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The Lipschitz constant is an important quantity that arises in analysing the convergence of gradient-based optimization methods. It is generally unclear how to estimate the Lipschitz constant of a complex model. Thus, this paper studies an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-10 Calypso Herrera , Florian Krach , Josef Teichmann

This paper presents an extension of stochastic gradient descent for the minimization of Lipschitz continuous loss functions. Our motivation is for use in non-smooth non-convex stochastic optimization problems, which are frequently…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-05 Michael R. Metel , Akiko Takeda

This paper demonstrates the robustness of Lipschitz-regularized $\alpha$-divergences as objective functionals in generative modeling, showing they enable stable learning across a wide range of target distributions with minimal assumptions.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-09 Ziyu Chen , Hyemin Gu , Markos A. Katsoulakis , Luc Rey-Bellet , Wei Zhu

The Lipschitz bound, a technique from robust statistics, can limit the maximum changes in the output concerning the input, taking into account associated irrelevant biased factors. It is an efficient and provable method for examining the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Yaning Jia , Chunhui Zhang

Graphs are fundamental tools for modeling pairwise interactions in complex systems. However, many real-world systems involve multi-way interactions that cannot be fully captured by standard graphs. Hypergraphs, which generalize graphs by…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-04 Tom Needham , Ethan Semrad

Given a connected finite graph $G$, an integer-valued function $f$ on $V(G)$ is called $M$-Lipschitz if the value of $f$ changes by at most $M$ along the edges of $G$. In 2013, Peled, Samotij, and Yehudayoff showed that random $M$-Lipschitz…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-28 Robert A. Krueger , Lina Li , Jinyoung Park

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

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-03 Leonardo Di Nino , Sergio Barbarossa , Paolo Di Lorenzo

Inspired by persistent homology in topological data analysis, we introduce the homological eigenvalues of the graph $p$-Laplacian $\Delta_p$, which allows us to analyse and classify non-variational eigenvalues. We show the stability of…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Dong Zhang

Lipschitz continuity is a crucial functional property of any predictive model, that naturally governs its robustness, generalisation, as well as adversarial vulnerability. Contrary to other works that focus on obtaining tighter bounds and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Grigory Khromov , Sidak Pal Singh

We propose a new length formula that governs the iterates of the momentum method when minimizing differentiable semialgebraic functions with locally Lipschitz gradients. It enables us to establish local convergence, global convergence, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Cédric Josz , Lexiao Lai , Xiaopeng Li

The subgradient method is one of the most fundamental algorithmic schemes for nonsmooth optimization. The existing complexity and convergence results for this method are mainly derived for Lipschitz continuous objective functions. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-01 Xiao Li , Lei Zhao , Daoli Zhu , Anthony Man-Cho So

Graph-based methods have been quite successful in solving unsupervised and semi-supervised learning problems, as they provide a means to capture the underlying geometry of the dataset. It is often desirable for the constructed graph to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Aamir Anis , Aly El Gamal , Salman Avestimehr , Antonio Ortega

Semi-supervised and unsupervised machine learning methods often rely on graphs to model data, prompting research on how theoretical properties of operators on graphs are leveraged in learning problems. While most of the existing literature…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Amber Yuan , Jeff Calder , Braxton Osting

We consider the problems of \emph{learning} and \emph{testing} real-valued convex functions over Gaussian space. Despite the extensive study of function convexity across mathematics, statistics, and computer science, its learnability and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Renato Ferreira Pinto , Cassandra Marcussen , Elchanan Mossel , Shivam Nadimpalli

Extending functions from boundary values plays an important role in various applications. In this thesis we consider discrete and continuous formulations of the problem based on $p$-Laplacians, in particular for $p=\infty$ and tight…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-31 Johannes Hertrich

This paper presents a tractable algorithm for estimating an unknown Lipschitz function from noisy observations and establishes an upper bound on its convergence rate. The approach extends max-affine methods from convex shape-restricted…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-20 Gábor Balázs

We consider the problem of learning a graph under the Laplacian constraint with a non-convex penalty: minimax concave penalty (MCP). For solving the MCP penalized graphical model, we design an inexact proximal difference-of-convex algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Yangjing Zhang , Kim-Chuan Toh , Defeng Sun

We show that the log-likelihood of several probabilistic graphical models is Lipschitz continuous with respect to the lp-norm of the parameters. We discuss several implications of Lipschitz parametrization. We present an upper bound of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Jean Honorio

Laplace learning is a semi-supervised method, a solution for finding missing labels from a partially labeled dataset utilizing the geometry given by the unlabeled data points. The method minimizes a Dirichlet energy defined on a (discrete)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-22 Zhengang Zhong , Yury Korolev , Matthew Thorpe