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48 results for Local Graph Laplacians

Survey of Laplacian-based methods for data dimensionality reduction and embedding.

problem Efficiently reducing high-dimensional data to lower dimensions while preserving important features and structures.
method Laplacian-based methods including spectral clustering, Laplacian eigenmap, locality preserving projection, graph embedding, and diffusion map.
result Comprehensive overview of various optimization variants and applications of Laplacian-based techniques.

Existing approaches to analyzing the asymptotics of graph Laplacians typically assume a well-behaved kernel function with smoothness assumptions. We remove the smoothness assumption and generalize the analysis of graph Laplacians to include previously unstudied graphs including kNN graphs. We also introduce a kernel-fr…

2011-01-28abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we consider three typical problems on a locally finite connected graph. The first one is to study the Bochner formula for the Laplacian operator on a locally finite connected graph. We use the Bochner formula to derive the Bernstein type estimate of the heat equation. The second is to derive the Reilly t…

2013-04-01abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we study the gradient estimate for positive solutions of Schrodinger equations on locally finite graph. Then we derive Harnack's inequality for positive solutions of the Schrodinger equations. We also set up some results about Green functions of the Laplacian equation on locally finite graph. Interesting …

2013-10-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Many real world graphs, such as the graphs of molecules, exhibit structure at multiple different scales, but most existing kernels between graphs are either purely local or purely global in character. In contrast, by building a hierarchy of nested subgraphs, the Multiscale Laplacian Graph kernels (MLG kernels) that we …

2016-03-20abs ↗pdf ↗

We study the existence and uniqueness of the heat kernel on infinite, locally finite, connected graphs. For general graphs, a uniqueness criterion, shown to be optimal, is given in terms of the maximal valence on spheres about a fixed vertex. A sufficient condition for non-uniqueness is also presented. Furthermore, we …

2008-02-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Semi-supervised learning on graph structured data has received significant attention with the recent introduction of Graph Convolution Networks (GCN). While traditional methods have focused on optimizing a loss augmented with Laplacian regularization framework, GCNs perform an implicit Laplacian type regularization to …

2018-05-29abs ↗pdf ↗

The space C of conservative vertex colorings (over a field F) of a countable, locally finite graph G is introduced. The subspace of based colorings is shown to be isomorphic to the bicycle space of the graph. For graphs G with a free Z^d-action by automorphisms, C is a finitely generated module over the polynomial ring…

2014-08-27abs ↗pdf ↗

In this thesis, we analyze the stochastic completeness of a heat kernel on graphs which is a function of three variables: a pair of vertices and a continuous time, for infinite, locally finite, connected graphs. For general graphs, a sufficient condition for stochastic completeness is given in terms of the maximum vale…

2007-12-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Study shows SNN graph Laplacians converge to k-NN graph Laplacians under large scale asymptotics.

problem Understanding the convergence of SNN graph Laplacians to k-NN graph Laplacians.
method Analyzing the asymptotic behavior of SNN and k-NN graph Laplacians.
result The graph Laplacians of SNN and k-NN graphs converge to the same limit under large scale asymptotics.

This work improves GNN training efficiency by maximizing ego-graph information.

problem Training dedicated GNNs is costly for large-scale graphs.
method Proposes EGI (Ego-Graph Information maximization) to capture essential graph information and establish a theoretical framework for transfer learning.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of EGI in improving GNN training efficiency and transferability.

New methods identify local clusters in graphs with few labels.

problem Identifying specific substructures in large graphs without additional structural information.
method Random sampling, diffusion, and overlap analysis of local clusters.
result Proves the correctness of the proposed methods and achieves state-of-the-art results.

The aim of the present article is to give an overview of spectral theory on metric graphs guided by spectral geometry on discrete graphs and manifolds. We present the basic concept of metric graphs and natural Laplacians acting on it and explicitly allow infinite graphs. Motivated by the general form of a Laplacian on …

2007-12-10abs ↗pdf ↗

We argue that the standard graph Laplacian is preferable for spectral partitioning of signed graphs compared to the signed Laplacian. Simple examples demonstrate that partitioning based on signs of components of the leading eigenvectors of the signed Laplacian may be meaningless, in contrast to partitioning based on th…

2017-01-05abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we establish Buser type inequalities, i.e., upper bounds for eigenvalues in terms of Cheeger constants. We prove the Buser's inequality for an infinite but locally finite connected graph with Ricci curvature lower bounds. Furthermore, we derive that the graph with positive curvature is finite, especially…

2018-10-29abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose a number of techniques for obtaining a global ranking from data that may be incomplete and imbalanced -- characteristics almost universal to modern datasets coming from e-commerce and internet applications. We are primarily interested in score or rating-based cardinal data. From raw ranking data, we construc…

2008-11-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved convergence rate for kNN graph Laplacians with adaptive bandwidth.

problem Enhancing the efficiency of graph-based data analysis methods.
method Introducing a new class of kNN graph with adaptive bandwidth and proving operator convergence rate.
result Operator convergence rate of O(N2/(d+6))O(N^{-2/(d+6)}) for the kNN graph Laplacian, up to a log factor.

