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48 results for edge estimation

This work estimates edge weights of edge-reinforced random walks using observed data.

problem Statistical estimation of edge weights in edge-reinforced random walks.
method Proposes an estimator based on the generalized method of moments using the magic formula and hyperbolic Gaussian structure.
result Analyzes the sample complexity of the proposed estimator.

Polynomial-time algorithm estimates edge density of random graphs with privacy and robustness.

problem Estimating edge density of random graphs while maintaining privacy and robustness.
method Sum-of-squares algorithm for robust edge density estimation and reduction from privacy to robustness.
result Optimal error rate up to logarithmic factors, matching theoretical lower bounds.

The estimation of probabilities of network edges from the observed adjacency matrix has important applications to predicting missing links and network denoising. It has usually been addressed by estimating the graphon, a function that determines the matrix of edge probabilities, but this is ill-defined without strong a…

2015-09-29abs ↗pdf ↗

The Mutual Information (MI) is an often used measure of dependency between two random variables utilized in information theory, statistics and machine learning. Recently several MI estimators have been proposed that can achieve parametric MSE convergence rate. However, most of the previously proposed estimators have th…

2018-01-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Let (M,g) be a compact oriented Riemannian manifold with an incomplete edge singularity. This article shows that it is possible to evolve g by the Yamabe flow within a class of singular edge metrics. As the main analytic step we establish parabolic Schauder-type estimates for the heat operator on certain Hölder spaces …

2011-07-26abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper proves ML estimators are strongly consistent for identifying edge weights in BAR models.

problem Identifying edge weights in Bernoulli Autoregressive (BAR) models.
method Maximum Likelihood (ML) estimation for two variants of BAR models.
result ML estimators are strongly consistent for edge weight identification.

Study on network-valued processes with asynchronous updates, proving consistency in community and changepoint estimation.

problem Understanding the behavior of network-valued stochastic processes with asynchronous updates.
method Analysis of concentration properties of aggregated adjacency and Laplacian matrices for lazy network-valued stochastic processes.
result Demonstrates consistency of estimators in community and changepoint estimation problems.

New algorithm estimates edge density of random graphs robustly, achieving optimal breakdown point.

problem Estimating edge density of Erdős-Rényi graphs under adversarial edge manipulation.
method Sum-of-Squares (SoS) hierarchy, constructing constant-degree certificates for concentration.
result First polynomial-time algorithm with optimal breakdown point and matching error guarantees.

In this paper, we present a novel way to summarize the structure of large graphs, based on non-parametric estimation of edge density in directed multigraphs. Following coclustering approach, we use a clustering of the vertices, with a piecewise constant estimation of the density of the edges across the clusters, and ad…

2015-08-06abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose {graphical sure screening}, or GRASS, a very simple and computationally-efficient screening procedure for recovering the structure of a Gaussian graphical model in the high-dimensional setting. The GRASS estimate of the conditional dependence graph is obtained by thresholding the elements of the sample covar…

2014-07-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Method estimates heterogeneous causal effects on networks using orthogonal learning.

problem Challenges in estimating causal effects on networks due to treatment effects on both treated and neighbors, and network homophily.
method Two-stage orthogonal learning framework: first stage uses graph neural networks for nuisance components, second stage residualizes and interpretable attention-based model for causal effects.
result Improves heterogeneous effect estimation and supports interpretable analyses.

Study Ricci flow on spaces with conical singularities, proving existence and curvature estimates.

problem Analyzing Ricci flow on spaces with conical singularities.
method Existence proof for Ricci flow, curvature estimates, and tangent flow analysis.
result Existence of a solution to Ricci flow for a specific class of spaces.

Link prediction in networks is typically accomplished by estimating or ranking the probabilities of edges for all pairs of nodes. In practice, especially for social networks, the data are often collected by egocentric sampling, which means selecting a subset of nodes and recording all of their edges. This sampling mech…

2018-03-12abs ↗pdf ↗

EDG generates Boltzmann samples from latent variables efficiently.

problem Sampling from complex energy functions in high dimensions.
method Combines variational autoencoders and diffusion models; uses a decoder and diffusion-based encoder.
result EDG outperforms existing methods in various sampling tasks.

