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Conformal prediction is a flexible framework for calibrating machine learning predictions, providing distribution-free statistical guarantees. In outlier detection, this calibration relies on a reference set of labeled inlier data to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-17 Meshi Bashari , Matteo Sesia , Yaniv Romano

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have seen significant success in tasks such as node classification, largely contingent upon the availability of sufficient labeled nodes. Yet, the excessive cost of labeling large-scale graphs led to a focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Hongliang Chi , Cong Qi , Suhang Wang , Yao Ma

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved significant success across various tasks, but ensuring reliable uncertainty estimates, known as model calibration, is crucial for their safe and effective deployment. Modern DNNs often suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Linwei Tao , Minjing Dong , Chang Xu

Finding cohesive subgraphs in a large graph has many important applications, such as community detection and biological network analysis. Clique is often a too strict cohesive structure since communities or biological modules rarely form as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Qihao Cheng , Da Yan , Tianhao Wu , Lyuheng Yuan , Ji Cheng , Zhongyi Huang , Yang Zhou

We present a new approach for solving (minimum disagreement) correlation clustering that results in sublinear algorithms with highly efficient time and space complexity for this problem. In particular, we obtain the following algorithms for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Sepehr Assadi , Chen Wang

Random graph mixture models are now very popular for modeling real data networks. In these setups, parameter estimation procedures usually rely on variational approximations, either combined with the expectation-maximisation (\textsc{em})…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-12-09 Christophe Ambroise , Catherine Matias

Real-world network applications must cope with failing nodes, malicious attacks, or nodes facing corrupted data - data classified as outliers. Our work addresses these concerns in the scope of the sensor network localization problem where,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Claudia Soares , João Gomes

The problem of localizing a set of nodes from relative pairwise measurements is at the core of many applications such as Structure from Motion (SfM), sensor networks, and Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM). In practical…

Computation · Statistics 2019-10-15 Mahroo Bahreinian , Roberto Tron

We propose a structure-preserving model-reduction methodology for large-scale dynamic networks with tightly-connected components. First, the coherent groups are identified by a spectral clustering algorithm on the graph Laplacian matrix…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-15 Hancheng Min , Enrique Mallada

We propose a new analysis framework for clustering $M$ items into an unknown number of $K$ distinct groups using noisy and actively collected responses. At each time step, an agent is allowed to query pairs of items and observe bandit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Rachel S. Y. Teo , P. N. Karthik , Ramya Korlakai Vinayak , Vincent Y. F. Tan

Learning-based planners leveraging Graph Neural Networks can learn search guidance applicable to large search spaces, yet their potential to address symmetries remains largely unexplored. In this paper, we introduce a graph representation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Yingbin Bai , Sylvie Thiebaux , Felipe Trevizan

We consider the constrained Linear Inverse Problem (LIP), where a certain atomic norm (like the $\ell_1 $ norm) is minimized subject to a quadratic constraint. Typically, such cost functions are non-differentiable, which makes them not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Mohammed Rayyan Sheriff , Floor Fenne Redel , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is the most widely used tool for linear dimensionality reduction and clustering. Still it is highly sensitive to outliers and does not scale well with respect to the number of data samples. Robust PCA…

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The $k$-defective clique model relaxes the strict completeness constraint of the traditional clique by allowing up to $k$ missing edges, providing a robust formulation for detecting cohesive structures in noisy graphs. Consequently, the…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Kewu Yang , Kaiqiang Yu , Shengxin Liu , Zhaoquan Gu

Motivated by cloud computing, a number of recent works have studied annotated data streams and variants thereof. In this setting, a computationally weak verifier (cloud user), lacking the resources to store and manipulate his massive input…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-04-16 Amit Chakrabarti , Graham Cormode , Navin Goyal , Justin Thaler

This paper considers the problem of matrix completion when the observed entries are noisy and contain outliers. It begins with introducing a new optimization criterion for which the recovered matrix is defined as its solution. This…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-29 Raymond K. W. Wong , Thomas C. M. Lee

Outlier detection is an important problem occurring in a wide range of areas. Outliers are the outcome of fraudulent behaviour, mechanical faults, human error, or simply natural deviations. Many data mining applications perform outlier…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Juan A. Lara , David Lizcano , Víctor Rampérez , Javier Soriano

Parameter estimation of mixture regression model using the expectation maximization (EM) algorithm is highly sensitive to outliers. Here we propose a fast and efficient robust mixture regression algorithm, called Component-wise Adaptive…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-20 Wennan Chang , Xinyu Zhou , Yong Zang , Chi Zhang , Sha Cao

We propose a general framework for interactively learning models, such as (binary or non-binary) classifiers, orderings/rankings of items, or clusterings of data points. Our framework is based on a generalization of Angluin's equivalence…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Ehsan Emamjomeh-Zadeh , David Kempe

Error slice discovery is crucial to diagnose and mitigate model errors. Current clustering or discrete attribute-based slice discovery methods face key limitations: 1) clustering results in incoherent slices, while assigning discrete…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Shantanu Ghosh , Rayan Syed , Chenyu Wang , Vaibhav Choudhary , Binxu Li , Clare B. Poynton , Shyam Visweswaran , Kayhan Batmanghelich