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We present new families of goodness-of-fit tests of uniformity on a full-dimensional set $W\subset\R^d$ based on statistics related to edge lengths of random geometric graphs. Asymptotic normality of these statistics is proven under the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-20 Bruno Ebner , Franz Nestmann , Matthias Schulte

For large-scale testing with graph-associated data, we present an empirical Bayes mixture technique to score local false discovery rates. Compared to empirical Bayes procedures that ignore the graph, the proposed method gains power in…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-11-26 TIen Vo , Vamsi Ithapu , Vikas Singh , Michael A. Newton

Two-sample tests for multivariate data and especially for non-Euclidean data are not well explored. This paper presents a novel test statistic based on a similarity graph constructed on the pooled observations from the two samples. It can…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-08-12 Hao Chen , Jerome H. Friedman

We propose the use of non-parametric, graph-based tests to assess the distributional balance of covariates in observational studies with multi-valued treatments. Our tests utilize graph structures ranging from Hamiltonian paths that connect…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-08-11 Eric A. Dunipace

We study simultaneous inference for multiple matrix-variate Gaussian graphical models in high-dimensional settings. Such models arise when spatiotemporal data are collected across multiple sample groups or experimental sessions, where each…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-21 Zongge Liu , Heejong Bong , Zhao Ren , Matthew A. Smith , Robert E. Kass

In this paper, we study a hypothesis test to determine the underlying directed graph structure of nodes in a network, where the nodes represent random processes and the direction of the links indicate a causal relationship between said…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Sina Molavipour , Germán Bassi , Mikael Skoglund

In network tomography, one goal is to identify a small set of failed links in a network, by sending a few packets through the network and seeing which reach their destination. This problem can be seen as a variant of combinatorial group…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Bruce Spang , Mary Wootters

Graph Out-of-Distribution (OOD) detection aims to identify whether a test graph deviates from the distribution of graphs observed during training, which is critical for ensuring the reliability of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) when deployed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Luzhi Wang , Xuanshuo Fu , He Zhang , Chuang Liu , Xiaobao Wang , Hongbo Liu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) and message passing neural networks (MPNNs) have been proven to be expressive for subgraph structures in many applications. Some applications in heterogeneous graphs require explicit edge modeling, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Xin Liu , Yangqiu Song

We consider a multiple hypothesis testing problem in a sensor network over the joint spatio-temporal domain. The sensor network is modeled as a graph, with each vertex representing a sensor and a signal over time associated with each…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-23 Xingchao Jian , Martin Gölz , Feng Ji , Wee Peng Tay , Abdelhak M. Zoubir

The Gaussian graphical model is routinely employed to model the joint distribution of multiple random variables. The graph it induces is not only useful for describing the relationship between random variables but also critical for…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-12-15 Thien-Minh Le , Ping-Shou Zhong , Chenlei Leng

Deep learning on graphs has shown remarkable success across numerous applications, including social networks, bio-physics, traffic networks, and recommendation systems. Regardless of their successes, current methods frequently depend on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Itay Niv , Neta Rabin

The graph alignment problem, which considers the optimal node correspondence across networks, has recently gained significant attention due to its wide applications. There are graph alignment methods suited for various network types, but we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Ashley Wang , Peter Chin

This paper proposes a Multimarginal Optimal Transport ($MOT$) approach for simultaneously comparing $k\geq 2$ measures supported on finite subsets of $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d \geq 1$. We derive asymptotic distributions of the optimal value of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Natalia Kravtsova

We consider the multiple hypothesis testing (MHT) problem over the joint domain formed by a graph and a measure space. On each sample point of this joint domain, we assign a hypothesis test and a corresponding $p$-value. The goal is to make…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-05 Xingchao Jian , Martin Gölz , Feng Ji , Wee Peng Tay , Abdelhak M. Zoubir

We study the problem of testing, using only a single sample, between mean field distributions (like Curie-Weiss, Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi) and structured Gibbs distributions (like Ising model on sparse graphs and Exponential Random Graphs). Our…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-24 Guy Bresler , Dheeraj Nagaraj

Comparing graphs by means of optimal transport has recently gained significant attention, as the distances induced by optimal transport provide both a principled metric between graphs as well as an interpretable description of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 James S. Nagai , Ivan G. Costa , Michael T. Schaub

The degrees are a classical and relevant way to study the topology of a network. They can be used to assess the goodness-of-fit for a given random graph model. In this paper we introduce goodness-of-fit tests for two classes of models.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Sarah Ouadah , Stéphane Robin , Pierre Latouche

Several approaches to testing the hypothesis that two histograms are drawn from the same distribution are investigated. We note that single-sample continuous distribution tests may be adapted to this two-sample grouped data situation. The…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-04-03 Frank C. Porter

Two-sample tests utilizing a similarity graph on observations are useful for high-dimensional and non-Euclidean data due to their flexibility and good performance under a wide range of alternatives. Existing works mainly focused on sparse…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Yejiong Zhu , Hao Chen