Spectral algorithms solve optimal community detection and related problems.
problem Optimal detection of community structures and related substructures.
method Spectral algorithms applied to various planted substructures.
result Spectral algorithms achieve optimal performance for a wide range of planted substructures.
Polynomial-time test for detecting dense subgraphs in heterogeneous networks.
problem Detecting a planted community in heterogeneous networks.
method Proposes a polynomial-time test with a standard normal distribution null limiting distribution.
result The test is efficient and performs well in both simulations and real data.
Paper shows statistical-computational gaps in learning sparse mixtures and robust estimation.
problem Statistical-computational gaps in learning sparse mixtures and robust estimation.
method Average-case reduction techniques, Imbalanced Sparse Gaussian Mixtures, and algorithmic change of measure.
result New hardness results for robust sparse mean estimation, semirandom planted dense subgraph, and universality principle for sparse mixture problems.
Detects dense subhypergraphs in random hypergraphs using low-degree polynomials.
problem Detecting a planted dense subhypergraph in a random hypergraph model.
method Degree-n^o(1) polynomials of adjacency tensor entries.
result Thresholds for detection in different density regimes.
This paper studies the problem of detecting the presence of a small dense community planted in a large Erdős-Rényi random graph G(N,q), where the edge probability within the community exceeds q by a constant factor. Assuming the hardness of the planted clique detection problem, we show that the computatio…
New insights link diverse statistical problems via secret leakage planted clique.
problem Statistical-computational gaps in inference problems.
method Secret leakage planted clique as a new hardness assumption for reductions.
result Establishes tight statistical-computational tradeoffs for various problems.
We formalize the problem of detecting a community in a network into testing whether in a given (random) graph there is a subgraph that is unusually dense. We observe an undirected and unweighted graph on N nodes. Under the null hypothesis, the graph is a realization of an Erdös-Rényi graph with probability p0. Under th…
SDP helps recover hidden communities from symmetric data matrices.
problem Recovering hidden communities from symmetric data matrices.
method Semidefinite programming relaxation for maximum likelihood estimation.
result SDP achieves information-theoretic limits for large communities, but is suboptimal for smaller communities.
Paper tackles dense subgraph discovery with noisy feedback.
problem Discover dense subgraphs in edge-weighted graphs with noisy feedback.
method Proposes polynomial-time and scalable algorithms for dense subgraph discovery.
result Polynomial-time algorithm obtains nearly-optimal solution with high probability.
Paper explores limits of high-order clustering with planted structures.
problem Statistical and computational limits of high-order clustering with planted structures.
method Developed methods for detection and recovery of clusters, identified signal-to-noise ratio boundaries.
result Sharp boundaries of signal-to-noise ratio for statistical and computational feasibility.
A new algorithm reduces graph complexity for better dense subgraph analysis.
problem Mining dense subgraphs in large graphs for better analysis.
method Multi-stage graph peeling algorithm (M-PA) with two-stage data screening.
result M-PA produces similar dense subgraphs to the previous PA but with reduced graph complexity.
Study on detecting and recovering hidden dense cycles in random graphs.
problem Detecting and recovering hidden dense cycles in random graphs.
method Information-theoretic analysis of thresholds for detection and recovery.
result Characterization of information-theoretic thresholds for detection and recovery.
New findings on computational limits for estimating hidden structures.
problem Estimating hidden structures in noisy data.
method Use of low-degree polynomials as a restricted model of computation.
result Established low-degree hardness of recovery problems for easy detection problems.
The binary symmetric stochastic block model deals with a random graph of n vertices partitioned into two equal-sized clusters, such that each pair of vertices is connected independently with probability p within clusters and q across clusters. In the asymptotic regime of p=alogn/n and q=blogn/n for fixe…
Detection of dense cycles in graphs reveals a gap between easy detection and hard recovery.
problem Detecting and recovering dense cycles in Erdős-Rényi graphs.
method Characterization of computational thresholds for detection and recovery using low-degree polynomial algorithms.
result A gap exists between the detection and recovery thresholds for certain parameter regimes.
Method finds interestingly dense subgroup connections in graphs.
problem Understanding patterns in graph connectivity based on node attributes.
method Information-theoretic definition of interestingness for subgroup connections.
result Identifies pairs of node subgroups with high or low edge density.
