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The regression of multiple inter-connected sequence data is a problem in various disciplines. Formally, we name the regression problem of multiple inter-connected data entities as the "dynamic network regression" in this paper. Within the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Yixin Chen , Lin Meng , Jiawei Zhang

Over the last decade, a wave of research has characterized the exact asymptotic risk of many high-dimensional models in the proportional regime. Two foundational results have driven this progress: Gaussian universality, which shows that the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Matthew Esmaili Mallory , Kevin Han Huang , Morgane Austern

We derive properties of Latent Variable Models for networks, a broad class of models that includes the widely-used Latent Position Models. These include the average degree distribution, clustering coefficient, average path length and degree…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-06-26 Riccardo Rastelli , Nial Friel , Adrian E. Raftery

Normalizing flows transform a latent distribution through an invertible neural network for a flexible and pleasingly simple approach to generative modelling, while preserving an exact likelihood. We propose FlowGMM, an end-to-end approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Pavel Izmailov , Polina Kirichenko , Marc Finzi , Andrew Gordon Wilson

This paper presents GMM and M estimators and their asymptotic properties for network-dependent data. To this end, I build on Kojevnikov, Marmer, and Song (KMS, 2021) and develop a novel uniform law of large numbers (ULLN), which is…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-03-10 Yuya Sasaki

Suppose we observe samples of a subset of a collection of random variables. No additional information is provided about the number of latent variables, nor of the relationship between the latent and observed variables. Is it possible to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-11-05 Venkat Chandrasekaran , Pablo A. Parrilo , Alan S. Willsky

Gaussian graphical models are widely used to represent conditional dependence among random variables. In this paper, we propose a novel estimator for data arising from a group of Gaussian graphical models that are themselves dependent. A…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-09-01 Yuying Xie , Yufeng Liu , William Valdar

A fundamental challenge in understanding graph neural networks (GNNs) lies in characterizing their optimization dynamics and loss landscape geometry, critical for improving interpretability and robustness. While mode connectivity, a lens…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Bingheng Li , Zhikai Chen , Haoyu Han , Shenglai Zeng , Jingzhe Liu , Jiliang Tang

In this paper, we generally formulate the dynamics prediction problem of various network systems (e.g., the prediction of mobility, traffic and topology) as the temporal link prediction task. Different from conventional techniques of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Kai Lei , Meng Qin , Bo Bai , Gong Zhang , Min Yang

We explore various Bayesian approaches to estimate partial Gaussian graphical models. Our hierarchical structures enable to deal with single-output as well as multiple-output linear regressions, in small or high dimension, enforcing either…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-12-14 Eunice Okome Obiang , Pascal Jézéquel , Frédéric Proïa

This paper presents a simulation study comparing the performance of generalized joint regression models (GJRM) with generalized linear mixed models (GLMM) and generalized estimating equations (GEE) for regression of longitudinal data with…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-07 Aydin Sareff-Hibbert , Gillian Z. Heller

We introduce a particular construction of an autocorrelation matrix of a time series and its analysis based on the random-matrix theory ideas that is capable of unveiling the type of correlations information which is inaccessible to the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-06-11 Tayeb Jamali , Hamed Saberi , G. R. Jafari

A major limitation of machine learning (ML) prediction models is that they recover associational, rather than causal, predictive relationships between variables. In high-stakes automation applications of ML this is problematic, as the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Jianqiao Mao , Max A. Little

Modelling dynamically evolving spatio-temporal signals is a prominent challenge in the Graph Neural Network (GNN) literature. Notably, GNNs assume an existing underlying graph structure. While this underlying structure may not always exist…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Om Roy , Yashar Moshfeghi , Keith Smith

The recent emergence of deep learning has led to a great deal of work on designing supervised deep semantic segmentation algorithms. As in many tasks sufficient pixel-level labels are very difficult to obtain, we propose a method which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Matthias Schwab , Agnes Mayr , Markus Haltmeier

Developing deep generative models that flexibly incorporate diverse measures of probability distance is an important area of research. Here we develop an unified mathematical framework of f-divergence generative model, f-GM, that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-12 Jaime Roquero Gimenez , James Zou

We propose an Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) learning algorithm, based on our previous work of GMM expansion idea. The new algorithm brings more robustness and simplicity than classic Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm. It also improves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Weiguo Lu , Xuan Wu , Deng Ding , Gangnan Yuan

In many applications of finance, biology and sociology, complex systems involve entities interacting with each other. These processes have the peculiarity of evolving over time and of comprising latent factors, which influence the system…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-03 Federico Tomasi , Veronica Tozzo , Saverio Salzo , Alessandro Verri

Networks are a useful representation for data on connections between units of interests, but the observed connections are often noisy and/or include missing values. One common approach to network analysis is to treat the network as a…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-05-22 Yun-Jhong Wu , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

Graph Networks (GNs) enable the fusion of prior knowledge and relational reasoning with flexible function approximations. In this work, a general GN-based model is proposed which takes full advantage of the relational modeling capabilities…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Charilaos Mylonas , Imad Abdallah , Eleni Chatzi