arXiv Machine Learning

Learning with Covariance Matrices: Principal Component Analysis Meets Learning with Graphs

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

Sparse Covariance Neural Networks

arXiv:2410. 01669v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Covariance Neural Networks (VNNs) perform graph convolutions on the covariance matrix of input data to leverage correlation information as pairwise connections.

By Andrea Cavallo, Zhan Gao, Elvin Isufi
arXiv AI
Aug 24

SPD Matrix Learning for Neuroimaging Analysis: Perspectives, Methods, and Challenges

This review discusses how neuroimaging data can be represented as symmetric positive-definite (SPD) matrices and analyzed using the Riemannian geometry of the SPD manifold. It surveys the evolution from modality-specific SPD representations to geometric shallow and deep learning methods, emphasizing how these approaches maintain structural constraints while integrating modern AI techniques. The paper frames SPD matrix learning as a bridge between classical geometric statistics and contemporary machine learning in neuroimaging and brain‑computer interface research.

By Ce Ju, Reinmar Kobler, Antoine Collas, Motoaki Kawanabe, Cuntai Guan, Bertrand Thirion
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 15

Graph Regularized PCA

arXiv:2601. 10199v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multivariate data often exhibit complex dependencies that violate the assumption of isotropic residual noise.

By Antonio Briola, Marwin Schmidt, Fabio Caccioli, Carlos Ros Perez, James Singleton, Christian Michler, Tomaso Aste
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 16

Graph Learning Should Move Beyond Restrictive Views of Spectral and Message-Passing GNNs

arXiv:2602. 10031v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Graph neural networks (GNNs) are commonly divided into message-passing neural networks (MPNNs) and spectral GNNs, reflecting two largely separate research traditions in machine learning and signal processing.

By Antonis Vasileiou, Juan Cervino, Pascal Frossard, Charilaos I. Kanatsoulis, Christopher Morris, Michael T. Schaub, Pierre Vandergheynst, Zhiyang Wang, Guy Wolf, Ron Levie
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 10

Multi-Task Learning with Covariate-Overlap Regularization

The paper introduces COVER, a multi‑task learning framework that regularizes covariate overlap to mitigate the negative effects of sharing information across tasks with differing covariate distributions and response relationships. COVER blends a common component function, a shared neural representation, and low‑dimensional task‑specific coefficients, using taskwise second‑moment matrices to guide coefficient integration. The authors provide theoretical bias‑variance analysis, oracle inequalities, and neural‑network convergence rates, and demonstrate that COVER outperforms existing deep‑learning and statistical integration methods in simulations and a GTEx central‑nervous‑system study.

By Yang Sui, Qi Xu, Yang Bai, Annie Qu