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most citedStatistical inference on random dot product graphs: a survey

118 citations · 440 across the 36 of their papers we have counts for

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43 papers

stat.ME2026

Recovering manifold structure in LLM responses through a joint Euclidean mirror

Maximilian Baum, Aranyak Acharyya, Tianyi Chen +5

Understanding the behavior of black-box large language models and determining effective means of comparing their performance is a key task in modern machine learning. We consider h…

cs.CL2026

Data Kernel Perspective Space Performance Guarantees for Synthetic Data from Transformer Models

Michael Browder, Kevin Duh, J. David Harris +5

Scarcity of labeled training data remains the long pole in the tent for building performant language technology and generative AI models. Transformer models -- particularly LLMs --…

stat.ML2025

Concentration bounds on response-based vector embeddings of black-box generative models

Aranyak Acharyya, Joshua Agterberg, Youngser Park +1

Generative models, such as large language models or text-to-image diffusion models, can generate relevant responses to user-given queries. Response-based vector embeddings of gener…

cs.LG2025

Graph Neural Networks Powered by Encoder Embedding for Improved Node Learning

Shiyu Chen, Cencheng Shen, Youngser Park +1

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful framework for a wide range of node-level graph learning tasks. However, their performance typically depends on random or min…

stat.ME2025

Multi-rank Subspace Change-point Detection with Application in Monitoring Robotic Swarms

Jonghyeok Lee, Yao Xie, Youngser Park +3

We study real-time detection of low-rank changes in the covariance structure of high-dimensional streaming data, motivated by robotic swarm monitoring. Building on the spiked covar…

cs.SI2025★ 4 cited

Principal Graph Encoder Embedding and Principal Community Detection

Cencheng Shen, Yuexiao Dong, Carey E. Priebe +3

In this paper, we introduce the concept of principal communities and propose a principal graph encoder embedding method that concurrently detects these communities and achieves ver…

cs.LG2024

Statistical inference on black-box generative models in the data kernel perspective space

Hayden Helm, Aranyak Acharyya, Brandon Duderstadt +2

Generative models are capable of producing human-expert level content across a variety of topics and domains. As the impact of generative models grows, it is necessary to develop s…

cs.AI2024

Tracking the perspectives of interacting language models

Hayden Helm, Brandon Duderstadt, Youngser Park +1

Large language models (LLMs) are capable of producing high quality information at unprecedented rates. As these models continue to entrench themselves in society, the content they…

stat.ME2024

Consistent response prediction for multilayer networks on unknown manifolds

Aranyak Acharyya, Jesús Arroyo Relión, Michael Clayton +3

Our paper deals with a collection of networks on a common set of nodes, where some of the networks are associated with responses. Assuming that the networks correspond to points on…

stat.ME2024

Euclidean mirrors and first-order changepoints in network time series

Tianyi Chen, Zachary Lubberts, Avanti Athreya +2

We describe a model for a network time series whose evolution is governed by an underlying stochastic process, known as the latent position process, in which network evolution can…

stat.ML2023

Semisupervised regression in latent structure networks on unknown manifolds

Aranyak Acharyya, Joshua Agterberg, Michael W. Trosset +2

Random graphs are increasingly becoming objects of interest for modeling networks in a wide range of applications. Latent position random graph models posit that each node is assoc…

cs.SI2023★ 11 cited

Discovering Communication Pattern Shifts in Large-Scale Labeled Networks using Encoder Embedding and Vertex Dynamics

Cencheng Shen, Jonathan Larson, Ha Trinh +3

Analyzing large-scale time-series network data, such as social media and email communications, poses a significant challenge in understanding social dynamics, detecting anomalies,…

stat.AP2023

Discovering a change point and piecewise linear structure in a time series of organoid networks via the iso-mirror

Tianyi Chen, Youngser Park, Ali Saad-Eldin +10

Recent advancements have been made in the development of cell-based in-vitro neuronal networks, or organoids. In order to better understand the network structure of these organoids…

cs.SI2023★ 10 cited

Graph Encoder Ensemble for Simultaneous Vertex Embedding and Community Detection

Cencheng Shen, Youngser Park, Carey E. Priebe

In this paper, we introduce a novel and computationally efficient method for vertex embedding, community detection, and community size determination. Our approach leverages a norma…

cs.SI2022

Dynamic Network Sampling for Community Detection

Cong Mu, Youngser Park, Carey E. Priebe

We propose a dynamic network sampling scheme to optimize block recovery for stochastic blockmodel (SBM) in the case where it is prohibitively expensive to observe the entire graph.…

stat.ME2022★ 1 cited

Euclidean mirrors and dynamics in network time series

Avanti Athreya, Zachary Lubberts, Youngser Park +1

Analyzing changes in network evolution is central to statistical network inference, as underscored by recent challenges of predicting and distinguishing pandemic-induced transforma…

cs.CL2021

An Analysis of Euclidean vs. Graph-Based Framing for Bilingual Lexicon Induction from Word Embedding Spaces

Kelly Marchisio, Youngser Park, Ali Saad-Eldin +4

Much recent work in bilingual lexicon induction (BLI) views word embeddings as vectors in Euclidean space. As such, BLI is typically solved by finding a linear transformation that…

cs.LG2021

Leveraging semantically similar queries for ranking via combining representations

Hayden S. Helm, Marah Abdin, Benjamin D. Pedigo +8

In modern ranking problems, different and disparate representations of the items to be ranked are often available. It is sensible, then, to try to combine these representations to…

stat.ML2021★ 2 cited

Dynamic Silos: Increased Modularity in Intra-organizational Communication Networks during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Tiona Zuzul, Emily Cox Pahnke, Jonathan Larson +9

Workplace communications around the world were drastically altered by Covid-19, related work-from-home orders, and the rise of remote work. To understand these shifts, we analyzed…

cs.SI2021

Random line graphs and edge-attributed network inference

Zachary Lubberts, Avanti Athreya, Youngser Park +1

We extend the latent position random graph model to the line graph of a random graph, which is formed by creating a vertex for each edge in the original random graph, and connectin…

q-bio.NC2020★ 1 cited

Multiscale Comparative Connectomics

Vivek Gopalakrishnan, Jaewon Chung, Eric Bridgeford +8

The connectome, a map of the structural and/or functional connections in the brain, provides a complex representation of the neurobiological phenotypes on which it supervenes. This…

stat.ME2020★ 4 cited

Multiple Network Embedding for Anomaly Detection in Time Series of Graphs

Guodong Chen, Jesús Arroyo, Avanti Athreya +7

This paper considers the graph signal processing problem of anomaly detection in time series of graphs. We examine two related, complementary inference tasks: the detection of anom…

cs.LG2020

Distance-based Positive and Unlabeled Learning for Ranking

Hayden S. Helm, Amitabh Basu, Avanti Athreya +12

Learning to rank -- producing a ranked list of items specific to a query and with respect to a set of supervisory items -- is a problem of general interest. The setting we consider…

cs.SI2019

Multiplex graph matching matched filters

Konstantinos Pantazis, Daniel L. Sussman, Youngser Park +3

We consider the problem of detecting a noisy induced multiplex template network in a larger multiplex background network. Our approach, which extends the framework of Sussman et al…