no code implementations • 23 Apr 2024 • Sawyer Robertson, Zhengchao Wan, Alexander Cloninger
The fields of effective resistance and optimal transport on graphs are filled with rich connections to combinatorics, geometry, machine learning, and beyond.
no code implementations • 22 Feb 2024 • Mitchell Black, Zhengchao Wan, Gal Mishne, Amir Nayyeri, Yusu Wang
The distinguishing power of graph transformers is closely tied to the choice of positional encoding: features used to augment the base transformer with information about the graph.
1 code implementation • 16 Feb 2023 • Tristan Brugère, Zhengchao Wan, Yusu Wang
Recently, in the graph learning and optimization communities, a range of new approaches have been developed for comparing graphs with node attributes, leveraging ideas such as the Optimal Transport (OT) and the Weisfeiler-Lehman (WL) graph isomorphism test.
1 code implementation • 14 Feb 2023 • Mitchell Black, Zhengchao Wan, Amir Nayyeri, Yusu Wang
We propose to use total effective resistance as a bound of the total amount of oversquashing in a graph and provide theoretical justification for its use.
no code implementations • 1 Feb 2023 • Samantha Chen, Sunhyuk Lim, Facundo Mémoli, Zhengchao Wan, Yusu Wang
This new interpretation connects the WL distance to the literature on distances for stochastic processes, which also makes the interpretation of the distance more accessible and intuitive.
1 code implementation • 31 Oct 2022 • Gal Mishne, Zhengchao Wan, Yusu Wang, Sheng Yang
Given the exponential growth of the volume of the ball w. r. t.
no code implementations • 5 Feb 2022 • Samantha Chen, Sunhyuk Lim, Facundo Mémoli, Zhengchao Wan, Yusu Wang
The WL distance is polynomial time computable and is also compatible with the WL test in the sense that the former is positive if and only if the WL test can distinguish the two involved graphs.
1 code implementation • 14 Jan 2021 • Facundo Mémoli, Axel Munk, Zhengchao Wan, Christoph Weitkamp
In this paper, we investigate compact ultrametric measure spaces which form a subset $\mathcal{U}^w$ of the collection of all metric measure spaces $\mathcal{M}^w$.
Metric Geometry Populations and Evolution
no code implementations • 21 Jun 2020 • Kun Jin, Facundo Mémoli, Zhengchao Wan
Our contribution is twofold: (1) theoretically, we establish firstly that GT is stable under perturbations and secondly that in the continuous case, each point possesses an asymptotically ellipsoidal neighborhood with respect to the GT distance; (2) computationally, we accelerate GT both by identifying a strategy for reducing the number of matrix square root computations inherent to the $\ell^2$-Wasserstein distance between Gaussian measures, and by avoiding redundant computations of GT distances between points via enhanced neighborhood mechanisms.
1 code implementation • 2 Dec 2019 • Facundo Mémoli, Zane Smith, Zhengchao Wan
For each given $p\in[1,\infty]$ we investigate certain sub-family $\mathcal{M}_p$ of the collection of all compact metric spaces $\mathcal{M}$ which are characterized by the satisfaction of a strengthened form of the triangle inequality which encompasses, for example, the strong triangle inequality satisfied by ultrametric spaces.
Metric Geometry
no code implementations • 17 Oct 2018 • Facundo Mémoli, Zane Smith, Zhengchao Wan
We introduce the Wasserstein transform, a method for enhancing and denoising datasets defined on general metric spaces.