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In this paper, we study a nonlocal variational problem which consists of minimizing in $L^2$ the sum of a quadratic data fidelity and a regularization term corresponding to the $L^p$-norm of the nonlocal gradient. In particular, we study…

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We consider the problem of decomposing the edges of a directed graph into as few paths as possible. There is a natural lower bound for the number of paths needed in an edge decomposition of a directed graph $D$ in terms of its degree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-29 Alberto Espuny Díaz , Viresh Patel , Fabian Stroh

In the search engine of Google, the PageRank algorithm plays a crucial role in ranking the search results. The algorithm quantifies the importance of each web page based on the link structure of the web. We first provide an overview of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-03-30 Hideaki Ishii , Roberto Tempo

In this note, we study Laplacians on graphs for which connectivity within certain subgraphs tends to infinity. Our main focus are graphs sharing a common node set on which edge weights within certain clusters grow to infinity. As…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Christian Koke

Recently, continual graph learning has been increasingly adopted for diverse graph-structured data processing tasks in non-stationary environments. Despite its promising learning capability, current studies on continual graph learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Zonggui Tian , Du Zhang , Hong-Ning Dai

Lipschitz learning is a graph-based semi-supervised learning method where one extends labels from a labeled to an unlabeled data set by solving the infinity Laplace equation on a weighted graph. In this work we prove uniform convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Leon Bungert , Jeff Calder , Tim Roith

The performance of traditional graph Laplacian methods for semi-supervised learning degrades substantially as the ratio of labeled to unlabeled data decreases, due to a degeneracy in the graph Laplacian. Several approaches have been…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-03 Jeff Calder , Dejan Slepcev

Decentralized optimization is a powerful paradigm that finds applications in engineering and learning design. This work studies decentralized composite optimization problems with non-smooth regularization terms. Most existing gradient-based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Sulaiman A. Alghunaim , Kun Yuan , Ali H. Sayed

Adaptive (or co-evolutionary) network dynamics, i.e., when changes of the network/graph topology are coupled with changes in the node/vertex dynamics, can give rise to rich and complex dynamical behavior. Even though adaptivity can improve…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-09-14 Marios Antonios Gkogkas , Christian Kuehn , Chuang Xu

In this letter, we study distributed optimization, where a network of agents, abstracted as a directed graph, collaborates to minimize the average of locally-known convex functions. Most of the existing approaches over directed graphs are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-08 Ran Xin , Usman A. Khan

This paper addresses theory and applications of $\ell_p$-based Laplacian regularization in semi-supervised learning. The graph $p$-Laplacian for $p>2$ has been proposed recently as a replacement for the standard ($p=2$) graph Laplacian in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-28 Mauricio Flores , Jeff Calder , Gilad Lerman

Graphs are found in a plethora of domains, including online social networks, the World Wide Web and the study of epidemics, to name a few. With the advent of greater volumes of information and the need for continuously updated results under…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Miguel E. Coimbra , Sérgio Esteves , Alexandre P. Francisco , Luís Veiga

In this paper, we consider a non-convex loss-minimization problem of learning Supervised PageRank models, which can account for some properties not considered by classical approaches such as the classical PageRank model. We propose…

For a directed graph, the Pagerank algorithm emulates a random walker on the graph that occasionally "jumps" to a random vertex based on a jumping parameter $\alpha$. Upon completion, the algorithm generates a stochastic vector whose…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-19 Joseph Farnan , Franklin H. J. Kenter

Graph constraint logic is a framework introduced by Hearn and Demaine, which provides several problems that are often a convenient starting point for reductions. We study the parameterized complexity of Constraint Graph Satisfiability and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-09-10 Tom C. van der Zanden

Computational efficiency is a major bottleneck in using classic graph-based approaches for semi-supervised learning on datasets with a large number of unlabeled examples. Known techniques to improve efficiency typically involve an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Dravyansh Sharma , Maxwell Jones

The Laplacian matrix and its pseudo-inverse for a strongly connected directed graph is fundamental in computing many properties of a directed graph. Examples include random-walk centrality and betweenness measures, average hitting and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-16 Daniel Boley

The PageRank of a graph is a scalar function defined on the node set of the graph which encodes nodes centrality information of the graph. In this article, we use the PageRank function along with persistent homology to obtain a scalable…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Mustafa Hajij , Elizabeth Munch , Paul Rosen

We initiate the study of graph algorithms in the streaming setting on massive distributed and parallel systems inspired by practical data processing systems. The objective is to design algorithms that can efficiently process evolving graphs…

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In recent years, many large directed networks such as online social networks are collected with the help of powerful data engineering and data storage techniques. Analyses of such networks attract significant attention from both the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Yunxiang Yan , Meng Jiang