Most unsupervised GNN-based methods rely on the homophily assumption that connected nodes share similar attributes. However, real-world graphs often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Zehao Wang , Lanjun Wang

In the noisy query model, the (binary) return value of every query (possibly repeated) is independently flipped with some fixed probability $p \in (0, 1/2)$. In this paper, we obtain tight bounds on the noisy query complexity of several…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Yuzhou Gu , Xin Li , Yinzhan Xu

We develop an unsupervised, nonparametric, and scalable statistical learning method for detection of unknown objects in noisy images. The method uses results from percolation theory and random graph theory. We present an algorithm that…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-16 Mikhail A. Langovoy , Olaf Wittich , Patrick Laurie Davies

Measuring similarity between complex objects is a fundamental task in many scientific fields. When objects are represented as graphs, graph similarity/distance measures offer a powerful framework for quantifying structural resemblance.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Matthias Dehmer , Izudin Redžepović , Niko Tratnik , Petra Žigert Pleteršek

Digital presence in the world of online social media entails significant privacy risks. In this work we consider a privacy threat to a social network in which an attacker has access to a subset of random walk-based node similarities, such…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Jeremy G. Hoskins , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco , Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

This paper proposes a new graph proximity measure. This measure is a derivative of network reliability. By analyzing its properties and comparing it against other proximity measures through graph examples, we demonstrate that it is more…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-12-23 Haifeng Qian , Hui Wan , Mark N. Wegman , Luis A. Lastras , Ruchir Puri

Suppose that there is a family of $n$ random points $X_v$ for $v \in V$, independently and uniformly distributed in the square $\left[-\sqrt{n}/2,\sqrt{n}/2\right]^2$ of area $n$. We do not see these points, but learn about them in one of…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-11-26 Josep Diaz , Colin McDiarmid , Dieter Mitsche

This work presents a two-stage neural architecture for learning and refining structural correspondences between graphs. First, we use localized node embeddings computed by a graph neural network to obtain an initial ranking of soft…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Matthias Fey , Jan E. Lenssen , Christopher Morris , Jonathan Masci , Nils M. Kriege

In this paper we investigate the computational complexity of learning the graph structure underlying a discrete undirected graphical model from i.i.d. samples. We first observe that the notoriously difficult problem of learning parities…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-12-04 Guy Bresler , David Gamarnik , Devavrat Shah

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are important tools for transductive learning tasks, such as node classification in graphs, due to their expressive power in capturing complex interdependency between nodes. To enable graph neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Man Wu , Shirui Pan , Lan Du , Xingquan Zhu

We propose a novel non-parametric adaptive anomaly detection algorithm for high dimensional data based on score functions derived from nearest neighbor graphs on $n$-point nominal data. Anomalies are declared whenever the score of a test…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-10-29 Manqi Zhao , Venkatesh Saligrama

Random geometric graphs are random graph models defined on metric measure spaces. A random geometric graph is generated by first sampling points from a metric space and then connecting each pair of sampled points independently with a…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Han Huang , Pakawut Jiradilok , Elchanan Mossel

k-nearest neighbor graph is a fundamental data structure in many disciplines such as information retrieval, data-mining, pattern recognition, and machine learning, etc. In the literature, considerable research has been focusing on how to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Wan-Lei Zhao , Hui Wang , Peng-Cheng Lin , Chong-Wah Ngo

We consider a problem of multiclass classification, where the training sample $S_n = \{(X_i, Y_i)\}_{i=1}^n$ is generated from the model $\mathbb P(Y = m | X = x) = \eta_m(x)$, $1 \leq m \leq M$, and $\eta_1(x), \dots, \eta_M(x)$ are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-05 Nikita Puchkin , Vladimir Spokoiny

The task of sampling efficiently the Gibbs-Boltzmann distribution of disordered systems is important both for the theoretical understanding of these models and for the solution of practical optimization problems. Unfortunately, this task is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-04-30 Luca Maria Del Bono , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi , Francesco Zamponi