Paper proves convergence of bi-stochastically normalized graph Laplacian to manifold Laplacian and robustness to outlier noise.

problem Convergence of bi-stochastically normalized graph Laplacian to manifold Laplacian and robustness to outlier noise.
method Proves convergence of bi-stochastically normalized graph Laplacian to manifold Laplacian with rates, and proposes an approximate and constrained matrix scaling problem to achieve the same consistency rate.
result Graph Laplacian consistency rate matches the rate for clean manifold data plus an additional term proportional to the boundedness of the inner-products of the noise vectors.

Develops methods to analyze manifold singularities using graph Laplacian.

problem Analyzing geometric properties of singularities in datasets.
method Theory and methods using the graph Laplacian to provide explicit bounds on manifold singularities.
result Explicit bounds on the graph Laplacian for functions near manifold singularities.

Study spectral properties of graph Laplacian for manifold data.

problem Understanding spectral properties of graph Laplacian for manifold data.
method Non-asymptotic error bounds on spectral properties of empirical graph Laplacian.
result Eigenvalues and eigenspaces of empirical graph Laplacian are close to Laplace-Beltrami operator of manifold.

Novel Haar-Laplacian for directed graphs enhances spectral graph applications.

problem Lack of suitable Laplacian for directed graphs in spectral graph theory.
method Inspired by Haar-like transformation, introduces a Hermitian matrix preserving direction and weight.
result HaarNet outperforms in weight prediction and denoising on directed graphs.

Paper proves conditions for estimating precision matrices with Laplacian constraints.

problem Estimating high-dimensional precision matrices with Laplacian constraints.
method Minimizing Stein's loss with conditions on graph connectivity and Laplacian constraints.
result High-dimensional consistency achieved with Laplacian constraints, independent of graph structure.

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become a topic of intense research recently due to their powerful capability in high-dimensional classification and regression tasks for graph-structured data. However, as GNNs typically define the graph convolution by the orthonormal basis for the graph Laplacian, they suffer from hig…

2019-07-10abs ↗pdf ↗

We study ancient solutions of polynomial growth to both continuous-time and discrete-time heat equations on graphs with unbounded Laplacians. We generalize Colding and Minicozzi's theorem [CM19] on manifolds, and the result [Hua19] on graphs with normalized Laplacians to the setting of graphs with unbounded Laplacians:…

2019-10-07abs ↗pdf ↗

New regularization techniques improve stability of deep neural networks.

problem Improving stability of deep neural networks in high-dimensional data.
method Apply manifold regularization to develop new regularizers based on graph Laplacian sparsification.
result Empirically, networks achieve high stability in various perturbation models, including adversarial attacks.

Propagation-regularization improves GNN performance by infusing extra graph information.

problem The effectiveness of graph Laplacian regularization in GNNs is questioned and improved upon.
method Introducing Propagation-regularization (P-reg) to enhance GNN performance.
result P-reg boosts GNN performance on various tasks across multiple datasets.

New method clusters evolving networks using spatio-temporal graph Laplacian.

problem Clustering communities in time-varying graphs.
method Extends spectral clustering to dynamic graphs using CCA and spatio-temporal graph Laplacian.
result The spatio-temporal graph Laplacian clearly interprets cluster evolution over time.

The paper tackles sparse graph learning under Laplacian-related constraints, improving upon existing methods.

problem Learning a sparse undirected graph from multivariate data under Laplacian-related constraints.
method Modifications to penalized log-likelihood approaches to enforce total positivity and lasso/adaptive lasso penalties using ADMM.
result The proposed constrained adaptive lasso approach significantly outperforms existing Laplacian-based approaches.

New curvature tensor and matrices for connection graphs derived from Bakry-Émery curvature.

problem Deriving Buser-type bounds on eigenvalues of connection Laplacians.
method Reformulation of Bakry-Émery curvature through curvature matrices and tensor representations.
result Extension of curvature matrices to connection graphs, addressing eigenfunction challenges.

A sign is introduced in the usual Laplacian on graphs and the corresponding analogue of the isoperimetric constant for this Laplacian is presented, i.e. a geometric quantity which enables to bound from above and below the first eigenvalue. The introduction of the sign in the Laplacian is motivated by the study of 22-l…

2014-10-22abs ↗pdf ↗

New method learns high-quality Laplacian representations for reinforcement learning.

problem Lack of accurate Laplacian representations in large or continuous state spaces.
method Reformulated spectral graph drawing objective to have eigenvectors as unique global minimizer.
result Learned Laplacian representations more faithfully approximate the ground truth.