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We study the problem of generating graphs with prescribed degree sequences for bipartite, directed, and undirected networks. We first propose a sequential method for bipartite graph generation and establish a necessary and sufficient…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-13 Tong Sun , Jianshu Hao , Michael C. Fu , Guangxin Jiang

This paper proposes an autoregressive (AR) model for sequences of graphs, which generalises traditional AR models. A first novelty consists in formalising the AR model for a very general family of graphs, characterised by a variable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Daniele Zambon , Daniele Grattarola , Lorenzo Livi , Cesare Alippi

Class-conditional generative models have emerged as accurate and robust classifiers, with diffusion models demonstrating clear advantages over other visual generative paradigms, including autoregressive (AR) models. In this work, we revisit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Ilia Sudakov , Artem Babenko , Dmitry Baranchuk

Neural language models are a critical component of state-of-the-art systems for machine translation, summarization, audio transcription, and other tasks. These language models are almost universally autoregressive in nature, generating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Nicolas Ford , Daniel Duckworth , Mohammad Norouzi , George E. Dahl

Deep learning-based graph generation approaches have remarkable capacities for graph data modeling, allowing them to solve a wide range of real-world problems. Making these methods able to consider different conditions during the generation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Faezeh Faez , Negin Hashemi Dijujin , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah , Hamid R. Rabiee

Graph generative models have broad applications in biology, chemistry and social science. However, modelling and understanding the generative process of graphs is challenging due to the discrete and high-dimensional nature of graphs, as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Han Huang , Leilei Sun , Bowen Du , Yanjie Fu , Weifeng Lv

Order diagrams allow human analysts to understand and analyze structural properties of ordered data. While an experienced expert can create easily readable order diagrams, the automatic generation of those remains a hard task. In this work,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Dominik Dürrschnabel , Gerd Stumme

The success of Large Language Models (LLMs) in various domains has led researchers to apply them to graph-related problems by converting graph data into natural language text. However, unlike graph data, natural language inherently has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Xu Chu , Hanlin Xue , Zhijie Tan , Bingce Wang , Tong Mo , Weiping Li

Latent diffusion models excel at generating high-quality images but lose the benefits of end-to-end modeling. They discard information during image encoding, require a separately trained decoder, and model an auxiliary distribution to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Alan Baade , Eric Ryan Chan , Kyle Sargent , Changan Chen , Justin Johnson , Ehsan Adeli , Li Fei-Fei

It is common in graphic design humans visually arrange various elements according to their design intent and semantics. For example, a title text almost always appears on top of other elements in a document. In this work, we generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Kotaro Kikuchi , Edgar Simo-Serra , Mayu Otani , Kota Yamaguchi

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

Sequences have become first class citizens in supervised learning thanks to the resurgence of recurrent neural networks. Many complex tasks that require mapping from or to a sequence of observations can now be formulated with the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-02-25 Oriol Vinyals , Samy Bengio , Manjunath Kudlur

Directed graphs naturally model systems with asymmetric, ordered relationships, essential to applications in biology, transportation, social networks, and visual understanding. Generating such graphs enables tasks such as simulation, data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Alba Carballo-Castro , Manuel Madeira , Yiming Qin , Dorina Thanou , Pascal Frossard

We consider the problem of graph generation guided by network statistics, i.e., the generation of graphs which have given values of various numerical measures that characterize networks, such as the clustering coefficient and the number of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Jérôme Kunegis , Jun Sun , Eiko Yoneki

Graph representation learning has achieved a remarkable success in many graph-based applications, such as node classification, link prediction, and community detection. These models are usually designed to preserve the vertex information at…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Kangfei Zhao , Yu Rong , Jeffrey Xu Yu , Junzhou Huang , Hao Zhang

The concept of a random process has been recently extended to graph signals, whereby random graph processes are a class of multivariate stochastic processes whose coefficients are matrices with a \textit{graph-topological} structure. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-13 Thiernithi Variddhisai , Danilo Mandic

Generating graph structures is a challenging problem due to the diverse representations and complex dependencies among nodes. In this paper, we introduce Graph Variational Recurrent Neural Network (GraphVRNN), a probabilistic autoregressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Shih-Yang Su , Hossein Hajimirsadeghi , Greg Mori

A successive vertex ordering of a graph is a linear ordering of its vertices in which every vertex except the first has at least one neighbour appearing earlier. Such orderings arise naturally in incremental growth and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Prarthana Agrawal , Abdurrahman Hadi Erturk , Ard Louis

We consider the problem of molecular graph generation using deep models. While graphs are discrete, most existing methods use continuous latent variables, resulting in inaccurate modeling of discrete graph structures. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Youzhi Luo , Keqiang Yan , Shuiwang Ji