arXiv:2608.29001v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In a data-driven world, efficiently organizing and mapping relationships between objects is crucial. Graphs are powerful tools for modeling these conne...
By Thiago C\'esar Castilho Almeida, Gustavo Rosseto Let\'icio, Lucas Pascotti Valem, Andr\'e Freitas, Daniel Carlos Guimar\~aes Pedronette
arXiv:2512. 02694v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We propose the first return time distribution (FRTD) of a random walk as an interpretable and mathematically grounded node embedding.
By Vedanta Thapar, Renaud Lambiotte, George T. Cantwell
The paper introduces a compositional graph embedding framework based on Aitchison geometry, where nodes are represented as simplex-valued mixtures over latent archetypal factors. By embedding these mixtures using isometric log-ratio coordinates, the method preserves Aitchison distances while allowing unconstrained optimization in Euclidean space, yielding intrinsically interpretable embeddings. The approach achieves competitive performance on node classification and link prediction tasks and enables principled component restriction through subcompositional coherence, allowing analysis of how archetype groups influence representations and predictions.
By Nikolaos Nakis, Chrysoula Kosma, Panagiotis Promponas, Michail Chatzianastasis, Giannis Nikolentzos
The paper introduces an unsupervised framework that merges manifold learning with rank‑based interpretable graph embeddings to address the Geometric and Interpretability Gaps in visual representation learning. By first analyzing contextual information on the dataset manifold and then producing sparse, self‑explainable embeddings, the method achieves dimensionality reduction while preserving or improving performance in image retrieval and semi‑supervised Graph Convolutional Network classification. Experiments across varied datasets confirm that these context‑aware representations maintain high downstream effectiveness.
By Thiago C\'esar Castilho Almeida, Gustavo Rosseto Let\'icio, Vinicius Atsushi Sato Kawai, Daniel Carlos Guimar\~aes Pedronette
arXiv:2609.10490v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: This feature article provides an overview of the theoretical foundations for coVariance neural networks (VNNs), i.e., graph neural networks (GNNs)...
By Saurabh Sihag, Andrea Cavallo, Elvin Isufi, Gonzalo Mateos, Alejandro Ribeiro
arXiv:2607. 03587v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose NetinfoGC, a framework for graph classification that extends the Network Usable Information (NUI) paradigm to graph-level learning.
By Abdullah Shaik, Anwar Said
arXiv:2607. 08746v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While UMAP is widely used for exploring high-dimensional data, typical workflows focus on its lower-dimensional embedding, largely overlooking the rich k-nearest-neighbor (kNN) graph that UMAP constructs internally.
By Duen Horng Chau, Donghao Ren, Fred Hohman, Dominik Moritz
arXiv:2407. 01718v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Embedding high-dimensional data into a low-dimensional space is an indispensable component of data analysis.
By Boris Landa, Yuval Kluger, Rong Ma
arXiv:2505. 03649v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modeling of intricate relational patterns has become a cornerstone of contemporary statistical research and related data science fields.
By Bernardo Marenco, Paola Bermolen, Marcelo Fiori, Federico Larroca, Gonzalo Mateos
arXiv:2608. 06990v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Clustering is a fundamental data mining technique for pattern recognition through unsupervised learning.
By Yuning Yu, Jos\'e Rodr\'iguez-Pi\~neiro, Xuefeng Yin, Bin Feng
arXiv:2505. 15284v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Out-of-Distribution (OoD) detection is vital for the reliability of deep neural networks, the key of which lies in effectively characterizing the disparities between OoD and In-Distribution (InD) data.
By Kun Fang, Qinghua Tao, Mingzhen He, Kexin Lv, Runze Yang, Haibo Hu, Xiaolin Huang, Jie Yang, Longbing Cao
arXiv:2409. 02426v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Despite their empirical success across a wide range of generative tasks, the fundamental principles underlying the ability of diffusion models to learn data distributions are poorly understood.
By Peng Wang, Huijie Zhang, Zekai Zhang, Siyi Chen, Yi Ma, Qing Qu