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48 results for Graph Sampling

The paper introduces a sampling theory for graphons with a Poincaré inequality and proves consistency.

problem Sampling on large graphs is challenging due to their non-Euclidean nature.
method The paper introduces a signal sampling theory for graphons, proving a Poincaré inequality and showing consistency.
result Unique sampling sets for graphon signals are consistent across graph sequences.

The study proves sampling-based GNNs can approximate training on full graphs with small subgraphs.

problem Training Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) on large graphs is computationally expensive.
method Theoretical framework using graph local limits to prove approximation of GNN training on small samples.
result Parameters learned from sampling-based GNNs on small subgraphs are close to those on full graphs.

A framework for hypothesis testing on attributed graphs using sampling.

problem Statistical testing on graph data, especially large attributed graphs.
method Sampling-based framework with PHASE and PHASEopt for accurate and efficient hypothesis testing.
result PHASE and PHASEopt improve accuracy and efficiency of hypothesis testing in attributed graphs.

SteinGen generates diverse graph samples from a single example.

problem Generating graphs with characteristic structures and diversity from a single example.
method Combines Stein's method and MCMC with Glauber dynamics and re-estimation of the Stein operator.
result High distributional similarity to the original data, combined with high sample diversity.

New method improves graph neural networks by considering different types of relations in sampling.

problem Current graph neural networks ignore relation types in biomedical graphs, leading to suboptimal performance.
method Proposes relation-dependent sampling for multi-relational graphs to balance relation frequency and importance.
result State-of-the-art graph neural networks achieve better accuracy and efficiency with relation-dependent sampling.

A new model for graph sampling that preserves structure without explicit targeting.

problem Graphs are often not fully representative of true relationships, leading to biased machine learning models.
method Node copying model: randomly replaces each node's neighbors with those of a randomly sampled similar node.
result The model achieves higher accuracy in node classification and mitigates adversarial attacks.

We present a new random sampling strategy for k-bandlimited signals defined on graphs, based on determinantal point processes (DPP). For small graphs, ie, in cases where the spectrum of the graph is accessible, we exhibit a DPP sampling scheme that enables perfect recovery of bandlimited signals. For large graphs, ie, …

2017-03-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are powerful models for learning representations of attributed graphs. To scale GCNs to large graphs, state-of-the-art methods use various layer sampling techniques to alleviate the "neighbor explosion" problem during minibatch training. We propose GraphSAINT, a graph sampling based …

2019-07-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Graphs from features improve classification accuracy in tasks.

problem Traditional classification tasks can be improved by incorporating relational information.
method Construct geometric graphs from features and use them in Graph Convolutional Networks.
result Graphs derived from features increase classification accuracy and improve class separation.

Graph neural Thompson Sampling improves online decision-making for graph data.

problem Online decision-making with graph-structured rewards.
method GNN-TS algorithm using GNN for mean reward estimation and graph neural tangent features for uncertainty.
result GNN-TS achieves a state-of-the-art regret bound of ildeO((ildedT)1/2) ilde{\mathcal{O}}(( ilde{d} T)^{1/2}).

Graph Laplace operators uniquely identify metrics and densities on manifolds.

problem Identifying Riemannian metrics and sampling densities from graph Laplace operators.
method Analyzing intrinsic and extrinsic graph Laplace operators on compact Riemannian manifolds.
result Graph Laplace operators uniquely determine metrics and densities under certain conditions.

It has been shown recently that graph signals with small total variation can be accurately recovered from only few samples if the sampling set satisfies a certain condition, referred to as the network nullspace property. Based on this recovery condition, we propose a sampling strategy for smooth graph signals based on …

2017-04-16abs ↗pdf ↗

New graph representation learning network improves scalability and feature integration.

problem Scalability and feature integration in graph neural networks for large, dense graphs.
method Adaptive sampling of neighbours based on weighted multi-step transition probabilities.
result Comparable or better results on various graph benchmarks.

Sampling is a fundamental topic in graph signal processing, having found applications in estimation, clustering, and video compression. In contrast to traditional signal processing, the irregularity of the signal domain makes selecting a sampling set non-trivial and hard to analyze. Indeed, though conditions for graph …

2017-04-05abs ↗pdf ↗

SANS uses graph structure to find meaningful negatives for entity and relation embeddings.

problem Finding hard negatives for entity and relation embeddings in knowledge graphs.
method Structure Aware Negative Sampling (SANS) that selects negatives from a node's k-hop neighborhood.
result SANS finds semantically meaningful negatives and is competitive with state-of-the-art approaches.

Proposes BGCN-NRWS for semi-supervised node classification with reduced overfitting.

problem Uncertainty in graph structure for semi-supervised node classification.
method Bayesian Graph Convolutional Network using Neighborhood Random Walk Sampling (BGCN-NRWS) with MCMC graph sampling and variational inference.
result Consistently competitive classification results compared to state-of-the-art.

