Existing graph filters, polynomial or rational, are mainly of integer order forms. However, there are some frequency responses which are not easily achieved by integer order approximation. It will substantially increase the flexibility of the filters if we relax the integer order to fractional ones. Motivated by fractional order models, we introduce the fractional order graph filters (FOGF), and propose to design the filter coefficients by genetic algorithm. In order to implement distributed computation on a graph, an FOGF can be approximated by the continued fraction expansion and transformed to an infinite impulse response graph filter.
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