Search Results for author: Zhengchao Wan

Found 11 papers, 5 papers with code

All You Need is Resistance: On the Equivalence of Effective Resistance and Certain Optimal Transport Problems on Graphs

no code implementations23 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.

Comparing Graph Transformers via Positional Encodings

no code implementations22 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.

Navigate

Distances for Markov Chains, and Their Differentiation

1 code implementation16 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.

Graph Learning

Understanding Oversquashing in GNNs through the Lens of Effective Resistance

1 code implementation14 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.

The Weisfeiler-Lehman Distance: Reinterpretation and Connection with GNNs

no code implementations1 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.

Weisfeiler-Lehman meets Gromov-Wasserstein

no code implementations5 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.

Isomorphism Testing

The ultrametric Gromov-Wasserstein distance

1 code implementation14 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

The Gaussian Transform

no code implementations21 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.

Denoising

On $p$-metric spaces and the $p$-Gromov-Hausdorff distance

1 code implementation2 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

The Wasserstein transform

no code implementations17 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.

Denoising

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