Study error bounds in evaluating distributional computational graphs.
problem Error analysis in evaluating graphs with inputs as probability distributions.
method Establish non-asymptotic error bounds using Wasserstein-1 distance.
result Non-asymptotic error bounds for discretization errors in distributional computational graphs.
Undirected graphs are often used to describe high dimensional distributions. Under sparsity conditions, the graph can be estimated using ℓ1 penalization methods. However, current methods assume that the data are independent and identically distributed. If the distribution, and hence the graph, evolves over time t…
New framework models graph signals as distribution-valued signals in Wasserstein space.
problem Limitations of classical vector-based GSP, including synchronous observations and uncertainty.
method Introduces graph distribution-valued signals (GDSs) in the Wasserstein space.
result GDSs naturally encode uncertainty and stochasticity, generalizing traditional graph signals.
Paper constructs unfaithful probability distributions in binary causal graphs.
problem Unfaithful probability distributions in binary causal graphs.
method Constructs unfaithful probability distributions in binary causal graphs.
result Examples of unfaithful probability distributions in binary causal graphs.
DeepGG generates graph distributions for drug discovery and molecular design.
problem Learning graph distributions for various applications.
method Improved deep graph generator based on deep state machines with graph and node embeddings.
result The state machine design favors specific graph distributions.
This work evaluates graph models' robustness to structural distributional shifts.
problem Evaluating graph models' robustness to structural distributional shifts.
method Proposes a general approach for inducing diverse distributional shifts based on graph structure.
result Simple models often outperform more sophisticated methods on structural distributional shifts.
Auto-decoder synthesizes graphs from latent codes.
problem Creating new graph structures from specified distributions.
method Generative model learns latent codes from empirical distribution. Self-attention identifies likely connectivity patterns. Graph-based normalizing flows sample latent codes.
result Model outperforms state of the art by 1.5x in accuracy and 2x in speed.
Paper explores exact recovery of communities in weighted graphs using Gaussian and exponential distributions.
problem Exact recovery of communities in weighted graphs with Gaussian and exponential distributions.
method Introduces a new semi-metric to describe conditions for exact recovery and analyzes conditions for both complete and incomplete graphs.
result Necessary and sufficient conditions for exact recovery are asymptotically tight and applicable to both complete and incomplete graphs.
A distributed algorithm for training graph convolutional networks.
problem Training graph convolutional networks with sparse network topology and distributed agents.
method Formulate inference and optimization in a distributed scenario, propose a gradient descent procedure, and design communication topology.
result Convergence to stationary solutions of the GCN training problem under mild conditions.
Geo2DR learns graph representations using substructure patterns.
problem Learning distributed representations of graphs efficiently.
method Unsupervised learning with discrete substructure patterns and neural language models.
result Geo2DR achieves high reproducibility and interoperability in graph classification.
Graphs models are vulnerable to distribution shifts, which this work explains and mitigates.
problem Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are susceptible to distribution shift, leading to performance degradation.
method Theoretical analysis quantifying conditional shift, proposing an approach to estimate and minimize it.
result The proposed approach demonstrates up to 10% absolute ROC AUC improvement under various distribution shifts.
Novel framework improves graph learning for out-of-distribution generalization.
problem Graph out-of-distribution generalization challenges in neural networks.
method Invariant Graph Learning based on Information bottleneck theory (InfoIGL).
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance in graph classification tasks under OOD generalization.
Proposes GFMMD for comparing signals on graphs.
problem Computing distances between distributions on graphs.
method Graph Fourier MMD (GFMMD) using optimal witness functions.
result Analytical solution and embedding of distributions.
Learning generative models for graph-structured data is challenging because graphs are discrete, combinatorial, and the underlying data distribution is invariant to the ordering of nodes. However, most of the existing generative models for graphs are not invariant to the chosen ordering, which might lead to an undesira…
The paper bounds the complexity of GCNs using Rademacher complexity.
problem Understanding the sample complexity of GCNs.
method Derived tight upper and lower bounds of Rademacher complexity for GCN models.
result The derived bounds depend on the largest eigenvalue of the graph filter and the degree distribution.
A new discrete formula connects vertex and edge distributions on graphs.
problem Optimal transport on graphs with mixed vertex and edge distributions.
method Discrete transport equation and Benamou-Brenier formulation.
result Classification of all Wasserstein-1 geodesics on graphs.
