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The problem of optimal precision switching for the conjugate gradient (CG) method applied to sparse linear systems is considered. A sparse matrix is defined as an $n\!\times\!n$ matrix with $m\!=\!O(n)$ nonzero entries. The algorithm first…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Alexander V. Prolubnikov

In this paper, we propose two new algorithms for maximum-likelihood estimation (MLE) of high dimensional sparse covariance matrices. Unlike most of the state of-the-art methods, which either use regularization techniques or penalize the…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-05-12 Ghania Fatima , Prabhu Babu , Petre Stoica

Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampler is widely used for cosmological parameter estimation from CMB and other data. However, due to the intrinsic serial nature of the MCMC sampler, convergence is often very slow. Here we present a fast…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-12 Santanu Das , Tarun Souradeep

Community detection, the unsupervised task of clustering nodes of a graph, finds applications across various fields. The common approaches for community detection involve optimizing an objective function to partition the nodes into…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Samin Aref , Sanchaai Mathiyarasan

The sparse representation of graphs has shown great potential for accelerating the computation of graph applications (e.g., Social Networks, Knowledge Graphs) on traditional computing architectures (CPU, GPU, or TPU). But the exploration of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Bo Lyu , Shengbo Wang , Shiping Wen , Kaibo Shi , Yin Yang , Lingfang Zeng , Tingwen Huang

We study the estimation of the latent variable Gaussian graphical model (LVGGM), where the precision matrix is the superposition of a sparse matrix and a low-rank matrix. In order to speed up the estimation of the sparse plus low-rank…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-01 Pan Xu , Jian Ma , Quanquan Gu

We consider a Bayesian framework for estimating a high-dimensional sparse precision matrix, in which adaptive shrinkage and sparsity are induced by a mixture of Laplace priors. Besides discussing our formulation from the Bayesian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-22 Lingrui Gan , Naveen N. Narisetty , Feng Liang

Crystal structure prediction (CSP) is now increasingly used in discovering novel materials with applications in diverse industries. However, despite decades of developments and significant progress in this area, there lacks a set of…

Data-driven neighborhood definitions and graph constructions are often used in machine learning and signal processing applications. k-nearest neighbor~(kNN) and $\epsilon$-neighborhood methods are among the most common methods used for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Sarath Shekkizhar , Antonio Ortega

Traditional clustering algorithms often struggle to capture the complex relationships within graphs and generalise to arbitrary clustering criteria. The emergence of graph neural networks (GNNs) as a powerful framework for learning…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 Sam Alexander Martino , João Morado , Chenghao Li , Zhenghao Lu , Edina Rosta

Recent literature provides many computational and modeling approaches for covariance matrices estimation in a penalized Gaussian graphical models but relatively little study has been carried out on the choice of the tuning parameter. This…

Methodology · Statistics 2009-09-08 Heng Lian

Stochastic computing (SC) is a promising candidate for fault tolerant computing in digital circuits. We present a novel stochastic computing estimation architecture allowing to solve a large group of estimation problems including least…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-01 Michael Lunglmayr , Daniel Wiesinger , Werner Haselmayr

A Gaussian Process (GP) is a prominent mathematical framework for stochastic function approximation in science and engineering applications. This success is largely attributed to the GP's analytical tractability, robustness, non-parametric…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-19 Marcus M. Noack , Harinarayan Krishnan , Mark D. Risser , Kristofer G. Reyes

Network embedding has numerous practical applications and has received extensive attention in graph learning, which aims at mapping vertices into a low-dimensional and continuous dense vector space by preserving the underlying structural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Longlong Lin , Yunfeng Yu , Zihao Wang , Zeli Wang , Yuying Zhao , Jin Zhao , Tao Jia

The configuration model is a standard tool for uniformly generating random graphs with a specified degree sequence, and is often used as a null model to evaluate how much of an observed network's structure can be explained by its degree…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Upasana Dutta , Bailey K. Fosdick , Aaron Clauset

A {\em local graph partitioning algorithm} finds a set of vertices with small conductance (i.e. a sparse cut) by adaptively exploring part of a large graph $G$, starting from a specified vertex. For the algorithm to be local, its complexity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-11-25 Reid Andersen , Yuval Peres

Sparsity-constrained optimization underlies many problems in signal processing, statistics, and machine learning. State-of-the-art hard-thresholding (HT) algorithms rely on an appropriately selected continuous step-size parameter to ensure…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-13 Jin Zhu , Junxian Zhu , Zezhi Wang , Borui Tang , Hongmei Lin , Xueqin Wang

Precision matrix is of significant importance in a wide range of applications in multivariate analysis. This paper considers adaptive minimax estimation of sparse precision matrices in the high dimensional setting. Optimal rates of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-12-13 T. Tony Cai , Weidong Liu , Harrison H. Zhou

Crystalline materials are widely used in technological applications, yet their discovery remains a significant challenge. As their properties are driven by structure, crystal structure prediction (CSP) methods play a central role in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Stavros Gerolymatos , J. Kyle Brubaker , Martin J. A. Schuetz , Vladimir V. Gusev

We propose a novel algorithm for efficiently computing a sparse directed adjacency matrix from a group of time series following a causal graph process. Our solution is scalable for both dense and sparse graphs and automatically selects the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-19 Théophile Griveau-Billion , Ben Calderhead