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This tutorial provides a broad introduction to Bayesian data assimilation that will be useful to practitioners, in interpreting algorithms and results, and for theoretical studies developing novel schemes with an understanding of the rich…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-28 Colin Grudzien , Marc Bocquet

Laplacian eigenvectors capture natural community structures on graphs and are widely used in spectral clustering and manifold learning. The use of Laplacian eigenvectors as embeddings for the purpose of multiscale graph comparison has…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-07 Edric Tam , David Dunson

We apply a novel spectral graph technique, that of locally-biased semi-supervised eigenvectors, to study the diversity of galaxies. This technique permits us to characterize empirically the natural variations in observed spectra data, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 David Lawlor , Tamás Budavári , Michael W. Mahoney

Graph connection Laplacian (GCL) is a modern data analysis technique that is starting to be applied for the analysis of high dimensional and massive datasets. Motivated by this technique, we study matrices that are akin to the ones…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-11-18 Noureddine El Karoui , Hau-tieng Wu

Spectral embedding is a procedure which can be used to obtain vector representations of the nodes of a graph. This paper proposes a generalisation of the latent position network model known as the random dot product graph, to allow…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-17 Patrick Rubin-Delanchy , Joshua Cape , Minh Tang , Carey E. Priebe

Spectral clustering is a popular method for effectively clustering nonlinearly separable data. However, computational limitations, memory requirements, and the inability to perform incremental learning challenge its widespread application.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Jo-Chun Chen , Hung-Hsuan Chen

We propose and study a novel graph clustering method for data with an intrinsic network structure. Similar to spectral clustering, we exploit an intrinsic network structure of data to construct Euclidean feature vectors. These feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Y. SarcheshmehPour , Y. Tian , L. Zhang , A. Jung

It is reported that dynamical systems over digraphs have superior performance in terms of system damping and tolerance to time delays if the underlying graph Laplacian has a purely real spectrum. This paper investigates the topological…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Tianhao Yu , Shenglu Wang , Mengqi Xue , Yue Song , David J. Hill

We propose a method for learning dynamical systems from high-dimensional empirical data that combines variational autoencoders and (spatio-)temporal attention within a framework designed to enforce certain scientifically-motivated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Kai Lagemann , Christian Lagemann , Sach Mukherjee

A central issue in the study of polymer physics is to understand the relation between the geometrical properties of macromolecules and various dynamics, most of which are encoded in the Laplacian spectra of a related graph describing the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-21 Hongxiao Liu , Zhongzhi Zhang

We present clustering methods for multivariate data exploiting the underlying geometry of the graphical structure between variables. As opposed to standard approaches that assume known graph structures, we first estimate the edge structure…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-09-28 Sayantan Banerjee , Rehan Akbani , Veerabhadran Baladandayuthapani

We study the spectral properties and eigenvector statistics of the Laplacian on highly-connected networks with random coupling strengths and a gamma distribution of rescaled degrees. The spectral density, the distribution of the local…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-02-12 Jeferson D. da Silva , Diego Tapias , Peter Sollich , Fernando L. Metz

Hamiltonian systems are differential equations which describe systems in classical mechanics, plasma physics, and sampling problems. They exhibit many structural properties, such as a lack of attractors and the presence of conservation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Christian Offen , Sina Ober-Blöbaum

This paper develops an approximation to the (effective) $p$-resistance and applies it to multi-class clustering. Spectral methods based on the graph Laplacian and its generalization to the graph $p$-Laplacian have been a backbone of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Shota Saito , Mark Herbster

Dimensionality reduction, cluster analysis, and sparse representation are basic components in machine learning. However, their relationships have not yet been fully investigated. In this paper, we find that the spectral graph theory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-22 Zhenfang Hu , Gang Pan , Yueming Wang , Zhaohui Wu

We introduce a novel framework that directly learns a spectral basis for shape and manifold analysis from unstructured data, eliminating the need for traditional operator selection, discretization, and eigensolvers. Grounded in…

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Spectral network identification aims at inferring the eigenvalues of the Laplacian matrix of a network from measurement data. This allows to capture global information on the network structure from local measurements at a few number of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-07-15 Marvyn Gulina , Alexandre Mauroy

Spectral clustering is a powerful method for finding structure in a dataset through the eigenvectors of a similarity matrix. It often outperforms traditional clustering algorithms such as $k$-means when the structure of the individual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-26 Paola Favati , Grazia Lotti , Ornella Menchi , Francesco Romani

Spectral methods have been the mainstay in several domains such as machine learning and scientific computing. They involve finding a certain kind of spectral decomposition to obtain basis functions that can capture important structures for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Majid Janzamin , Rong Ge , Jean Kossaifi , Anima Anandkumar

Clustering of longitudinal data is used to explore common trends among subjects over time for a numeric measurement of interest. Various R packages have been introduced throughout the years for identifying clusters of longitudinal patterns,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Niek Den Teuling , Steffen Pauws , Edwin van den Heuvel