Section: New Results
Graph Signal Processing and Machine Learning
Participants : Paulo Gonçalves, Rémi Gribonval, Marion Foare, Thomas Begin, Esteban Bautista Ruiz, Gaetan Frusque, Amélie Barbe, Mikhail Tsitsvero, Marija Stojanova, Márton Karsai, Sébastien Lerique, Jacobo Levy Abitbol.
-PageRank for Semi-Supervised Learning
Participants : Paulo Gonçalves, Esteban Bautista Ruiz.
PageRank for Semi-Supervised Learning has shown to leverage data structures and limited tagged examples to yield meaningful classification. Despite successes, classification performance can still be improved, particularly in cases of fuzzy graphs or unbalanced labeled data. To address such limitations, a novel approach based on powers of the Laplacian matrix
Designing Convex Combination of Graph Filters
Participant : Paulo Gonçalves.
In this work, we studied the problem of parametric modeling of network-structured signals with graph filters. Unlike the popular polynomial graph filters, which are based on a single graph shift operator, we considered convex combinations of graph shift operators particularly adapted to directed graphs. As the resulting modeling problem is not convex, we reformulated it as a convex optimization problem which can be solved efficiently. Experiments on real-world data structured by undirected and directed graphs were conducted. The results showed the effectiveness of this method compared to other methods reported in the literature. [18]
Optimal transport under regularity constraints for domain adaptation between graphs with attributes
Participants : Paulo Gonçalves, Amélie Barbe.
In this work, we addresses the problem of domain adaptation between two graphs by optimal transport. We aimed at benefiting from the knowledge of a labeled source graph to improve the classification of nodes in an unlabeled target graph. We focused on the setting where a set of features is associated to each node of the graphs. We proposed an original method that optimizes a transportation plan from the source to the target that (i) preserves the structures transported between the graphs and (ii) prevents the mapping from transporting two source nodes with different labels to the same destination. [30]
Sparse tensor dimensionality reduction with application to the clustering of functional connectivity in the brain
Participants : Paulo Gonçalves, Gaetan Frusque.
Functional connectivity (FC) is a graph-like data structure commonly used by neuroscientists to study the dynamic behaviour of the brain activity. However, these analyses rapidly become complex and time-consuming, as the number of connectivity components to be studied is quadratic with the number of electrodes. In our work, we addressed the problem of clustering FC into relevant ensembles of simultaneously activated components that reveal characteristic patterns of the epileptic seizures of a given patient.
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Graph signal processing to model WLANs performances
Participants : Paulo Gonçalves, Thomas Begin, Marija Stojanova.
As WLANs have become part of our everyday life, there is an increasing need for more transmission capacity and wireless coverage. In response to this growing need, network administrators tend to intensify the deployment of Access Points (APs). However, if not correctly done, this AP densification may lead to badly planned and uncoordinated networks with sub-optimal use of the available resources. In this work, we propose a data-driven approach using graph signal processing and a set of input/output signals to capture the behavior of a WLAN and derive a predictive performance model. Given the simplicity and the novelty of the proposed model, we believe that its relative error of around 10-20% in modeling and 25% in prediction may represent a promising start for new approaches in the modeling of WLANs. [33]
Joint embedding of structure and features via graph convolutional networks
Participants : Márton Karsai, Sébastien Lerique.
We propose AN2VEC, a node embedding method which ultimately aims at disentangling the information shared by the structure of a network and the features of its nodes. Building on the recent developments of Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN), we develop a multitask GCN Variational Autoencoder where different dimensions of the generated embeddings can be dedicated to encoding feature information, network structure, and shared feature-network information. We explore the interaction between these disentangled characters by comparing the embedding reconstruction performance to a baseline case where no shared information is extracted. We use synthetic datasets with different levels of interdependency between feature and network characters and show (i) that shallow embeddings relying on shared information perform better than the corresponding reference with unshared information, (ii) that this performance gap increases with the correlation between network and feature structure, and (iii) that our embedding is able to capture joint information of structure and features. Our method can be relevant for the analysis and prediction of any featured network structure ranging from online social systems to network medicine. [51]