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Graphs are ubiquitous data structures for representing interactions between entities. With an emphasis on the use of graphs to represent chemical molecules, we explore the task of learning to generate graphs that conform to a distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Qi Liu , Miltiadis Allamanis , Marc Brockschmidt , Alexander L. Gaunt

Tokenization is a key component of autoregressive (AR) generative models, converting raw data into more manageable units for modeling. Commonly, tokens describe local information, such as regions of pixels in images or word pieces in text,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Zhitong Gao , Parham Rezaei , Ali Cy , Mingqiao Ye , Nataša Jovanović , Jesse Allardice , Afshin Dehghan , Amir Zamir , Roman Bachmann , Oğuzhan Fatih Kar

We develop the first parallel graph coloring heuristics with strong theoretical guarantees on work and depth and coloring quality. The key idea is to design a relaxation of the vertex degeneracy order, a well-known graph theory concept, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Maciej Besta , Armon Carigiet , Zur Vonarburg-Shmaria , Kacper Janda , Lukas Gianinazzi , Torsten Hoefler

Autoregressive models enable tractable sampling from learned probability distributions, but their performance critically depends on the variable ordering used in the factorization via complexities of the resulting conditional distributions.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-04 Shiba Biswal , Marc Vuffray , Andrey Y. Lokhov

Designing algorithms that generate networks with a given degree sequence while varying both subgraph composition and distribution of subgraphs around nodes is an important but challenging research problem. Current algorithms lack control of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-12-07 Martin Ritchie , Luc Berthouze , Istvan Z Kiss

When a machine learning (ML) model forecasts an undesired event, one often seeks a decision to avoid it, known as the avoiding undesired future (AUF) problem. Many rehearsal learning methods have been proposed for AUF, but they rely on an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yu-Xuan Tao , Tian-Zuo Wang , Zhi-Hua Zhou

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

We propose a new family of efficient and expressive deep generative models of graphs, called Graph Recurrent Attention Networks (GRANs). Our model generates graphs one block of nodes and associated edges at a time. The block size and…

Graphs are important data representations for describing objects and their relationships, which appear in a wide diversity of real-world scenarios. As one of a critical problem in this area, graph generation considers learning the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Xiaojie Guo , Liang Zhao

Despite recent advancements in single-domain or single-object image generation, it is still challenging to generate complex scenes containing diverse, multiple objects and their interactions. Scene graphs, composed of nodes as objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Sarthak Garg , Helisa Dhamo , Azade Farshad , Sabrina Musatian , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

Autoregressive models excel in efficiency and plug directly into the transformer ecosystem, delivering robust generalization, predictable scalability, and seamless workflows such as fine-tuning and parallelized training. However, they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Samuel Belkadi , Steve Hong , Marian Chen , Miruna Cretu , Charles Harris , Pietro Lio

There have been tremendous efforts over the past decades dedicated to the generation of realistic graphs in a variety of domains, ranging from social networks to computer networks, from gene regulatory networks to online transaction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Lecheng Zheng , Dawei Zhou , Hanghang Tong , Jiejun Xu , Yada Zhu , Jingrui He

Reaction prediction is a fundamental problem in computational chemistry. Existing approaches typically generate a chemical reaction by sampling tokens or graph edits sequentially, conditioning on previously generated outputs. These…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-02-08 Hangrui Bi , Hengyi Wang , Chence Shi , Jian Tang

Inferring objects and their relationships from an image in the form of a scene graph is useful in many applications at the intersection of vision and language. We consider a challenging problem of compositional generalization that emerges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Boris Knyazev , Harm de Vries , Cătălina Cangea , Graham W. Taylor , Aaron Courville , Eugene Belilovsky

Learning generative models for graph-structured data is challenging because graphs are discrete, combinatorial, and the underlying data distribution is invariant to the ordering of nodes. However, most of the existing generative models for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Chenhao Niu , Yang Song , Jiaming Song , Shengjia Zhao , Aditya Grover , Stefano Ermon

Recent years have witnessed the impressive progress in Neural Dependency Parsing. According to the different factorization approaches to the graph joint probabilities, existing parsers can be roughly divided into autoregressive and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Ye Ma , Mingming Sun , Ping Li

Existing graph generative models often face a critical trade-off between sample quality and generation speed. We introduce Autoregressive Noisy Filtration Modeling (ANFM), a flexible autoregressive framework that addresses both challenges.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Markus Krimmel , Jenna Wiens , Karsten Borgwardt , Dexiong Chen

The use of complex networks as a modern approach to understanding the world and its dynamics is well-established in literature. The adjacency matrix, which provides a one-to-one representation of a complex network, can also yield several…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Mariane B. Neiva , Odemir M. Bruno

Predicting a user's preference in a short anonymous interaction session instead of long-term history is a challenging problem in the real-life session-based recommendation, e.g., e-commerce and media stream. Recent research of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Ruihong Qiu , Jingjing Li , Zi Huang , Hongzhi Yin

We provide a novel approach to construct generative models for graphs. Instead of using the traditional probabilistic models or deep generative models, we propose to instead find an algorithm that generates the data. We achieve this using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Mihai Babiac , Karolis Martinkus , Roger Wattenhofer