Previous work in network analysis has focused on modeling the mixed-memberships of node roles in the graph, but not the roles of edges. We introduce the edge role discovery problem and present a generalizable framework for learning and extracting edge roles from arbitrary graphs automatically. Furthermore, while existi…
Nodes in real world networks often have class labels, or underlying attributes, that are related to the way in which they connect to other nodes. Sometimes this relationship is simple, for instance nodes of the same class are may be more likely to be connected. In other cases, however, this is not true, and the way tha…
DE improves GNNs by distinguishing graph substructures, enhancing accuracy.
problem Limited expressive power of GNNs in representing graph substructures.
method Introduces Distance Encoding (DE) to assist GNNs in distinguishing graph substructures.
result DE distinguishes graph substructures that traditional GNNs cannot, improving accuracy.
This paper tackles causal interactions in mixtures of DAGs using interventions.
problem Learning causal interactions among variables governed by a mixture of causal systems.
method Establishes necessary and sufficient conditions for intervention size, designs an adaptive algorithm.
result Identifies true edges in a mixture of DAGs using optimal or near-optimal interventions.
SCARY dataset generates complex causal scenarios for causality research.
problem Lack of complexity in existing causal datasets.
method Synthetic dataset with 40 scenarios, three seeds, and two data generation mechanisms.
result Provides a valuable resource for realistic causal discovery.
To understand the structural dynamics of a large-scale social, biological or technological network, it may be useful to discover behavioral roles representing the main connectivity patterns present over time. In this paper, we propose a scalable non-parametric approach to automatically learn the structural dynamics of …
Persona2vec learns multiple node roles in graphs.
problem Graphs often have nodes with multiple overlapping roles.
method Persona2vec learns multiple node representations based on structural contexts.
result Persona2vec outperforms state-of-the-art models in link prediction.
Review of automation's role in chemical discovery, emphasizing future challenges.
problem Improving automation's contribution to chemical discovery.
method Analysis of exemplary studies and open research directions.
result Future autonomous systems need improvement in data handling, model building, and experiment automation.
Proposes a weaker faithfulness assumption for causal discovery.
problem Violation of the faithfulness assumption in causal discovery.
method Proposes a new assumption called 2-adjacency faithfulness and a modified Grow and Shrink algorithm.
result Proves the correctness of the modified algorithm under weaker assumptions.
New method uncovers hidden causal connections in multivariate point process networks.
problem Unobserved hidden variables confound causal discovery in high-dimensional point process networks.
method Proposes a deconfounding procedure to estimate causal interactions among observed nodes with unknown unobserved processes.
result The method accurately identifies causal interactions among observed processes, even with hidden variables.
CardiGraphormer uses SSL and GNNs to improve drug discovery.
problem Challenges in drug discovery due to combinatorial chemical space and limited approved drugs.
method Combines self-supervised learning, Graph Neural Networks, and Cardinality Preserving Attention.
result Enhanced predictive performance and interpretability in drug discovery.
Predicating macroscopic influences of drugs on human body, like efficacy and toxicity, is a central problem of small-molecule based drug discovery. Molecules can be represented as an undirected graph, and we can utilize graph convolution networks to predication molecular properties. However, graph convolutional network…
CopulaGNN integrates graph representational and correlational roles for better node-level predictions.
problem Graphs encode diverse roles in node-level prediction tasks, but GNNs struggle with correlational information.
method Copula theory to describe multivariate dependence, integrating representational and correlational graph information.
result CopulaGNN improves GNN performance on regression tasks by leveraging both types of graph information.
Nodes residing in different parts of a graph can have similar structural roles within their local network topology. The identification of such roles provides key insight into the organization of networks and can be used for a variety of machine learning tasks. However, learning structural representations of nodes is a …
Intrusion detection systems (IDSs) generate valuable knowledge about network security, but an abundance of false alarms and a lack of methods to capture the interdependence among alerts hampers their utility for network defense. Here, we explore a graph-based approach for fusing alerts generated by multiple IDSs (e.g.,…
New method for estimating local structure around target nodes in DAGs.
problem Challenges in learning causal DAG structures in high-dimensional settings.
method Constraint-based method for estimating local structure around multiple target nodes.
result Consistency results for estimating local neighborhood structure of target nodes.
