New model preserves graph structure in large datasets.
problem Lack of permutation invariance in graph generation models for large graphs.
method Uses graph embeddings to create a scalable generative model.
result Model maintains structure in large graphs without losing invariance.
We introduce a new framework for comparing parametric network families.
problem Comparing and analyzing data modeled as parameterized families of networks.
method A Gromov-Wasserstein variant of optimal transport for defining distances.
result Established foundational properties and theoretical approximation guarantees for the new distances.
Study reveals neural scaling laws in random graphs and natural language models.
problem Understanding the origin of neural scaling laws in complex systems.
method Examined scaling laws in transformers trained on random walks and simplified natural language models.
result Neural scaling laws emerge in the absence of power law structure in data correlations.
New method certifies deep graph classifiers with tighter risk bounds.
problem Certifying the reliability of deep graph classifiers.
method Linearized deep assignment flows with random initial conditions, using PAC-Bayes risk certification.
result Computes tighter out-of-sample risk certificates efficiently.
In this work, we consider an extension of graphical models to random graphs, trees, and other objects. To do this, many fundamental concepts for multivariate random variables (e.g., marginal variables, Gibbs distribution, Markov properties) must be extended to other mathematical objects; it turns out that this extensio…
This paper evaluates LLMs on large graph property estimation tasks.
problem Limited context length of LLMs limits their evaluation on large graphs.
method Developed EstGraph dataset and introduced four tasks for LLMs to estimate large graph properties.
result LLMs perform better on graph property estimation tasks when provided with context-rich prompts based on random walks.
Continuous vector representations of words and objects appear to carry surprisingly rich semantic content. In this paper, we advance both the conceptual and theoretical understanding of word embeddings in three ways. First, we ground embeddings in semantic spaces studied in cognitive-psychometric literature and introdu…
FGN models networks with fractal structures using Gaussian Multiplicative Chaos.
problem Modeling networks with fractal structures.
method FGN model based on Gaussian Multiplicative Chaos.
result FGNs reveal distinct scaling patterns in edge and clique counts.
This paper studies semi-supervised object classification in relational data, which is a fundamental problem in relational data modeling. The problem has been extensively studied in the literature of both statistical relational learning (e.g. relational Markov networks) and graph neural networks (e.g. graph convolutiona…
New method recovers graph latent positions under edge differential privacy.
problem Recovering latent graph information from privatized graphs.
method Applying geometric insights to adjust statistical inference for privatized graphs.
result Achieves consistent recovery of latent positions under local edge differential privacy constraints.
Graph matching in noisy environments with Markovian errors.
problem Graph matching under time-dependent Markovian noise.
method Introduced edgelighter error model and analyzed graph matching thresholds.
result Graph matching thresholds and mixing times are of order Θ(n2logn) for Erdős-Rényi graphs, and O(nαlogn) for Stochastic Block Model graphs. The natural habitat of most Bayesian methods is data represented by exchangeable sequences of observations, for which de Finetti's theorem provides the theoretical foundation. Dirichlet process clustering, Gaussian process regression, and many other parametric and nonparametric Bayesian models fall within the remit of …
Starting from an arbitrary sequence of polygons whose total perimeter is 2n, we can build an (oriented) surface by pairing their sides in a uniform fashion. Chmutov and Pittel (arXiv:1503.01816) have shown that, regardless of the configuration of polygons we started with, the degree sequence of the graph obtained thi…
Torus graphs analyze multivariate phase coupling among brain signals.
problem Identifying coordinated phase changes across multiple brain regions.
method Torus graphs based on full exponential family with pairwise interactions.
result Torus graphs accurately identify conditional associations in multivariate phase data.
Empirical error estimates improve graph sparsification reliability.
problem Uncertainty in sparsification error limits downstream computations reliability.
method Data-driven approach to compute empirical error estimates.
result Empirical error estimates provide theoretical guarantees and are computationally feasible.
