Optimizes ranking of top-k players from partial comparison data.
problem Identifying the top-k players from incomplete pairwise comparisons.
method Maximum Likelihood Estimator (MLE) and Spectral Method.
result MLE achieves optimal partial and exact recovery, while Spectral Method is sub-optimal.
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.
The stochastic block model (SBM) is a random graph model with different group of vertices connecting differently. It is widely employed as a canonical model to study clustering and community detection, and provides a fertile ground to study the information-theoretic and computational tradeoffs that arise in combinatori…
Improved algorithm for partial recovery of tree-structured graphs with noisy data.
problem Learning Ising tree models with noisy observations.
method Symmetrized Geometric Averaging (SGA) algorithm with improved sample complexity.
result Significantly better sample complexity for partial tree recovery.
This paper sets thresholds for recovering vertex correspondences in partially correlated graphs.
problem Recovering hidden vertex correspondences in partially correlated graphs.
method Proposed partially correlated Erdős-Rényi graphs model; information-theoretic thresholds; correlated functional digraphs.
result Optimal rates for partial and exact recovery of vertex correspondences.
BalLOT uses optimal transport for balanced k-means clustering.
problem Balanced k-means clustering of data. method BalLOT is an optimal transport approach to alternating minimization.
result BalLOT provides theoretical guarantees for exact and partial recoveries of planted clusters.
Paper explores exact recovery of communities in weighted graphs using Gaussian and exponential distributions.
problem Exact recovery of communities in weighted graphs with Gaussian and exponential distributions.
method Introduces a new semi-metric to describe conditions for exact recovery and analyzes conditions for both complete and incomplete graphs.
result Necessary and sufficient conditions for exact recovery are asymptotically tight and applicable to both complete and incomplete graphs.
Study finds the cutoff for exact recovery in Gaussian mixture models.
problem Determining the separation of cluster centers for exact recovery in Gaussian mixture models.
method Used information theory and SDP relaxation of K-means clustering. result Sharp threshold for exact recovery of cluster labels without assuming cluster center symmetry.
APGD algorithm reconstructs point set from partial distance measurements.
problem Reconstructing point set configuration from partial Euclidean distance measurements.
method Asymmetric Projected Gradient Descent (APGD) for EDMC problem.
result Global convergence and exact recovery with O(μ2r3κ2nlogn) observations. Paper uses SDP for community detection with side information.
problem Community detection in graphs with additional non-graph data.
method Formulates SDP relaxation for maximum likelihood node labeling with side information.
result SDP achieves same exact recovery threshold as maximum likelihood with side information.
Sharp threshold for exact recovery in non-uniform hypergraph stochastic block model.
problem Community detection in random hypergraphs with non-uniform hyperedge probabilities.
method Sharp threshold established; two efficient algorithms for exact recovery.
result Sharp threshold for exact recovery; information-theoretic lower bound on misclassification.
Study exact community recovery in noisy SBM with limited queries.
problem Community recovery in noisy stochastic block models with limited queries.
method Balanced uniform querying, two-stage adaptive strategy, sublinear queries, subsampled graph.
result Adaptive querying can improve exact recovery limits in noisy SBM.
We study graph matching with correlated Gaussian features and find thresholds for exact recovery.
problem Graph matching with correlated Gaussian features.
method Information-theoretic thresholds and conditions for exact and almost exact recovery.
result Contextual information introduces a richer structure, with thresholds for exact and almost exact recovery no longer coinciding.
Exact recovery method for community detection in Gaussian mixtures with dependent noise.
problem Community detection in Gaussian mixtures with dependent and heterogeneous noise.
method Maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) for constrained quadratic optimization problem, using Σ-whitened separation and local inequalities. result Sharp exact-recovery threshold and no-gap mechanism in the unknown-size setting.
A matrix network is a family of matrices, with relatedness modeled by a weighted graph. We consider the task of completing a partially observed matrix network. We assume a novel sampling scheme where a fraction of matrices might be completely unobserved. How can we recover the entire matrix network from incomplete obse…
New model for community detection with side information improves recovery accuracy.
problem Community detection in networks with additional node data.
method Data Block Model (DBM) with Chernoff--TV divergence for threshold characterization and efficient algorithm.
result Sharp exact recovery threshold and efficient algorithm for DBM.
