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We develop several efficient algorithms for the classical \emph{Matrix Scaling} problem, which is used in many diverse areas, from preconditioning linear systems to approximation of the permanent. On an input $n\times n$ matrix $A$, this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Zeyuan Allen-Zhu , Yuanzhi Li , Rafael Oliveira , Avi Wigderson

Graph sparsification underlies a large number of algorithms, ranging from approximation algorithms for cut problems to solvers for linear systems in the graph Laplacian. In its strongest form, "spectral sparsification" reduces the number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-09 Simon Apers , Ronald de Wolf

The most popular method for computing the matrix logarithm is a combination of the inverse scaling and squaring method in conjunction with a Pad\'e approximation, sometimes accompanied by the Schur decomposition. The main computational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-19 Elias Jarlebring , Jorge Sastre , J. Javier Ibáñez González

This paper formulates a multitask optimization problem where agents in the network have individual objectives to meet, or individual parameter vectors to estimate, subject to a smoothness condition over the graph. The smoothness condition…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Roula Nassif , Stefan Vlaski , Cedric Richard , Ali H. Sayed

We consider a generalization of the diffusion equation on graphs. This generalized diffusion equation gives rise to both normal and superdiffusive processes on infinite one-dimensional graphs. The generalization is based on the $k$-path…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-30 Ernesto Estrada , Ehsan Hameed , Naomichi Hatano , Matthias Langer

Counting the independent sets of a graph is a classical #P-complete problem, even in the bipartite case. We give an exponential-time approximation scheme for this problem which is faster than the best known algorithm for the exact problem.…

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Doubly intractable distributions arise in many settings, for example in Markov models for point processes and exponential random graph models for networks. Bayesian inference for these models is challenging because they involve intractable…

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Learning the graph Laplacian from observed data is one of the most investigated and fundamental tasks in Graph Signal Processing (GSP). Different variants of the Laplacian, such as the combinatorial, signless or signed Laplacians have been…

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Generative diffusion models have recently emerged as a powerful strategy to perform stochastic sampling in Bayesian inverse problems, delivering remarkably accurate solutions for a wide range of challenging applications. However, diffusion…

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In this paper, we present GGSD, a novel graph generative model based on 1) the spectral decomposition of the graph Laplacian matrix and 2) a diffusion process. Specifically, we propose to use a denoising model to sample eigenvectors and…

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Computational efficiency is a major bottleneck in using classic graph-based approaches for semi-supervised learning on datasets with a large number of unlabeled examples. Known techniques to improve efficiency typically involve an…

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We consider the problem of generating uniformly random partitions of the vertex set of a graph such that every piece induces a connected subgraph. For the case where we want to have partitions with linearly many pieces of bounded size, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-06-02 Alan Frieze , Wesley Pegden

A multiscale optimization framework for problems over a space of Lipschitz continuous functions is developed. The method solves a coarse-grid discretization followed by linear interpolation to warm-start project gradient descent on…

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We present a novel computational method to simulate accurately a wide range of interfacial patterns whose growth is limited by a large scale diffusion field. To illustrate the computational power of this method, we demonstrate that it can…

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Finite-difference simulations of fluid dynamics and magnetohydrodynamics generally require an explicit diffusion operator, either to maintain stability by attenuating grid-scale structure, or to implement physical diffusivities such as…

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In this paper we investigate the variable coefficient two-sided fractional diffusion, advection, reaction equations on a bounded interval. It is known that the fractional diffusion operator may lose coercivity due to the variable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-23 Xiangcheng Zheng , V. J. Ervin , Hong Wang

Graph inference plays an essential role in machine learning, pattern recognition, and classification. Signal processing based approaches in literature generally assume some variational property of the observed data on the graph. We make a…

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We analyze effective approximation of unitary matrices. In our formulation, a unitary matrix is represented as a product of rotations in two-dimensional subspaces, so-called Givens rotations. Instead of the quadratic dimension dependence…

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