Neural node embeddings have recently emerged as a powerful representation for supervised learning tasks involving graph-structured data. We leverage this recent advance to develop a novel algorithm for unsupervised community discovery in graphs. Through extensive experimental studies on simulated and real-world data, w…
A new method for efficient structural node embeddings using Von Neumann entropy.
problem Efficiently identifying structurally equivalent nodes in complex networks.
method VNEstruct: a simple approach generating low-dimensional structural node embeddings using Von Neumann entropy.
result VNEstruct achieves robustness on structural role identification and state-of-the-art performance on graph classification tasks.
We propose a novel approach for learning node representations in directed graphs, which maintains separate views or embedding spaces for the two distinct node roles induced by the directionality of the edges. We argue that the previous approaches either fail to encode the edge directionality or their encodings cannot b…
CauScale efficiently discovers causal relationships in large graphs.
problem Efficiency bottlenecks in causal discovery for large graphs.
method Neural architecture with reduction unit and tied attention weights.
result Achieves 99.6% mAP on in-distribution data and 84.4% on out-of-distribution data.
DAG-FM discovers causal relationships from heterogeneous data.
problem Challenges in causal discovery from heterogeneous causal mechanisms.
method DAG-FM uses two specialized Transformer-based sub-modules and a robust tabular interaction block to model complex row-column interactions.
result DAG-FM achieves state-of-the-art performance on synthetic and real-world datasets.
The paper integrates statistical significance and discriminative power in pattern discovery.
problem Discovering actionable patterns that meet rigorous statistical significance and discriminative power criteria.
method Integrates statistical significance and discriminative power criteria into state-of-the-art algorithms.
result Improves discriminative power and statistical significance of discovered patterns without quality deterioration.
Review of automation's role in chemical discoveries.
problem Improving autonomous discovery in chemistry.
method Classification of discovery types, assessment of autonomy, case studies.
result Rapid advancements in automation and machine learning are transforming experimentation and modeling.
New algorithms improve causal graph discovery with adaptive interventions, even under worst-case interventional costs.
problem Discover causal relationships from data with adaptive interventions and node-dependent costs.
method Define new benchmarks and provide adaptive search algorithms for causal graph discovery.
result Logarithmic approximations achieved under various settings: atomic, bounded size interventions and generalized cost objectives.
In this work, we developed a network inference method from incomplete data ("PathInf") , as massive and non-uniformly distributed missing values is a common challenge in practical problems. PathInf is a two-stages inference model. In the first stage, it applies a data summarization model based on maximum likelihood to …
A communication-efficient method controls FDR in network settings.
problem Controlling FDR in networks with limited communication.
method Sample-and-Forward: a flexible procedure for multihop networks.
result Nodes can control FDR without sharing p-values, achieving power and FDR control.
We present a new Markov chain Monte Carlo method for estimating posterior probabilities of structural features in Bayesian networks. The method draws samples from the posterior distribution of partial orders on the nodes; for each sampled partial order, the conditional probabilities of interest are computed exactly. We…
GP-NODE combines Gaussian processes and NeuralODEs for Bayesian system identification.
problem Bayesian systems identification from partial, noisy and irregular observations.
method Differentiable programming, Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, Gaussian Process priors, sparsity-promoting priors.
result Efficient inference of posterior distributions over plausible models with quantified uncertainty.
Algorithm recovers causal graphs in presence of latent confounders and selection bias.
problem Recovering causal graphs in the presence of latent confounders and selection bias.
method Iterative causal discovery (ICD) algorithm that relies on causal Markov and faithfulness assumptions.
result Sound and complete algorithm that recovers the equivalence class of the underlying causal graph.
Federated learning platform for drug discovery without sharing data.
problem Lack of secure collaboration in drug discovery.
method Industry-scale federated learning platform using cryptographic aggregation.
result Generated new scientific discoveries in drug discovery.
This paper improves spectral embedding for multipartite networks, revealing latent subspaces and providing consistent node representations.
problem Improving spectral embedding for multipartite networks to better represent node types.
method Developed a follow-on step to spectral embedding that recovers node representations in their intrinsic rather than ambient dimension, proving consistency under a specific model.
result Node representations in multipartite networks lie near type-specific subspaces, and the proposed method recovers these representations consistently.
