The sparse representation classifier (SRC) is shown to work well for image recognition problems that satisfy a subspace assumption. In this paper we propose a new implementation of SRC via screening, establish its equivalence to the original SRC under regularity conditions, and prove its classification consistency for …
New principle for disentangling latent factors using sparse regularization.
problem Disentangling latent factors from complex data.
method Sparse regularization of latent mechanisms to induce disentanglement.
result Recovery of latent variables up to permutation under certain conditions.
New method clusters multi-view data by squeezing hybrid knowledge.
problem Removal of redundant information and fusion of multi-view features.
method Low-rank subspace multi-view clustering with adaptive graph regularization.
result Our method outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms on multi-view benchmarks.
Graph-Dictionary model for sparse multivariate signal representation.
problem Capturing complex relational information in multivariate signals.
method Graph dictionaries and bilinear primal-dual splitting algorithm.
result Graph-dictionary model outperforms baselines in signal reconstruction and classification.
New model allows sparse graphs with many triangles to be represented.
problem Sparse graphs with many triangles cannot be accurately represented in finite dimensions.
method Infinite-dimensional inner product model with manifold representations.
result Local neighborhoods can be represented in lower dimensions.
Learning the "blocking" structure is a central challenge for high dimensional data (e.g., gene expression data). Recently, a sparse singular value decomposition (SVD) has been used as a biclustering tool to achieve this goal. However, this model ignores the structural information between variables (e.g., gene interacti…
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have proved to be an effective representation learning framework for graph-structured data, and have achieved state-of-the-art performance on many practical predictive tasks, such as node classification, link prediction and graph classification. Among the variants of GNNs, Graph Attention N…
New method for efficient graph learning on large graphs.
problem High memory complexity for graph learning on large, non-sparse graphs.
method Approximate large graphs as intersecting communities, using a new graph regularity lemma.
result Efficient graph learning algorithm with linear memory and time complexity.
Sparse coding has been popularly used as an effective data representation method in various applications, such as computer vision, medical imaging and bioinformatics, etc. However, the conventional sparse coding algorithms and its manifold regularized variants (graph sparse coding and Laplacian sparse coding), learn th…
Dockless bike sharing systems need effective bike flow prediction models.
problem Imbalanced and dynamic use of bikes leads to mandatory rebalancing operations.
method Divide urban area into regions, model spatio-temporal bike flows, extract traffic patterns, and predict bike flows.
result Interpretable bike flow prediction model provides valuable insights into bike flow analysis.
Regularization of the classical Laplacian matrices was empirically shown to improve spectral clustering in sparse networks. It was observed that small regularizations are preferable, but this point was left as a heuristic argument. In this paper we formally determine a proper regularization which is intimately related …
uGLAD recovers sparse graphs from data using deep unrolled networks.
problem Sparse graph recovery from complex data.
method Optimizing deep unrolled networks to learn precision matrices.
result uGLAD outperforms existing algorithms in sparsity optimization and robustly handles missing data.
Sparse Tucker decomposition with graph regularization improves time series forecasting accuracy.
problem High-dimensional time series forecasting with over-parameterization issue.
method Sparse Tucker decomposition and graph regularization for tensor-based model.
result Non-asymptotic error bound and superior performance in numerical experiments.
A new method for sparse regression models using graph structure.
problem Sparse regression models for high-dimensional data.
method Decomposes coefficient vector into latent variables, performs regularization on latent variables, uses proximal projection.
result Stable performance compared to other models, especially for high-dimensional data.
This paper uses the relationship between graph conductance and spectral clustering to study (i) the failures of spectral clustering and (ii) the benefits of regularization. The explanation is simple. Sparse and stochastic graphs create a lot of small trees that are connected to the core of the graph by only one edge. G…
New matrix reveals cluster info in sparse directed graphs.
problem Analyzing cluster information in directed graphs.
method Proposed complex non-backtracking matrix integrating Hermitian adjacency matrix and non-backtracking matrix properties.
result The complex non-backtracking matrix holds cluster information, especially for sparse directed graphs.
