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48 results for Adaptive Node Querying

CEGA addresses GNN security by enabling cost-effective model acquisition.

problem Vulnerability of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to model extraction attacks (MEAs).
method Proposes an adaptive node querying strategy to refine node selection over multiple learning cycles.
result Demonstrates superior performance in accuracy, fidelity, and F1 score under strict query-size constraints.

Real-world networks such as social and communication networks are too large to be observed entirely. Such networks are often partially observed such that network size, network topology, and nodes of the original network are unknown. In this paper we formalize the Adaptive Graph Exploring problem. We assume that we are …

2018-04-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Improves node classification in graphs with active learning.

problem Difficult or expensive labeling in node classification tasks.
method Graph cognizant logistic regression and preemptive query generation.
result Significant improvement over state-of-the-art approaches.

In this paper we address cardinality estimation problem which is an important subproblem in query optimization. Query optimization is a part of every relational DBMS responsible for finding the best way of the execution for the given query. These ways are called plans. The execution time of different plans may differ b…

2017-11-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Meta-ensemble scheme allocates queries to EC nodes for reduced latency.

problem Efficiently allocating queries to EC nodes to minimize latency.
method Combining ensemble models to decide query allocation based on node and query characteristics.
result Meta-ensemble scheme outperforms traditional allocation methods in reducing query processing latency.

Active search (AS) on graphs focuses on collecting certain labeled nodes (targets) given global knowledge of the network topology and its edge weights under a query budget. However, in most networks, nodes, topology and edge weights are all initially unknown. We introduce selective harvesting, a variant of AS where the…

2017-03-15abs ↗pdf ↗

We investigate the problem of active learning on a given tree whose nodes are assigned binary labels in an adversarial way. Inspired by recent results by Guillory and Bilmes, we characterize (up to constant factors) the optimal placement of queries so to minimize the mistakes made on the non-queried nodes. Our query se…

2013-01-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Studies of networked phenomena, such as interactions in online social media, often rely on incomplete data, either because these phenomena are partially observed, or because the data is too large or expensive to acquire all at once. Analysis of incomplete data leads to skewed or misleading results. In this paper, we in…

2020-01-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Graph embedding provides an efficient solution for graph analysis by converting the graph into a low-dimensional space which preserves the structure information. In contrast to the graph structure data, the i.i.d. node embedding can be processed efficiently in terms of both time and space. Current semi-supervised graph…

2017-05-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Optimizes state monitoring in Markovian systems with cost constraints.

problem Balancing state queries with prediction costs in Markovian systems.
method Greedy policy and SGD-based learning variant for optimal predict-query tradeoff.
result Greedy policy is suboptimal but performs close to optimal under certain conditions.

The pair-matching problem appears in many applications where one wants to discover good matches between pairs of entities or individuals. Formally, the set of individuals is represented by the nodes of a graph where the edges, unobserved at first, represent the good matches. The algorithm queries pairs of nodes and obs…

2019-05-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Many real-world problems can be formalized as predicting links in a partially observed network. Examples include Facebook friendship suggestions, consumer-product recommendations, and the identification of hidden interactions between actors in a crime network. Several link prediction algorithms, notably those recently …

2020-02-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Accelerates Bayesian optimization of function networks with partial evaluations.

problem Optimizing expensive-to-evaluate function networks with varying node costs.
method Proposes an accelerated algorithm that uses global Monte Carlo simulations to select node-specific candidate inputs.
result Achieves up to a 16x speedup over the original p-KGFN algorithm while maintaining competitive query efficiency.

New protocols show 1-bit mean estimation can be order-optimal without interaction.

problem Can 1-bit mean estimation be optimal without interaction?
method Adaptive and non-adaptive threshold and interval queries, with one adaptive transition.
result Arbitrary non-adaptive quantizers can match the adaptive rate, suggesting interaction is not necessary.

Study compares adaptive vs fixed query learning methods.

problem Comparing adaptive and fixed query learning methods for task approximation.
method Examined in-context and agentic learning in two settings: unrestricted and realizable.
result Adaptivity does not hinder performance in unrestricted setting but can in realizable setting.

Active learning (AL) on attributed graphs has received increasing attention with the prevalence of graph-structured data. Although AL has been widely studied for alleviating label sparsity issues with the conventional non-related data, how to make it effective over attributed graphs remains an open research question. E…

2019-08-22abs ↗pdf ↗

In adaptive data analysis, the user makes a sequence of queries on the data, where at each step the choice of query may depend on the results in previous steps. The releases are often randomized in order to reduce overfitting for such adaptively chosen queries. In this paper, we propose a minimax framework for adaptive…

2016-02-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Adapts data analysis for growing data, improving generalization guarantees.

problem Challenges of overfitting and statistical validity in adaptive workflows with growing data.
method Generalizes adaptive analysis on dynamic data, incorporating time-varying empirical accuracy bounds and mechanisms.
result First generalization bounds for adaptive analysis on dynamic data, matching prior works' improvement over data splitting.

