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Learning a graph with a specific structure is essential for interpretability and identification of the relationships among data. It is well known that structured graph learning from observed samples is an NP-hard combinatorial problem. In…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-26 Sandeep Kumar , Jiaxi Ying , Jos'e Vin'icius de M. Cardoso , Daniel P. Palomar

This paper tackles the challenging problem of jointly inferring time-varying network topologies and imputing missing data from partially observed graph signals. We propose a unified non-convex optimization framework to simultaneously…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-07 Chuansen Peng , Xiaojing Shen

A signed graph is a graph whose edges are labeled either positive or negative. Corresponding to the two signed distance matrices defined for signed graphs, we define two signed distance laplacian matrices. We characterize balance in signed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-12 Roshni T Roy , K A Germina , K Shahul Hameed , Thomas Zaslavsky

How to obtain a graph from data samples is an important problem in graph signal processing. One way to formulate this graph learning problem is based on Gaussian maximum likelihood estimation, possibly under particular topology constraints.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-02 Keng-Shih Lu , Antonio Ortega

A signed graph is one that features two types of edges: positive and negative. Balanced signed graphs are those in which all cycles contain an even number of positive edges. In the adjacency matrix of a signed graph, entries can be $0$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Cristian M. Conde , Ezequiel Dratman , Luciano N. Grippo

We study homomorphism problems of signed graphs. A signed graph is an undirected graph where each edge is given a sign, positive or negative. An important concept for signed graphs is the operation of switching at a vertex, which is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-08 François Dross , Florent Foucaud , Valia Mitsou , Pascal Ochem , Théo Pierron

In this work, we theoretically demonstrate that current graph positional encodings (PEs) are not beneficial and could potentially hurt performance in tasks involving heterophilous graphs, where nodes that are close tend to have different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Michael Ito , Jiong Zhu , Dexiong Chen , Danai Koutra , Jenna Wiens

Signed graphs encode positive (attractive) and negative (repulsive) relations between nodes. We extend spectral clustering to signed graphs via the one-parameter family of Signed Power Mean Laplacians, defined as the matrix power mean of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Pedro Mercado , Francesco Tudisco , Matthias Hein

The graph partition problem is the problem of partitioning the vertex set of a graph into a fixed number of sets of given sizes such that the sum of weights of edges joining different sets is optimized. In this paper we simplify a known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-25 Edwin R. van Dam , Renata Sotirov

Given a finite, simple, connected graph $G=(V,E)$ with $|V|=n$, we consider the associated graph Laplacian matrix $L = D - A$ with eigenvalues $0 = \lambda_1 < \lambda_2 \leq \dots \leq \lambda_n$. One can also consider the same graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Stefan Steinerberger , Rekha R. Thomas

We present very efficient active learning algorithms for link classification in signed networks. Our algorithms are motivated by a stochastic model in which edge labels are obtained through perturbations of a initial sign assignment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-03-01 Nicolo Cesa-Bianchi , Claudio Gentile , Fabio Vitale , Giovanni Zappella

Recent papers have formulated the problem of learning graphs from data as an inverse covariance estimation with graph Laplacian constraints. While such problems are convex, existing methods cannot guarantee that solutions will have specific…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-09 Eduardo Pavez , Hilmi E. Egilmez , Antonio Ortega

Learning a suitable graph is an important precursor to many graph signal processing (GSP) pipelines, such as graph spectral signal compression and denoising. Previous graph learning algorithms either i) make some assumptions on connectivity…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-19 Saghar Bagheri , Gene Cheung , Antonio Ortega , Fen Wang

Link sign prediction on a signed graph is a task to determine whether the relationship represented by an edge is positive or negative. Since the presence of negative edges violates the graph homophily assumption that adjacent nodes are…

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The Laplacian matrix and its pseudo-inverse for a strongly connected directed graph is fundamental in computing many properties of a directed graph. Examples include random-walk centrality and betweenness measures, average hitting and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-16 Daniel Boley

Unsupervised graph representation learning aims to distill various graph information into a downstream task-agnostic dense vector embedding. However, existing graph representation learning approaches are designed mainly under the node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-04 You Li , Bei Lin , Binli Luo , Ning Gui

The graphs with all equal negative or positive eigenvalues are special kind in the spectral graph theory. In this article, several iterated line graphs $\mathcal{L}^k(G)$ with all equal negative eigenvalues $-2$ are characterized for $k\ge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Harishchandra S. Ramane , B. Parvathalu , Daneshwari Patil , K. Ashoka

In a signed graph, each link is labeled with either a positive or a negative sign. This is particularly appropriate to model polarized systems. Such a graph can be characterized through the notion of structural balance, which relies on the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Nejat Arinik , Rosa Figueiredo , Vincent Labatut

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

This paper studies graph-based active learning, where the goal is to reconstruct a binary signal defined on the nodes of a weighted graph, by sampling it on a small subset of the nodes. A new sampling algorithm is proposed, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-19 Eyal En Gad , Akshay Gadde , A. Salman Avestimehr , Antonio Ortega