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Sparse Quadratic Approximation for Graph Learning

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posted on 2022-04-26, 18:36 authored by Dimosthenis PasadakisDimosthenis Pasadakis, Matthias Bollhöfer, Olaf Schenk

Learning graphs represented by M-matrices via an l1-regularized Gaussian maximum-likelihood method is a popular approach, but also one that poses computational challenges for large scale datasets. Recently proposed methods cast this problem as a constrained optimization variant of precision matrix estimation. In this paper, we build on a state-of-the-art sparse precision matrix estimation method and introduce two algorithms that learn M-matrices, that can be subsequently used for the estimation of graph Laplacian matrices. In the first one, we propose an unconstrained method that follows a post processing approach in order to learn an M-matrix, and in the second one, we implement a constrained approach based on sequential quadratic programming. We also demonstrate the effectiveness, accuracy, and performance of both algorithms. Our numerical examples and comparative results with modern open-source packages reveal that the proposed methods can accelerate the learning of graphs by up to 3 orders of magnitude, while accurately retrieving the latent graphical structure of the data. Furthermore, we conduct large scale case studies for the clustering of COVID-19 daily cases and the classification of image datasets to highlight the applicability in real-world scenarios.

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Balanced Graph Partition Refinement using the Graph p-Laplacian

Swiss National Science Foundation

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Email Address of Submitting Author

dimosthenis.pasadakis@usi.ch

ORCID of Submitting Author

0000-0001-8580-1023

Submitting Author's Institution

Università della Svizzera italiana | USI

Submitting Author's Country

  • Switzerland