Exact recovery of tensor decomposition (TD) methods is a desirable property in both unsupervised learning and scientific data analysis. The numerical defects of TD methods, however, limit their practical applications on real-world data. As an alternative, convex tensor decomposition (CTD) was proposed to alleviate thes…
Paper finds exact recovery threshold in general hypergraph model.
problem Exact recovery of communities in general hypergraph model.
method Developed a two-stage polynomial-time algorithm for exact recovery.
result Sharp threshold for exact recovery in terms of generalized Chernoff-Hellinger divergence.
This work provides a guaranteed tensor recovery method by combining low-rankness and smoothness priors.
problem Guaranteed tensor recovery with theoretical guarantees for low-rank and smoothness priors.
method Developed a new regularization term that combines low-rankness and smoothness priors, proving exact recovery guarantees.
result Rigorously proved exact recovery guarantees for tensor completion and tensor robust principal component analysis.
Paper proposes a new method for exact recovery in robust tensor principal component analysis.
problem Exact recovery of low-rank and sparse components in tensors.
method Proposes a new method based on tensor-tensor product and t-SVD to solve a convex optimization problem.
result Exact recovery achieved in a deterministic fashion without randomness assumptions.
One-bit clustering method for two-component sub-Gaussian mixture models
problem Clustering in sub-Gaussian mixture models
method One-bit clustering using dithered quantization
result Decaying misclassification rate with exponential signal-to-noise ratio
Partial recovery of node mappings between correlated graphs is possible under specific conditions.
problem Recovering a one-to-one mapping between nodes of two correlated graphs with a fraction of correct matches.
method Analyzing the graph isomorphism problem as a noisy version, considering Erdős-Rényi graphs, and providing conditions for partial recovery.
result Necessary and sufficient conditions for partial recovery of node mappings in correlated graphs are given.
Paper explores limits of exact inference in structured prediction models.
problem Exact recovery of true labels in graph-based structured prediction models.
method Analyzes necessary and sufficient conditions for exact recovery using maximum likelihood estimation.
result Derives tight conditions for exact recovery, revealing a gap with computationally tractable methods.
Statistical-computational gap found in aligning multiple Gaussian graphs.
problem Aligning multiple Gaussian graphs with unknown signals.
method Generalized informational threshold and computational barrier analysis.
result Existence of a statistical-computational gap in multiple Gaussian graph alignment.
Study on ReLU regression with Massart noise, achieving exact parameter recovery.
problem Efficiently fitting ReLUs to data in the presence of Massart noise.
method Developed an efficient algorithm for exact parameter recovery under mild assumptions.
result Achieved exact parameter recovery in ReLU regression with Massart noise.
Paper studies vertex correspondence recovery in correlated graphs with node features.
problem Recovering hidden vertex correspondence between two correlated graphs with observed edge weights and node features.
method Introduced featured correlated Gaussian Wigner model and proposed QPAlign algorithm for quadratic programming relaxation.
result Characterized optimal information-theoretic thresholds for exact and partial recovery of latent mapping.
Convex optimization method recovers low-rank matrices from rank-one projections efficiently.
problem Recovering low-rank matrices from limited rank-one projections.
method Unlifted convex optimization with subgradient method.
result The estimator succeeds with high probability if the number of measurements exceeds r2(d1+d2) up to logarithmic factors. Motivated by applications such as discovering strong ties in social networks and assembling genome subsequences in biology, we study the problem of recovering a hidden 2k-nearest neighbor (NN) graph in an n-vertex complete graph, whose edge weights are independent and distributed according to Pn for edges in the…
In this paper, we consider the problem of estimating the underlying graph associated with an Ising model given a number of independent and identically distributed samples. We adopt an \emph{approximate recovery} criterion that allows for a number of missed edges or incorrectly-included edges, in contrast with the widel…
This paper investigates gradient recovery schemes for data defined on discretized manifolds. The proposed method, parametric polynomial preserving recovery (PPPR), does not require the tangent spaces of the exact manifolds, and they have been assumed for some significant gradient recovery methods in the literature. Ano…
The paper tackles partial inference in structured prediction using a convex optimization approach.
problem Maximizing a score function with unary and pairwise potentials in graph label spaces.
method Generative model approach with two-stage convex optimization for label recovery.
result Conditions for recovering a majority of labels with provable guarantees.