We consider a family of problems that are concerned about making predictions for the majority of unlabeled, graph-structured data samples based on a small proportion of labeled samples. Relational information among the data samples, often encoded in the graph/network structure, is shown to be helpful for these semi-sup…
Hypergraph partitioning lies at the heart of a number of problems in machine learning and network sciences. Many algorithms for hypergraph partitioning have been proposed that extend standard approaches for graph partitioning to the case of hypergraphs. However, theoretical aspects of such methods have seldom received …
This paper investigates the behavior of the Min-Sum message passing scheme to solve systems of linear equations in the Laplacian matrices of graphs and to compute electric flows. Voltage and flow problems involve the minimization of quadratic functions and are fundamental primitives that arise in several domains. Algor…
New method for faster graph parameter inference from large random Kronecker graphs.
problem Efficiently infer graph parameters from large random Kronecker graphs.
method Decompose adjacency matrix into signal and noise components, then use denoising and solving approach.
result Proposed method achieves comparable or better performance than existing methods at lower computational cost.
Researchers prove inner product recovery is impossible in latent space models.
problem Recovering inner products in latent space models with random geometric graphs.
method Rate-distortion theory applied to Gaussian or spherical latent locations.
result Impossible to recover inner products if dimensionality exceeds nh(p), matching positive results' conditions. GraphMoE generates random graphs using neural networks and graphlets.
problem Learning generative models for random graphs.
method GraphMoE uses a neural network trained with graphlets and subgraph counts to match the distribution of random graphs.
result GraphMoE can generate graphs that mimic various real-world datasets and fool graph classifiers.
Graph Neural Networks struggle on random graphs without node identifiers.
problem Graph Neural Networks' limitations on random graphs without node identifiers.
method Study of Graph Neural Networks and Structural Graph Neural Networks convergence on large random graphs.
result Structural Graph Neural Networks are more powerful and universal than Graph Neural Networks on random graphs.
The study examines convergence of stochastic processes on large graphs and adjacency matrices.
problem Analyzing convergence of stochastic processes on large graphs and adjacency matrices.
method Introduced new metrics on the space of measure-valued graphons and used them to show convergence of random trajectories to deterministic curves.
result The Metropolis chain converges to a deterministic gradient flow curve on the space of graphons under certain conditions.
In this work we study the degree distribution, the maximum vertex and edge flow in non-uniform random Delaunay triangulations when geodesic routing is used. We also investigate the vertex and edge flow in Erdös-Renyi random graphs, geometric random graphs, expanders and random k-regular graphs. Moreover we show that …
Many applications collect a large number of time series, for example, the financial data of companies quoted in a stock exchange, the health care data of all patients that visit the emergency room of a hospital, or the temperature sequences continuously measured by weather stations across the US. These data are often r…
This review introduces graph kernels for chemoinformatics.
problem Quantifying similarity between molecular graphs.
method Graph kernels as a method for quantifying molecular graph similarity.
result Graph kernels have direct applications in chemoinformatics.
A novel model-selection method for dynamic networks using synthetic data.
problem Classifying and understanding the growth mechanisms of dynamic networks.
method Training a classifier on synthetic network data generated by nine random graph models, using dynamic features that count new links.
result Achieves near-perfect classification of synthetic networks, outperforming state-of-the-art methods.
Power of network tests degrades when vertices are misaligned.
problem Power loss in network hypothesis testing due to vertex shuffling.
method Theoretical analysis and simulations of Frobenius norm differences in random dot product and stochastic block models.
result Shuffling vertices can significantly reduce the power of network tests.
Sharp threshold found for Frechet mean of inhomogeneous graphs.
problem Finding the Frechet mean of inhomogeneous Erdos-Renyi random graphs.
method Thresholding the expected adjacency matrix of the ensemble.
result The Frechet mean graph of inhomogeneous Erdos-Renyi random graphs exhibits a sharp threshold.
This work tackles causal graph discovery with stochastic interventions to minimize the number of interventions.
problem Discovering the true causal graph from observational data with limited interventions.
method Proposes a stochastic intervention model and studies verification and search problems with approximation algorithms.
result Provides approximation algorithms with competitive ratios for verification and search problems.
New methods for calculating curvature in graph theory.
problem Calculating curvature in graphs and random walks.
method Analyzing continuous and discrete-time Ollivier-Ricci curvatures of weighted graphs.
result Generalized existence and properties of Ollivier-Ricci curvature for various random walks.
