Search Results for author: Cheng Mao

Found 19 papers, 0 papers with code

Spectral Graph Matching and Regularized Quadratic Relaxations: Algorithm and Theory

no code implementations ICML 2020 Zhou Fan, Cheng Mao, Yihong Wu, Jiaming Xu

Graph matching, also known as network alignment, aims at recovering the latent vertex correspondence between two unlabeled, edge-correlated weighted graphs.

Computational Efficiency Graph Matching

Information-Theoretic Thresholds for Planted Dense Cycles

no code implementations1 Feb 2024 Cheng Mao, Alexander S. Wein, Shenduo Zhang

We study a random graph model for small-world networks which are ubiquitous in social and biological sciences.

Detection of Dense Subhypergraphs by Low-Degree Polynomials

no code implementations17 Apr 2023 Abhishek Dhawan, Cheng Mao, Alexander S. Wein

We consider detecting the presence of a planted $G^r(n^\gamma, n^{-\alpha})$ subhypergraph in a $G^r(n, n^{-\beta})$ hypergraph, where $0< \alpha < \beta < r-1$ and $0 < \gamma < 1$.

Sharp analysis of EM for learning mixtures of pairwise differences

no code implementations20 Feb 2023 Abhishek Dhawan, Cheng Mao, Ashwin Pananjady

We consider a symmetric mixture of linear regressions with random samples from the pairwise comparison design, which can be seen as a noisy version of a type of Euclidean distance geometry problem.

Detection-Recovery Gap for Planted Dense Cycles

no code implementations13 Feb 2023 Cheng Mao, Alexander S. Wein, Shenduo Zhang

Planted dense cycles are a type of latent structure that appears in many applications, such as small-world networks in social sciences and sequence assembly in computational biology.

Random graph matching at Otter's threshold via counting chandeliers

no code implementations25 Sep 2022 Cheng Mao, Yihong Wu, Jiaming Xu, Sophie H. Yu

We propose an efficient algorithm for graph matching based on similarity scores constructed from counting a certain family of weighted trees rooted at each vertex.

Graph Matching

Testing network correlation efficiently via counting trees

no code implementations22 Oct 2021 Cheng Mao, Yihong Wu, Jiaming Xu, Sophie H. Yu

We propose a new procedure for testing whether two networks are edge-correlated through some latent vertex correspondence.

Exact Matching of Random Graphs with Constant Correlation

no code implementations11 Oct 2021 Cheng Mao, Mark Rudelson, Konstantin Tikhomirov

Let $G$ and $G'$ be $G(n, p)$ Erd\H{o}s--R\'enyi graphs marginally, identified with their adjacency matrices.

Graph Matching

Optimal Spectral Recovery of a Planted Vector in a Subspace

no code implementations31 May 2021 Cheng Mao, Alexander S. Wein

Recovering a planted vector $v$ in an $n$-dimensional random subspace of $\mathbb{R}^N$ is a generic task related to many problems in machine learning and statistics, such as dictionary learning, subspace recovery, principal component analysis, and non-Gaussian component analysis.

Dictionary Learning

Random Graph Matching with Improved Noise Robustness

no code implementations28 Jan 2021 Cheng Mao, Mark Rudelson, Konstantin Tikhomirov

Graph matching, also known as network alignment, refers to finding a bijection between the vertex sets of two given graphs so as to maximally align their edges.

Graph Matching

Learning Mixtures of Permutations: Groups of Pairwise Comparisons and Combinatorial Method of Moments

no code implementations14 Sep 2020 Cheng Mao, Yihong Wu

In applications such as rank aggregation, mixture models for permutations are frequently used when the population exhibits heterogeneity.

Spectral Graph Matching and Regularized Quadratic Relaxations I: The Gaussian Model

no code implementations20 Jul 2019 Zhou Fan, Cheng Mao, Yihong Wu, Jiaming Xu

Departing from prior spectral approaches that only compare top eigenvectors, or eigenvectors of the same order, GRAMPA first constructs a similarity matrix as a weighted sum of outer products between all pairs of eigenvectors of the two graphs, with weights given by a Cauchy kernel applied to the separation of the corresponding eigenvalues, then outputs a matching by a simple rounding procedure.

Computational Efficiency Graph Matching

Spectral Graph Matching and Regularized Quadratic Relaxations II: Erdős-Rényi Graphs and Universality

no code implementations20 Jul 2019 Zhou Fan, Cheng Mao, Yihong Wu, Jiaming Xu

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.

Graph Matching

Estimation of Monge Matrices

no code implementations5 Apr 2019 Jan-Christian Hütter, Cheng Mao, Philippe Rigollet, Elina Robeva

Monge matrices and their permuted versions known as pre-Monge matrices naturally appear in many domains across science and engineering.

Towards Optimal Estimation of Bivariate Isotonic Matrices with Unknown Permutations

no code implementations25 Jun 2018 Cheng Mao, Ashwin Pananjady, Martin J. Wainwright

Many applications, including rank aggregation, crowd-labeling, and graphon estimation, can be modeled in terms of a bivariate isotonic matrix with unknown permutations acting on its rows and/or columns.

Graphon Estimation

Breaking the $1/\sqrt{n}$ Barrier: Faster Rates for Permutation-based Models in Polynomial Time

no code implementations27 Feb 2018 Cheng Mao, Ashwin Pananjady, Martin J. Wainwright

Many applications, including rank aggregation and crowd-labeling, can be modeled in terms of a bivariate isotonic matrix with unknown permutations acting on its rows and columns.

Minimax Rates and Efficient Algorithms for Noisy Sorting

no code implementations28 Oct 2017 Cheng Mao, Jonathan Weed, Philippe Rigollet

There has been a recent surge of interest in studying permutation-based models for ranking from pairwise comparison data.

Worst-case vs Average-case Design for Estimation from Fixed Pairwise Comparisons

no code implementations19 Jul 2017 Ashwin Pananjady, Cheng Mao, Vidya Muthukumar, Martin J. Wainwright, Thomas A. Courtade

We show that when the assignment of items to the topology is arbitrary, these permutation-based models, unlike their parametric counterparts, do not admit consistent estimation for most comparison topologies used in practice.

Optimal Rates of Statistical Seriation

no code implementations8 Jul 2016 Nicolas Flammarion, Cheng Mao, Philippe Rigollet

Given a matrix the seriation problem consists in permuting its rows in such way that all its columns have the same shape, for example, they are monotone increasing.

Denoising

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