New method learns high-quality Laplacian representations for reinforcement learning.
problem Lack of accurate Laplacian representations in large or continuous state spaces.
method Reformulated spectral graph drawing objective to have eigenvectors as unique global minimizer.
result Learned Laplacian representations more faithfully approximate the ground truth.
A new method boosts graph neural networks by preventing over-smoothing and over-squashing.
problem Graph Neural Networks struggle with long-range signals and over-smoothing/over-squashing.
method Proposes PowerEmbed, a layer-wise normalization technique inspired by spectral graph embedding.
result PowerEmbed prevents over-smoothing and avoids over-squashing, improving performance on heterophilous graphs.
We present a frame-invariant method for detecting coherent structures from Lagrangian flow trajectories that can be sparse in number, as is the case in many fluid mechanics applications of practical interest. The method, based on principles used in graph coloring and spectral graph drawing algorithms, examines a measur…
We discuss a variant of `blind' community detection, in which we aim to partition an unobserved network from the observation of a (dynamical) graph signal defined on the network. We consider a scenario where our observed graph signals are obtained by filtering white noise input, and the underlying network is different …
Criteria found for graph drawings on surfaces.
problem Graph drawings on surfaces.
method Criteria for integer and modulo 2 embeddability.
result Found criteria for graph drawings on surfaces.
Rotation systems can't always be drawn in surfaces.
problem Rotation systems and simple drawings in surfaces.
method Extended the plane result to all fixed surfaces.
result Existence of rotation systems not arising from simple drawings in any fixed surface.
For a graph representation of a dataset, a straightforward normality measure for a sample can be its graph degree. Considering a weighted graph, degree of a sample is the sum of the corresponding row's values in a similarity matrix. The measure is intuitive given the abnormal samples are usually rare and they are dissi…
We present a method based on the orthogonal symmetric non-negative matrix tri-factorization of the normalized Laplacian matrix for community detection in complex networks. While the exact factorization of a given order may not exist and is NP hard to compute, we obtain an approximate factorization by solving an optimiz…
Stress, edge crossings, and crossing angles play an important role in the quality and readability of graph drawings. Most standard graph drawing algorithms optimize one of these criteria which may lead to layouts that are deficient in other criteria. We introduce an optimization framework, Stress-Plus-X (SPX), that sim…
Subspace clustering (SC) refers to the problem of clustering high-dimensional data into a union of low-dimensional subspaces. Based on spectral clustering, state-of-the-art approaches solve SC problem within a two-stage framework. In the first stage, data representation techniques are applied to draw an affinity matrix…
A graph-based sampling and consensus (GraphSAC) approach is introduced to effectively detect anomalous nodes in large-scale graphs. Existing approaches rely on connectivity and attributes of all nodes to assign an anomaly score per node. However, nodal attributes and network links might be compromised by adversaries, r…
Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) suffer from the irregularity of graphs, while more widely-used convolutional neural networks (CNNs) benefit from regular grids. To bridge the gap between GCN and CNN, in contrast to previous works on generalizing the basic operations in CNNs to graph data, in this paper we address th…
Paper proves MDS NP-hard and provides a PTAS.
problem Theoretical limitations of MDS objective function.
method Proves NP-hardness and provides a PTAS approximation algorithm.
result Minimizing Kamada-Kawai objective is NP-hard.
New concept of k-holes in simple drawings and convex drawings.
problem Investigate holes in convex and simple drawings.
method Structural investigation of pseudolinear subdrawings in convex drawings.
result Existence of empty 4-cycles in every simple drawing of K_n.
Improved spectral clustering algorithm for better performance.
problem Improving the performance of spectral clustering algorithms.
method Developed a new performance guarantee under a weaker assumption and evaluated using a different spectral embedding map.
result Better performance guarantee under a weaker assumption and evaluation of a new spectral embedding map.
Root Laplacian Eigenmaps help in spectral embedding of graphs.
problem Efficient spectral embedding of graphs.
method Square root of graph-Laplacian operator.
result Improved spectral embedding techniques.
GRASPEL learns large graphs from data efficiently.
problem Learning meaningful graphs from data for various applications.
method Highly scalable spectral approach using graph Laplacians and coarsening techniques.
result Ultra-sparse graphs with improved efficiency and accuracy in spectral clustering and t-SNE.