Information about intrinsic dimension is crucial to perform dimensionality reduction, compress information, design efficient algorithms, and do statistical adaptation. In this paper we propose an estimator for the intrinsic dimension of a data set. The estimator is based on binary neighbourhood information about the ob…
New graph kernel scales well with graph size and number, achieving state-of-the-art performance.
problem Graph kernels lose structure information when representing graphs.
method Proposes a positive-definite global alignment graph kernel using random features and random graph embeddings.
result Achieves quasi-linear scalability with respect to graph size and number.
The paper deals with the problem of identifying the internal dependencies and similarities among a large number of random processes. Linear models are considered to describe the relations among the time series and the energy associated to the corresponding modeling error is the criterion adopted to quantify their simil…
Topology helps estimate chromatic numbers of random graphs on spheres.
problem Estimating chromatic numbers of random graphs on spheres.
method Topology, specifically connectivity of Lóvasz's neighborhood complex.
result Connectivity bound is useful in dimensions 1 and 2, but generally poor.
Unified framework for network model assessment using maximum entropy.
problem Statistical inference for network models.
method Constrained entropy-maximization problem, Lagrange multipliers.
result Consistent goodness-of-fit and two-sample tests for network models.
Given an edge-independent random graph G(n,p), we determine various facts about the cohomology of graph products of groups for the graph G(n,p). In particular, the random graph product of a sequence of finite groups is a rational duality group with probability tending to 1 as n goes to infinity. This includes random ri…
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.
A new method improves graph random features with quasi-Monte Carlo techniques.
problem Improving the accuracy of graph random features.
method Induces negative correlations in random walks using antithetic termination.
result Strong theoretical guarantees on lower-variance estimators of the Laplacian kernel.
This paper presents VEC-NBT, a variation on the unsupervised graph clustering technique VEC, which improves upon the performance of the original algorithm significantly for sparse graphs. VEC employs a novel application of the state-of-the-art word2vec model to embed a graph in Euclidean space via random walks on the n…
The paper analyzes rates of approximation for eigenpairs of Laplace-Beltrami operators on manifolds.
problem Estimating eigenpairs of elliptic differential operators from manifold samples.
method Analyzes minimax rates for eigenvalue and eigenvector estimation using graph Laplacians.
result The minimax rate for H1(M)-sense approximation is n−2/(d+4). Paper explores grafting consistent estimators to improve Random Forest consistency.
problem Ensuring Random Forests are consistent despite their performance.
method Grafting consistent estimators onto a shallow CART.
result Grafted estimators provide a consistency guarantee and perform well empirically.
Adding random features to GNNs improves their performance.
problem Limitations of GNNs in distinguishing graphs and learning efficient algorithms.
method Adding random features to each node in GNNs.
result Random features enable GNNs to learn optimal algorithms for graph problems.
Study evaluates neural networks based on random graph structures and finds key performance indicators.
problem Understanding and optimizing neural network architectures using graph theory.
method Evaluation of neural networks with random graph structures, focusing on structural and numerical properties.
result A new numerical graph characteristic selects a set of quasi-1-dimensional graphs that perform well.
Uniform drift estimates found for random walks on graph products.
problem Finding uniform lower bounds on drift for random walks on graph products.
method Extending Gouëzel's argument and introducing the combinatorial notion of piling.
result Uniform lower bounds on the drift for a family of random walks on graph products.
Linear time algorithm for random walk kernels on sparse graphs.
problem Efficient computation of general random walk kernels for large graphs.
method Sample dependent random walks to compute graph embeddings without direct graph product.
result Up to 27x faster and scalable to 128x larger graphs than previous methods.
Repelling random walks improve graph-based sampling efficiency.
problem Efficient graph-based sampling and statistical estimation.
method Induces correlations between trajectories of an ensemble of walkers on a graph, maintaining unbiasedness.
result Improves concentration of statistical estimators on graphs.
Dynamic networks are a general language for describing time-evolving complex systems, and discrete time network models provide an emerging statistical technique for various applications. It is a fundamental research question to detect the community structure in time-evolving networks. However, due to significant comput…