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Graphons offer a powerful framework for modeling large-scale networks, yet estimation remains challenging. We propose a novel approach that leverages a low-rank additive representation, yielding both a low-rank connection probability matrix…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-14 Xinyuan Fan , Feiyan Ma , Chenlei Leng , Weichi Wu

The goal of this work is to address two limitations in autoencoder-based models: latent space interpretability and compatibility with unstructured meshes. This is accomplished here with the development of a novel graph neural network (GNN)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Shivam Barwey , Varun Shankar , Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan , Romit Maulik

Machine learning frameworks such as graph neural networks typically rely on a given, fixed graph to exploit relational inductive biases and thus effectively learn from network data. However, when said graphs are (partially) unobserved,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Max Wasserman , Saurabh Sihag , Gonzalo Mateos , Alejandro Ribeiro

Graphs are fundamental data structures which concisely capture the relational structure in many important real-world domains, such as knowledge graphs, physical and social interactions, language, and chemistry. Here we introduce a powerful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Yujia Li , Oriol Vinyals , Chris Dyer , Razvan Pascanu , Peter Battaglia

Recovering the random graph model from an observed collection of networks is known to present significant challenges in the setting, where the networks do not share a common node set and have different sizes. More specifically, the goal is…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-17 Roland Boniface Sogan , Tabea Rebafka

We study graphons as a non-parametric generalization of stochastic block models, and show how to obtain compactly represented estimators for sparse networks in this framework. Our algorithms and analysis go beyond previous work in several…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-25 Christian Borgs , Jennifer T. Chayes , Henry Cohn , Shirshendu Ganguly

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) are a widely used method for graph representation learning. To elucidate the capabilities and limitations of GCNs, we investigate their power, as a function of their number of layers, to distinguish…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-14 Abram Magner , Mayank Baranwal , Alfred O. Hero

Graph generation generally aims to create new graphs that closely align with a specific graph distribution. Existing works often implicitly capture this distribution through the optimization of generators, potentially overlooking the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Song Wang , Zhen Tan , Xinyu Zhao , Tianlong Chen , Huan Liu , Jundong Li

Graph convolutional neural networks (GCNN) have been successfully applied to many different graph based learning tasks including node and graph classification, matrix completion, and learning of node embeddings. Despite their impressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Soumyasundar Pal , Florence Regol , Mark Coates

Recent advances in Graph Convolutional Neural Networks (GCNNs) have shown their efficiency for non-Euclidean data on graphs, which often require a large amount of labeled data with high cost. It it thus critical to learn graph feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Xiang Gao , Wei Hu , Guo-Jun Qi

We consider the problem of estimating the topology of multiple networks from nodal observations, where these networks are assumed to be drawn from the same (unknown) random graph model. We adopt a graphon as our random graph model, which is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-14 Madeline Navarro , Santiago Segarra

Generative networks have made it possible to generate meaningful signals such as images and texts from simple noise. Recently, generative methods based on GAN and VAE were developed for graphs and graph signals. However, the mathematical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Dongmian Zou , Gilad Lerman

Graphon models provide a flexible nonparametric framework for estimating latent connectivity probabilities in networks, enabling a range of downstream applications such as link prediction and data augmentation. However, accurate graphon…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yuyao Wang , Yu-Hung Cheng , Debarghya Mukherjee , Huimin Cheng

Exchangeable random graphs, which include some of the most widely studied network models, have emerged as the mainstay of statistical network analysis in recent years. Graphons, which are the central objects in graph limit theory, provide a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Anirban Chatterjee , Soham Dan , Bhaswar B. Bhattacharya

We consider the problem of estimating the topology of multiple networks from nodal observations, where these networks are assumed to be drawn from the same (unknown) random graph model. We adopt a graphon as our random graph model, which is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-21 Madeline Navarro , Santiago Segarra

Proposing an effective and flexible matrix to represent a graph is a fundamental challenge that has been explored from multiple perspectives, e.g., filtering in Graph Fourier Transforms. In this work, we develop a novel and general…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Mingqi Yang , Wenjie Feng , Yanming Shen , Bryan Hooi

Graph neural networks (GNNs), in general, are built on the assumption of a static set of features characterizing each node in a graph. This assumption is often violated in practice. Existing methods partly address this issue through feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Shubham Gupta , Sahil Manchanda , Sayan Ranu , Srikanta Bedathur

Most existing feature learning methods optimize inflexible handcrafted features and the affinity matrix is constructed by shallow linear embedding methods. Different from these conventional methods, we pretrain a generative neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Changlu Chen , Chaoxi Niu , Xia Zhan , Kun Zhan

We introduce AutoGraph, a scalable autoregressive model for attributed graph generation using decoder-only transformers. By flattening graphs into random sequences of tokens through a reversible process, AutoGraph enables modeling graphs as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Dexiong Chen , Markus Krimmel , Karsten Borgwardt

Graph generation is an extremely important task, as graphs are found throughout different areas of science and engineering. In this work, we focus on the modern equivalent of the Erdos-Renyi random graph model: the graph variational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Daniel Flam-Shepherd , Tony Wu , Alan Aspuru-Guzik