We consider the problem of learning the link parameters as well as the structure of a binary-valued pairwise Markov model. Under sparsity assumption, we propose a method based on l1l_1- regularized logistic regression, which estimate globally the whole set of edges and link parameters. Unlike the more recent methods di…

2019-06-26abs ↗pdf ↗

This article presents an analysis of the normalized Yamabe flow starting at and preserving a class of compact Riemannian manifolds with incomplete edge singularities and negative Yamabe invariant. Our main results include uniqueness, long-time existence and convergence of the edge Yamabe flow starting at a metric with …

2016-05-12abs ↗pdf ↗

New method controls false discovery rate in learning Gaussian MRF structures.

problem Learning the structure of Gaussian MRFs from data, especially when p >> n, leads to false edges.
method Proposes nsSLOPE using sorted l1-norm regularization to control false discovery rate.
result Controls false discovery rate in learning the structure of Gaussian MRFs.

We consider the heat operator acting on differential forms on spaces with complete and incomplete edge metrics. In the latter case we study the heat operator of the Hodge Laplacian with algebraic boundary conditions at the edge singularity. We establish the mapping properties of the heat operator, recovering and extend…

2011-05-25abs ↗pdf ↗

In this note, we propose a new approach to solving the Calabi problem on manifolds with edge-cone singularities of prescribed angles along complex hypersurfaces. It is shown how the classical approach of Aubin-Yau in derving {\it a priori} estimates for the complex hessian can be made to work via adopting a \emph{good …

2018-10-17abs ↗pdf ↗

New algorithm detects communities in weighted networks, improving on binary ones.

problem Few methods exist for detecting communities in weighted networks.
method Pseudo-likelihood approach for weighted stochastic block model.
result The method is consistent and works well for both homogeneous and heterogeneous networks.

A new diffusion model encodes causal structures for better interventional sampling and edge inference.

problem Lack of causal analysis in standard diffusion models.
method Causality-encoded diffusion framework that trains conditional models consistent with a directed acyclic graph.
result The method enables accurate interventional sampling and edge inference, with theoretical guarantees and practical applications.

New method for online learning IC models with node-level feedback.

problem Learning IC models with node-level feedback in social networks.
method Detailed analysis and online algorithm with O(T)\mathcal{O}( \sqrt{T}) cumulative regret.
result First confidence-region result and online algorithm for IC models with node-level feedback.

Paper introduces HGSL for heterogeneous graphs, improving edge type and weight recovery.

problem Learning structure in heterogeneous graphs with multiple node and edge types.
method Proposes H2MN model for DGPs and derives alternating optimization method.
result Demonstrates superior performance on synthetic and real-world datasets.

The vast majority of network datasets contains errors and omissions, although this is rarely incorporated in traditional network analysis. Recently, an increasing effort has been made to fill this methodological gap by developing network reconstruction approaches based on Bayesian inference. These approaches, however, …

2018-06-09abs ↗pdf ↗

New framework for dense weighted networks with community-specific patterns.

problem Dense networks with varying edge weights across communities.
method Proposes a new model with functions mapping node characteristics to edge weights, requiring few parameters.
result Developed a bootstrap methodology for generating new networks.

HMQ improves quantization for edge devices with mixed precision.

problem Efficient quantization for edge devices with uniform, power-of-two thresholds.
method Introduces HMQ, a mixed precision quantization block that repurposes Gumbel-Softmax for searching over quantization schemes.
result Achieves competitive and state-of-the-art results on ImageNet despite restrictions.

A new method learns DAG structures from data without false edges.

problem Learning DAG structures from observational data is hard due to combinatorial search space and non-sparse solutions.
method Developed NOTEARS-AL using adaptive Lasso to ensure sparsity and rule out false edges.
result NOTEARS-AL outperforms NOTEARS in synthetic and real-world datasets.

Graphlets are induced subgraphs of a large network and are important for understanding and modeling complex networks. Despite their practical importance, graphlets have been severely limited to applications and domains with relatively small graphs. Most previous work has focused on exact algorithms, however, it is ofte…

2017-01-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Many recent developments in network analysis have focused on multilayer networks, which one can use to encode time-dependent interactions, multiple types of interactions, and other complications that arise in complex systems. Like their monolayer counterparts, multilayer networks in applications often have mesoscale fe…

2019-08-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper provides statistical guarantees for GNNs in link prediction.

problem Link prediction accuracy in graph neural networks.
method Proposes a linear GNN architecture (LG-GNN) and derives statistical guarantees.
result LG-GNN produces consistent estimators for edge probabilities and has better detection of high-probability edges.

We generalize the stochastic block model to the important case in which edges are annotated with weights drawn from an exponential family distribution. This generalization introduces several technical difficulties for model estimation, which we solve using a Bayesian approach. We introduce a variational algorithm that …

2013-05-24abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper controls false discovery rate in link prediction using conformal inference.

problem Identifying true edges in a graph while controlling false discoveries.
method Proposes a novel method based on conformal inference to control false discovery rate (FDR) in link prediction.
result Empirically demonstrates FDR control for both simulated and real data.