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Continuous causal discovery typically couples representation learning with structural optimization via non-convex acyclicity penalties, which subjects solvers to local optima and restricts scalability in high-dimensional regimes. We propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Rui Wu , Hong Xie

Finding $k$-cores in graphs is a valuable and effective strategy for extracting dense regions of otherwise sparse graphs. We focus on the important problem of maintaining cores on rapidly changing dynamic graphs, where batches of edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Kasimir Gabert , Ali Pınar , Ümit V. Çatalyürek

Decision Tree (DT) Learning is a fundamental problem in Interpretable Machine Learning, yet it poses a formidable optimisation challenge. Practical algorithms have recently emerged, primarily leveraging Dynamic Programming and Branch &…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Ayman Chaouki , Jesse Read , Albert Bifet

Model cards describe model behavior through a mixture of textual descriptions and structured artifacts, including performance, configuration, and dataset tables. Existing model search systems rely predominantly on semantic similarity over…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Zhengyuan Dong , Renée J. Miller

Modern natural language generation paradigms require a good decoding strategy to obtain quality sequences out of the model. Beam search yields high-quality but low diversity outputs; stochastic approaches suffer from high variance and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Jiacheng Xu , Caiming Xiong , Silvio Savarese , Yingbo Zhou

Binary search finds a given element in a sorted array with an optimal number of $\log n$ queries. However, binary search fails even when the array is only slightly disordered or access to its elements is subject to errors. We study the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Yann Disser , Stefan Kratsch

We develop a criterion to certify whether causal effects are identifiable in linear structural equation models with latent variables. Linear structural equation models correspond to directed graphs whose nodes represent the random variables…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Nils Sturma , Mathias Drton

The recently introduced graph parameter tree-cut width plays a similar role with respect to immersions as the graph parameter treewidth plays with respect to minors. In this paper, we provide the first algorithmic applications of tree-cut…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Robert Ganian , Eun Jung Kim , Stefan Szeider

Constrained sequential pattern mining aims at identifying frequent patterns on a sequential database of items while observing constraints defined over the item attributes. We introduce novel techniques for constraint-based sequential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Amin Hosseininasab , Willem-Jan van Hoeve , Andre A. Cire

We propose a new model-free feature screening method based on energy distances for ultrahigh-dimensional binary classification problems. With a high probability, the proposed method retains only relevant features after discarding all the…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-05-19 Sarbojit Roy , Soham Sarkar , Subhajit Dutta , Anil K. Ghosh

Thresholding--the pruning of nodes or edges based on their properties or weights--is an essential preprocessing tool for extracting interpretable structure from complex network data, yet existing methods face several key limitations.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Adam Schroeder , Russell Funk , Jingyi Guan , Taylor Okonek , Lori Ziegelmeier

Recently, the field of machine learning has undergone a transition from model-centric to data-centric. The advancements in diverse learning tasks have been propelled by the accumulation of more extensive datasets, subsequently facilitating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Yao Lu , Yutian Huang , Jiaqi Nie , Zuohui Chen , Qi Xuan

Finding a list of k teams of experts, referred to as top-k team formation, with the required skills and high collaboration compatibility has been extensively studied. However, existing methods have not considered the specific collaboration…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-01-04 Shuai Ma , Jia Li , Chunming Hu , Xudong Liu , Jinpeng Huai

Community and core-periphery are two widely studied graph structures, with their coexistence observed in real-world graphs (Rombach, Porter, Fowler \& Mucha [SIAM J. App. Math. 2014, SIAM Review 2017]). However, the nature of this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Chandra Sekhar Mukherjee , Jiapeng Zhang

In topic modeling, many algorithms that guarantee identifiability of the topics have been developed under the premise that there exist anchor words -- i.e., words that only appear (with positive probability) in one topic. Follow-up work has…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-16 Kejun Huang , Xiao Fu , Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos

We study the well-established problem of finding an optimal routing of unsplittable flows in a graph. While by now there is an extensive body of work targeting the problem on graph classes such as paths and trees, we aim at using the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Robert Ganian , Mathis Rocton , Daniel Unterberger

Many complex multi-target prediction problems that concern large target spaces are characterised by a need for efficient prediction strategies that avoid the computation of predictions for all targets explicitly. Examples of such problems…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Michiel Stock , Krzysztof Dembczynski , Bernard De Baets , Willem Waegeman

Two problems in the search of metric characteristics on weighted undirected graphs with non-negative edge weights are being considered. The first problem: a weighted undirected graph with non-negative edge weight is given. The radius,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-09-24 Airat Urakov , Timofey Timeryaev

Dense subgraph discovery methods are routinely used in a variety of applications including the identification of a team of skilled individuals for collaboration from a social network. However, when the network's node set is associated with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Atsushi Miyauchi , Tianyi Chen , Konstantinos Sotiropoulos , Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

The discovery of neural architectures from simple building blocks is a long-standing goal of Neural Architecture Search (NAS). Hierarchical search spaces are a promising step towards this goal but lack a unifying search space design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Simon Schrodi , Danny Stoll , Binxin Ru , Rhea Sukthanker , Thomas Brox , Frank Hutter