Research
On-device research index

arXiv research

A locally-built, LLM-digested index of recent arXiv papers in quant finance, geometry/topology, and statistical ML — keyword search served straight from SQLite on this machine.

168,742 papers · 148 categories

Trend · papers per month

166332497663 · Jun 202019922001200920172026
48 results for Unknown Graph Structure

GACBO optimizes unknown causal graphs with interventions.

problem Optimizing a target variable on an unknown causal graph with interventions.
method Graph Agnostic Causal Bayesian Optimisation (GACBO) seeks to balance exploitation and exploration of causal structures and functions.
result GACBO outperforms baselines in simulated and real-world applications.

New algorithms for causal bandits without knowing the graph structure.

problem Causal bandit problems with unknown graph structure.
method Developed novel causal bandit algorithms for causal trees, forests, and general graphs without prior knowledge of the causal graph.
result Regret guarantees significantly improved over standard MAB algorithms under mild conditions.

New method learns graph structure and uncertainty from data.

problem Learning latent graph structures and their uncertainty from data.
method Proposes a sampling-based method to learn latent graph structure and uncertainty simultaneously.
result Proves that suitable loss functions on stochastic model outputs solve both learning latent graph structure and achieving optimal predictions.

Optimizes causal effects on unknown graphs using Causal Entropy Optimization.

problem Optimizing causal effects in unknown causal graphs.
method Causal Entropy Optimization (CEO) framework that generalizes Causal Bayesian Optimization (CBO). Incorporates causal structure uncertainty in surrogate models and intervention selection.
result CEO achieves faster convergence to global optimum compared to CBO and improves upon sequential structure learning.

The paper predicts responses on out-of-sample nodes using latent positions on unknown curves.

problem Predicting responses on out-of-sample nodes with latent positions on unknown curves.
method Manifold learning and graph embedding technique using latent positions.
result Convergence guarantees for predicting responses on out-of-sample nodes.

MetaCaDI learns causal graphs and unknown interventions from few data instances.

problem Discovering causal mechanisms in systems with high data costs and unknown interventions.
method MetaCaDI is a Bayesian meta-learning framework that optimizes for rapid adaptation to new intervention targets.
result MetaCaDI significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods in causal graph recovery and intervention target prediction.

We consider the problem of undirected graphical model inference. In many applications, instead of perfectly recovering the unknown graph structure, a more realistic goal is to infer some graph invariants (e.g., the maximum degree, the number of connected subgraphs, the number of isolated nodes). In this paper, we propo…

2017-07-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Study on identifying AMP chain graph models under known and unknown component decompositions.

problem Identifying AMP chain graph models with known and unknown chain component decompositions.
method Analyzes conditions for identifiability of AMP models and proposes algorithms for structure recovery.
result Conditions for DAG identifiability in AMP models extend equal variance criteria for Bayes nets.

Promising results have driven a recent surge of interest in continuous optimization methods for Bayesian network structure learning from observational data. However, there are theoretical limitations on the identifiability of underlying structures obtained from observational data alone. Interventional data provides muc…

2019-10-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Investigates sequential problems on graph structures and large action spaces.

problem Sequential decision-making on graph structures and large action spaces.
method Spectral bandits, side observations, influence maximization, kernel bandits, polymatroid bandits, function optimization, infinitely many-arms bandits.
result Contributions to graph and structured bandits.

Model identifies causal structure from paired observational and interventional data with unknown soft interventions.

problem Identifying causal structure from observational and interventional data with unknown soft interventions.
method Proposes a scalable causal discovery model that aggregates subset-level PDAGs and applies contrastive cross-regime orientation rules.
result The model asymptotically recovers the identifiable PDAG and can orient additional edges compared to non-contrastive subset-restricted methods.

In this paper, we present a simple non-parametric method for learning the structure of undirected graphs from data that drawn from an underlying unknown distribution. We propose to use Brownian distance covariance to estimate the conditional independences between the random variables and encodes pairwise Markov graph. …

2012-06-27abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper considers a new framework to detect communities in a graph from the observation of signals at its nodes. We model the observed signals as noisy outputs of an unknown network process, represented as a graph filter that is excited by a set of unknown low-rank inputs/excitations. Application scenarios of this m…

2018-09-05abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper tackles unknown causal graphs and soft interventions, establishing regret bounds and an efficient algorithm.

problem Designing causal bandit algorithms with unknown causal graphs and stochastic intervention models.
method Establishes novel regret bounds and presents a computationally efficient algorithm for unknown graph and soft interventions.
result Regret bounds for unknown graph and soft interventions, with a universal minimax lower bound.

New method uses manifold learning to infer latent positions of 1D submanifolds in random dot product graphs.

problem Inference on latent positions of unknown 1D submanifolds in RDPGs.
method Apply Isomap for manifold learning to estimate arc lengths on the unknown submanifold.
result Test statistics based on Isomap converge to known submanifold power as auxiliary vertices increase.

This work proposes a method to learn graph structure for multivariate time series forecasting.

problem Improving multivariate time series forecasting by leveraging pairwise information.
method Learning a probabilistic graph model through optimizing mean performance over graph distribution parameterized by a neural network.
result Our method outperforms existing approaches in simplicity, efficiency, and performance.