In this note we compare two recently proposed semidefinite relaxations for the sparse linear regression problem by Pilanci, Wainwright and El Ghaoui (Sparse learning via boolean relaxations, 2015) and Dong, Chen and Linderoth (Relaxation vs. Regularization A conic optimization perspective of statistical variable select…
New method for community detection in sparse directed SBMs with exact recovery guarantees.
problem Exact recovery in sparse directed SBMs, especially with growing communities.
method Two-stage procedure: neighborhood-smoothing followed by K-means clustering. result Exact recovery of all community labels with probability tending to one under mild sparsity and separation conditions.
This paper considers compressed sensing and affine rank minimization in both noiseless and noisy cases and establishes sharp restricted isometry conditions for sparse signal and low-rank matrix recovery. The analysis relies on a key technical tool which represents points in a polytope by convex combinations of sparse v…
Nonconvex matrix recovery is known to contain no spurious local minima under a restricted isometry property (RIP) with a sufficiently small RIP constant δ. If δ is too large, however, then counterexamples containing spurious local minima are known to exist. In this paper, we introduce a proof technique that is capa…
Optimal algorithms learn Gaussian trees and polytrees from data.
problem Learning undirected Gaussian trees and polytrees from data.
method Two approaches: Chow-Liu algorithm for tree structure and modified PC algorithm for polytree structure.
result Explicit finite-sample guarantees and matching lower bounds for both approaches.
We study the effect of the quality and quantity of side information on the recovery of a hidden community of size K=o(n) in a graph of size n. Side information for each node in the graph is modeled by a random vector with the following features: either the dimension of the vector is allowed to vary with n, while …
Study exact community detection in k-community Gaussian mixtures with different intensities.
problem Community detection in k-community Gaussian mixtures with varying intensities.
method Explicitly find the threshold for exact recovery of maximum likelihood estimation.
result Threshold for exact recovery of maximum likelihood estimation is identified.
New algorithm achieves almost exact graph matching in almost quadratic time.
problem Graph matching under correlated Erdős-Rényi models.
method Rank-based graph matching using local tree correlation tests.
result Achieves almost exact recovery in almost quadratic time complexity.
The support recovery problem consists of determining a sparse subset of a set of variables that is relevant in generating a set of observations, and arises in a diverse range of settings such as compressive sensing, and subset selection in regression, and group testing. In this paper, we take a unified approach to supp…
In this correspondence, we obtain exact recovery conditions for regularized modified basis pursuit (reg-mod-BP) and discuss when the obtained conditions are weaker than those for modified-CS or for basis pursuit (BP). The discussion is also supported by simulation comparisons. Reg-mod-BP provides a solution to the spar…
Study robust recovery of low-rank matrices from corrupted measurements without rank prior.
problem Robust recovery of low-rank matrices from corrupted Gaussian measurements with unknown rank.
method Subgradient method with diminishing stepsizes for nonconvex nonsmooth problem.
result Subgradient method converges to exact low-rank solution at sublinear rate under RDPP condition.
We consider the Orthogonal Least-Squares (OLS) algorithm for the recovery of a m-dimensional k-sparse signal from a low number of noisy linear measurements. The Exact Recovery Condition (ERC) in bounded noisy scenario is established for OLS under certain condition on nonzero elements of the signal. The new result a…
We consider the exact recovery problem in the hypergraph stochastic block model (HSBM) with k blocks of equal size. More precisely, we consider a random d-uniform hypergraph H with n vertices partitioned into k clusters of size s=n/k. Hyperedges e are added independently with probability p if e is…
Algorithm recovers sparse PCA support from incomplete data.
problem Sparse PCA with incomplete and noisy data.
method Semidefinite program (SDP) relaxation of non-convex l1-regularized PCA. result SDP enables exact recovery of true support of sparse leading eigenvector.
New method recovers matrix column space with active sampling for better results.
problem Recovering column space of partially observed matrices with limited data.
method Alternating minimization with active sampling strategy.
result Active sampling improves convergence to true column space with higher probability.
We study the problem of recovering a hidden community of cardinality K from an n×n symmetric data matrix A, where for distinct indices i,j, Aij∼P if i,j both belong to the community and Aij∼Q otherwise, for two known probability distributions P and Q depending on n. If $P={\r…
When the linear measurements of an instance of low-rank matrix recovery satisfy a restricted isometry property (RIP)---i.e. they are approximately norm-preserving---the problem is known to contain no spurious local minima, so exact recovery is guaranteed. In this paper, we show that moderate RIP is not enough to elimin…