Bayesian learning for forests and trees improves graph detection and structure learning.
problem Learning graph structures in non-decomposable graphs.
method Adapted MCMC and SSS algorithms for forests and trees, using the Chow-Liu algorithm and Matrix Tree Theorem.
result SSS with trees or forests outperforms SSS with decomposable graphs in certain cases.
GNNS uses graph neural networks to efficiently estimate subgraph frequency distributions.
problem Efficiently calculating subgraph frequency distributions in large networks.
method Graph Neural Networks (GNNS) for sampling and estimating subgraph frequencies.
result GNNS achieves comparable accuracy with a significant speedup of three orders of magnitude.
We propose a framework that lifts the capabilities of graph convolutional networks (GCNs) to scenarios where no input graph is given and increases their robustness to adversarial attacks. We formulate a joint probabilistic model that considers a prior distribution over graphs along with a GCN-based likelihood and devel…
The aim of this paper is to propose distributed strategies for adaptive learning of signals defined over graphs. Assuming the graph signal to be bandlimited, the method enables distributed reconstruction, with guaranteed performance in terms of mean-square error, and tracking from a limited number of sampled observatio…
A new method learns graph compression from data.
problem Graphs lack ordering, making conventional compression algorithms ineffective.
method Partition and Code framework: decompose, learn, encode.
result PnC achieves compression gains that grow with graph size.
We propose a novel model for generating graphs similar to a given example graph. Unlike standard approaches that compute features of graphs in Euclidean space, our approach obtains features on a surface of a hypersphere. We then utilize a von Mises-Fisher distribution, an exponential family distribution on the surface …
We consider the problem of estimating undirected triangle-free graphs of high dimensional distributions. Triangle-free graphs form a rich graph family which allows arbitrary loopy structures but 3-cliques. For inferential tractability, we propose a graphical Fermat's principle to regularize the distribution family. Suc…
Generating graph structures is a challenging problem due to the diverse representations and complex dependencies among nodes. In this paper, we introduce Graph Variational Recurrent Neural Network (GraphVRNN), a probabilistic autoregressive model for graph generation. Through modeling the latent variables of graph data…
A new method uses matrix sketches for efficient graph clustering in dynamic environments.
problem Efficiently clustering large, dynamic graphs in distributed memory systems.
method Inspired by spectral clustering, the approach uses random dimension-reducing projections to derive matrix sketches.
result The method produces embeddings that yield performant clustering results in a fully-dynamic stochastic block model stream.
We define and study the statistical models in exponential family form whose sufficient statistics are the degree distributions and the bi-degree distributions of undirected labelled simple graphs. Graphs that are constrained by the joint degree distributions are called dK-graphs in the computer science literature and…
This paper introduces a new method to compare collections of distributions on manifolds and graphs.
problem Comparing collections of probability distributions over diverse domains.
method Intrinsic slicing construction for Wasserstein distances, Hilbert embedding, resampling, p-value combination.
result Powerful and well-calibrated p-values for comparing distributions on manifolds and graphs.
Tree Mover's Distance measures graph attributes and improves GNN performance.
problem Measuring generalization and robustness in graph neural networks.
method Introducing Tree Mover's Distance (TMD) for attributed graphs.
result TMD correlates with GNN performance under distribution shifts.
Generalizes Kauffman's clock theorem to surfaces.
problem Proving a lattice structure on graph states in various surfaces.
method Using matchings and graph orientations, extending Propp's results.
result Two generalizations of Kauffman's theorem for more surfaces.
The problem of unsupervised learning node embeddings in graphs is one of the important directions in modern network science. In this work we propose a novel framework, which is aimed to find embeddings by \textit{discriminating distributions of similarities (DDoS)} between nodes in the graph. The general idea is implem…
We consider a family of problems that are concerned about making predictions for the majority of unlabeled, graph-structured data samples based on a small proportion of labeled samples. Relational information among the data samples, often encoded in the graph/network structure, is shown to be helpful for these semi-sup…
New method detects novel node categories in graphs with distribution shifts.
problem Detecting novel node categories in graphs with distribution shifts.
method Recall-Constrained Optimization with Selective Link Prediction (RECO-SLIP).
result RECO-SLIP outperforms existing methods in detecting novel node categories.