New method for disentangling latent factors with sparse dependencies.
problem Disentangling latent factors from observed variables and past factors.
method Mechanism sparsity regularization and sparse causal graphical model.
result Identifiability of latent factors up to a sparse causal graph.
We introduce Graph-Sparse Logistic Regression, a new algorithm for classification for the case in which the support should be sparse but connected on a graph. We val- idate this algorithm against synthetic data and benchmark it against L1-regularized Logistic Regression. We then explore our technique in the bioinformat…
New method estimates graph compatibility from sparse labels.
problem Estimating graph compatibility from sparse labeled data.
method Factorized graph representations and algebraic amplification.
result End-to-end classification accuracy comparable to gold standard.
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. Random projections help in representing sparse graphs efficiently.
problem Efficiently representing sparse graphs of varying sizes and vertex sets.
method Random projection of adjacency matrices to retain graph functionality and properties.
result Random projections can accurately represent graphs of different sizes and vertex sets in the same space.
Inspired by the immense success of deep learning, graph neural networks (GNNs) are widely used to learn powerful node representations and have demonstrated promising performance on different graph learning tasks. However, most real-world graphs often come with high-dimensional and sparse node features, rendering the le…
GISST interprets GNNs by combining attention and sparsity for graph structure and node feature importance.
problem Lack of joint consideration of graph structure and node features in GNN interpretation.
method Model-agnostic framework using attention mechanism and sparsity regularization.
result GISST achieves superior node feature and edge explanation precision in synthetic and real-world datasets.
Sparse RSP routing improves graph exploration and classification.
problem Optimal randomized routing and distance measures on weighted graphs.
method Tsallis divergence regularization for sparse RSP.
result Sparse random walk converges to least-cost graph as temperature decreases.
RO-TD learns sparse value functions efficiently.
problem Learning sparse value functions efficiently.
method RO-TD integrates off-policy convergent gradient TD methods and online convex regularization.
result RO-TD learns sparse value functions with low computational complexity.
Sparse molecular representations improve interpretability in graph neural networks.
problem Difficulty in understanding which molecular graph aspects drive deep learning predictions.
method Constrain weights in a graph convolutional neural network using the Gini index to maximize representation inequality.
result The Gini-constrained approach does not degrade evaluation metrics and allows for interpretable representation combination.
This paper improves GNN robustness by aligning feature and adjacency matrix learning.
problem Improving robustness of graph neural networks (GNN) in noisy graph data.
method Proposes a novel regularized GSL approach that aligns feature information and graph information, incorporating sparse dimensional reduction.
result Demonstrates superior performance in noisy graph structures compared to competitive baselines.
Sparse hypergraph neural networks improve reasoning in large knowledge graphs.
problem Reasoning about relationships in large, real-world domains using sparse and local inferences.
method Sparse and local hypergraph neural networks (SpaLoc) exploiting relational inferences that are usually local and sparse.
result State-of-the-art performance on real-world knowledge graph reasoning benchmarks.
Graph neural networks have become increasingly popular in recent years due to their ability to naturally encode relational input data and their ability to scale to large graphs by operating on a sparse representation of graph adjacency matrices. As we look to scale up these models using custom hardware, a natural assum…
Sparse representations have been shown to be useful in deep reinforcement learning for mitigating catastrophic interference and improving the performance of agents in terms of cumulative reward. Previous results were based on a two step process were the representation was learned offline and the action-value function w…
Unified taxonomy for graph representation learning.
problem Lack of unified understanding and integration of graph representation learning methods.
method Proposes a Graph Encoder Decoder Model (GRAPHEDM) to unify graph neural networks, network embedding, and graph regularization.
result Unified taxonomy and Graph Encoder Decoder Model (GRAPHEDM) for graph representation learning.
A method identifies domain-general features using causal graph constraints and regularization.
problem Identifying domain-general features without prior knowledge of spurious features.
method Proposes a novel regularization framework based on causal graph constraints.
result Demonstrates effectiveness in both synthetic and real-world data, outperforming state-of-the-art methods.