We consider two closely related problems: planted clustering and submatrix localization. The planted clustering problem assumes that a random graph is generated based on some underlying clusters of the nodes; the task is to recover these clusters given the graph. The submatrix localization problem concerns locating hid…
New tests detect communities in dense bipartite graphs with high accuracy.
problem Detecting communities in dense bipartite graphs with high accuracy.
method Non-asymptotic upper and lower bounds, novel minimax-optimal tests, hard-thresholded nonlinear statistics.
result Non-asymptotic upper and lower bounds match for any configuration of graph sizes.
New convex method solves densest subgraph problem with high probability.
problem Finding the densest subgraph in a graph.
method Convex relaxation of low-rank plus sparse decomposition of adjacency matrices.
result Optimal solution of convex relaxation recovers densest subgraph with high probability.
Faster algorithm for generalized mean densest subgraph problem.
problem Finding subgraphs with highest average p-th-power degree. method GENPEEL++ algorithm, which yields (2(p+1))1/p-approximation for p∈[1,+∞) with time complexity O(m(logn)). result GENPEEL++ algorithm provides faster and more efficient solution for generalized mean densest subgraph problem.
New method explains computational barriers in high-dimensional statistical models.
problem Understanding detection-recovery gaps in high-dimensional inference.
method Combining algorithmic contiguity and cross-validation reduction to obtain conditional computational lower bounds.
result Mild control of low-degree advantage is sufficient to explain computational barriers for recovery.
Estimates social network structure from random walk subgraphs.
problem Recovering population structure from random walk subgraphs in stochastic block models.
method Maximum likelihood estimation, SAEM algorithm, de-biasing techniques.
result New de-biased estimator provides more accurate recovery of network structure.
The study refines knot groups and creates a metric Gordian graph filtration.
problem Understanding the structure and relationships of knots.
method Defining a metric filtration of the Gordian graph based on surjective symmetric group quotients.
result Verification of the Meridional Rank Conjecture for knots with specific properties.
GANs improve anomaly detection in power plants, achieving nearly perfect classification.
problem Anomaly detection in power generation plants to identify irregularities.
method Used Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for anomaly detection in power generation plants.
result GANs achieved an accuracy rate of 98.99% in anomaly detection, significantly improved by data augmentation.
Finding "densely connected clusters" in a graph is in general an important and well studied problem in the literature \cite{Schaeffer}. It has various applications in pattern recognition, social networking and data mining \cite{Duda,Mishra}. Recently, Ames and Vavasis have suggested a novel method for finding cliques i…
Sparse neural networks can match dense models on Lipschitz functions.
problem Sparse networks are more efficient but lack theoretical guarantees.
method Formal model of sparse networks, LSH-based routing function, Lipschitz function approximation.
result Sparse networks can approximate dense networks on Lipschitz functions.
New tools in nonlinear random matrices improve understanding of the Sum of Squares hierarchy.
problem Improving the Sum of Squares (SoS) hierarchy's performance on average-case problems.
method Developed new tools in nonlinear random matrices and applied them to analyze the SoS hierarchy.
result Subexponential-time SoS lower bounds for various problems, offering evidence for the low-degree likelihood ratio hypothesis.
We consider the problem of detecting a tight community in a sparse random network. This is formalized as testing for the existence of a dense random subgraph in a random graph. Under the null hypothesis, the graph is a realization of an Erdös-Rényi graph on N vertices and with connection probability p0; under the …
New bootstraps improve speed and accuracy for graph count functionals.
problem Efficiently counting subgraphs in large graphs.
method Developed two types of multiplier bootstraps: a fast, approximate linear one and a quadratic one for denser graphs.
result Both bootstraps provide valid inference and higher-order accuracy under different graph sparsity conditions.
Improved spectral method recovers sparse vectors in random subspaces.
problem Recovering a sparse vector in a random subspace with sub-Gaussian entries.
method Improved spectral method with leave-one-out analysis.
result Spectral method recovers sparse vectors with high probability under certain conditions.
EnsemFDet detects fraud by solving subproblems on small graphs, scaling up e-commerce fraud detection.
problem Detecting and preventing fraud in e-commerce, especially in large-scale bipartite graphs.
method EnsemFDet uses an ensemble approach to decompose the problem into smaller subproblems, solving them in parallel.
result EnsemFDet is up to 100x faster than state-of-the-art methods while maintaining high accuracy.
Study on recovering hidden communities from data matrices.
problem Recovering a hidden community of cardinality K from a symmetric data matrix.
method Analyzes two types of asymptotic recovery guarantees for weak and exact recovery, deriving conditions for both sufficient and necessary recovery.
result Derives sufficient and necessary conditions for recovery under mild assumptions on probability distributions P and Q.