The majority of real-world networks are dynamic and extremely large (e.g., Internet Traffic, Twitter, Facebook, ...). To understand the structural behavior of nodes in these large dynamic networks, it may be necessary to model the dynamics of behavioral roles representing the main connectivity patterns over time. In th…
The problem of secure friend discovery on a social network has long been proposed and studied. The requirement is that a pair of nodes can make befriending decisions with minimum information exposed to the other party. In this paper, we propose to use community detection to tackle the problem of secure friend discovery…
This paper explores GNN functions on random graphs, highlighting the importance of node Positional Encodings.
problem Understanding the expressive power of GNNs on large random graphs.
method General convergence notions, input node features, and Positional Encodings (PEs).
result GNNs can converge to certain functions on large random graphs, emphasizing the role of PEs.
New algorithm uses GNNs to optimize rewards in graph-structured data.
problem Optimizing rewards in molecule design with graph-structured data.
method Embedding permutation invariance into GNNs and using GNTK for regret bounds.
result First GNN confidence bound and phased-elimination algorithm with sublinear regret.
RODE learns roles to simplify multi-agent tasks.
problem Efficiently discovering roles for complex multi-agent tasks.
method Clustering actions based on effects, bi-level learning hierarchy, integrating action effects into role policies.
result RODE outperforms state-of-the-art MARL algorithms on StarCraft II benchmarks.
This paper presents a sequential method to identify the topological ordering of causal DAGs using likelihood ratio scores.
problem Identifying the causal relationships in a data mining scenario with ambiguity of causal directions.
method A general sequential sorting procedure that orders variables one at a time, starting at root nodes, followed by children of the root nodes, and so on until completion. Simple likelihood ratio scores are used to decide the next node to append to the current partial ordering.
result The population version of the procedure provably identifies a true ordering of the underlying DAG under mild assumptions.
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.
New algorithm reduces interventional strategy complexity for causal graph discovery.
problem Designing efficient interventional strategies for causal graph discovery.
method Developed an r-adaptive algorithm for causal graph discovery that minimizes the number of interventions.
result Achieved an approximation of O(min{r, log n} * n^{1/min{r, log n}}) for the verification number.
We use techniques from network science to study correlations in the foreign exchange (FX) market over the period 1991--2008. We consider an FX market network in which each node represents an exchange rate and each weighted edge represents a time-dependent correlation between the rates. To provide insights into the clus…
SPARC tackles cold-start nodes in graphs by using spectral embeddings.
problem Cold-start nodes in graphs lacking initial connections.
method Introduces SPARC, a framework utilizing spectral embeddings to predict on cold-start nodes.
result SPARC outperforms existing models on cold-start nodes across tasks.
Bayesian method detects mesoscale structures in pathway data networks.
problem Mesoscale structures in pathway data networks are hard to detect due to dependencies between interactions.
method Bayesian approach modeling optimal partitioning and higher-order dynamics.
result Method can recover both proximity-based and role-based groupings of nodes.
Graph Prototypical Networks improve few-shot node classification on attributed networks.
problem Few-shot node classification in attributed networks with limited labeled instances.
method Graph Prototypical Networks (GPN) using meta-learning to extract meta-knowledge and identify informative labeled instances.
result GPN achieves superior performance in few-shot node classification.
New method recovers causal order from dependent data.
problem Causal discovery methods fail with shared volatility or common scale effects.
method Linear Mean-Independent Acyclic Model (LiMIAM) with mean-independence restrictions.
result Compatible causal order can be recovered from dependent disturbances.
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.
New algorithm speeds up causal discovery for network data.
problem Scalability issues in score-matching for temporal network data.
method Developed a new parent-finding subroutine for DAGs, improving score matching efficiency.
result Efficiency-lifted score matching for both i.i.d. and temporal data on networks.
Bayesian method for causal discovery from unknown general interventions.
problem Learning causal DAGs from unknown interventions that modify parent sets.
method Bayesian approach with MCMC for approximating posterior DAGs and intervention targets.
result Bayesian method can identify DAGs and intervention targets up to equivalence classes.
Recent interest in graph embedding methods has focused on learning a single representation for each node in the graph. But can nodes really be best described by a single vector representation? In this work, we propose a method for learning multiple representations of the nodes in a graph (e.g., the users of a social ne…