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Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved great success on various tasks and fields that require relational modeling. GNNs aggregate node features using the graph structure as inductive biases resulting in flexible and powerful models.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Mandeep Rathee , Zijian Zhang , Thorben Funke , Megha Khosla , Avishek Anand

The design of Graph Transformers (GTs) generally neglects considerations for fairness, resulting in biased outcomes against certain sensitive subgroups. Since GTs encode graph information without relying on message-passing mechanisms,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Renqiang Luo , Huafei Huang , Shuo Yu , Xiuzhen Zhang , Feng Xia

Transformers allow attention between all pairs of tokens, but there is reason to believe that most of these connections - and their quadratic time and memory - may not be necessary. But which ones? We evaluate the impact of sparsification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Siddhartha Brahma , Polina Zablotskaia , David Mimno

Although 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has achieved impressive performance in real-time rendering, its densification strategy often results in suboptimal reconstruction quality. In this work, we present a comprehensive improvement to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Xiaobin Deng , Changyu Diao , Min Li , Ruohan Yu , Duanqing Xu

The paradigm of Transformers using the self-attention mechanism has manifested its advantage in learning graph-structured data. Yet, Graph Transformers are capable of modeling full range dependencies but are often deficient in extracting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Minhong Zhu , Zhenhao Zhao , Weiran Cai

To accelerate the training of graph convolutional networks (GCNs) on real-world large-scale sparse graphs, downsampling methods are commonly employed as a preprocessing step. However, the effects of graph sparsity and topological structure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Qinji Shu , Hang Sheng , Feng Ji , Hui Feng , Bo Hu

Recent works demonstrate the advantages of hardware rasterization for 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) in forward-pass rendering through fast GPU-optimized graphics and fixed memory footprint. However, extending these benefits to backward-pass…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Yitian Yuan , Qianyue He

We introduce the computational problem of graphlet transform of a sparse large graph. Graphlets are fundamental topology elements of all graphs/networks. They can be used as coding elements to encode graph-topological information at…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Dimitris Floros , Nikos Pitsianis , Xiaobai Sun

Graph partitioning is the problem of dividing the nodes of a graph into balanced partitions while minimizing the edge cut across the partitions. Due to its combinatorial nature, many approximate solutions have been developed, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Azade Nazi , Will Hang , Anna Goldie , Sujith Ravi , Azalia Mirhoseini

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are extensively utilized for deep learning on graphs. The large data sizes of graphs and their vertex features make scalable training algorithms and distributed memory systems necessary. Since the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Gunduz Vehbi Demirci , Aparajita Haldar , Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu

We propose a framework that automatically transforms non-scalable GNNs into precomputation-based GNNs which are efficient and scalable for large-scale graphs. The advantages of our framework are two-fold; 1) it transforms various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Seiji Maekawa , Yuya Sasaki , George Fletcher , Makoto Onizuka

Sparsity-constrained optimization is an important and challenging problem that has wide applicability in data mining, machine learning, and statistics. In this paper, we focus on sparsity-constrained optimization in cases where the cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Feng Chen , Baojian Zhou

Transformers have become widely used in various tasks, such as natural language processing and machine vision. This paper proposes Gransformer, an algorithm based on Transformer for generating graphs. We modify the Transformer encoder to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Ahmad Khajenezhad , Seyed Ali Osia , Mahmood Karimian , Hamid Beigy

Graph signal processing (GSP) leverages the inherent signal structure within graphs to extract high-dimensional data without relying on translation invariance. It has emerged as a crucial tool across multiple fields, including learning and…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Yu Zhang , Bing-Zhao Li

Graph Transformers (GTs) have emerged as a powerful paradigm for graph representation learning due to their ability to model diverse node interactions. However, existing GTs often rely on intricate architectural designs tailored to specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yujie Xing , Xiao Wang , Bin Wu , Hai Huang , Chuan Shi

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a powerful technique for radiance field rendering, but it typically requires millions of redundant Gaussian primitives, overwhelming memory and rendering budgets. Existing compaction approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Tao Wang , Mengyu Li , Geduo Zeng , Cheng Meng , Qiong Zhang

In this study, we explore the challenge of efficiently representing scenes with a constrained number of Gaussians. Our analysis shifts from traditional graphics and 2D computer vision to the perspective of point clouds, highlighting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Guangchi Fang , Bing Wang

Graph similarity computation (GSC) is to calculate the similarity between one pair of graphs, which is a fundamental problem with fruitful applications in the graph community. In GSC, graph edit distance (GED) and maximum common subgraph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Haoran Zheng , Jieming Shi , Renchi Yang

Graph signal processing (GSP) provides a powerful framework for analyzing signals arising in a variety of domains. In many applications of GSP, multiple network structures are available, each of which captures different aspects of the same…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-03 Michael Weylandt , George Michailidis , T. Mitchell Roddenberry

Research in Graph Signal Processing (GSP) aims to develop tools for processing data defined on irregular graph domains. In this paper we first provide an overview of core ideas in GSP and their connection to conventional digital signal…

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