New algorithms detect and estimate rank-one signals with prior directional information.
problem Detecting and estimating rank-one signals with directional prior information.
method Construct nonlinear Laplacians and examine top eigenvalues and eigenvectors.
result Nonlinear Laplacian algorithms outperform direct spectral methods for biased signals.
SubGNN tackles subgraph prediction challenges in graphs.
problem Subgraphs in graphs are challenging to predict due to their internal topology and external connectivity.
method SubGNN introduces a novel subgraph routing mechanism to learn disentangled subgraph representations.
result SubGNN achieves considerable performance gains on subgraph classification tasks, outperforming strong baseline methods.
Finite subgraphs of extension graph are found within a sequence of induced subgraphs.
problem Identifying all finite subgraphs within the extension graph.
method Inductively define a sequence of induced subgraphs through 'doubling along a star'.
result Every finite induced subgraph of the extension graph is isomorphic to an induced subgraph of some Γi. The paper introduces subgraph nomination for finding similar subgraphs in networks.
problem Finding similar subgraphs in networks using example subgraphs.
method Formalizes subgraph nomination framework with user-supervised retrieval.
result User-supervised retrieval improves performance in subgraph nomination.
NeuroMatch efficiently matches subgraphs in large graphs using neural networks.
problem Determining the presence and location of a query graph in a large target graph.
method NeuroMatch decomposes graphs into subgraphs, embeds them using graph neural networks, and matches them directly in the embedding space.
result NeuroMatch is 100x faster and 18% more accurate than existing methods.
A biclustering algorithm finds dense disjoint subgraphs in weighted bipartite graphs.
problem Finding dense disjoint bicliques in a weighted bipartite graph.
method Semidefinite programming-based branch-and-cut algorithm with upper and lower bounds.
result The algorithm can solve much larger instances than general-purpose solvers.
Paper compares decision tree-based classification for detecting plant electrical signals from NaCl, O3, and H2SO4.
problem Detecting external chemical stimuli from plant electrical signals.
method Extracted features from filtered and raw plant electrical signals, used decision tree-based multi-class classification.
result Optimized feature and classifier combinations for distinguishing chemical stimuli.
The paper uses VGG-19 for plant species classification from leaf images.
problem Manual inspection of plant species by botanists is time-consuming.
method Transfer learning with VGG-19 for feature extraction and classification.
result The model achieves 99.70% accuracy in predicting plant species.
Exact partitioning of high-order planted models achieved through convex optimization.
problem Efficiently partitioning hypergraphs generated by high-order planted models.
method Solving a computationally efficient convex optimization problem with a tensor nuclear norm constraint.
result Exact recovery of true underlying cluster structures with high probability.
Unified framework for subgraph-enhanced GNNs, improving prediction accuracy and reducing computation time.
problem Limited understanding of subgraph-enhanced GNNs and their relation to the Weisfeiler-Leman hierarchy.
method Theoretical framework, theoretical expressivity results, and data-driven subgraph sampling methods.
result Data-driven subgraph-enhanced GNNs outperform non-data-driven methods in predictive performance.
Algorithm finds finite subgraphs in curve graphs.
problem Determining finite subgraphs within curve graphs.
method Algorithmic approach to identify induced subgraphs.
result Algorithmic solution for finite subgraph identification.
We propose graph kernels based on subgraph matchings, i.e. structure-preserving bijections between subgraphs. While recently proposed kernels based on common subgraphs (Wale et al., 2008; Shervashidze et al., 2009) in general can not be applied to attributed graphs, our approach allows to rate mappings of subgraphs by …
Study area-minimizing subgraphs in integer lattices.
problem Finding the most efficient subgraphs in integer lattices.
method Formulated functions of bounded variations, classified subgraphs in 2D, proved properties in higher dimensions.
result Classified area-minimizing subgraphs in 2D integer lattice up to isomorphisms.
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.
Study on visibility properties of spiral sets in higher dimensions.
problem Characterizing density properties of spiral sets.
method Employing visibility concepts from discrete geometry.
result Established conditions for various density properties of spirals.
AI system synthesizes chemical plant operation procedures for efficiency and stability.
problem Developing efficient and stable operation procedures for complex chemical plants.
method Integrates automated reasoning, deep reinforcement learning, and dynamic simulation with external knowledge.
result Synthesized procedure achieves faster recovery from malfunctions compared to standard PID control.