We investigate sparse representations for control in reinforcement learning. While these representations are widely used in computer vision, their prevalence in reinforcement learning is limited to sparse coding where extracting representations for new data can be computationally intensive. Here, we begin by demonstrat…
We analyze a new spectral graph matching algorithm, GRAph Matching by Pairwise eigen-Alignments (GRAMPA), for recovering the latent vertex correspondence between two unlabeled, edge-correlated weighted graphs. Extending the exact recovery guarantees established in the companion paper for Gaussian weights, in this work,…
Unified spectral clustering for sparse networks with heterogeneous degrees.
problem Efficiently detecting communities in sparse networks with varying degrees.
method Developed a parametrized regularized Laplacian matrix for spectral clustering.
result Improved parametrization accounts for network heterogeneity and community hardness.
Chromatic Learning reduces feature dimensions for sparse datasets.
problem Sparse, high-dimensional data challenges traditional learning methods.
method Graph coloring over co-occurrence graph to create dense feature representation.
result Compresses sparse datasets significantly while maintaining model accuracy.
DE improves GNNs by distinguishing graph substructures, enhancing accuracy.
problem Limited expressive power of GNNs in representing graph substructures.
method Introduces Distance Encoding (DE) to assist GNNs in distinguishing graph substructures.
result DE distinguishes graph substructures that traditional GNNs cannot, improving accuracy.
The ℓ1-norm fails to produce sparse solutions in Laplacian constrained graphical models, leading to a complete graph.
problem Learning a sparse graph under Laplacian constrained Gaussian graphical models.
method Introduced a nonconvex sparsity penalty and proposed a new estimator using a sequence of weighted ℓ1-norm penalized sub-problems. Developed a projected gradient descent algorithm with linear convergence rate. result The proposed estimator can recover the edges correctly with high probability and is effective on both synthetic and real-world data sets.
Graph Neural Networks (GNN) have been shown to work effectively for modeling graph structured data to solve tasks such as node classification, link prediction and graph classification. There has been some recent progress in defining the notion of pooling in graphs whereby the model tries to generate a graph level repre…
Novel algorithm learns sparse signal representations over topological spaces.
problem Sparse representation of signals over combinatorial topological spaces.
method Leveraging Hodge theory, the paper embeds topology into a dictionary structure via concatenated sub-dictionaries, each as a polynomial of Hodge Laplacians, and optimizes the dictionary coefficients and sparse signal representation via iterative alternating algorithms.
result Efficiently learned sparse representations and underlying relational structure of topological signals.
Regularized spectral methods improve clustering in signed graphs, especially for sparse data.
problem Clustering signed graphs with positive and negative edges.
method Developed regularized versions of SPONGE and Signed Laplacian methods for clustering signed graphs, especially for sparse data.
result Theoretical guarantees and empirical performance improvements for clustering signed graphs, especially in sparse regimes.
New method handles structural uncertainty in graphs better than existing models.
problem Handling heterophily and structural noise in semi-supervised learning on graphs.
method Sparse signed message passing network that models a posterior distribution over signed adjacency matrices.
result Our method outperforms strong baseline models on heterophilic benchmarks under both synthetic and real-world structural noise.
Sparse model for noisy datasets using hierarchical regularization.
problem Learning from large noisy datasets with sparse representations.
method Hierarchical learning strategy with projection-based penalty operators.
result Efficient sparse model reconstruction and generalizability on real datasets.
Electronic Health Records (EHR) are high-dimensional data with implicit connections among thousands of medical concepts. These connections, for instance, the co-occurrence of diseases and lab-disease correlations can be informative when only a subset of these variables is documented by the clinician. A feasible approac…
Architectures for sparse hierarchical representation learning have recently been proposed for graph-structured data, but so far assume the absence of edge features in the graph. We close this gap and propose a method to pool graphs with edge features, inspired by the hierarchical nature of chemistry. In particular, we …
Many computer vision tasks involve processing large amounts of data contaminated by outliers, which need to be detected and rejected. While outlier detection methods based on robust statistics have existed for decades, only recently have methods based on sparse and low-rank representation been developed along with guar…
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…
Tree-based regularization improves latent variable inference from related datasets.
problem Inferring latent variables from multiple related datasets in causal systems.
method Tree-Based Regularization (TBR) for sparse changes across environments.
result TBR identifies true latent variables up to simple transformations under sparse changes.