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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

The aim of this paper is to propose a novel framework to infer the sheaf Laplacian, including the topology of a graph and the restriction maps, from a set of data observed over the nodes of a graph. The proposed method is based on sheaf…

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In data science, hypergraphs are natural models for data exhibiting multi-way relations, whereas graphs only capture pairwise. Nonetheless, many proposed hypergraph neural networks effectively reduce hypergraphs to undirected graphs via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Tatyana Benko , Martin Buck , Ilya Amburg , Stephen J. Young , Sinan G. Aksoy

Graph data often exhibits complex geometric heterogeneity, where structures with varying local curvature, such as tree-like hierarchies and dense communities, coexist within a single network. Existing geometric GNNs, which embed graphs into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Xudong Wang , Chris Ding , Tongxin Li , Jicong Fan

We propose a Laplacian based on general inner product spaces, which we call the inner product Laplacian. We show the combinatorial and normalized graph Laplacians, as well as other Laplacians for hypergraphs and directed graphs, are special…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Sinan G. Aksoy , Stephen J. Young

We propose the Lanczos network (LanczosNet), which uses the Lanczos algorithm to construct low rank approximations of the graph Laplacian for graph convolution. Relying on the tridiagonal decomposition of the Lanczos algorithm, we not only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Renjie Liao , Zhizhen Zhao , Raquel Urtasun , Richard S. Zemel

While topological data analysis has emerged as a powerful paradigm for structural inference, its foundational tools, notably persistent homology and the persistent Laplacian, are frequently insensitive to localized structural fluctuations…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Jian Liu , Hongsong Feng , Kefeng Liu

Given i.i.d. observations uniformly distributed on a closed submanifold of the Euclidean space, we study higher-order generalizations of graph Laplacians, so-called Hodge Laplacians on graphs, as approximations of the Laplace-Beltrami…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Jan-Paul Lerch , Martin Wahl

Graph convolutional neural networks (GCNNs) have been widely used in graph learning. It has been observed that the smoothness functional on graphs can be defined in terms of the graph Laplacian. This fact points out in the direction of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Asif Salim , Sumitra S

We consider a family of non-compact manifolds $X_\eps$ (``graph-like manifolds'') approaching a metric graph $X_0$ and establish convergence results of the related natural operators, namely the (Neumann) Laplacian $\laplacian {X_\eps}$ and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Olaf Post

Graph diffusion models have made significant progress in learning structured graph data and have demonstrated strong potential for predictive tasks. Existing approaches typically embed node, edge, and graph-level features into a unified…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Yisen Gao , Xingcheng Fu , Qingyun Sun , Jianxin Li , Xianxian Li

We show that arising out of noncmmutatve geometry is a natural family of {\em edge Laplacians} on the edges of a graph. The family includes a canonical edge Laplacian associated to the graph, extending the usual graph Laplacian on vertices,…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Shahn Majid

Laplacian operators are classical objects that are fundamental in both pure and applied mathematics and are becoming increasingly prominent in modern computational and data science fields such as applied and computational topology and…

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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have received increasing attention for representation learning in various machine learning tasks. However, most existing GNNs applying neighborhood aggregation usually perform poorly on the graph with…

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In a number of disciplines, the data (e.g., graphs, manifolds) to be analyzed are non-Euclidean in nature. Geometric deep learning corresponds to techniques that generalize deep neural network models to such non-Euclidean spaces. Several…

For any graph, we define a rank-1 operator on a bipartite tensor product space, with components associated to the set of vertices and edges respectively. We show that the partial traces of the operator are the Laplacian and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-05-01 Niel de Beaudrap , Vittorio Giovannetti , Simone Severini , Richard Wilson

In this article, we relate the spectrum of the discrete magnetic Laplacian (DML) on a finite simple graph with two structural properties of the graph: the existence of a perfect matching and the existence of a Hamiltonian cycle of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-11 J. S. Fabila-Carrasco , Fernando Lledó , Olaf Post

Graph Laplacians on finite compact metric graphs are considered under the assumption that the matching conditions at the graph vertices are of either $\delta$ or $\delta'$ type. In either case, an infinite series of trace formulae which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-04-01 Yulia Ershova , Alexander V. Kiselev

Multimodal MRI offers complementary multi-scale information to characterize the brain structure. However, it remains challenging to effectively integrate multimodal MRI while achieving neuroscience interpretability. Here we propose to use…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-15 Chengzhi Xia , Jianwei Chen , Yixuan Jiang , Qi Yan , Chao Li

Latent variable models are powerful tools for learning low-dimensional manifolds from high-dimensional data. However, when dealing with constrained data such as unit-norm vectors or symmetric positive-definite matrices, existing approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Leonel Rozo , Miguel González-Duque , Noémie Jaquier , Søren Hauberg