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Graph neural networks (GNNs) provide a powerful and scalable solution for modeling continuous spatial data. However, they often rely on Euclidean distances to construct the input graphs. This assumption can be improbable in many real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Konstantin Klemmer , Nathan Safir , Daniel B. Neill

With the development of quantum algorithms, high-cost computations are being scrutinized in the hope of a quantum advantage. While graphs offer a convenient framework for multiple real-world problems, their analytics still comes with high…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-11 Slimane Thabet , Jean-Francois Hullo

Effective resistance (ER) is an attractive way to interrogate the structure of graphs. It is an alternative to computing the eigen-vectors of the graph Laplacian. Graph laplacians are used to find low dimensional structures in high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Robi Bhattacharjee , Alex Cloninger , Yoav Freund , Andreas Oslandsbotn

Recent studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of position encoding in transformer architectures. By incorporating positional information, this approach provides essential guidance for modeling dependencies between elements across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Avinash Amballa

Transformer architecture has enabled recent progress in speech enhancement. Since Transformers are position-agostic, positional encoding is the de facto standard component used to enable Transformers to distinguish the order of elements in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Qiquan Zhang , Meng Ge , Hongxu Zhu , Eliathamby Ambikairajah , Qi Song , Zhaoheng Ni , Haizhou Li

Spectral embedding is a powerful graph embedding technique that has received a lot of attention recently due to its effectiveness on Graph Transformers. However, from a theoretical perspective, the universal expressive power of spectral…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Jiangyan Ma , Yifei Wang , Yisen Wang

Determining the ground state of a many-body Hamiltonian is a central problem across physics, chemistry, and combinatorial optimization, yet it is often classically intractable due to the exponential growth of Hilbert space with system size.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Jungyun Lee , Daniel K. Park

An important aspect subtending language understanding and production is the ability to independently encode positional and symbolic information of the words within a sentence. In Transformers, positional information is typically encoded…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Felipe Urrutia , Jorge Salas , Alexander Kozachinskiy , Cristian Buc Calderon , Hector Pasten , Cristobal Rojas

Positional encoding mechanisms enable Transformers to model sequential structure and long-range dependencies in text. While absolute positional encodings struggle with extrapolation to longer sequences due to fixed positional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Chang Dai , Hongyu Shan , Mingyang Song , Di Liang

While music remains a challenging domain for generative models like Transformers, recent progress has been made by exploiting suitable musically-informed priors. One technique to leverage information about musical structure in Transformers…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Manvi Agarwal , Changhong Wang , Gael Richard

Positional encodings have enabled recent works to train a single adversarial network that can generate images of different scales. However, these approaches are either limited to a set of discrete scales or struggle to maintain good…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Evangelos Ntavelis , Mohamad Shahbazi , Iason Kastanis , Radu Timofte , Martin Danelljan , Luc Van Gool

Many tools from the field of graph signal processing exploit knowledge of the underlying graph's structure (e.g., as encoded in the Laplacian matrix) to process signals on the graph. Therefore, in the case when no graph is available, graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Bastien Pasdeloup , Vincent Gripon , Grégoire Mercier , Dominique Pastor , Michael G. Rabbat

Generative models of graphs are well-known, but many existing models are limited in scalability and expressivity. We present a novel sequential graphical variational autoencoder operating directly on graphical representations of data. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Bowen Jing , Ethan A. Chi , Jillian Tang

We propose a recipe on how to build a general, powerful, scalable (GPS) graph Transformer with linear complexity and state-of-the-art results on a diverse set of benchmarks. Graph Transformers (GTs) have gained popularity in the field of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Ladislav Rampášek , Mikhail Galkin , Vijay Prakash Dwivedi , Anh Tuan Luu , Guy Wolf , Dominique Beaini

Vision transformers have demonstrated significant advantages in computer vision tasks due to their ability to capture long-range dependencies and contextual relationships through self-attention. However, existing position encoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Xi Chen , Shiyang Zhou , Muqi Huang , Jiaxu Feng , Yun Xiong , Kun Zhou , Biao Yang , Yuhui Zhang , Huishuai Bao , Sijia Peng , Chuan Li , Feng Shi

We introduce an unsupervised graph embedding that trades off local node similarity and connectivity, and global structure. The embedding is based on a generalized graph Laplacian, whose eigenvectors compactly capture both network structure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Shay Deutsch , Stefano Soatto

Graphs possess exotic features like variable size and absence of natural ordering of the nodes that make them difficult to analyze and compare. To circumvent this problem and learn on graphs, graph feature representation is required. A good…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Edouard Pineau

We propose a novel Stochastic Differential Equation (SDE) framework to address the problem of learning uncertainty-aware representations for graph-structured data. While Graph Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (GNODEs) have shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Richard Bergna , Sergio Calvo-Ordoñez , Felix L. Opolka , Pietro Liò , Jose Miguel Hernandez-Lobato

Many positional encodings (PEs) are designed to exhibit long-term decay, based on an entrenched and long-standing inductive opinion: tokens farther away from the current position carry less relevant information. We argue that long-term…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Yuhan Chen , Ang Lv , Jian Luan , Bin Wang , Wei Liu

We aim to deepen the theoretical understanding of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) on large graphs, with a focus on their expressive power. Existing analyses relate this notion to the graph isomorphism problem, which is mostly relevant for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Nicolas Keriven , Samuel Vaiter