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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in solving graph classification tasks. However, most GNN architectures aggregate information from all nodes and edges in a graph, regardless of their relevance to the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-19 Pablo Sanchez-Martin , Kinaan Aamir Khan , Isabel Valera

We propose SGS-GNN, a novel supervised graph sparsifier that learns the sampling probability distribution of edges and samples sparse subgraphs of a user-specified size to reduce the computational costs required by GNNs for inference tasks…

First-order methods such as stochastic gradient descent (SGD) are currently the standard algorithm for training deep neural networks. Second-order methods, despite their better convergence rate, are rarely used in practice due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Tianle Cai , Ruiqi Gao , Jikai Hou , Siyu Chen , Dong Wang , Di He , Zhihua Zhang , Liwei Wang

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have proven to be successful tools for semi-supervised learning on graph-based datasets. For sparse graphs, linear and polynomial filter functions have yielded impressive results. For large non-sparse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Dominik Alfke , Martin Stoll

In this work, we propose to employ information-geometric tools to optimize a graph neural network architecture such as the graph convolutional networks. More specifically, we develop optimization algorithms for the graph-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Mohammad Rasool Izadi , Yihao Fang , Robert Stevenson , Lizhen Lin

Graph Convolutional Neural Networks (GCNNs) are generalizations of CNNs to graph-structured data, in which convolution is guided by the graph topology. In many cases where graphs are unavailable, existing methods manually construct graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Xiang Gao , Wei Hu , Zongming Guo

Optimization plays a key role in machine learning. Recently, stochastic second-order methods have attracted much attention due to their low computational cost in each iteration. However, these algorithms might perform poorly especially if…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Haishan Ye , Zhihua Zhang

The Laplacian-constrained Gaussian Markov Random Field (LGMRF) is a common multivariate statistical model for learning a weighted sparse dependency graph from given data. This graph learning problem can be formulated as a maximum likelihood…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Yakov Medvedovsky , Eran Treister , Tirza Routtenberg

Nowadays, analysing data from different classes or over a temporal grid has attracted a great deal of interest. As a result, various multiple graphical models for learning a collection of graphical models simultaneously have been derived by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-23 Ning Zhang , Yangjing Zhang , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh

Over the past years, there has been significant interest in understanding the implicit bias of gradient descent optimization and its connection to the generalization properties of overparametrized neural networks. Several works observed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Hung-Hsu Chou , Johannes Maly , Claudio Mayrink Verdun , Bernardo Freitas Paulo da Costa , Heudson Mirandola

This note explores the applicability of unsupervised machine learning techniques towards hard optimization problems on random inputs. In particular we consider Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) -- a class of neural networks designed to learn…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-19 Weichi Yao , Afonso S. Bandeira , Soledad Villar

As graphs scale to billions of nodes and edges, graph Machine Learning workloads are constrained by the cost of multi-hop traversals over exponentially growing neighborhoods. While various system-level and algorithmic optimizations have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yuhang Song , Naima Abrar Shami , Romaric Duvignau , Vasiliki Kalavri

We propose a communication- and computation-efficient distributed optimization algorithm using second-order information for solving empirical risk minimization (ERM) problems with a nonsmooth regularization term. Our algorithm is applicable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Ching-pei Lee , Cong Han Lim , Stephen J. Wright

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown great promise in modeling relationships between nodes in a graph, but capturing higher-order relationships remains a challenge for large-scale networks. Previous studies have primarily attempted to…

In this paper, we generalize (accelerated) Newton's method with cubic regularization under inexact second-order information for (strongly) convex optimization problems. Under mild assumptions, we provide global rate of convergence of these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-17 Saeed Ghadimi , Han Liu , Tong Zhang

In Nature Machine Intelligence 4, 367 (2022), Schuetz et al provide a scheme to employ graph neural networks (GNN) as a heuristic to solve a variety of classical, NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems. It describes how the network is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-01-03 Stefan Boettcher

Many data-fitting applications require the solution of an optimization problem involving a sum of large number of functions of high dimensional parameter. Here, we consider the problem of minimizing a sum of $n$ functions over a convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-29 Farbod Roosta-Khorasani , Michael W. Mahoney

Stochastic optimisation problems minimise expectations of random cost functions. We use 'optimise then discretise' method to solve stochastic optimisation. In our approach, accurate quadrature methods are required to calculate the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Yuancheng Zhou

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful models for graph-structured data, with broad applications. However, the interplay between GNN parameter optimization, expressivity, and generalization remains poorly understood. We address this by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Samir Moustafa , Lorenz Kummer , Simon Fetzel , Nils M. Kriege , Wilfried N. Gansterer

Due to the significant computational challenge of training large-scale graph neural networks (GNNs), various sparse learning techniques have been exploited to reduce memory and storage costs. Examples include \textit{graph sparsification}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Shuai Zhang , Meng Wang , Pin-Yu Chen , Sijia Liu , Songtao Lu , Miao Liu