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Optimal transport (OT) has become a widely used tool in the machine learning field to measure the discrepancy between probability distributions. For instance, OT is a popular loss function that quantifies the discrepancy between an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Shintaro Nakamura , Han Bao , Masashi Sugiyama

Many real world systems or web services can be represented as a network such as social networks and transportation networks. In the past decade, many algorithms have been developed to detect the communities in a network using connections…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-21 Zhi Liu , Yan Huang

This work investigates the use of robust optimal transport (OT) for shape matching. Specifically, we show that recent OT solvers improve both optimization-based and deep learning methods for point cloud registration, boosting accuracy at an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Zhengyang Shen , Jean Feydy , Peirong Liu , Ariel Hernán Curiale , Ruben San Jose Estepar , Raul San Jose Estepar , Marc Niethammer

In graph analysis, a classic task consists in computing similarity measures between (groups of) nodes. In latent space random graphs, nodes are associated to unknown latent variables. One may then seek to compute distances directly in the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-12 Nicolas Keriven

Optimal transport (OT) is a framework that can be used to guide the optimal allocation of a limited amount of resources. The classical OT paradigm does not consider malicious attacks in its formulation and thus the designed transport plan…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Jason Hughes , Juntao Chen

Because networks can be used to represent many complex systems, they have attracted considerable attention in physics, computer science, sociology, and many other disciplines. One of the most important areas of network science is the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Huiyi Hu , Yves van Gennip , Blake Hunter , Mason A. Porter , Andrea L. Bertozzi

Many methods have been proposed for community detection in networks, but most of them do not take into account additional information on the nodes that is often available in practice. In this paper, we propose a new joint community…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-13 Yuan Zhang , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

Optimal transport (OT) is a powerful geometric and probabilistic tool for finding correspondences and measuring similarity between two distributions. Yet, its original formulation relies on the existence of a cost function between the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-09 Ievgen Redko , Titouan Vayer , Rémi Flamary , Nicolas Courty

We introduce a community detection method that finds clusters in network time-series by introducing an algorithm that finds significantly interconnected nodes across time. These connections are either increasing, decreasing, or constant…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-04-07 Mark He , Joseph Glasser , Shankar Bhamidi , Nikhil Kaza

How can we uncover the natural communities in a real network that allows insight into its underlying structure and also potential functions? In this paper, we introduce a new community detection algorithm, called Attractor, which…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Junming Shao , Zhichao Han , Qinli Yang

Community detection is one of the fundamental problems in the study of network data. Most existing community detection approaches only consider edge information as inputs, and the output could be suboptimal when nodal information is…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-12-13 Haolei Weng , Yang Feng

Community detection is a commonly used technique for identifying groups in a network based on similarities in connectivity patterns. To facilitate community detection in large networks, we recast the network to be partitioned into a smaller…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Natalie Stanley , Roland Kwitt , Marc Niethammer , Peter J. Mucha

Network community detection often relies on optimizing partition quality functions, like modularity. This optimization appears to be a complex problem traditionally relying on discrete heuristics. And although the problem could be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Stanislav Sobolevsky

Many methods have been proposed to detect communities, not only in plain, but also in attributed, directed or even dynamic complex networks. In its simplest form, a community structure takes the form of a partition of the node set. From the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-10-22 Günce Keziban Orman , Vincent Labatut , Marc Plantevit , Jean-François Boulicaut

Hypergraphs, describing networks where interactions take place among any number of units, are a natural tool to model many real-world social and biological systems. In this work we propose a principled framework to model the organization of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Nicolò Ruggeri , Martina Contisciani , Federico Battiston , Caterina De Bacco

In this paper we present a novel strategy to discover the community structure of (possibly, large) networks. This approach is based on the well-know concept of network modularity optimization. To do so, our algorithm exploits a novel…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-02-13 Pasquale De Meo , Emilio Ferrara , Giacomo Fiumara , Alessandro Provetti

Complex networks represent interactions between entities. They appear in various contexts such as sociology, biology, etc., and they generally contain highly connected subgroups called communities. Community detection is a well-studied…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-06-11 Romain Campigotto , Patricia Conde Céspedes , Jean-Loup Guillaume

Visualization of the adjacency matrix enables us to capture macroscopic features of a network when the matrix elements are aligned properly. Community structure, a network consisting of several densely connected components, is a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-07-11 Masaki Ochi , Tatsuro Kawamoto

The goal of this paper is to introduce a new theoretical framework for Optimal Transport (OT), using the terminology and techniques of Fully Probabilistic Design (FPD). Optimal Transport is the canonical method for comparing probability…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Sarah Boufelja Y. , Anthony Quinn , Martin Corless , Robert Shorten

We develop a novel theoretical framework for understating OT schemes respecting a class structure. For this purpose, we propose a convex OT program with a sum-of-norms regularization term, which provably recovers the underlying class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Arman Rahbar , Ashkan Panahi , Morteza Haghir Chehreghani , Devdatt Dubhashi , Hamid Krim