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This paper considers the problem of detecting adjoint mismatch for two linear maps. To clarify, this means that we aim to calculate the operator norm for the difference of two linear maps, where for one we only have a black-box…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Jonas Bresch , Dirk A. Lorenz , Felix Schneppe , Maximilian Winkler

Graphs are a powerful mathematical model, and they are used to represent real-world structures in various fields. In many applications, real-world structures with high connectivity and robustness are preferable. For enhancing the…

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In this paper, we consider the approximate weighted graph matching problem and introduce stable and informative first and second order compatibility terms suitable for inclusion into the popular integer quadratic program formulation. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Nan Hu , Raif M. Rustamov , Leonidas Guibas

Dismantling criminal networks or containing epidemics or misinformation through node removal is a well-studied problem. To evaluate the effectiveness of such efforts, one must measure the strength of the network before and after node…

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The concepts of faithfulness and strong-faithfulness are important for statistical learning of graphical models. Graphs are not sufficient for describing the association structure of a discrete distribution. Hypergraphs representing…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-01-26 Anna Klimova , Caroline Uhler , Tamas Rudas

Graph models, like other machine learning models, have implicit and explicit biases built-in, which often impact performance in nontrivial ways. The model's faithfulness is often measured by comparing the newly generated graph against the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Satyaki Sikdar , Daniel Gonzalez Cedre , Trenton W. Ford , Tim Weninger

In modern applications of graphs algorithms, where the graphs of interest are large and dynamic, it is unrealistic to assume that an input representation contains the full information of a graph being studied. Hence, it is desirable to use…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Nithin Varma , Yuichi Yoshida

Network alignment, or the task of finding meaningful node correspondences between nodes in different graphs, is an important graph mining task with many scientific and industrial applications. An important principle for network alignment is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Mark Heimann , Xiyuan Chen , Fatemeh Vahedian , Danai Koutra

Network (graph) data analysis is a popular research topic in statistics and machine learning. In application, one is frequently confronted with graph two-sample hypothesis testing where the goal is to test the difference between two graph…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-02-01 Mingao Yuan , Qian Wen

Multi-frame detection algorithms can effectively utilize the correlation between consecutive echoes to improve the detection performance of weak targets. Existing efficient multi-frame detection algorithms are typically based on three…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Zhihao Lin , Chang Gao , Junkun Yan , Qingfu Zhang , Bo Chen , Hongwei Liu

For a given number of colors, $s$, the guessing number of a graph is the (base $s$) logarithm of the cardinality of the largest family of colorings of the vertex set of the graph such that the color of each vertex can be determined from the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-11 Jo Martin , Puck Rombach

Defeasible reasoning is the mode of reasoning where conclusions can be overturned by taking into account new evidence. A commonly used method in cognitive science and logic literature is to handcraft argumentation supporting inference…

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PageRank is a well-known algorithm for measuring centrality in networks. It was originally proposed by Google for ranking pages in the World-Wide Web. One of the intriguing empirical properties of PageRank is the so-called `power-law…

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We consider the Stochastic Matching problem, which is motivated by applications in kidney exchange and online dating. In this problem, we are given an undirected graph. Each edge is assigned a known, independent probability of existence and…

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We devise an algorithm to generate propositions that objectively instantiate graphs supporting coherence-driven inference. We also benchmark the ability of large language models (LLMs) to reconstruct coherence graphs from (a simple…

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Random factor graphs provide a powerful framework for the study of inference problems such as decoding problems or the stochastic block model. Information-theoretically the key quantity of interest is the mutual information between the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Amin Coja-Oghlan , Max Hahn-Klimroth , Philipp Loick , Noela Müller , Konstantinos Panagiotou , Matija Pasch

The network alignment problem asks for the best correspondence between two given graphs, so that the largest possible number of edges are matched. This problem appears in many scientific problems (like the study of protein-protein…

Computation · Statistics 2017-07-18 Efe Onaran , Soledad Villar

In graph transformation, a conflict describes a situation where two alternative transformations cannot be arbitrarily serialized. When enriching graphs with attributes, existing conflict detection techniques typically report a conflict…

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In general, anomaly detection is the problem of distinguishing between normal data samples with well defined patterns or signatures and those that do not conform to the expected profiles. Financial transactions, customer reviews, social…

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