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…
Introduces Spectral Graph Network combining spatial and spectral message passing.
problem Relational reasoning in graph structured data.
method Applies message passing to both spatial and spectral domains of a graph.
result Promotes efficient training with fewer iterations and robustness to edge dropout.
Enhanced spectral clustering for geometric graphs improves clustering accuracy.
problem Ineffective standard spectral clustering for geometric graphs.
method Higher-order spectral clustering using higher-order eigenvectors.
result Established weak and strong consistency for Soft Geometric Block Model.
Graph convolutional networks(GCNs) have become the most popular approaches for graph data in these days because of their powerful ability to extract features from graph. GCNs approaches are divided into two categories, spectral-based and spatial-based. As the earliest convolutional networks for graph data, spectral-bas…
Proves generic existence of spectral networks for many cases.
problem Existence of spectral networks for a broad range of spectral data.
method Generic existence proof for spectral networks.
result Proves existence for a large class of spectral data.
Laplacian Eigenvectors of the graph constructed from a data set are used in many spectral manifold learning algorithms such as diffusion maps and spectral clustering. Given a graph constructed from a random sample of a d-dimensional compact submanifold M in RD, we establish the spectral convergence rate…
Optimizes graph spectral density learning for large networks.
problem Ad-hoc kernel function and bandwidth selection in graph spectral techniques.
method Maximum Entropy approach to learn a smooth graph spectral density.
result Outperforms comparable iterative spectral approaches on synthetic and real graphs.
Proposes a Gaussian process for graph signals using adaptive spectral kernels.
problem Predicting signals on graph nodes with various structures.
method Spectral kernel learning approach that incorporates a polynomial function in the graph spectral domain.
result The model accurately recovers ground truth spectral filters and outperforms in real-world graph data.
Graph classification improved using spectral features and wavelet filters.
problem Categorizing graphs based on their structure and node attributes.
method Derived spectral features from graph signal processing, designed two Gaussian process models: one simple and one sophisticated.
result Simple and sophisticated Gaussian process models yield competitive performance, including well-calibrated uncertainty estimates.
There are three main thrusts to this article: a new proof of Levi's Enlargement Lemma for pseudoline arrangements in the real projective plane; a new characterization of pseudolinear drawings of the complete graph; and proofs that pseudolinear and convex drawings of Kn have n2+O(nlogn) and O(n2), respect…
The paper bridges spectral and spatial graph convolutions, improving model capacity and transferability.
problem Improving graph neural networks by bridging spectral and spatial design.
method Theoretical demonstration and general framework for spectral analysis, new spectral convolutions, and depthwise separable convolutions.
result General framework allows spectral analysis of ConvGNNs, showing their performance and limits, and proposing new spectral convolutions.
Accelerates optimal transport computation by 10x with spectral insights.
problem Exponential slow-down of convergence in Entropic Optimal Transport as regularization weakens.
method Spectral insights and spectral warm-start strategy to mitigate convergence issues.
result Faster convergence compared to the reference method Sinkhorn algorithm.
Paper revisits graph-CNNs using Laplace-Beltrami spectral filters and polynomials.
problem Improving spectral graph convolutional neural networks (graph-CNNs).
method Developed Laplace-Beltrami CNN (LB-CNN) by replacing graph Laplacian with LB operator and approximating spectral filters using Chebyshev, Laguerre, and Hermite polynomials.
result Classification accuracy of LB-CNN is not dependent on the type of polynomials or operators.
The paper defines surface area for graphs and derives spectral estimates.
problem Understanding connectivity measures and spectral properties of graphs.
method Introducing surface area concepts related to inverse degree and deriving spectral bounds.
result An upper bound on the second eigenvalue for planar graphs.
Spectral clustering for directed graphs using likelihood estimation.
problem Clustering directed graphs with edge directions.
method Maximum likelihood estimation on stochastic block models.
result Significant performance gains over existing methods.
Novel Haar-Laplacian for directed graphs enhances spectral graph applications.
problem Lack of suitable Laplacian for directed graphs in spectral graph theory.
method Inspired by Haar-like transformation, introduces a Hermitian matrix preserving direction and weight.
result HaarNet outperforms in weight prediction and denoising on directed graphs.
