We consider unsupervised estimation of mixtures of discrete graphical models, where the class variable corresponding to the mixture components is hidden and each mixture component over the observed variables can have a potentially different Markov graph structure and parameters. We propose a novel approach for estimati…
We solve learning mixtures of graphs from epidemic cascades, establishing conditions and algorithms.
problem Learning the weighted edges of a balanced mixture of two undirected graphs from epidemic cascades.
method Established necessary and sufficient conditions for polynomial-time solvability, provided efficient algorithms with optimal sample complexity.
result First rigorous conditions and algorithms for learning graph mixtures from epidemic cascades.
Graph Mixture Density Networks model multimodal data on graphs.
problem Challenging conditional density estimation problems with structured data.
method Combining mixture models and graph representation learning.
result Significant improvement in likelihood of epidemic outcomes.
Unified framework models graph data as a mixture of graphons using graph moments.
problem Graph datasets often mix from multiple underlying distributions.
method Model graph data as a mixture of graphons, using graph moments to cluster graphs.
result Graphs from similar graphons exhibit similar motif densities, enabling principled estimation of graphon mixture components.
Causal Inference over Mixtures models cyclic, evolving causal processes using a mixture of DAGs.
problem Cycles, time evolution, and population differences in causal processes are challenging for traditional graphical models.
method Causal Inference over Mixtures uses a mixture of directed cyclic graphs (DAGs) to model longitudinal data and infer causal relations.
result Improved performance compared to prior approaches in inferring causal relations from a mixture of DAGs.
Generative model captures hubs and dense communities in social networks.
problem Capturing both hubs and dense communities in social networks.
method Graphon mixture model with a new condition on sparse graphs.
result Estimation of hub normalized degree and graphon for sparse components.
Framework models graph-connected entities with sparse shared HMMs.
problem Model sequential data from graph-connected entities.
method Sparse Mixture of Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) trained jointly with graph topology.
result Effectiveness and versatility demonstrated in experiments.
Neighbor Mixture Model captures node correlations in graphs.
problem Modeling correlations between node labels in graphs.
method Neighbor Mixture Model (NMM) designed for efficient computation and scalability.
result NMM outperforms state-of-the-art models in various graph tasks.
Graph Neural Networks struggle with generalization, especially OOD data; GRATIN solves this with Gaussian Mixture Model-based augmentation.
problem Graph Neural Networks struggle with generalization, particularly to unseen or out-of-distribution data.
method Theoretical framework using Rademacher complexity to compute a regret bound on generalization error. GRATIN algorithm leveraging Gaussian Mixture Models for efficient data augmentation.
result GRATIN outperforms existing augmentation techniques in terms of generalization and offers improved time complexity.
Proposes GIC for graph convolution, improving graph classification.
problem Graphs lack local convolution kernels like images.
method GIC framework using edge-induced and vertex-induced Gaussian mixtures.
result GIC achieves state-of-the-art results on graph classification.
A new graph neural network tackles oversmoothing and generalization issues.
problem Oversmoothing and poor generalization for unseen graphs in graph neural networks.
method Graph Entities with Step Mixture via random walk (GESM) that considers both edge-based and node-based features.
result GESM achieves state-of-the-art or comparable performances on benchmark datasets.
Proposes a model to infer multiple graphs from mixed data.
problem Inferring structure in datasets with mixed data and multiple graphs.
method Generative model that clusters data and learns graphs for each cluster.
result Promising performance in data clustering and multiple graph inference.
Bayesian networks with hidden variables help identify causal relationships obscured by confounding.
problem Identifying causal relationships obscured by unobserved confounders.
method Use finite k k k -mixtures of Bayesian networks with hidden variables to recover the joint probability distribution and identify causal relationships. result First algorithm to learn mixtures of non-empty DAGs, recovering identifiable causal relationships.
Laplacian mixture models identify overlapping regions of influence in unlabeled graph and network data in a scalable and computationally efficient way, yielding useful low-dimensional representations. By combining Laplacian eigenspace and finite mixture modeling methods, they provide probabilistic or fuzzy dimensionali…
This paper studies clustering and embedding in high-dimensional Gaussian mixture block models.
problem Clustering and embedding in high-dimensional Gaussian mixture block models.
method Spectral clustering and embedding algorithms for graphs sampled from Gaussian mixture block models.
result Performance analysis of spectral clustering and embedding algorithms for 2-component spherical Gaussian mixtures.
