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Given a sample from a probability measure with support on a submanifold in Euclidean space one can construct a neighborhood graph which can be seen as an approximation of the submanifold. The graph Laplacian of such a graph is used in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-27 Matthias Hein , Jean-Yves Audibert , Ulrike von Luxburg

Estimation of the precision matrix (or inverse covariance matrix) is of great importance in statistical data analysis and machine learning. However, as the number of parameters scales quadratically with the dimension $p$, computation…

Computation · Statistics 2022-11-02 Qian LI , Binyan Jiang , Defeng Sun

Graph matching is a challenging problem with very important applications in a wide range of fields, from image and video analysis to biological and biomedical problems. We propose a robust graph matching algorithm inspired in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-26 Marcelo Fiori , Pablo Sprechmann , Joshua Vogelstein , Pablo Musé , Guillermo Sapiro

We review the properties of eigenvectors for the graph Laplacian matrix, aiming at predicting a specific eigenvalue/vector from the geometry of the graph. After considering classical graphs for which the spectrum is known, we focus on…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-23 J. -G. Caputo , A. Knippel

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) conventionally rely on standard Laplacian or adjacency matrices for structural message passing. In this work, we substitute the traditional Laplacian with a Doubly Stochastic graph Matrix (DSM), derived from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Zhaobo Hu , Vincent Gauthier , Mehdi Naima

In this paper we consider undirected graphs with no loops and multiple edges, consisting of k connected components. In these cases, it is well known that one can find a numbering of the vertices such that the adjacency matrix A is block…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Francisco Pedroche , Miguel Rebollo , Carlos Carrascosa , Alberto Palomares

In the manifold setting, we provide a series of spectral convergence results quantifying how the eigenvectors and eigenvalues of the graph Laplacian converge to the eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of the Laplace-Beltrami operator in the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-23 David B Dunson , Hau-Tieng Wu , Nan Wu

We present a new family of graphs with remarkable properties. They are obtained by connecting the points of a random walk when their distance is smaller than a given scale. Their degree (number of neighbors) does not depend on the graph's…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-15 S. Plaszczynski , G. Nakamura , C. Deroulers , B. Grammaticos , M. Badoual

Relying on fixed point techniques, Mahey, Oualibouch and Tao introduced the scaled proximal decomposition on the graph of a maximal monotone operator (SPDG) algorithm and analyzed its performance on inclusions for strongly monotone and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-30 S. Costa Lima , M. Marques Alves

In graph signal processing, data samples are associated to vertices on a graph, while edge weights represent similarities between those samples. We propose a convex optimization problem to learn sparse well connected graphs from data. We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 Eduardo Pavez , Antonio Ortega

We consider the problem of learning a sparse undirected graph underlying a given set of multivariate data. We focus on graph Laplacian-related constraints on the sparse precision matrix that encodes conditional dependence between the random…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-17 Jitendra K. Tugnait

Partitioning a graph into three pieces, with two of them large and connected, and the third a small ``separator'' set, is useful for improving the performance of a number of combinatorial algorithms. This is done using the second…

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This paper addresses theory and applications of $\ell_p$-based Laplacian regularization in semi-supervised learning. The graph $p$-Laplacian for $p>2$ has been proposed recently as a replacement for the standard ($p=2$) graph Laplacian in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-28 Mauricio Flores , Jeff Calder , Gilad Lerman

Graph coarsening aims to diminish the size of a graph to lighten its memory footprint, and has numerous applications in graph signal processing and machine learning. It is usually defined using a reduction matrix and a lifting matrix,…

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We investigate an oblivious routing scheme, amenable to distributed computation and resilient to graph changes, based on electrical flow. Our main technical contribution is a new rounding method which we use to obtain a bound on the L1->L1…

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In this paper we study variants of the widely used spectral clustering that partitions a graph into k clusters by (1) embedding the vertices of a graph into a low-dimensional space using the bottom eigenvectors of the Laplacian matrix, and…

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Due to high utility in many applications, from social networks to blockchain to power grids, deep learning on non-Euclidean objects such as graphs and manifolds, coined Geometric Deep Learning (GDL), continues to gain an ever increasing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Yuzhou Chen , Yulia R. Gel , Konstantin Avrachenkov

The celebrated Cheeger's Inequality establishes a bound on the edge expansion of a graph via its spectrum. This inequality is central to a rich spectral theory of graphs, based on studying the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the adjacency…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-05-06 T-H. Hubert Chan , Anand Louis , Zhihao Gavin Tang , Chenzi Zhang

An inverse problem of identifying inhomogeneity or crack in the workpiece made of nonlinear magnetic material is investigated. To recover the shape from the local measurements, a piecewise constant level set algorithm is proposed. By means…

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