SIGMA model improves graph matching across various applications.
problem Graph matching problem in different domains.
method Stochastic Iterative Graph Matching (SIGMA) model with multi-step refinement and dummy nodes.
result SIGMA produces significantly improved graph matching results compared to state-of-the-art models.
The paper explores the L1-Liouville property on graphs and its connections to stochastic completeness.
problem Investigating the L1-Liouville property on graphs and its implications. method Characterization of L1-Liouville property in terms of Green function, equivalence with stochastic completeness, and comparison theorems based on inner-outer curvatures. result Equivalence of L1-Liouville property and stochastic completeness on model graphs, and introduction of Dirichlet L1-Liouville property. Vertex clustering in a stochastic blockmodel graph has wide applicability and has been the subject of extensive research. In thispaper, we provide a short proof that the adjacency spectral embedding can be used to obtain perfect clustering for the stochastic blockmodel and the degree-corrected stochastic blockmodel. We…
AB-SAGA optimizes distributed optimization over directed graphs using variance reduction and stochastic weights.
problem Optimizing distributed stochastic optimization over directed graphs with stochastic weights.
method AB-SAGA combines variance reduction and network-level gradient tracking, using both row and column stochastic weights.
result AB-SAGA converges linearly to the global optimal with a constant step-size and achieves a linear speed-up over centralized methods.
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.
Spectral clustering for directed graphs using likelihood estimation.
problem Clustering directed graphs with edge directions.
method Maximum likelihood estimation on stochastic block models.
result Significant performance gains over existing methods.
SMP model preserves proximity and permutation in graph neural networks.
problem Challenges in graph mining, such as community and leader finding.
method Stochastic Message Passing (SMP) model that maintains proximity and permutation-equivariance.
result SMP model effectively preserves node proximities and permutation-equivariance.
The study examines convergence of stochastic processes on large graphs and adjacency matrices.
problem Analyzing convergence of stochastic processes on large graphs and adjacency matrices.
method Introduced new metrics on the space of measure-valued graphons and used them to show convergence of random trajectories to deterministic curves.
result The Metropolis chain converges to a deterministic gradient flow curve on the space of graphons under certain conditions.
A new algorithm tackles graph-based contextual bandits with efficient regret bounds.
problem Predicting labels on graphs with contextual bandit methods.
method Graph-based contextual bandit algorithm using optimal stochastic bandit techniques.
result Regret bounds for line graphs and trees, and improved bounds for general graphs.
We describe a graph-based semi-supervised learning framework in the context of deep neural networks that uses a graph-based entropic regularizer to favor smooth solutions over a graph induced by the data. The main contribution of this work is a computationally efficient, stochastic graph-regularization technique that u…
Study recovers community structure from coarse graph measurements.
problem Community recovery from low-resolution graph measurements.
method Formalized coarsening process of graph measurements, developed conditions for perfect recovery.
result Simple and closed-form asymptotic conditions for perfect recovery of coarse graph communities.
Stochastic blockmodels (SBM) and their variants, e.g., mixed-membership and overlapping stochastic blockmodels, are latent variable based generative models for graphs. They have proven to be successful for various tasks, such as discovering the community structure and link prediction on graph-structured data. Recentl…
SGRNN models evolving graph data for better property prediction.
problem Modeling evolving graph data for property prediction.
method SGRNN uses stochastic latent variables to capture both node attribute and topology evolution, with semi-implicit variational inference and KL-divergence simplification.
result SGRNN improves property prediction on real-world datasets.
π-GNN learns soft permutations for graph representations, improving graph classification and regression.
problem Limitations of MPNNs in graph neural networks.
method Proposes π-GNN, which learns a soft permutation matrix for each graph, projecting graphs into a common vector space.
result π-GNN achieves performance competitive with state-of-the-art models on graph classification and regression tasks.
Graph autoencoders (AE) and variational autoencoders (VAE) are powerful node embedding methods, but suffer from scalability issues. In this paper, we introduce FastGAE, a general framework to scale graph AE and VAE to large graphs with millions of nodes and edges. Our strategy, based on an effective stochastic subgraph…
New methods solve graph sparsity optimization problems faster.
problem Complex graph sparsity optimization problems in disease outbreak monitoring and social network analysis.
method Stochastic variance-reduced gradient-based methods GraphSVRG-IHT and GraphSCSG-IHT.
result Our methods achieve linear convergence speed.
