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This paper considers a high-dimensional linear regression problem where there are complex correlation structures among predictors. We propose a graph-constrained regularization procedure, named Sparse Laplacian Shrinkage with the Graphical…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-04-10 Yuehan Yang , Siwei Xia , Hu Yang

Many problems in machine learning can be expressed by means of a graph with nodes representing training samples and edges representing the relationship between samples in terms of similarity, temporal proximity, or label information. Graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Laurenz Wiskott , Fabian Schönfeld

Graphs possess exotic features like variable size and absence of natural ordering of the nodes that make them difficult to analyze and compare. To circumvent this problem and learn on graphs, graph feature representation is required. A good…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Edouard Pineau

The reliable operation of large-scale electric power networks is increasingly challenging, particularly with the integration of stochastic renewable generation. In this work, we address the problem of minimizing network transients by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-29 Gerald Ogbonna , David Bindel , Lindsay C. Anderson

Efficient estimation of high-dimensional matrices-including covariance and precision matrices-is a cornerstone of modern multivariate statistics. Most existing studies have focused primarily on the theoretical properties of the estimators…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Wan Tian , Hui Yang , Zhouhui Lian , Lingyue Zhang , Yijie Peng

Graphs with diverse structural characteristics play a central role in modelling and optimization tasks. The ability to generate different types of graphs that exhibit shared properties is likewise essential for algorithm selection and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Hendrik Richter , Frank Neumann

We study entanglement properties of mixed density matrices obtained from combinatorial Laplacians. This is done by introducing the notion of the density matrix of a graph. We characterize the graphs with pure density matrices and show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Samuel L. Braunstein , Sibasish Ghosh , Simone Severini

In the (special) smoothing spline problem one considers a variational problem with a quadratic data fidelity penalty and Laplacian regularisation. Higher order regularity can be obtained via replacing the Laplacian regulariser with a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-07 Nicolás García Trillos , Ryan Murray , Matthew Thorpe

Effective graph resistance is a fundamental structural metric in network science, widely used to quantify global connectivity, compare network architectures, and assess robustness in flow-based systems. Despite its importance, current…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-05 Xiangrong Wang , Xin Yu , Zongze Wu , Yamir Moreno

We study the parameter estimation problem for a varying index coefficient model in high dimensions. Unlike the most existing works that iteratively estimate the parameters and link functions, based on the generalized Stein's identity, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-29 Sen Na , Zhuoran Yang , Zhaoran Wang , Mladen Kolar

The problem of estimating a normal covariance matrix is considered from a decision-theoretic point of view, where the dimension of the covariance matrix is larger than the sample size. This paper addresses not only the nonsingular case but…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Hisayuki Tsukuma

This work presents a new method for symmetrization of directed graphs that constructs an undirected graph with equivalent pairwise effective resistances as a given directed graph. Consequently a graph metric, square root of effective…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Katherine Fitch

We propose a nonconvex estimator for joint multivariate regression and precision matrix estimation in the high dimensional regime, under sparsity constraints. A gradient descent algorithm with hard thresholding is developed to solve the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-03 Jinghui Chen , Quanquan Gu

Due to the limited resources and the scale of the graphs in modern datasets, we often get to observe a sampled subgraph of a larger original graph of interest, whether it is the worldwide web that has been crawled or social connections that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Ashish Khetan , Harshay Shah , Sewoong Oh

In this article, we relate the spectrum of the discrete magnetic Laplacian (DML) on a finite simple graph with two structural properties of the graph: the existence of a perfect matching and the existence of a Hamiltonian cycle of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-11 J. S. Fabila-Carrasco , Fernando Lledó , Olaf Post

Resistance distance has been studied extensively in the past years, with the majority of previous studies devoted to undirected networks, in spite of the fact that various realistic networks are directed. Although several generalizations of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Mingzhe Zhu , Liwang Zhu , Huan Li , Wei Li , Zhongzhi Zhang

The Laplacian matrix of a simple graph is the difference of the diagonal matrix of vertex degree and the (0,1) adjacency matrix. In the past decades, the Laplacian spectrum has received much more and more attention, since it has been…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-10-31 Xiao-Dong Zhang

This paper investigates the use of methods from partial differential equations and the Calculus of variations to study learning problems that are regularized using graph Laplacians. Graph Laplacians are a powerful, flexible method for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-30 Nicolas Garcia Trillos , Ryan Murray

Density matrices of graphs are combinatorial laplacians normalized to have trace one (Braunstein \emph{et al.} \emph{Phys. Rev. A,} \textbf{73}:1, 012320 (2006)). If the vertices of a graph are arranged as an array, then its density matrix…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-07-03 Roland Hildebrand , Stefano Mancini , Simone Severini

Recent work in theoretical computer science and scientific computing has focused on nearly-linear-time algorithms for solving systems of linear equations. While introducing several novel theoretical perspectives, this work has yet to lead…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2010-05-19 Petros Drineas , Michael W. Mahoney