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We study a distributed learning problem in which learning agents are embedded in a directed acyclic graph (DAG). There is a fixed and arbitrary distribution over feature/label pairs, and each agent or vertex in the graph is able to directly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Michael Kearns , Aaron Roth , Emily Ryu

The search space of Bayesian Network structures is usually defined as Acyclic Directed Graphs (DAGs) and the search is done by local transformations of DAGs. But the space of Bayesian Networks is ordered by DAG Markov model inclusion and it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-14 Tomas Kocka , Robert Castelo

Bayesian networks are a class of popular graphical models that encode causal and conditional independence relations among variables by directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). We propose a novel structure learning method, annealing on regularized…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-04 Qiaoling Ye , Arash A. Amini , Qing Zhou

Community detection on attributed graphs with rich semantic and topological information offers great potential for real-world network analysis, especially user matching in online games. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have recently enabled…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Chang Liu , Yuwen Yang , Yue Ding , Hongtao Lu , Wenqing Lin , Ziming Wu , Wendong Bi

We analyze a new property of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), called layerwidth, arising from a class of DAGs proposed by Eiter and Lukasiewicz. This class of DAGs permits certain problems of structural model-based causality and explanation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-12-12 Mark Hopkins

We study the problem of broadcasting packets in wireless networks. At each time slot, a network controller activates non-interfering links and forwards packets to all nodes at a common rate; the maximum rate is referred to as the broadcast…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Abhishek Sinha , Georgios Paschos , Chih-ping Li , Eytan Modiano

We introduce a novel class of labeled directed acyclic graph (LDAG) models for finite sets of discrete variables. LDAGs generalize earlier proposals for allowing local structures in the conditional probability distribution of a node, such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-11-12 Johan Pensar , Henrik Nyman , Timo Koski , Jukka Corander

It is known that from purely observational data, a causal DAG is identifiable only up to its Markov equivalence class, and for many ground truth DAGs, the direction of a large portion of the edges will be remained unidentified. The golden…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-15 AmirEmad Ghassami , Saber Salehkaleybar , Negar Kiyavash

The number of artificial intelligence algorithms for learning causal models from data is growing rapidly. Most ``causal discovery'' or ``causal structure learning'' algorithms are primarily validated through simulation studies. However, no…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-24 Bryan Andrews , Erich Kummerfeld

Leveraging labelled data from multiple domains to enable prediction in another domain without labels is a significant, yet challenging problem. To address this problem, we introduce the framework DAPDAG (\textbf{D}omain \textbf{A}daptation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Yanke Li , Hatt Tobias , Ioana Bica , Mihaela van der Schaar

Consider the execution of a sequential algorithm that requires the program to converge to an optimal state, and then terminate/stutter. To design such an algorithm, we need to ensure that the state space that it traverses forms a directed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Arya Tanmay Gupta , Sandeep S Kulkarni

We study a graph partition problem where we are given a directed acyclic graph (DAG) whose vertices and arcs can be respectively regarded as tasks and dependencies among tasks. The objective of the problem is to minimize the total energy…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Wei Liu , Jian-Jia Chen , Yongjie Yang

Existing approaches to differentiable structure learning of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) rely on strong identifiability assumptions in order to guarantee that global minimizers of the acyclicity-constrained optimization problem identifies…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-28 Chang Deng , Kevin Bello , Pradeep Ravikumar , Bryon Aragam

Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) are commonly used to represent causal relationships among random variables in graphical models. Applications of these models arise in the study of physical, as well as biological systems, where directed edges…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2009-12-01 Ali Shojaie , George Michailidis

Recent advances have established the identifiability of a directed acyclic graph (DAG) under additive noise models (ANMs), spurring the development of various causal discovery methods. However, most existing methods make restrictive model…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-24 Stella Huang , Qing Zhou

We study a class of deep neural networks with networks that form a directed acyclic graph (DAG). For backpropagation defined by gradient descent with adaptive momentum, we show weights converge for a large class of nonlinear activation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Chirag Agarwal , Joe Klobusicky , Dan Schonfeld

A recent approach to building consensus protocols on top of Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) shows much promise due to its simplicity and stable throughput. However, as each node in the DAG typically includes a linear number of references to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Michael Anoprenko , Andrei Tonkikh , Alexander Spiegelman , Petr Kuznetsov , Anatoliy Zinovyev , Konstantin Shprenger

Recent work on causal abstraction, in particular graphical approaches focusing on causal structure between clusters of variables, aims to summarize a high-dimensional causal structure in terms of a low-dimensional one. Existing methods for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-12 Francisco Madaleno , Francisco C Pereira , Alex Markham

Scientific workflows are often represented as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), where vertices correspond to tasks and edges represent the dependencies between them. Since these graphs are often large in both the number of tasks and their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Svetlana Kulagina , Henning Meyerhenke , Anne Benoit

Learning graphical conditional independence structures is an important machine learning problem and a cornerstone of causal discovery. However, the accuracy and execution time of learning algorithms generally struggle to scale to problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Bryan Andrews , Joseph Ramsey , Ruben Sanchez-Romero , Jazmin Camchong , Erich Kummerfeld