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most citedA Poisson Gamma Probabilistic Model for Latent Node-group Memberships in Dynamic Networks

13 citations · 17 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.LG2026

Poisson-Gamma Dynamical Systems with Time-varying Transition Dynamics

Jiahao Wang, Yijun Wang, Nan Fang +1

Bayesian methodologies for handling count-valued time series have gained prominence due to their ability to infer interpretable latent structures and to estimate uncertainties. Amo…

cs.LG2026

Poisson-Gamma Modeling of Inter-Relational Dependencies in Dynamic Knowledge Graphs

Nan Fang, Yijun Wang, Hao Liao +1

Dynamic knowledge graphs are ubiquitous in today's AI applications, as we represent molecular structures, social relationships, and language information using these graph models. A…

cs.LG2025

CauchyNet: Compact and Data-Efficient Learning using Holomorphic Activation Functions

Hong-Kun Zhang, Xin Li, Sikun Yang +1

A novel neural network inspired by Cauchy's integral formula, is proposed for function approximation tasks that include time series forecasting, missing data imputation, etc. Hence…

cs.LG2025

Conformalized Exceptional Model Mining: Telling Where Your Model Performs (Not) Well

Xin Du, Sikun Yang, Wouter Duivesteijn +1

Understanding the nuanced performance of machine learning models is essential for responsible deployment, especially in high-stakes domains like healthcare and finance. This paper…

cs.SI2024

Hierarchical-Graph-Structured Edge Partition Models for Learning Evolving Community Structure

Xincan Yu, Sikun Yang

We propose a novel dynamic network model to capture evolving latent communities within temporal networks. To achieve this, we decompose each observed dynamic edge between vertices…

cs.AI2024

On Your Mark, Get Set, Predict! Modeling Continuous-Time Dynamics of Cascades for Information Popularity Prediction

Xin Jing, Yichen Jing, Yuhuan Lu +3

Information popularity prediction is important yet challenging in various domains, including viral marketing and news recommendations. The key to accurately predicting information…

cs.LG2024

Adaptive Gradient Regularization: A Faster and Generalizable Optimization Technique for Deep Neural Networks

Huixiu Jiang, Ling Yang, Yu Bao +2

Stochastic optimization plays a crucial role in the advancement of deep learning technologies. Over the decades, significant effort has been dedicated to improving the training eff…

cs.SI2024

Scaling up Dynamic Edge Partition Models via Stochastic Gradient MCMC

Sikun Yang, Heinz Koeppl

The edge partition model (EPM) is a generative model for extracting an overlapping community structure from static graph-structured data. In the EPM, the gamma process (GaP) prior…

cs.LG2024

Negative-Binomial Randomized Gamma Markov Processes for Heterogeneous Overdispersed Count Time Series

Rui Huang, Sikun Yang, Heinz Koeppl

Modeling count-valued time series has been receiving increasing attention since count time series naturally arise in physical and social domains. Poisson gamma dynamical systems (P…

cs.LG2024

A Poisson-Gamma Dynamic Factor Model with Time-Varying Transition Dynamics

Jiahao Wang, Sikun Yang, Heinz Koeppl +3

Probabilistic approaches for handling count-valued time sequences have attracted amounts of research attentions because their ability to infer explainable latent structures and to…

cs.LG2023

A Variational Autoencoder for Neural Temporal Point Processes with Dynamic Latent Graphs

Sikun Yang, Hongyuan Zha

Continuously-observed event occurrences, often exhibit self- and mutually-exciting effects, which can be well modeled using temporal point processes. Beyond that, these event dynam…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Learning Stochastic Dynamical Systems as an Implicit Regularization with Graph Neural Networks

Jin Guo, Ting Gao, Yufu Lan +3

Stochastic Gumbel graph networks are proposed to learn high-dimensional time series, where the observed dimensions are often spatially correlated. To that end, the observed randomn…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Estimating Latent Population Flows from Aggregated Data via Inversing Multi-Marginal Optimal Transport

Sikun Yang, Hongyuan Zha

We study the problem of estimating latent population flows from aggregated count data. This problem arises when individual trajectories are not available due to privacy issues or m…

cs.SI2020★ 2 cited

The Hawkes Edge Partition Model for Continuous-time Event-based Temporal Networks

Sikun Yang, Heinz Koeppl

We propose a novel probabilistic framework to model continuous-time interaction events data. Our goal is to infer the \emph{implicit} community structure underlying the temporal in…

cs.LG2018

Collapsed Variational Inference for Nonparametric Bayesian Group Factor Analysis

Sikun Yang, Heinz Koeppl

Group factor analysis (GFA) methods have been widely used to infer the common structure and the group-specific signals from multiple related datasets in various fields including sy…

cs.SI2018★ 13 cited

A Poisson Gamma Probabilistic Model for Latent Node-group Memberships in Dynamic Networks

Sikun Yang, Heinz Koeppl

We present a probabilistic model for learning from dynamic relational data, wherein the observed interactions among networked nodes are modeled via the Bernoulli Poisson link funct…