arXiv Machine Learning By Vignesh Tirukkonda, Gautam Dasarathy

Mixing-Free and Signal-Optimal Learning of Gaussian Graphical Models from Glauber Dynamics

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arXiv:2607. 18559v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Gaussian graphical model selection is usually studied under independent sampling, but in many applications the data arise as a single trajectory of a dependent stochastic process.

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Generalized Graph Variational Autoencoders: Bounded Divergences Control Posterior Collapse

The paper introduces the Generalized Graph Variational Autoencoder (GGVA), which replaces the Kullback–Leibler divergence in the standard variational graph autoencoder with any member of the Rényi–Tsallis family of order $q$. The authors show that for $q<1$ the Tsallis divergence is bounded, whereas the KL and Rényi divergences are unbounded, and that this boundedness can significantly increase the amount of posterior information retained—up to 49× more than the VGAE on several benchmark graphs. Experiments demonstrate that the GGVA’s retained information improves node classification performance, though it does not improve link‑prediction accuracy and only delays, rather than prevents, posterior collapse.

By Kleyton da Costa, Bernardo Modenesi, Ivan F. M. Menezes, Helio Lopes