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In the planted bisection model a random graph $G(n,p_+,p_- )$ with $n$ vertices is created by partitioning the vertices randomly into two classes of equal size (up to $\pm1$). Any two vertices that belong to the same class are linked by an…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Amin Coja-Oghlan , Oliver Cooley , Mihyun Kang , Kathrin Skubch

This paper studies the problems of identifiability and estimation in high-dimensional nonparametric latent structure models. We introduce an identifiability theorem that generalizes existing conditions, establishing a unified framework…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Yichen Lyu , Pengkun Yang

Finding hidden layers in complex networks is an important and a non-trivial problem in modern science. We explore the framework of quantum graphs to determine whether concealed parts of a multi-layer system exist and if so then what is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-10-04 Łukasz G. Gajewski , Julian Sienkiewicz , Janusz A. Hołyst

Finding cliques in random graphs and the closely related "planted" clique variant, where a clique of size k is planted in a random G(n, 1/2) graph, have been the focus of substantial study in algorithm design. Despite much effort, the best…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Raghu Meka , Aaron Potechin , Avi Wigderson

We consider a statistical model for the problem of finding subgraphs with specified topology in an otherwise random graph. This task plays an important role in the analysis of social and biological networks. In these types of networks,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Hamid Javadi , Andrea Montanari

Inferring temporal interaction graphs and higher-order structure from neural signals is a key problem in building generative models for systems neuroscience. Foundation models for large-scale neural data represent shared latent structures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Nathan X. Kodama , Kenneth A. Loparo

Persistent cycles, especially the minimal ones, are useful geometric features functioning as augmentations for the intervals in a purely topological persistence diagram (also termed as barcode). In our earlier work, we showed that computing…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Tamal K. Dey , Tao Hou , Sayan Mandal

In Gaussian graphical model selection, noise-corrupted samples present significant challenges. It is known that even minimal amounts of noise can obscure the underlying structure, leading to fundamental identifiability issues. A recent line…

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Many complex networks, ranging from social to biological systems, exhibit structural patterns consistent with an underlying hyperbolic geometry. Revealing the dimensionality of this latent space can disentangle the structural complexity of…

In increasingly many settings, data sets consist of multiple samples from a population of networks, with vertices aligned across these networks. For example, brain connectivity networks in neuroscience consist of measures of interaction…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-05-11 Keith Levin , Asad Lodhia , Elizaveta Levina

This paper studies the problem of recovering the hidden vertex correspondence between two correlated random graphs. We propose the partially correlated Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi graphs model, wherein a pair of induced subgraphs with a certain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Dong Huang , Xianwen Song , Pengkun Yang

Thanks to technological advances leading to near-continuous time observations, emerging multivariate point process data offer new opportunities for causal discovery. However, a key obstacle in achieving this goal is that many relevant…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-15 Xu Wang , Ali Shojaie

The phase retrieval problem asks to recover a natural signal $y_0 \in \mathbb{R}^n$ from $m$ quadratic observations, where $m$ is to be minimized. As is common in many imaging problems, natural signals are considered sparse with respect to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Paul Hand , Oscar Leong , Vladislav Voroninski

Many data-rich industries are interested in the efficient discovery and modelling of structures underlying large data sets, as it allows for the fast triage and dimension reduction of large volumes of data embedded in high dimensional…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-09-30 Yossi Bokor , Daniel Grixti-Cheng , Markus Hegland , Stephen Roberts , Katharine Turner

In this note, we propose a framework for proving computational lower bounds in norm approximation by leveraging a reverse detection--estimation gap. The starting point is a testing problem together with an estimator whose error is…

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De Berg et al. in [SICOMP 2020] gave an algorithmic framework for subexponential algorithms on geometric graphs with tight (up to ETH) running times. This framework is based on dynamic programming on graphs of weighted treewidth resulting…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Tanmay Inamdar , Saket Saurabh

Several imaging algorithms including patch-based image denoising, image time series recovery, and convolutional neural networks can be thought of as methods that exploit the manifold structure of signals. While the empirical performance of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-12 Qing Zou , Mathews Jacob

Giving provable guarantees for learning neural networks is a core challenge of machine learning theory. Most prior work gives parameter recovery guarantees for one hidden layer networks, however, the networks used in practice have multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Surbhi Goel , Rina Panigrahy

We investigate the problem of recovering a latent directed Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi graph $G^*\sim \mathcal G(n,p)$ from observations of discrete voter model trajectories on $G^*$, where $np$ grows polynomially in $n$. Given access to $M$…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Hang Du , Seokmin Ha , Oriol Solé-Pi

Inferring causal relationships from observational data is rarely straightforward, but the problem is especially difficult in high dimensions. For these applications, causal discovery algorithms typically require parametric restrictions or…

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