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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

The study of probabilistic models for the analysis of complex networks represents a flourishing research field. Among the former, Exponential Random Graphs (ERGs) have gained increasing attention over the years. So far, only linear ERGs…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-10 Mattia Marzi , Francesca Giuffrida , Diego Garlaschelli , Tiziano Squartini

Analyzing multi-layered graphical models provides insight into understanding the conditional relationships among nodes within layers after adjusting for and quantifying the effects of nodes from other layers. We obtain the penalized maximum…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-01-06 Jiahe Lin , Sumanta Basu , Moulinath Banerjee , George Michailidis

Several statistical problems, such as multiple heterogeneous graph analysis, distributed PCA, integrative data analysis, and simultaneous dimension reduction of images, can involve a collection of $m$ matrices whose leading subspaces…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Runbing Zheng , Minh Tang

Uncertainty estimation in deep models is essential in many real-world applications and has benefited from developments over the last several years. Recent evidence suggests that existing solutions dependent on simple Gaussian formulations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Jurijs Nazarovs , Ronak R. Mehta , Vishnu Suresh Lokhande , Vikas Singh

This paper deals with the asymptotic statistical properties of a class of redescending M-estimators in linear models with increasing dimension. This class is wide enough to include popular high breakdown point estimators such as…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Ezequiel Smucler

Statistical properties of binary complex networks are well understood and recently many attempts have been made to extend this knowledge to weighted ones. There is, however, a subtle difference between networks where weights are continuos…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-12-06 Oleguer Sagarra , Conrad J. Pérez-Vicente , Albert Dïaz-Guilera

We study random graphs with latent geometric structure, where the probability of each edge depends on the underlying random positions corresponding to the two endpoints. We focus on the setting where this conditional probability is a…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Suqi Liu , Miklos Z. Racz

Hypergraphs are used in machine learning to model higher-order relationships in data. While spectral methods for graphs are well-established, spectral theory for hypergraphs remains an active area of research. In this paper, we use random…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Uthsav Chitra , Benjamin J Raphael

Various kinds of spread of influence occur in real world social and virtual networks. These phenomena are formulated by activation processes and irreversible dynamic monopolies in combinatorial graphs representing the topology of the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Manouchehr Zaker

Probabilistic Graphical Models are often used to understand dynamics of a system. They can model relationships between features (nodes) and the underlying distribution. Theoretically these models can represent very complex dependency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Harsh Shrivastava , Urszula Chajewska

An important challenge in the field of exponential random graphs (ERGs) is the fitting of non-trivial ERGs on large graphs. By utilizing fast matrix block-approximation techniques, we propose an approximative framework to such non-trivial…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Florian Adriaens , Alexandru Mara , Jefrey Lijffijt , Tijl De Bie

Preferential attachment is an appealing edge generating mechanism for modeling social networks. It provides both an intuitive description of network growth and an explanation for the observed power laws in degree distributions. However,…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-12-21 Phyllis Wan , Tiandong Wang , Richard A. Davis , Sidney I. Resnick

We analyze a minimal model of a growing network. At each time step, a new vertex is added; then, with probability delta, two vertices are chosen uniformly at random and joined by an undirected edge. This process is repeated for t time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Duncan S. Callaway , John E. Hopcroft , Jon M. Kleinberg , M. E. J. Newman , Steven H. Strogatz

In a graph, nodes can be characterized locally (with their degree $k$) or globally (e.g. with their average length path $\xi$ to other nodes). Here we investigate how $\xi$ depends on $k$. Our earlier algorithm of the construction of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Malarz , K. Kulakowski

We introduce a new approach to prediction in graphical models with latent-shift adaptation, i.e., where source and target environments differ in the distribution of an unobserved confounding latent variable. Previous work has shown that as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-26 William I. Walker , Arthur Gretton , Maneesh Sahani

The analysis of network data has gained considerable interest in recent years. This also includes the analysis of large, high-dimensional networks with hundreds and thousands of nodes. While exponential random graph models serve as…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-09-13 Nadja Klein , Göran Kauermann

For graph-valued data sampled iid from a distribution $\mu$, the sample moments are computed with respect to a choice of metric. In this work, we equip the set of graphs with the pseudo-metric defined by the $\ell_2$ norm between the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Daniel Ferguson , François G. Meyer

We develop a new class of random graph models for the statistical estimation of network formation -- subgraph generated models (SUGMs). Various subgraphs -- e.g., links, triangles, cliques, stars -- are generated and their union results in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-11-27 Arun G. Chandrasekhar , Matthew O. Jackson

This paper presents a novel application of graph neural networks for modeling and estimating network heterogeneity. Network heterogeneity is characterized by variations in unit's decisions or outcomes that depend not only on its own…

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