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Graph neural networks are experiencing a surge of popularity within the machine learning community due to their ability to adapt to non-Euclidean domains and instil inductive biases. Despite this, their stability, i.e., their robustness to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Henry Kenlay , Dorina Thanou , Xiaowen Dong

A semitotal dominating set of a graph $G$ with no isolated vertex is a dominating set $D$ of $G$ such that every vertex in $D$ is within distance two of another vertex in $D$. The minimum size $\gamma_{t2}(G)$ of a semitotal dominating set…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Esther Galby , Andrea Munaro , Bernard Ries

It has long been known that the following basic objects are obstructions to bounded tree-width: for arbitrarily large $t$, $(1)$ the complete graph $K_t$, $(2)$ the complete bipartite graph $K_{t,t}$, $(3)$ a subdivision of the $(t \times…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Daniel Cocks

Scattering transforms are non-trainable deep convolutional architectures that exploit the multi-scale resolution of a wavelet filter bank to obtain an appropriate representation of data. More importantly, they are proven invariant to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Fernando Gama , Joan Bruna , Alejandro Ribeiro

In this note we consider a more general version of local sparsity introduced recently by Anderson, Kuchukova, and the author. In particular, we say a graph $G = (V, E)$ is $(k, r)$-locally-sparse if for each vertex $v \in V(G)$, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Abhishek Dhawan

Graph convolutional neural networks (GCNNs) are nonlinear processing tools to learn representations from network data. A key property of GCNNs is their stability to graph perturbations. Current analysis considers deterministic perturbations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Zhan Gao , Elvin Isufi , Alejandro Ribeiro

Inspired by convolutional neural networks on 1D and 2D data, graph convolutional neural networks (GCNNs) have been developed for various learning tasks on graph data, and have shown superior performance on real-world datasets. Despite their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Saurabh Verma , Zhi-Li Zhang

Two-sample tests utilizing a similarity graph on observations are useful for high-dimensional and non-Euclidean data due to their flexibility and good performance under a wide range of alternatives. Existing works mainly focused on sparse…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Yejiong Zhu , Hao Chen

The independence gap of a graph was introduced by Ekim et al. (2018) as a measure of how far a graph is from being well-covered. It is defined as the difference between the maximum and minimum size of a maximal independent set. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-14 Tınaz Ekim , Didem Gözüpek , Ademir Hujdurović , Martin Milanič

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have become increasingly popular for classification tasks on graph-structured data. Yet, the interplay between graph topology and feature evolution in GNNs is not well understood. In this paper, we focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Vignesh Kothapalli , Tom Tirer , Joan Bruna

The CSP dichotomy conjecture has been recently established, but a number of other dichotomy questions remain open, including the dichotomy classification of list homomorphism problems for signed graphs. Signed graphs arise naturally in many…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-06 Jan Bok , Richard Brewster , Pavol Hell , Nikola Jedličková , Arash Rafiey

Class imbalance is the phenomenon that some classes have much fewer instances than others, which is ubiquitous in real-world graph-structured scenarios. Recent studies find that off-the-shelf Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) would…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Wen-Zhi Li , Chang-Dong Wang , Hui Xiong , Jian-Huang Lai

We prove several negative results about first-order transducibility for classes of sparse graphs: - for every $t \in \mathbb{N}$, the class of graphs of treewidth at most $t+1$ is not transducible from the class of graphs of treewidth at…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Jakub Gajarský , Jeremi Gładkowski , Jan Jedelský , Michał Pilipczuk , Szymon Toruńczyk

In this paper, we are interested in learning the underlying graph structure behind training data. Solving this basic problem is essential to carry out any graph signal processing or machine learning task. To realize this, we assume that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri , Sijia Liu , Geert Leus , Alfred O. Hero

Twin-width is a structural width parameter introduced by Bonnet, Kim, Thomass\'e and Watrigant [FOCS 2020]. Very briefly, its essence is a gradual reduction (a contraction sequence) of the given graph down to a single vertex while…

With the ever-increasing popularity and applications of graph neural networks, several proposals have been made to explain and understand the decisions of a graph neural network. Explanations for graph neural networks differ in principle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Thorben Funke , Megha Khosla , Mandeep Rathee , Avishek Anand

The theory of dependency graphs is a powerful toolbox to prove asymptotic normality of sums of random variables. In this article, we introduce a more general notion of weighted dependency graphs and give normality criteria in this context.…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-10-18 Valentin Féray

Analysis of a network in terms of vulnerability is one of the most significant problems. Graph theory serves as a valuable tool for solving complex network problems, and there exist numerous graph-theoretic parameters to analyze the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Hande Tuncel Golpek , Aysun Aytac

The implicit graph conjecture states that every sufficiently small, hereditary graph class has a labeling scheme with a polynomial-time computable label decoder. We approach this conjecture by investigating classes of label decoders defined…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Maurice Chandoo

Degree-based graph construction is an ubiquitous problem in network modeling, ranging from social sciences to chemical compounds and biochemical reaction networks in the cell. This problem includes existence, enumeration, exhaustive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-08-27 Hyunju Kim , Zoltan Toroczkai , Péter L. Erdős , István Miklós , László Á. Székely