Graph convolutional networks fail to use eigenvectors beyond the first, unlike spectral embedding.
problem Understanding when graph convolutional networks fail compared to spectral embedding.
method Presented a simple generative model to illustrate failure.
result Graph convolutional networks fail to use eigenvectors beyond the first in certain graphs.
Can one reduce the size of a graph without significantly altering its basic properties? The graph reduction problem is hereby approached from the perspective of restricted spectral approximation, a modification of the spectral similarity measure used for graph sparsification. This choice is motivated by the observation…
Optimizes wavelets for graph classification using spectral wavelet signatures and persistence diagrams.
problem Graph classification with geometric properties encoded in persistence diagrams.
method Optimizes spectral wavelets for graph datasets to capture best-suited features for classification.
result Competitive performance in graph classification problems compared to other persistence-based architectures.
The aim of the present article is to give an overview of spectral theory on metric graphs guided by spectral geometry on discrete graphs and manifolds. We present the basic concept of metric graphs and natural Laplacians acting on it and explicitly allow infinite graphs. Motivated by the general form of a Laplacian on …
FoSR adds edges to graphs to prevent oversquashing and oversmoothing in GNNs.
problem Oversquashing and oversmoothing in graph neural networks (GNNs).
method First-order spectral rewiring to add edges based on spectral expansion, combined with a relational architecture.
result Our algorithm outperforms existing graph rewiring methods in graph classification tasks.
IGT learns graph representations without supervision.
problem Building deep unsupervised graph representations.
method Generic complex-valued spectral graph architecture from Fourier transform generalization, greedy concave objective for discriminative and invariant features.
result IGT learns both discriminative and invariant features from graph topology.
New equivariant filters improve graph classification.
problem Designing deep learning models for graph symmetries.
method Nonlinear spectral filters (NLSFs) that are equivariant to graph functional shifts.
result NLSFs outperform existing spectral GNNs in graph classification.
Spectral ranking methods are improved against semi-random graph sampling.
problem Improving spectral ranking methods in semi-random graph sampling.
method Investigating entry-wise error of spectral algorithms against a semi-random adversary.
result Asymptotic performance can be recovered by reweighting observed edges.
SpGAT learns graph representations using spectral attention for efficiency.
problem Efficiently capturing global graph patterns with minimal parameters.
method Introduces Spectral Graph Attention Network (SpGAT) using spectral domain attention mechanisms and a fast Chebychev approximation.
result SpGAT achieves better global pattern recognition with fewer parameters compared to GAT.
The eigendeomposition of nearest-neighbor (NN) graph Laplacian matrices is the main computational bottleneck in spectral clustering. In this work, we introduce a highly-scalable, spectrum-preserving graph sparsification algorithm that enables to build ultra-sparse NN (u-NN) graphs with guaranteed preservation of the or…
Spectral graph sparsification preserves geometry of GNN embeddings.
problem Maintaining geometric properties of graph neural network embeddings during sparsification.
method Proving spectral sparsification preserves squared pairwise distances, class means, and covariance structure in embedding space.
result Spectral sparsification preserves the geometry of learned embeddings in GNNs.
Consistent spectral clustering with fairness constraints on representation graphs.
problem Finding balanced clusters in similarity graphs with fairness constraints.
method Developed variants of unnormalized and normalized spectral clustering for fair planted partitions.
result Consistency results for constrained spectral clustering under fair planted partitions.
Detects graph topology changes from noisy signals using prior spectral information.
problem Detecting changes in graph topology from graph signals.
method Leverages graph filtering and subspace detection to distill problem into a CUSUM-based algorithm.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of incorporating prior spectral signatures for change-point detection.
Unified framework for analyzing graph neural operators converging to graph limits.
problem Analyzing convergence of graph neural operators to graph limits.
method Develops a unified spectral framework for graph neural operators under various graphon assumptions.
result Unified framework enables direct comparison of convergence rates and tradeoffs.
A novel 3D shape registration method using spectral graph embedding and probabilistic matching.
problem Challenges in 3D shape analysis and registration, especially with large variability.
method Combining spectral graph matching with Laplacian embedding for large graphs, using commute-time embedding and PCA.
result A method to register shapes with different samplings and isometric deformations.