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Coordination graph is a promising approach to model agent collaboration in multi-agent reinforcement learning. It conducts a graph-based value factorization and induces explicit coordination among agents to complete complicated tasks.…

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We contribute an approach to the problem of locally computing sparse connected subgraphs of dense graphs. In this setting, given an edge in a connected graph $G = (V, E)$, an algorithm locally decides its membership in a sparse connected…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Rogers Epstein

For uncertainty propagation of highly complex and/or nonlinear problems, one must resort to sample-based non-intrusive approaches [1]. In such cases, minimizing the number of function evaluations required to evaluate the response surface is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-04 Anindya Bhaduri , Lori Graham-Brady

Binary classification problems can be naturally modeled as bipartite graphs, where we attempt to classify right nodes based on their left adjacencies. We consider the case of labeled bipartite graphs in which some labels and edges are not…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-13 R. W. R. Darling , Mark L. Velednitsky

Graph Generating Dependencies (GGDs) informally express constraints between two (possibly different) graph patterns which enforce relationships on both graph's data (via property value constraints) and its structure (via topological…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Larissa C. Shimomura , Nikolay Yakovets , George Fletcher

Current methods for textual analysis rely on data annotated within predefined ontologies, often embedding human bias within black-box models. Despite achieving near-perfect performance, these approaches exploit unstructured, linear pattern…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Diego Revilla , Martin Fernandez-de-Retana , Lingfeng Chen , Aritz Bilbao-Jayo , Miguel Fernandez-de-Retana

Techniques for coordination of multi-agent systems are vast and varied, often utilizing purpose-built solvers or controllers with tight coupling to the types of systems involved or the coordination goal. In this paper, we introduce a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Tyler Hanks , Hans Riess , Samuel Cohen , Trevor Gross , Matthew Hale , James Fairbanks

Over-smoothing in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) causes collapse in distinct node features, particularly on heterophilic graphs where adjacent nodes often have dissimilar labels. Although sheaf neural networks partially mitigate this problem,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yoonhyuk Choi , Jiho Choi , Chong-Kwon Kim

Many problems in robotics involve both continuous and discrete components, and modeling them together for estimation tasks has been a long standing and difficult problem. Hybrid Factor Graphs give us a mathematical framework to model these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Varun Agrawal , Frank Dellaert

We consider supervised learning problems where the features are embedded in a graph, such as gene expressions in a gene network. In this context, it is of much interest to automatically select a subgraph with few connected components; by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-09-20 Julien Mairal , Bin Yu

Factor graph, as a bipartite graphical model, offers a structured representation by revealing local connections among graph nodes. This study explores the utilization of factor graphs in modeling the autonomous racecar planning problem,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Salman Bari , Xiagong Wang , Ahmad Schoha Haidari , Dirk Wollherr

Many recent works have studied the performance of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in the context of graph homophily - a label-dependent measure of connectivity. Traditional GNNs generate node embeddings by aggregating information from a node's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Hesham Mostafa , Marcel Nassar , Somdeb Majumdar

Many complicated network problems can be easily understood on small networks. Difficulties arise when small networks are combined into larger ones. Fortunately, the mathematical theory of sheaves was constructed to address just this kind of…

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Federated Graph Learning (FGL) has garnered widespread attention by enabling collaborative training on multiple clients for semi-supervised classification tasks. However, most existing FGL studies do not well consider the missing…

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In this letter, we study distributed optimization, where a network of agents, abstracted as a directed graph, collaborates to minimize the average of locally-known convex functions. Most of the existing approaches over directed graphs are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-08 Ran Xin , Usman A. Khan

We study adversarial learning when the target distribution factorizes according to a known Bayesian network. For interpolative divergences, including $(f,\Gamma)$-divergences, we prove a new infimal subadditivity principle showing that,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-03 Panagiota Birmpa , Eric Joseph Hall

In the computational study of political redistricting, feasibility necessitates the use of a discretization of regions such as states, counties, and towns. In nearly all cases, researchers use a dual graph, whose vertices represent small…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Sara Anderson , Sarah Cannon , Brooke Feinberg , Anne Friedman

This paper studies distributed stochastic approximation algorithms based on broadcast gossip on communication networks represented by digraphs. Weak convergence of these algorithms is proved, and an associated ordinary differential equation…

Applications · Statistics 2016-09-05 Miloš S. Stanković , Nemanja Ilić , Srdjan S. Stanković

Reasoning is a fundamental problem for computers and deeply studied in Artificial Intelligence. In this paper, we specifically focus on answering multi-hop logical queries on Knowledge Graphs (KGs). This is a complicated task because, in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Alfonso Amayuelas , Shuai Zhang , Susie Xi Rao , Ce Zhang

Although the bipartite shopping graphs are straightforward to model search behavior, they suffer from two challenges: 1) The majority of items are sporadically searched and hence have noisy/sparse query associations, leading to a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Yan Han , Edward W Huang , Wenqing Zheng , Nikhil Rao , Zhangyang Wang , Karthik Subbian