Graph signals offer a very generic and natural representation for data that lives on networks or irregular structures. The actual data structure is however often unknown a priori but can sometimes be estimated from the knowledge of the application domain. If this is not possible, the data structure has to be inferred f…

2017-07-18abs ↗pdf ↗

A new GP framework for discovering unknown functions and hypergraph structure.

problem Discovering unknown functions and hypergraph structure in data.
method Interpretable Gaussian Process framework for Type 3 problems.
result Polynomial complexity for data-driven discovery of unknown functions and hypergraph structure.

This paper considers the problem of estimating the structure of multiple related directed acyclic graph (DAG) models. Building on recent developments in exact estimation of DAGs using integer linear programming (ILP), we present an ILP approach for joint estimation over multiple DAGs, that does not require that the ver…

2014-04-04abs ↗pdf ↗

A new growth model for dynamic networks using Markovian latent points.

problem Modeling temporal dynamic networks with latent points and distances.
method Markovian latent space dynamic with Euclidean Sphere sampling and connection probabilities based on geodesic distances.
result Theoretical guarantees for non-parametric estimation of the latitude and envelope functions.

Paper models graph edge dependencies using latent variables for community detection.

problem Graphs' edge dependencies not fully explained by community membership.
method Introduces auxiliary latent variables to model edge dependencies and analyzes conditions for exact recovery.
result Exact recovery possible by semidefinite programming down to maximum likelihood threshold.

Bayesian methods estimate regression functions on submanifolds using graph Laplacian eigenbasis.

problem Estimating regression functions on unknown smooth submanifolds.
method Random geometric graph structure, Bayesian priors based on random basis expansion in graph Laplacian eigenbasis.
result Posterior contraction rates are minimax optimal for any positive smoothness index.

Unified framework for clustering and learning causal graphs across subjects.

problem Bias and obscured subpopulation-specific dependencies in multivariate systems.
method Directed Acyclic Graph-based Dependency Clustering via Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (DAG-DC-ADMM) integrated with Structural Equation Modeling (SEM).
result Unified framework recovers cluster-specific causal dependency structures with high true positive rate and low false discovery rate.

A novel GPUM constructs Gaussian Processes for unknown manifolds with probabilistic metrics.

problem High-dimensional data on unknown manifolds with non-Euclidean geometry.
method Bayesian Gaussian Processes latent variable models (BGPLVM), Riemannian geometry, probabilistic metric tensor, Brownian Motion.
result GPUM provides more accurate predictions on unknown manifolds compared to traditional methods.

We study, to the best of our knowledge, the first Bayesian algorithm for unimodal Multi-Armed Bandit (MAB) problems with graph structure. In this setting, each arm corresponds to a node of a graph and each edge provides a relationship, unknown to the learner, between two nodes in terms of expected reward. Furthermore, …

2016-11-17abs ↗pdf ↗

A Bayesian treatment of latent directed graph structure for non-iid data is provided where each child datum is sampled with a directed conditional dependence on a single unknown parent datum. The latent graph structure is assumed to lie in the family of directed out-tree graphs which leads to efficient Bayesian inferen…

2012-06-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Study identifies causal relationships without direct supervision from unknown interventions.

problem Identify causal relationships from unknown interventions without direct supervision.
method General nonparametric setting with multiple datasets from unknown interventions.
result Identify ground truth latents and causal graph up to ambiguities.

This paper shows how to estimate distances in latent space of random graphs using entropic OT.

problem Estimating distances between groups of nodes in latent space of random graphs.
method Entropic Optimal Transport (OT) with stability results for perturbations of the cost matrix.
result Consistent estimation of entropic OT distances between groups of nodes in latent space.

A new model clusters networks with community-specific submanifold structures.

problem Clustering networks with community-specific submanifold structures.
method Latent Structure Block Models (LSBM) for Bayesian spectral graph clustering.
result LSBM correctly recovers underlying communities in one-dimensional manifold structures.

We consider testing and learning problems on causal Bayesian networks as defined by Pearl (Pearl, 2009). Given a causal Bayesian network M\mathcal{M} on a graph with nn discrete variables and bounded in-degree and bounded `confounded components', we show that O(logn)O(\log n) interventions on an unknown causal Bayesian ne…

2018-05-24abs ↗pdf ↗

DGM learns graph structure for better graph neural network performance.

problem Graphs are often unknown or noisy, limiting graph neural network performance.
method DGM learns graph structure from data, improving performance in transductive and inductive settings.
result DGM achieves state-of-the-art results across various domains.

Hierarchical Latent Attribute Models (HLAMs) are a family of discrete latent variable models that are attracting increasing attention in educational, psychological, and behavioral sciences. The key ingredients of an HLAM include a binary structural matrix and a directed acyclic graph specifying hierarchical constraints…

2019-06-19abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose a framework that learns the graph structure underlying a set of smooth signals. Given XRm×nX\in\mathbb{R}^{m\times n} whose rows reside on the vertices of an unknown graph, we learn the edge weights wR+m(m1)/2w\in\mathbb{R}_+^{m(m-1)/2} under the smoothness assumption that trXLX\text{tr}{X^\top LX} is small. We show that …

2016-01-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Effective information analysis generally boils down to properly identifying the structure or geometry of the data, which is often represented by a graph. In some applications, this structure may be partly determined by design constraints or pre-determined sensing arrangements, like in road transportation networks for e…

2016-11-04abs ↗pdf ↗