Paper develops an online EM algorithm for graph signal inference from streaming data.
problem Joint inference and clustering of graph signals with non-white excitation.
method Mixture model with low-rank plus sparse prior, online EM algorithm.
result Proposed online EM algorithm converges to MAP solution.
Discover causal structure from mixtures of DAGs using latent variable algorithms.
problem Discover causal structure from distributions arising from mixtures of DAGs.
method Causal structure discovery algorithms such as FCI for latent variables.
result Recover a 'union' of the component DAGs and identify varying conditional distributions.
Study reconstructs causal graph from latent variables using mixture oracles.
problem Reconstructing causal graphical model from data with latent variables.
method Reduction to mixture oracle to identify latent representations and causal structure.
result Conditions for identifying latent representations and causal model.
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.
Study the geometric structure of graph Laplacian embeddings for manifold data.
problem Identifying coarse structure in manifold data sampled from a mixture model.
method Analyze spectral clustering procedure for data sampled from a manifold, focusing on graph Laplacian embeddings.
result Embedded data concentrates on cones centered around orthogonal vectors when the mixture model is well-separated.
Can we identify node labels from graph labels?
problem Identifying node labels from graph labels in a hierarchical network.
method Gaussian Mixture Graph Convolutional Network (GMGCN) with Graph Attention Network (GAT) and Gaussian Mixture Layer (GML).
result The proposed method outperforms other baselines on various benchmarks.
Proposes a new model for clustering passenger trajectories with graphs.
problem Hierarchical trip structure, inaccurate clustering number, and lack of spatial semantic graphs.
method Tensor Dirichlet Process Multinomial Mixture model with graphs and a tensor version of Collapsed Gibbs Sampling.
result Automatic determination of the number of clusters and better cluster quality.
The paper uses Gaussian mixture models for Bayesian networks and proposes an optimization algorithm.
problem Modeling nodes in Bayesian networks with complex distributions.
method Gaussian mixture models combined with double iteration algorithm.
result The double iteration algorithm optimizes Gaussian mixture models effectively.
New model handles complex non-linear relationships with hidden graph structures.
problem Modeling non-linear relationships with hidden graph-structured interactions.
method Block-diagonal localized mixture of polynomial experts (BLoMPE) regression model with penalized maximum likelihood selection criterion.
result Strong theoretical guarantee for finite-sample oracle inequality.
Proposes a non-conjugate model selection method for chain event graphs.
problem Existing model selection algorithms for chain event graphs rely on conjugate priors, which is unrealistic for many real-world applications.
method Proposes a mixture modelling approach to model selection in chain event graphs that does not rely on conjugacy.
result The proposed method is more scalable and robust than existing algorithms.
This article proposes a method to quantify the structure of a bipartite graph using a network entropy per link. The network entropy of a bipartite graph with random links is calculated both numerically and theoretically. As an application of the proposed method to analyze collective behavior, the affairs in which parti…
A new graph embedding method using Hebbian learning for improved vector representations.
problem Creating accurate vector representations for nodes in graphs.
method Hebbian learning with non-convex Gaussian mixture model for node embeddings.
result The method outperforms state-of-the-art methods on benchmark data sets and generates relevant recommendations.
Graph convolution improves linear separability and generalizes to out-of-distribution data.
problem Improving linear separability in semi-supervised classification.
method Applying graph convolution to mixtures of Gaussians in a stochastic block model.
result Graph convolution extends the linear separability regime by a factor of 1 / D 1/\sqrt{D} 1/ D . A new method identifies sub-populations in unlabelled heterogeneous data by accounting for co-features.
problem Estimating sub-populations in unlabelled heterogeneous data with co-features.
method Mixture of Conditional Gaussian Graphical Models (CGGM) with penalized EM algorithm.
result The method successfully identifies sub-populations disrupted by co-features.
Generative model for creating graphs with new communities.
problem Generating graphs with a new community structure.
method Fit Gaussian mixture model to latent space data and add new clusters based on MDL principle.
result Empirically demonstrated effectiveness of GCA for generating graphs with new community structures.
Improved phylogenetic inference using VBPI-Mixtures for tree topology and branch length.
problem Multimodality of tree-topology posterior distributions in phylogenetic inference.
method VBPI-Mixtures algorithm that uses mixture learning within the BBVI framework.
result VBPI-Mixtures captures tree-topology distributions better than VBPI.
New approach models computer network activity as mixtures of sources.
problem Malicious activity detection in computer networks using standard algorithms is ineffective.
method Source separation approach to model short-term dynamics of computer network activity.
result Qualitative and quantitative experiments validate the approach.