Ancestral graph models, introduced by Richardson and Spirtes (2002), generalize both Markov random fields and Bayesian networks to a class of graphs with a global Markov property that is closed under conditioning and marginalization. By design, ancestral graphs encode precisely the conditional independence structures t…
We propose graph-dependent implicit regularisation strategies for distributed stochastic subgradient descent (Distributed SGD) for convex problems in multi-agent learning. Under the standard assumptions of convexity, Lipschitz continuity, and smoothness, we establish statistical learning rates that retain, up to logari…
The aim of this paper is to establish two fundamental measure-metric properties of particular random geometric graphs. We consider ε-neighborhood graphs whose vertices are drawn independently and identically distributed from a common distribution defined on a regular submanifold of RK. We show t…
GALA framework learns invariant graph representations via environment augmentation with minimal assumptions.
problem Learning invariant graph representations from different environments without additional assumptions.
method Developed GALA framework with minimal assumptions of variation sufficiency and consistency. Uses an assistant model to differentiate graph environment changes.
result Extracting maximally invariant subgraphs to proxy predictions identifies underlying invariant subgraphs for successful out-of-distribution generalization.
Graph embedding is an effective method to represent graph data in a low dimensional space for graph analytics. Most existing embedding algorithms typically focus on preserving the topological structure or minimizing the reconstruction errors of graph data, but they have mostly ignored the data distribution of the laten…
CGRL improves graph neural networks' OOD generalization by blocking spurious correlations.
problem Graph Neural Networks struggle with out-of-distribution data due to learning spurious correlations.
method Formulates a causal graph, uses backdoor adjustment, and introduces a loss replacement strategy.
result Significantly improves OOD generalization of GNNs, stabilizing mutual information learning.
A concentration graph associated with a random vector is an undirected graph where each vertex corresponds to one random variable in the vector. The absence of an edge between any pair of vertices (or variables) is equivalent to full conditional independence between these two variables given all the other variables. In…
The paper introduces heterogeneous manifolds for better graph embeddings.
problem Graph embeddings in Euclidean spaces often fail to capture the curvature of real-world graphs.
method The authors propose heterogeneous rotationally-symmetric manifolds with a radial dimension to account for varying curvature.
result The method improves graph embeddings by better preserving high-order structures and heterogeneous random graphs.
Novel framework improves GNN uncertainty estimates under distribution shifts.
problem Improving reliability of GNN uncertainty estimates under distribution shifts.
method Adapting stochastic data centering to graph data through novel graph anchoring strategies.
result G-ΔUQ leads to better calibrated GNNs for node and graph classification. Graph representation learning aims to encode all nodes of a graph into low-dimensional vectors that will serve as input of many compute vision tasks. However, most existing algorithms ignore the existence of inherent data distribution and even noises. This may significantly increase the phenomenon of over-fitting and d…
DBGDGM models dynamic brain graphs for better understanding brain function.
problem Previous brain graph models ignore temporal dynamics, limiting their usefulness.
method DBGDGM clusters brain regions into evolving communities and learns dynamic node embeddings.
result DBGDGM outperforms baselines in graph generation, dynamic link prediction, and graph classification.
Online CPD for weighted and directed graphs using RDPG model.
problem Monitoring and detecting changes in weighted and directed graph data.
method Spectral embeddings of RDPG models for online updates and error-rate control.
result A lightweight online CPD algorithm with improved detection resolution and delay.
The main contribution of this article is a new prior distribution over directed acyclic graphs, which gives larger weight to sparse graphs. This distribution is intended for structured Bayesian networks, where the structure is given by an ordered block model. That is, the nodes of the graph are objects which fall into …
CP-ROC bands improve graph classification accuracy and uncertainty quantification.
problem Uncertainty quantification and robustness to distributional shifts in graph classification.
method Conditional Prediction ROC (CP-ROC) bands for graph classification, developed for TGNNs and adaptable to GNNs.
result Statistically guaranteed coverage for CP-ROC under local exchangeability condition, improving prediction reliability.
GEBM improves uncertainty quantification in graph neural networks.
problem Challenges in quantifying epistemic uncertainty in graph neural networks.
method Energy-based model (EBM) that aggregates uncertainty at different structural levels.
result Significantly improves predictive robustness and achieves best separation of in-distribution and out-of-distribution data.
TF-GNN simplifies graph neural networks in TensorFlow.
problem Handling rich heterogeneous graph data in machine learning.
method A scalable library with a Keras message passing API.
result Enables low-code solutions for broader developers.