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We consider a graphical model where a multivariate normal vector is associated with each node of the underlying graph and estimate the graphical structure. We minimize a loss function obtained by regressing the vector at each node on those…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-19 Xingqi Du , Subhashis Ghosal

Graphs are fundamental mathematical structures used in various fields to represent data, signals and processes. In this paper, we propose a novel framework for learning/estimating graphs from data. The proposed framework includes (i)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Hilmi E. Egilmez , Eduardo Pavez , Antonio Ortega

Diffusion models are state-of-the-art methods in generative modeling when samples from a target probability distribution are available, and can be efficiently sampled, using score matching to estimate score vectors guiding a Langevin…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-21 Omar Chehab , Anna Korba

Gaussian Process Networks (GPNs) are a class of directed graphical models which employ Gaussian processes as priors for the conditional expectation of each variable given its parents in the network. The model allows the description of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-20 Enrico Giudice , Jack Kuipers , Giusi Moffa

In Gaussian graphical models, the zero entries in the precision matrix determine the dependence structure, so estimating that sparse precision matrix and, thereby, learning this underlying structure, is an important and challenging problem.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-10 Chang Liu , Ryan Martin

The graphical lasso is a widely used algorithm for fitting undirected Gaussian graphical models. However, for inference on functionals of edge values in the learned graph, standard tools lack formal statistical guarantees, such as control…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-01 Sofia Guglielmini , Gerda Claeskens , Snigdha Panigrahi

Graphical Gaussian models with edge and vertex symmetries were introduced by \citet{HojLaur:2008} who also gave an algorithm to compute the maximum likelihood estimate of the precision matrix for such models. In this paper, we take a…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-06-16 Helene Massam , Qiong Li , Xin Gao

Score matching with Langevin dynamics (SMLD) method has been successfully applied to accelerated MRI. However, the hyperparameters in the sampling process require subtle tuning, otherwise the results can be severely corrupted by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Xiaoyu Qiao , Weisheng Li , Bin Xiao , Yuping Huang , Lijian Yang

We propose a subgraph importance estimation method for pretrained Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) on graph-level tasks, formulated as a linear Group Lasso regression problem in the embedding space. Our method effectively leverages prior domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Changhyun Kim , Seunghwan An , Jong-June Jeon

A common challenge in estimating parameters of probability density functions is the intractability of the normalizing constant. While in such cases maximum likelihood estimation may be implemented using numerical integration, the approach…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-02-20 Shiqing Yu , Mathias Drton , Ali Shojaie

A nonparanormal graphical model is a semiparametric generalization of a Gaussian graphical model for continuous variables in which it is assumed that the variables follow a Gaussian graphical model only after some unknown smooth monotone…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-02-23 Jami J. Mulgrave , Subhashis Ghosal

Bayesian methods for learning Gaussian graphical models offer a principled framework for quantifying model uncertainty and incorporating prior knowledge. However, their scalability is constrained by the computational cost of jointly…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-28 Reza Mohammadi , Marit Schoonhoven , Lucas Vogels , S. Ilker Birbil

Estimation of Gaussian graphical models is important in natural science when modeling the statistical relationships between variables in the form of a graph. The sparsity and clustering structure of the concentration matrix is enforced to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-20 Meixia Lin , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh , Chengjing Wang

Sparse graphical modelling has attained widespread attention across various academic fields. We propose two new graphical model approaches, Gslope and Tslope, which provide sparse estimates of the precision matrix by penalizing its sorted…

Graphical Gaussian models are popular tools for the estimation of (undirected) gene association networks from microarray data. A key issue when the number of variables greatly exceeds the number of samples is the estimation of the matrix of…

Methodology · Statistics 2010-08-13 Nicole Kraemer , Juliane Schaefer , Anne-Laure Boulesteix

Differential graphical models are designed to represent the difference between the conditional dependence structures of two groups, thus are of particular interest for scientific investigation. Motivated by modern applications, this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Sen Na , Mladen Kolar , Oluwasanmi Koyejo

There is a long history, as well as a recent explosion of interest, in statistical and generative modeling approaches based on score functions -- derivatives of the log-likelihood of a distribution. In seminal works, Hyv\"arinen proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Frederic Koehler , Thuy-Duong Vuong

Gaussian concentration graph models and covariance graph models are two classes of graphical models that are useful for uncovering latent dependence structures among multivariate variables. In the Bayesian literature, graphs are often…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-08 Hao Wang

Gaussian graphical models (GGM) have been widely used in many high-dimensional applications ranging from biological and financial data to recommender systems. Sparsity in GGM plays a central role both statistically and computationally.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-06-12 Zhaoshi Meng , Brian Eriksson , Alfred O. Hero

We argue that some of the computational complexity associated with estimation of stochastic attribute-value grammars can be reduced by training upon an informative subset of the full training set. Results using the parsed Wall Street…

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