In this paper we study the adaptive learnability of decision trees of depth at most dd from membership queries. This has many applications in automated scientific discovery such as drugs development and software update problem. Feldman solves the problem in a randomized polynomial time algorithm that asks $\tilde O(2^…

2019-01-23abs ↗pdf ↗

DiPriMe forests use private medians to create balanced tree splits for privacy-protected data.

problem Privacy concerns in training random forests due to multiple data queries.
method Proposes DiPriMe forests, which use a private median to generate balanced splits, ensuring differential privacy.
result DiPriMe forests achieve high utility while maintaining differential privacy, as shown both theoretically and empirically.

GraphQ system uses GNNs to search for subgraph patterns in graphs.

problem Efficiently identifying and matching subgraph patterns in graph data.
method Graph neural networks (GNNs) for encoding graph data and NeuroAlign for node alignment.
result NeuroAlign improves node-alignment accuracy by 19-29% compared to baseline GNNs.

Adaptive compute allocation improves model performance by prioritizing harder queries.

problem Inefficiency in allocating test-time compute uniformly across all queries.
method Formulated as a bandit learning problem, proposed adaptive algorithms that estimate query difficulty and allocate compute accordingly.
result Achieved up to 15.29% relative performance improvement on various benchmarks.

Ricci-Filtration enhances retrieval-augmented generation rerankers for query-answer tasks by using discrete Ricci flow on graphs.

problem Improving retrieval-augmented generation rerankers for query-answer tasks.
method Discrete Ricci flow on graphs to evaluate structural importance of chunks.
result Ricci-Filtration outperforms baseline methods in accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 scores.

This work sets lower bounds on the number of score queries needed for diffusion sampling.

problem Establishing information-theoretic limits on the number of score evaluations required for diffusion sampling.
method Proving lower bounds on the number of adaptive score queries needed for sampling.
result Any sampling algorithm requires at least \(\widetilde{\Omega}(\sqrt{d})\) adaptive score queries for \(d\)-dimensional distributions.

In this paper, we initiate a rigorous theoretical study of clustering with noisy queries (or a faulty oracle). Given a set of nn elements, our goal is to recover the true clustering by asking minimum number of pairwise queries to an oracle. Oracle can answer queries of the form : "do elements uu and vv belong to the…

2017-06-22abs ↗pdf ↗

We study the problem of estimating a set of dd linear queries with respect to some unknown distribution p\mathbf{p} over a domain J=[J]\mathcal{J}=[J] based on a sensitive data set of nn individuals under the constraint of local differential privacy. This problem subsumes a wide range of estimation tasks, e.g., distrib…

2018-10-05abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper tackles machine unlearning by designing efficient algorithms for adaptive query classes.

problem Designing efficient unlearning algorithms for machine learning models.
method Formalizes the problem and gives efficient unlearning algorithms for linear and prefix-sum query classes.
result Improved guarantees for stochastic convex optimization with reduced unlearning query complexity.

We propose a new localized inference algorithm for answering marginalization queries in large graphical models with the correlation decay property. Given a query variable and a large graphical model, we define a much smaller model in a local region around the query variable in the target model so that the marginal dist…

2017-10-28abs ↗pdf ↗

GDA-HIN adapts across heterogeneous networks by aligning shared and private node types.

problem Domain adaptation challenges in heterogeneous networks with shared and private node types.
method Generalized Domain Adaptive model across HINs (GDA-HIN) that aligns identical-type nodes and edges while utilizing different-type nodes and edges.
result GDA-HIN outperforms state-of-the-art methods in various domain adaptation tasks across heterogeneous networks.

Many machine learning tasks such as clustering, classification, and dataset search benefit from embedding data points in a space where distances reflect notions of relative similarity as perceived by humans. A common way to construct such an embedding is to request triplet similarity queries to an oracle, comparing two…

2019-10-09abs ↗pdf ↗

We present a novel active learning algorithm for community detection on networks. Our proposed algorithm uses a Maximal Expected Model Change (MEMC) criterion for querying network nodes label assignments. MEMC detects nodes that maximally change the community assignment likelihood model following a query. Our method is…

2018-01-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Discrete integration in a high dimensional space of n variables poses fundamental challenges. The WISH algorithm reduces the intractable discrete integration problem into n optimization queries subject to randomized constraints, obtaining a constant approximation guarantee. The optimization queries are expensive, which…

2019-10-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Algorithm improves query recommendations with immediate user feedback.

problem Lack of adaptability to immediate user feedback in query recommendation algorithms.
method Augmented transformer-based causal language models with multi-armed bandit framework.
result Substantial improvement in per-round regret compared to state-of-the-art models.

Graph convolution networks (GCN) have emerged as the leading method to classify node classes in networks, and have reached the highest accuracy in multiple node classification tasks. In the absence of available tagged samples, active learning methods have been developed to obtain the highest accuracy using the minimal …

2019-06-20abs ↗pdf ↗