Storchastic improves stochastic AD for complex models in RL and VI.
problem Handling intractable expectations in RL and VI.
method Introduces Storchastic, a framework for AD of stochastic computation graphs with various gradient estimation methods.
result Provable unbiasedness and variance reduction for higher-order gradients.
Graph convolutional networks adapt the architecture of convolutional neural networks to learn rich representations of data supported on arbitrary graphs by replacing the convolution operations of convolutional neural networks with graph-dependent linear operations. However, these graph-dependent linear operations are d…
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…
Spectral clustering achieves strong consistency in the stochastic block model under certain conditions.
problem Achieving strong consistency in spectral clustering for the stochastic block model.
method Entrywise analysis of the Fielder eigenvector of graph Laplacians.
result Spectral clustering achieves exact recovery of hidden communities under matching information-theoretic limits.
Stochastic Kronecker graphs supply a parsimonious model for large sparse real world graphs. They can specify the distribution of a large random graph using only three or four parameters. Those parameters have however proved difficult to choose in specific applications. This article looks at method of moments estimators…
New graph kernels capture spatio-temporal interactions.
problem Lack of justified spatio-temporal graph kernels for graph problems.
method Derive graph kernels via SPDEs for spatio-temporal modelling.
result Non-separable spatio-temporal graph kernels outperform existing ones.
We derive the limiting distribution for the largest eigenvalues of the adjacency matrix for a stochastic blockmodel graph when the number of vertices tends to infinity. We show that, in the limit, these eigenvalues are jointly multivariate normal with bounded covariances. Our result extends the classic result of Füredi…
New model for clustering graphs with multiple data sources.
problem Graph clustering with multiple data sources.
method Formalized multi-view stochastic block models and developed efficient algorithms.
result Provable improvement over previous approaches in multi-view graph clustering.
We consider stochastic multi-armed bandit problems with graph feedback, where the decision maker is allowed to observe the neighboring actions of the chosen action. We allow the graph structure to vary with time and consider both deterministic and Erdős-Rényi random graph models. For such a graph feedback model, we fir…
Proposes SDE framework for uncertainty quantification in graph neural networks.
problem Lack of uncertainty quantification in graph neural networks.
method Introduces Latent Graph Neural Stochastic Differential Equations (LGNSDE) with Bayesian prior-posterior mechanism and Brownian motion.
result LGNSDEs provide theoretically sensible guarantees for uncertainty estimates and are robust to perturbations.
We describe a computationally efficient, stochastic graph-regularization technique that can be utilized for the semi-supervised training of deep neural networks in a parallel or distributed setting. We utilize a technique, first described in [13] for the construction of mini-batches for stochastic gradient descent (SGD…
A new method for spectral barycentre of graph datasets.
problem Creating a summary graph from a set of graphs with community structure.
method Using multiscale spectral distance based on normalized graph Laplacian eigenvalues.
result The barycentre inherits the topological structure of the graphs in the sample dataset.
Efficient algorithm for graph matching in correlated stochastic block models.
problem Graph matching in correlated stochastic block models with balanced communities.
method Extends previous work on centered subgraph counts to handle estimation errors and edge correlation.
result First efficient algorithm for graph matching in the logarithmic average degree regime, matching all but a vanishing fraction of vertices with high probability.
STAG injects noise into graph neural networks to improve performance.
problem Graph neural networks suffer from over-smoothing and limited discrimination.
method Introduces a stochastic aggregation framework (STAG) with adaptive noise injection.
result STAG models correct both over-smoothing and discrimination issues.
