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most citedEfficient Centrality Maximization with Rademacher Averages

11 citations · 24 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.LG2026

Few-Shot Resampling for Scalable Statistically-Sound Data Mining

Leonardo Pellegrina, Fabio Vandin

A key step in knowledge discovery is the evaluation of data mining results. In several applications, including pattern mining, graph analysis, and others, this step includes the ev…

cs.SI2026

Sampling Random Graphs from the Colored Configuration Model

Leonardo Pellegrina

A fundamental step in knowledge discovery is statistically assessing data mining results. In network analysis, such evaluation compares the outcome of a given procedure with the ou…

cs.SI2025

Fast Percolation Centrality Approximation with Importance Sampling

Antonio Cruciani, Leonardo Pellegrina

In this work we present PercIS, an algorithm based on Importance Sampling to approximate the percolation centrality of all the nodes of a graph. Percolation centrality is a general…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Scalable Rule Lists Learning with Sampling

Leonardo Pellegrina, Fabio Vandin

Learning interpretable models has become a major focus of machine learning research, given the increasing prominence of machine learning in socially important decision-making. Amon…

cs.LG2024

Efficient Discovery of Significant Patterns with Few-Shot Resampling

Leonardo Pellegrina, Fabio Vandin

Significant pattern mining is a fundamental task in mining transactional data, requiring to identify patterns significantly associated with the value of a given feature, the target…

cs.SI2023★ 11 cited

Efficient Centrality Maximization with Rademacher Averages

Leonardo Pellegrina

The identification of the set of k most central nodes of a graph, or centrality maximization, is a key task in network analysis, with various applications ranging from finding comm…

cs.DS2021★ 2 cited

SILVAN: Estimating Betweenness Centralities with Progressive Sampling and Non-uniform Rademacher Bounds

Leonardo Pellegrina, Fabio Vandin

Betweenness centrality is a popular centrality measure with applications in several domains, and whose exact computation is impractical for modern-sized networks. We present SILVAN…

q-bio.QM2021

SPRISS: Approximating Frequent -mers by Sampling Reads, and Applications

Diego Santoro, Leonardo Pellegrina, Fabio Vandin

The extraction of -mers is a fundamental component in many complex analyses of large next-generation sequencing datasets, including reads classification in genomics and the char…

cs.LG2020★ 1 cited

Sharper convergence bounds of Monte Carlo Rademacher Averages through Self-Bounding functions

Leonardo Pellegrina

We derive sharper probabilistic concentration bounds for the Monte Carlo Empirical Rademacher Averages (MCERA), which are proved through recent results on the concentration of self…

cs.LG2020★ 7 cited

MCRapper: Monte-Carlo Rademacher Averages for Poset Families and Approximate Pattern Mining

Leonardo Pellegrina, Cyrus Cousins, Fabio Vandin +1

We present MCRapper, an algorithm for efficient computation of Monte-Carlo Empirical Rademacher Averages (MCERA) for families of functions exhibiting poset (e.g., lattice) structur…

q-bio.QM2019

Fast Approximation of Frequent -mers and Applications to Metagenomics

Leonardo Pellegrina, Cinzia Pizzi, Fabio Vandin

Estimating the abundances of all -mers in a set of biological sequences is a fundamental and challenging problem with many applications in biological analysis. While several met…