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Dynamic networks consist of a sequence of time-varying networks, and it is of great importance to detect the network change points. Most existing methods focus on detecting abrupt change points, necessitating the assumption that the…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-10-13 Yuzhao Zhang , Jingnan Zhang , Yifan Sun , Junhui Wang

The network data has attracted considerable attention in modern statistics. In research on complex network data, one key issue is finding its underlying connection structure given a network sample. The methods that have been proposed in…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-08-09 Kang Fu , Jianwei Hu , Seydou Keita

Deep learning methods have proved highly effective for classification and image recognition problems. In this paper, we ask whether this success can be transferred to hypothesis testing: if a neural network can distinguish, for example, an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-30 Gery Geenens , Pierre Lafaye de Micheaux , Ivan Muyun Zou

Structure discovery in graphical models is the determination of the topology of a graph that encodes conditional independence properties of the joint distribution of all variables in the model. For some class of probability distributions,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-04-07 Wacha Bounliphone , Matthew Blaschko

Two-sample hypothesis testing for large graphs is popular in cognitive science, probabilistic machine learning and artificial intelligence. While numerous methods have been proposed in the literature to address this problem, less attention…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-02-20 Xin Jin , Kit Chan , Ian Barnett , Riddhi Pratim Ghosh

We propose a method for simultaneously detecting shared and unshared communities in heterogeneous multilayer weighted and undirected networks. The multilayer network is assumed to follow a generative probabilistic model that takes into…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Hafiz Tiomoko Ali , Sijia Liu , Yasin Yilmaz , Romain Couillet , Indika Rajapakse , Alfred Hero

Given two networks of differing sizes, it is of interest to test whether the two networks belong to the same distribution. We formalize the notion of "equality of distribution" under the framework of the generalized random dot product…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Joshua Agterberg , Minh Tang , Carey Priebe

We use a tensor unfolding technique to prove a new identifiability result for discrete bipartite graphical models, which have a bipartite graph between an observed and a latent layer. This model family includes popular models such as…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Yuqi Gu

Learning graphs from sets of nodal observations represents a prominent problem formally known as graph topology inference. However, current approaches are limited by typically focusing on inferring single networks, and they assume that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Samuel Rey , Andrei Buciulea , Madeline Navarro , Santiago Segarra , Antonio G. Marques

In many real-world networks, data on the edges evolve in continuous time, naturally motivating representations based on point processes. Heterogeneity in edge types further gives rise to multiplex network point processes. In this work, we…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-26 Joshua Corneck , Edward A. K. Cohen , Francesco Sanna Passino

We study simultaneous inference for multiple matrix-variate Gaussian graphical models in high-dimensional settings. Such models arise when spatiotemporal data are collected across multiple sample groups or experimental sessions, where each…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-21 Zongge Liu , Heejong Bong , Zhao Ren , Matthew A. Smith , Robert E. Kass

In this article, we consider the problem of testing whether two latent position random graphs are correlated. We propose a test statistic based on the kernel method and introduce the estimation procedure based on the spectral decomposition…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-21 Xiaoyi Wen , Junhui Wang , Liping Zhu

Network (graph) data analysis is a popular research topic in statistics and machine learning. In application, one is frequently confronted with graph two-sample hypothesis testing where the goal is to test the difference between two graph…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-02-01 Mingao Yuan , Qian Wen

Dynamic transportation networks have been analyzed for years by means of static graph-based indicators in order to study the temporal evolution of relevant network components, and to reveal complex dependencies that would not be easily…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-25 Hector Rodriguez-Deniz , Mattias Villani , Augusto Voltes-Dorta

The linear threshold model (LTM) has been used to study spread on single-layer networks defined by one inter-agent sensing modality and agents homogeneous in protocol. We define and analyze the heterogeneous multiplex LTM to study spread on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-12 Yaofeng Desmond Zhong , Vaibhav Srivastava , Naomi Ehrich Leonard

We report our ongoing work about a new deep architecture working in tandem with a statistical test procedure for jointly training texts and their label descriptions for multi-label and multi-class classification tasks. A statistical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Ahmad Aghaebrahimian , Mark Cieliebak

A generative modeling framework is proposed that combines diffusion models and manifold learning to efficiently sample data densities on manifolds. The approach utilizes Diffusion Maps to uncover possible low-dimensional underlying (latent)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Dimitris G. Giovanis , Ellis Crabtree , Roger G. Ghanem , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

The increasing prevalence of multiplex networks has spurred a critical need to take into account potential dependencies across different layers, especially when the goal is community detection, which is a fundamental learning task in…

Applications · Statistics 2024-09-19 Zhumengmeng Jin , Juan Sosa , Shangchen Song , Brenda Betancourt

Multilayer networks provide a framework to study complex systems with multiple types of interactions, multiple dynamical processes, and/or multiple subsystems. When studying a dynamical process on a multilayer network, it is important to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-09-25 Suman S. Kulkarni , Christopher W. Lynn , Mason A. Porter , Dani S. Bassett

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