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Graph Neural Networks usually rely on the assumption that the graph topology is available to the network as well as optimal for the downstream task. Latent graph inference allows models to dynamically learn the intrinsic graph structure of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Haitz Sáez de Ocáriz Borde , Anees Kazi , Federico Barbero , Pietro Liò

Enumerating the directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) of a Markov equivalence class (MEC) is an important primitive in causal analysis. The central resource from the perspective of computational complexity is the delay, that is, the time an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Marcel Wienöbst , Malte Luttermann , Max Bannach , Maciej Liśkiewicz

Graphs are fundamental data structures which concisely capture the relational structure in many important real-world domains, such as knowledge graphs, physical and social interactions, language, and chemistry. Here we introduce a powerful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Yujia Li , Oriol Vinyals , Chris Dyer , Razvan Pascanu , Peter Battaglia

Decentralized stochastic gradient method emerges as a promising solution for solving large-scale machine learning problems. This paper studies the decentralized Markov chain gradient descent (DMGD) algorithm - a variant of the decentralized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-14 Tao Sun , Dongsheng Li

Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) with hidden variables are often used to characterize causal relations between variables in a system. When some variables are unobserved, DAGs imply a notoriously complicated set of constraints on the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-23 Noam Finkelstein , Beata Zjawin , Elie Wolfe , Ilya Shpitser , Robert W. Spekkens

We present an efficient algorithm for a problem in the interface between clustering and graph embeddings. An embedding $\varphi:G\rightarrow M$ of a graph $G$ into a 2-manifold $M$ maps the vertices in $V(G)$ to distinct points and the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Hugo A. Akitaya , Radoslav Fulek , Csaba D. Tóth

A directed acyclic graph (DAG) is the most common graphical model for representing causal relationships among a set of variables. When restricted to using only observational data, the structure of the ground truth DAG is identifiable only…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-12 AmirEmad Ghassami , Saber Salehkaleybar , Negar Kiyavash , Kun Zhang

With graphical Markov models, one can investigate complex dependences, summarize some results of statistical analyses with graphs and use these graphs to understand implications of well-fitting models. The models have a rich history and…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-03-07 Nanny Wermuth , D. R. Cox

This paper reviews recent advances in missing data research using graphical models to represent multivariate dependencies. We first examine the limitations of traditional frameworks from three different perspectives: \textit{transparency,…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-11-15 Karthika Mohan , Judea Pearl

Directed acyclic graph (DAG) models, also called Bayesian networks, impose conditional independence constraints on a multivariate probability distribution, and are widely used in probabilistic reasoning, machine learning and causal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-12-20 Robin J. Evans

Many natural Markov chains fail to mix to their stationary distribution in polynomially many steps. Often, this slow mixing is inevitable since it is computationally intractable to sample from their stationary measure. Nevertheless, Markov…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Kuikui Liu , Sidhanth Mohanty , Prasad Raghavendra , Amit Rajaraman , David X. Wu

Directed acyclic graph (DAG) models have become widely studied and applied in statistics and machine learning -- indeed, their simplicity facilitates efficient procedures for learning and inference. Unfortunately, these models are not…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-20 Bryan Andrews , Gregory F. Cooper , Thomas S. Richardson , Peter Spirtes

A production microservice application may provide multiple services, queries of a service may have different call graphs, and a microservice may be shared across call graphs. It is challenging to improve the resource efficiency of such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Fanrong Du , Jiuchen Shi , Quan Chen , Li Li , Minyi Guo

Neural network design has utilized flexible nonlinear processes which can mimic biological systems, but has suffered from a lack of traceability in the resulting network. Graphical probabilistic models ground network design in probabilistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Kenric P. Nelson , Madalina Barbu , Brian J. Scannell

Depending on the interpretation of the type of edges, a chain graph can represent different relations between variables and thereby independence models. Three interpretations, known by the acronyms LWF, MVR, and AMP, are prevalent.…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-02-13 Mohammad Ali Javidian , Marco Valtorta

Autoencoders are effective deep learning models that can function as generative models and learn latent representations for downstream tasks. The use of graph autoencoders - with both encoder and decoder implemented as message passing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Magnus Cunow , Gerrit Großmann

In this article, we address the decay of correlations for dynamical systems that admit an induced weak Gibbs Markov map (not necessarily full branch). Our approach generalizes L.-S. Young's coupling arguments to estimate the decay of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-11-30 Asad Ullah , Helder Vilarinho

Graph Neural Networks (GNN) have recently gained popularity in the forecasting domain due to their ability to model complex spatial and temporal patterns in tasks such as traffic forecasting and region-based demand forecasting. Most of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Abishek Sriramulu , Nicolas Fourrier , Christoph Bergmeir

Markov networks are popular models for discrete multivariate systems where the dependence structure of the variables is specified by an undirected graph. To allow for more expressive dependence structures, several generalizations of Markov…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-03-30 Johan Pensar , Henrik Nyman , Jukka Corander

We consider a countable system of interacting (possibly non-Markovian) stochastic differential equations driven by independent Brownian motions and indexed by the vertices of a locally finite graph $G = (V,E)$. The drift of the process at…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-09-28 Daniel Lacker , Kavita Ramanan , Ruoyu Wu