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We study the problem of detecting the presence of an underlying high-dimensional geometric structure in a random graph. Under the null hypothesis, the observed graph is a realization of an Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph $G(n,p)$. Under the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-24 Sébastien Bubeck , Jian Ding , Ronen Eldan , Miklós Rácz

The pseudoinverse of a graph Laplacian is used in many applications and fields, such as for instance in the computation of the effective resistance in electrical networks, in the calculation of the hitting/commuting times for a Markov chain…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-30 Angela Fontan , Claudio Altafini

The pattern of zero entries in the inverse covariance matrix of a multivariate normal distribution corresponds to conditional independence restrictions between variables. Covariance selection aims at estimating those structural zeros from…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Nicolai Meinshausen , Peter Bühlmann

In this paper, we construct an estimator of an errors-in-variables linear regression model. The regression model leads to a constrained total least squares problems with row and column constraints. Although this problem can be numerically…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Kensuke Aishima

We introduce a learning-based algorithm to obtain a measurement matrix for compressive sensing related recovery problems. The focus lies on matrices with a constant modulus constraint which typically represent a network of analog phase…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-15 Michael Koller , Wolfgang Utschick

In this paper, we consider a ${\rm U}(1)$-connection graph, that is, a graph where each oriented edge is endowed with a unit modulus complex number that is conjugated under orientation flip. A natural replacement for the combinatorial…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Michaël Fanuel , Rémi Bardenet

This research leverages Conformal Prediction (CP) in the form of Conformal Predictive Systems (CPS) to accurately estimate uncertainty in a suite of machine learning (ML)-based radio metric models [1] as well as in a 2-D map-based ML path…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Alexis Bose , Jonathan Ethier , Ryan G. Dempsey , Yifeng Qiu

This paper studies the problems of identifiability and estimation in high-dimensional nonparametric latent structure models. We introduce an identifiability theorem that generalizes existing conditions, establishing a unified framework…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Yichen Lyu , Pengkun Yang

Comparison among graphs is ubiquitous in graph analytics. However, it is a hard task in terms of the expressiveness of the employed similarity measure and the efficiency of its computation. Ideally, graph comparison should be invariant to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Anton Tsitsulin , Davide Mottin , Panagiotis Karras , Alex Bronstein , Emmanuel Müller

A computer-assisted proof is proposed for the Laplacian eigenvalue minimization problems over triangular domains under diameter constraints. The proof utilizes recently developed guaranteed computation methods for both eigenvalues and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-30 Ryoki Endo , Xuefeng Liu

Graph connection Laplacian (GCL) is a modern data analysis technique that is starting to be applied for the analysis of high dimensional and massive datasets. Motivated by this technique, we study matrices that are akin to the ones…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-11-18 Noureddine El Karoui , Hau-tieng Wu

We study random graphs with possibly different edge probabilities in the challenging sparse regime of bounded expected degrees. Unlike in the dense case, neither the graph adjacency matrix nor its Laplacian concentrate around their…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-04-24 Can M. Le , Elizaveta Levina , Roman Vershynin

This paper explores recent progress related to constraint maps. Building on the exposition in [14], our goal is to provide a clear and accessible account of some of the more intricate arguments behind the main results in this work. Along…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Alessio Figalli , André Guerra , Sunghan Kim , Henrik Shahgholian

The work in this thesis concerns the investigation of eigenvalues of the Laplacian matrix, normalized Laplacian matrix, signless Laplacian matrix and distance signless Laplacian matrix of graphs. In Chapter 1, we present a brief…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Bilal A. Rather

Most of the existing works on provable guarantees for low-rank matrix completion algorithms rely on some unrealistic assumptions such that matrix entries are sampled randomly or the sampling pattern has a specific structure. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-06 Hanbyul Lee , Rahul Mazumder , Qifan Song , Jean Honorio

Laplacian regularized stratified models (LRSM) are models that utilize the explicit or implicit network structure of the sub-problems as defined by the categorical features called strata (e.g., age, region, time, forecast horizon, etc.),…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-05 Ziheng Cheng , Junzi Zhang , Akshay Agrawal , Stephen Boyd

We introduce a geometric stencil selection algorithm for Laplacian in 3D that significantly improves octant-based selection considered earlier. The goal of the algorithm is to choose a small subset from a set of irregular points surrounding…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Oleg Davydov , Dang Thi Oanh , Ngo Manh Tuong

We address the problem of robust sparse estimation of the precision matrix for heavy-tailed distributions in high-dimensional settings. In such high-dimensional contexts, we observe that the covariance matrix can be approximated by a…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-06 Zhengke Lu , Long Feng

The dependency structure of multivariate data can be analyzed using the covariance matrix $\Sigma$. In many fields the precision matrix $\Sigma^{-1}$ is even more informative. As the sample covariance estimator is singular in…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-06-04 Viktoria Öllerer , Christophe Croux

We consider the problem of robustifying high-dimensional structured estimation. Robust techniques are key in real-world applications which often involve outliers and data corruption. We focus on trimmed versions of structurally regularized…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-22 Eunho Yang , Aurelie Lozano , Aleksandr Aravkin