GCNs improve multi-layer network classification by expanding the distance between means.
problem Improving multi-layer network classification with graphical information.
method Theoretical and empirical study of graph convolutions in multi-layer networks.
result Graph convolutions expand the classification regime by a factor of 1 / E m d e g 4 1/\sqrt[4]{\mathbb{E}{
m deg}} 1/ 4 E m d e g . A new model improves the performance of knowledge distillation in GNNs.
problem Inconsistent performance of existing knowledge distillation techniques in GNNs.
method Proposes a new model, Routing-by-Memory (RbM), a form of Mixture-of-Experts (MoE), to address performance concerns.
result Demonstrates experimentally that RbM achieves considerably more consistent performance across multiple datasets.
iGNN tackles inverse graph prediction using invertible neural networks.
problem Inverse graph prediction problem in data analysis and machine learning.
method Developed invertible graph neural network (iGNN) to solve inverse prediction problem on graphs.
result iGNN model allows efficient generation from output labels and forward prediction.
Optimizes cover parameter in Mapper algorithm for better visualization.
problem Tuning the cover parameter in Mapper algorithm to generate a ``nice'' graph.
method Optimizes cover by repeatedly splitting using statistical tests and Gaussian mixture model.
result Algorithm generates covers that retain dataset essence while being faster.
Mixes higher-order simplicial complexes for data augmentation.
problem Lack of labeled data for complex systems with multiway interactions.
method Proposes mixup mechanisms for simplicial complexes, including linear and nonlinear mixup, and a convex clustering mixup.
result Synthetic simplicial complexes interpolate between existing data based on homomorphism densities.
Bayesian models offer great flexibility for clustering applications---Bayesian nonparametrics can be used for modeling infinite mixtures, and hierarchical Bayesian models can be utilized for sharing clusters across multiple data sets. For the most part, such flexibility is lacking in classical clustering methods such a…
CADGMM detects anomalies by capturing complex correlations in data.
problem Detecting anomalies in complex, unstructured data.
method CADGMM uses a graph structure to encode correlations, then a dual-encoder to learn low-dimensional latent space, followed by a Gaussian Mixture Model for anomaly detection.
result CADGMM effectively detects anomalies in real-world datasets.
GCN adapted for graphs with missing features, improving performance.
problem GCN struggles with graphs containing missing features.
method Integrates missing feature processing within GCN architecture using Gaussian Mixture Model.
result Significantly outperforms imputation-based methods in node classification and link prediction.
The paper proposes a Gaussian mixture model for Hilbert-space-valued data.
problem Challenges in characterizing probability measures for infinite-dimensional random objects.
method Gaussian mixture framework based on kernel mean embeddings.
result The proposed algorithm yields a dense class of approximations in infinite-dimensional spaces.
Generative model separates mixed signals on multiple graphs.
problem Inference methods often assume all data fits a single graph.
method Heat diffusion process on multiple graphs, EM algorithm.
result Successfully separates signals into corresponding groups.
The paper corrects for node degree in spectral clustering using random walk Laplacian.
problem Node degree heterogeneity in spectral clustering.
method Graph spectral embedding using the random walk Laplacian.
result The embedding provides uniformly consistent estimates of degree-corrected latent positions.
We prove a central limit theorem for the components of the largest eigenvectors of the adjacency matrix of a finite-dimensional random dot product graph whose true latent positions are unknown. In particular, we follow the methodology outlined in \citet{sussman2012universally} to construct consistent estimates for the …
Clustering is concerned with coherently grouping observations without any explicit concept of true groupings. Spectral graph clustering - clustering the vertices of a graph based on their spectral embedding - is commonly approached via K-means (or, more generally, Gaussian mixture model) clustering composed with either…
From social networks to Internet applications, a wide variety of electronic communication tools are producing streams of graph data; where the nodes represent users and the edges represent the contacts between them over time. This has led to an increased interest in mechanisms to model the dynamic structure of time-var…
Paper introduces a hyperbolic approach for community detection on graphs.
problem Detecting communities on graphs efficiently and effectively.
method Combines hyperbolic embeddings with Riemannian K-means or mixture models.
result Demonstrates effectiveness through experiments on real-world social networks.
Efficient inference for multimodal Gaussian mixture models of interacting dynamical systems.
problem Efficient inference for multimodal distributions in stochastic dynamical systems.
method Graph neural networks with moment matching for sample-free inference and structured covariance approximations.
result Sample-free inference with improved efficiency and stability compared to Monte Carlo alternatives.