Sampling and estimation for (sparse) exchangeable graphs

Veitch, Victor; Roy, Daniel M.

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“…In [18], various notions of convergence for graphons and graphexes (proposed originally in [3] and [25]) were studied. Here we are most interested in what [25] introduces as GP-convergence, where GP stands for graphex process. This notion is closely related to the notion of sampling convergence for graphs introduced in [4]; see Lemma 5.4 in that paper, as well as the discussion at the end of this section.…”

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“…The theory of graph limits has been extensively developed for dense graph sequences [7,21,22,8,10,9], but the sparse case is not as well understood. In this paper, we study a model introduced and studied in a sequence of papers [11,26,3,17,25,18,4] based on the notion of graphexes. In contrast to the graphons of the dense theory, which are symmetric two-variable functions defined over a probability space, graphexes are defined over σ-finite measure spaces, and, in addition to a graphon part W , contain two other components: a function S taking values in R + , and a parameter I ∈ R + .…”

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“…Several notions of convergence for graphexes were introduced in [3] and [25] and further studied in [18]. Among these notions, we will be particularly interested in graphex process convergence (GP-convergence), which was introduced in [25]. A sequence of graphexes is GP-convergent if the random graph processes generated by the graphexes in the sequence converge.…”

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“…We note that in this paper we treat graphexes slightly differently from the definition in [26,17,25,18,4]. Namely, as in [3], we follow the convention from the theory of dense graph limits, and define the graphex process corresponding to a graphex as a process of graphs without loops.…”

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Identifiability for Graphexes and the Weak Kernel Metric

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In two recent papers by Veitch and Roy and by Borgs, Chayes, Cohn, and Holden, a new class of sparse random graph processes based on the concept of graphexes over σ-finite measure spaces has been introduced. In this paper, we introduce a metric for graphexes that generalizes the cut metric for the graphons of the dense theory of graph convergence. We show that a sequence of graphexes converges in this metric if and only if the sequence of graph processes generated by the graphexes converges in distribution. In the course of the proof, we establish a regularity lemma and determine which sets of graphexes are precompact under our metric. Finally, we establish an identifiability theorem, characterizing when two graphexes are equivalent in the sense that they lead to the same process of random graphs. Contents 106References 108 1 arXiv:1804.03277v1 [math.PR] 9 Apr 20181 To see that this setting is indeed more general than the assumption of bounded marginals for (unsigned) graphexes we recall that by Proposition 2.4, a graphex with bounded marginals is integrable. Using this, and the fact that by definition, the graphon part of a graphex is bounded, the claim is easy to verify.

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Approximating sparse graphs: The random overlapping communities model

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How can we approximate sparse graphs and sequences of sparse graphs (with unbounded average degree)? We consider convergence in the first k moments of the graph spectrum (equivalent to the numbers of closed k-walks) appropriately normalized. We introduce a simple random graph model that captures the limiting spectra of many sequences of interest, including the sequence of hypercube graphs. The random overlapping communities (ROC) model is specified by a distribution on pairs (s, q), s ∈ Z + , q ∈ (0, 1]. A graph on n vertices with average degree 𝑑 is generated by repeatedly picking pairs (s, q) from the distribution, adding an Erdős-Rényi random graph of edge density q on a subset of vertices chosen by including each vertex with probability s∕n, and repeating this process so that the expected degree is 𝑑. We also show that ROC graphs exhibit an inverse relationship between degree and clustering coefficient, a characteristic of many real-world networks.

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Next waves in veridical network embedding*

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Embedding nodes of a large network into a metric (e.g., Euclidean) space has become an area of active research in statistical machine learning, which has found applications in natural and social sciences. Generally, a representation of a network object is learned in a Euclidean geometry and is then used for subsequent tasks regarding the nodes and/or edges of the network, such as community detection, node classification and link prediction. Network embedding algorithms have been proposed in multiple disciplines, often with domain-specific notations and details. In addition, different measures and tools have been adopted to evaluate and compare the methods proposed under different settings, often dependent of the downstream tasks. As a result, it is challenging to study these algorithms in the literature systematically. Motivated by the recently proposed PCS framework for Veridical Data Science, we propose a framework for network embedding algorithms and discuss how the principles of predictability, computability, and stability (PCS) apply in this context. The utilization of this framework in network embedding holds the potential to motivate and point to new directions for future research.

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Sampling and estimation for (sparse) exchangeable graphs

Cited by 43 publications

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Identifiability for Graphexes and the Weak Kernel Metric

Identifiability for Graphexes and the Weak Kernel Metric

Approximating sparse graphs: The random overlapping communities model

Next waves in veridical network embedding*

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