This paper tackles exact recovery of clusters in a stochastic Ising model on a SBM graph.
problem Recovering clusters in a stochastic Ising model on a SBM graph.
method Proposes a Stochastic Ising Block Model (SIBM) and establishes a sharp threshold for exact recovery.
result Sharp threshold m∗ for exact recovery of clusters in SIBM, with O(n) time complexity for m≥m∗. We present a method to estimate block membership of nodes in a random graph generated by a stochastic blockmodel. We use an embedding procedure motivated by the random dot product graph model, a particular example of the latent position model. The embedding associates each node with a vector; these vectors are clustere…
Inference for the stochastic blockmodel is currently of burgeoning interest in the statistical community, as well as in various application domains as diverse as social networks, citation networks, brain connectivity networks (connectomics), etc. Recent theoretical developments have shown that spectral embedding of gra…
The paper analyzes the trade-off between smoothness and sparsity in GCN using lp-regularized learning.
problem Quantifying the trade-off between smoothness and sparsity in GCN.
method Proposes a novel SGD proximal algorithm for GCNs with an inexact operator to analyze the stability of the ℓp-regularized stochastic learning. result Establishes an explicit theoretical understanding of GCN with ℓp-regularized stochastic learning. Graph-based methods are known to be successful in many machine learning and pattern classification tasks. These methods consider semi-structured data as graphs where nodes correspond to primitives (parts, interest points, segments, etc.) and edges characterize the relationships between these primitives. However, these …
Efficient algorithm for matching graphs with community structure.
problem Graph matching between correlated stochastic block models with constant correlation.
method Partition trees rooted from each vertex, comparing edge statistics to different communities.
result First low-order polynomial-time algorithm achieving exact matching with high probability in dense graphs.
New method finds balanced clusters in graphs using auxiliary information.
problem Finding balanced clusters in graphs with population-level constraints.
method Proposes individual-level balancing constraint and develops spectral clustering algorithms.
result Establishes first statistical consistency result for constrained spectral clustering.
Proposes a new model for directed graphs combining deep learning and latent variable models.
problem Graph representation learning for directed graphs.
method Deep Latent Space Model (DLSM) integrating GCN encoder and stochastic decoder with hierarchical variational auto-encoder architecture.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance on link prediction and community detection tasks.
Tests if vertices in graphs have the same latent positions.
problem Testing equality of latent positions in random graphs.
method Empirical Mahalanobis distances from spectral embeddings.
result Test statistics follow chi-square distributions under null and local alternatives.
We introduce a nonlinear method for directly embedding large, sparse, stochastic graphs into low-dimensional spaces, without requiring vertex features to reside in, or be transformed into, a metric space. Graph data and models are prevalent in real-world applications. Direct graph embedding is fundamental to many graph…
New method for identifying graph shift operators using vertex-time autoregressive models.
problem Identifying graph shift operators from graph signals.
method Online optimization using vertex-time autoregressive model and stochastic gradient projection.
result Successful recovery of graph shift operators from graph signals.
The reparameterization trick enables optimizing large scale stochastic computation graphs via gradient descent. The essence of the trick is to refactor each stochastic node into a differentiable function of its parameters and a random variable with fixed distribution. After refactoring, the gradients of the loss propag…
SubSearch detects graph outliers and estimates SBM parameters robustly.
problem Real-world graphs often deviate from ideal SBM assumptions.
method Subgraph search to find subgraphs that align with SBM assumptions.
result SubSearch accurately estimates SBM parameters and detects outliers.
This work tackles causal graph discovery with stochastic interventions to minimize the number of interventions.
problem Discovering the true causal graph from observational data with limited interventions.
method Proposes a stochastic intervention model and studies verification and search problems with approximation algorithms.
result Provides approximation algorithms with competitive ratios for verification and search problems.
New optimization algorithms on orthogonal group for machine learning.
problem Efficient optimization on the orthogonal group for machine learning tasks.
method Stochastic geometric algorithms on Lie groups.
result Strong performance on diverse machine learning tasks.
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. We study the stochastic multi-armed bandit problem with the graph-based feedback structure introduced by Mannor and Shamir. We analyze the performance of the two most prominent stochastic bandit algorithms, Thompson Sampling and Upper Confidence Bound (UCB), in the graph-based feedback setting. We show that these algor…
Graph matching in noisy environments with Markovian errors.
problem Graph matching under time-dependent Markovian noise.
method Introduced edgelighter error model and analyzed graph matching thresholds.
result Graph matching thresholds and mixing times are of order Θ(n2logn) for Erdős-Rényi graphs, and O(nαlogn) for Stochastic Block Model graphs.