A method to uniformly sample graph-encoded surfaces of fixed size.

problem Sampling uniformly from combinatorial isomorphism types of balanced triangulations of surfaces.
method Relies on connections between graph-encoded surfaces and permutations, and basic properties of the symmetric group.
result Empirical mean genus of the sample is very close to a specific formula as nn increases.

Distributed Thompson sampling improves regret convergence in constrained communication networks.

problem Maximizing a black-box function with multi-agent Bayesian optimization under communication constraints.
method Distributed Thompson sampling using Gaussian processes, with theoretical bounds on regret convergence.
result Theoretical bounds on Bayesian average and simple regret depend on communication graph structure and are applicable in constrained networks.

GraphBSI generates graphs by refining a belief in continuous space, outperforming existing models.

problem Generating discrete, unordered graph data is challenging for traditional models.
method GraphBSI uses Bayesian Sample Inference (BSI) to iteratively refine a belief over graph distribution parameters.
result GraphBSI outperforms existing one-shot graph generative models on molecular and synthetic graph generation benchmarks.

Network sampling is integral to the analysis of social, information, and biological networks. Since many real-world networks are massive in size, continuously evolving, and/or distributed in nature, the network structure is often sampled in order to facilitate study. For these reasons, a more thorough and complete unde…

2012-11-14abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the problem of providing nonparametric confidence guarantees for undirected graphs under weak assumptions. In particular, we do not assume sparsity, incoherence or Normality. We allow the dimension DD to increase with the sample size nn. First, we prove lower bounds that show that if we want accurate infe…

2013-09-26abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the problem of vertex classification for graphs constructed from the latent position model. It was shown previously that the approach of embedding the graphs into some Euclidean space followed by classification in that space can yields a universally consistent vertex classifier. However, a major technical d…

2013-05-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Graph diffusion processes approximate manifold heat semigroups using graph transition matrices.

problem Approximating manifold heat semigroups from graph data under low regularity conditions.
method Iterating graph transition matrix PP to approximate Qt=etΔQ_t = e^{tΔ}, bounding error in \infty-norm.
result Convergence rates O(N2/(d+6))O(N^{-2/(d+6)}) for manifold heat semigroup approximation, valid for in-sample and out-of-sample.

We analyze the sample complexity of learning graphical games from purely behavioral data. We assume that we can only observe the players' joint actions and not their payoffs. We analyze the sufficient and necessary number of samples for the correct recovery of the set of pure-strategy Nash equilibria (PSNE) of the true…

2016-01-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Many popular dimensionality reduction procedures have out-of-sample extensions, which allow a practitioner to apply a learned embedding to observations not seen in the initial training sample. In this work, we consider the problem of obtaining an out-of-sample extension for the adjacency spectral embedding, a procedure…

2018-02-17abs ↗pdf ↗

This short note aims at (re)proving that the symmetrically normalized graph Laplacian $L=\Id - D^{-1/2}WD^{-1/2}$ (from a graph defined from a Gaussian weighting kernel on a sampled smooth manifold) converges towards the continuous Manifold Laplacian when the sampling become infinitely dense. The convergence rate with …

2011-01-07abs ↗pdf ↗

New guarantees for matrix completion from any deterministic sampling patterns.

problem Proving guarantees for low-rank matrix completion from non-random sampling schemes.
method Introduced a graph with observed entries as edges to analyze the performance of constrained nuclear norm minimization algorithm.
result The algorithm can successfully complete the matrix if the observation graph is well-connected and has similar node degrees.

Recent advancements in deep neural networks for graph-structured data have led to state-of-the-art performance on recommender system benchmarks. In this work, we present a Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) algorithm SWAG (Sample Weight and AGgregate), which combines efficient random walks and graph convolutions on weig…

2019-11-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Graph Energy Matching improves generation quality for molecular graphs.

problem Discrete energy-based models struggle with efficient and high-quality sampling for graph generation.
method Inspired by transport-map optimization, Graph Energy Matching learns a permutation-invariant potential energy to guide sampling.
result GEM matches or surpasses discrete diffusion baselines on molecular graph benchmarks.

New insights into negative sampling for graph representation learning.

problem Challenges in generating high-quality graph representations for large node sets.
method Theoretical analysis and derivation of negative sampling distribution correlation, proposing MCNS method.
result The negative sampling distribution should be positively but sub-linearly correlated to the positive sampling distribution.

Neighborhood sampling affects graph neural network training outcomes.

problem Understanding the impact of neighborhood sampling on graph neural network training.
method Theoretical analysis using neural tangent kernels and Gaussian processes.
result Posterior covariance differs for different neighborhood sampling approaches, indicating no dominant approach.

Unified interpretation of softmax cross-entropy and negative sampling for knowledge graph embedding.

problem Lack of theoretical relationship between softmax cross-entropy and negative sampling loss functions in knowledge graph embedding.
method Used Bregman divergence to provide a unified interpretation of the two loss functions.
result Theoretical findings for fair comparison of softmax cross-entropy and negative sampling are derived.