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We study structure learning for linear Gaussian SEMs in the presence of latent confounding. Existing continuous methods excel when errors are independent, while deconfounding-first pipelines rely on pervasive factor structure or…

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The scheduling and schedulability analysis of real-time directed acyclic graph (DAG) task systems have received much recent attention. The DAG model can accurately represent intra-task parallelim and precedence constraints existing in many…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Zheng Dong , Cong Liu

Anomaly subgraph detection has been widely used in various applications, ranging from cyber attack in computer networks to malicious activities in social networks. Despite an increasing need for federated anomaly detection across multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Nannan Wu , Ning Zhang , Wenjun Wang , Lixin Fan , Qiang Yang

In this paper, we propose a novel framework to automatically utilize task-dependent semantic information which is encoded in heterogeneous information networks (HINs). Specifically, we search for a meta graph, which can capture more complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Yuhui Ding , Quanming Yao , Huan Zhao , Tong Zhang

Graphs have been widely used in data mining and machine learning due to their unique representation of real-world objects and their interactions. As graphs are getting bigger and bigger nowadays, it is common to see their subgraphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Ke Zhang , Carl Yang , Xiaoxiao Li , Lichao Sun , Siu Ming Yiu

Graph Neural Network (GNN) research is rapidly growing thanks to the capacity of GNNs in learning distributed representations from graph-structured data. However, centralizing a massive amount of real-world graph data for GNN training is…

A DAG compression of a (typically dense) graph is a simple data structure that stores how vertex clusters are connected, where the clusters are described indirectly as sets of reachable sinks in a directed acyclic graph (DAG). They…

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Graph neural networks (GNNs) are a popular class of machine learning models whose major advantage is their ability to incorporate a sparse and discrete dependency structure between data points. Unfortunately, GNNs can only be used when such…

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Structural discovery amongst a set of variables is of interest in both static and dynamic settings. In the presence of lead-lag dependencies in the data, the dynamics of the system can be represented through a structural equation model…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-11-28 Jiahe Lin , Huitian Lei , George Michailidis

Most existing federated learning algorithms are based on the vanilla FedAvg scheme. However, with the increase of data complexity and the number of model parameters, the amount of communication traffic and the number of iteration rounds for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Xiaolin Zheng , Senci Ying , Fei Zheng , Jianwei Yin , Longfei Zheng , Chaochao Chen , Fengqin Dong

Data simulation is fundamental for machine learning and causal inference, as it allows exploration of scenarios and assessment of methods in settings with full control of ground truth. Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) are well established for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Ghadi S. Al Hajj , Johan Pensar , Geir Kjetil Sandve

This paper answers a fundamental question in artificial neural network (ANN) design: We do not need to build ANNs layer-by-layer sequentially to guarantee the Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) property. Drawing inspiration from biological…

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We consider the problem of federated learning (FL) with graph-structured data distributed across multiple clients. In particular, we address the prevalent scenario of interconnected subgraphs, where interconnections between clients…

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Federated learning is an emerging distributed machine learning framework aiming at protecting data privacy. Data heterogeneity is one of the core challenges in federated learning, which could severely degrade the convergence rate and…

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We describe computationally efficient methods for learning mixtures in which each component is a directed acyclic graphical model (mixtures of DAGs or MDAGs). We argue that simple search-and-score algorithms are infeasible for a variety of…

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Graph Neural Networks usually rely on the assumption that the graph topology is available to the network as well as optimal for the downstream task. Latent graph inference allows models to dynamically learn the intrinsic graph structure of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Haitz Sáez de Ocáriz Borde , Anees Kazi , Federico Barbero , Pietro Liò

We introduce SeaDAG, a semi-autoregressive diffusion model for conditional generation of Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs). Considering their inherent layer-wise structure, we simulate layer-wise autoregressive generation by designing…

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Federated learning (FL) aims to protect data privacy by enabling clients to build machine learning models collaboratively without sharing their private data. Recent works demonstrate that information exchanged during FL is subject to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Yuezhou Wu , Yan Kang , Jiahuan Luo , Yuanqin He , Qiang Yang

Distributed learning systems have enabled training large-scale models over large amount of data in significantly shorter time. In this paper, we focus on decentralized distributed deep learning systems and aim to achieve differential…

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Many real-world networks are inherently decentralized. For example, in social networks, each user maintains a local view of a social graph, such as a list of friends and her profile. It is typical to collect these local views of social…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Wanyu Lin , Baochun Li , Cong Wang