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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…

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Discovering causal structures from multivariate time series is a key problem because interactions span across multiple lags and possibly involve instantaneous dependencies. Additionally, the search space of the dynamic graphs is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Sourajit Das , Dibyajyoti Chakraborty , Romit Maulik

We present a method to generate directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) using deep reinforcement learning, specifically deep Q-learning. Generating graphs with specified structures is an important and challenging task in various application fields,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Laura D'Arcy , Padraig Corcoran , Alun Preece

We focus on the extension of bivariate causal learning methods into multivariate problem settings in a systematic manner via a novel framework. It is purposive to augment the scale to which bivariate causal discovery approaches can be…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-05-29 Hongyi Chen , Maurits Kaptein

Network representation learning, as an approach to learn low dimensional representations of vertices, has attracted considerable research attention recently. It has been proven extremely useful in many machine learning tasks over large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Hao Peng , Jianxin Li , Hao Yan , Qiran Gong , Senzhang Wang , Lin Liu , Lihong Wang , Xiang Ren

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

Recent successes in Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) have affirmed the importance of using more data in GAN training. Yet it is expensive to collect data in many domains such as medical applications. Data Augmentation (DA) has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Ngoc-Trung Tran , Viet-Hung Tran , Ngoc-Bao Nguyen , Trung-Kien Nguyen , Ngai-Man Cheung

A directed acyclic graph (DAG) provides valuable prior knowledge that is often discarded in regression tasks in machine learning. We show that the independences arising from the presence of collider structures in DAGs provide meaningful…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-22 Shahine Bouabid , Jake Fawkes , Dino Sejdinovic

Estimating the parameters of a probabilistic directed graphical model from incomplete data is a long-standing challenge. This is because, in the presence of latent variables, both the likelihood function and posterior distribution are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Vy Vo , Trung Le , Tung-Long Vuong , He Zhao , Edwin Bonilla , Dinh Phung

Dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) provides a regression framework for adaptively learning a best-fit linear dynamics model over snapshots of temporal, or spatio-temporal, data. A diversity of regression techniques have been developed for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Diya Sashidhar , J. Nathan Kutz

A common theme in causal inference is learning causal relationships between observed variables, also known as causal discovery. This is usually a daunting task, given the large number of candidate causal graphs and the combinatorial nature…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-11 Romain Lopez , Jan-Christian Hütter , Jonathan K. Pritchard , Aviv Regev

In this paper, we propose an algorithmic framework to automatically generate efficient deep neural networks and optimize their associated hyperparameters. The framework is based on evolving directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), defining a more…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Julie Keisler , El-Ghazali Talbi , Sandra Claudel , Gilles Cabriel

Neural Networks sequentially build high-level features through their successive layers. We propose here a new neural network model where each layer is associated with a set of candidate mappings. When an input is processed, at each layer,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-10-03 Ludovic Denoyer , Patrick Gallinari

Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) provide a powerful framework to model causal relationships among variables in multivariate settings; in addition, through the do-calculus theory, they allow for the identification and estimation of causal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-31 Federico Castelletti , Alessandro Mascaro

Modern neural network training relies on piece-wise (sub-)differentiable functions in order to use backpropagation to update model parameters. In this work, we introduce a novel method to allow simple non-differentiable functions at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Jason Ramapuram , Russ Webb

In the algorithm Intersort, Chevalley et al. (2024) proposed a score-based method to discover the causal order of variables in a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) model, leveraging interventional data to outperform existing methods. However, as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Mathieu Chevalley , Arash Mehrjou , Patrick Schwab

Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) and associated probability models are widely used to model neural connectivity and communication channels. In many experiments, data are collected from multiple subjects whose connectivities may differ but are…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-11-17 Chris J. Oates , Lilia Carneiro da Costa , Tom Nichols

Bayesian inference of Bayesian network structures is often performed by sampling directed acyclic graphs along an appropriately constructed Markov chain. We present two techniques to improve sampling. First, we give an efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Daniele Nikzad , Alexander Zhilkin , Juha Harviainen , Jack Kuipers , Giusi Moffa , Mikko Koivisto

Recently many first and second order variants of SGD have been proposed to facilitate training of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). A common limitation of these works stem from the fact that they use the same learning rate across all instances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Shreyas Saxena , Nidhi Vyas , Dennis DeCoste

Graph deep learning has recently emerged as a powerful ML concept allowing to generalize successful deep neural architectures to non-Euclidean structured data. Such methods have shown promising results on a broad spectrum of applications…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Anees Kazi , Luca Cosmo , Seyed-Ahmad Ahmadi , Nassir Navab , Michael Bronstein