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20172026
most citedGraphZoom: A multi-level spectral approach for accurate and scalable graph embedding

14 citations · 39 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.LG2026

Spectral structural distortion reveals redundant neurons in neural networks

Yongyu Wang

Overparameterized neural networks often contain many removable neurons, yet what makes a neuron redundant remains poorly understood. Existing pruning criteria commonly rely on loca…

cs.LG2025

T2T-LA: A Topology-to-Topology LLM Agent for Graph Learning with Neither Feature Access nor Task Knowledge

Yongyu Wang

Graph learning aims to convert data into graph representations, which are fundamental to many problems in machine learning for CAD, where circuits, layouts, designs, and optimizati…

cs.LG2025

Pruning Graphs by Adversarial Robustness Evaluation to Strengthen GNN Defenses

Yongyu Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a dominant paradigm for learning on graph-structured data, thanks to their ability to jointly exploit node features and relational info…

cs.CV2024

Enabling DBSCAN for Very Large-Scale High-Dimensional Spaces

Yongyu Wang

DBSCAN is one of the most important non-parametric unsupervised data analysis tools. By applying DBSCAN to a dataset, two key analytical results can be obtained: (1) clustering dat…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Spectrally unstable nodes drive reliability failures in graph learning

Yongyu Wang

Graph-learning algorithms can fail when graph structure is adversarially perturbed, intrinsically noisy or constructed from imperfect observations. Here we show that some nodes bea…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Defending Collaborative Filtering Recommenders via Adversarial Robustness Based Edge Reweighting

Yongyu Wang

User based collaborative filtering (CF) relies on a user and user similarity graph, making it vulnerable to profile injection (shilling) attacks that manipulate neighborhood relati…

cs.CV2024

Adversarial-Robustness-Guided Graph Pruning

Yongyu Wang

Graph learning plays a central role in many data mining and machine learning tasks, such as manifold learning, data representation and analysis, dimensionality reduction, clusterin…

cs.LG2024

Mitigating the Impact of Noisy Edges on Graph-Based Algorithms via Adversarial Robustness Evaluation

Yongyu Wang, Xiaotian Zhuang

Given that no existing graph construction method can generate a perfect graph for a given dataset, graph-based algorithms are often affected by redundant and erroneous edges presen…

cs.IR2023

Improving Collaborative Filtering Recommendation via Graph Learning

Yongyu Wang

Recommendation systems aim to provide personalized predictions by identifying items that are most appealing to individual users. Among various recommendation approaches, k-nearest-…

cs.LG2023

Towards High-Performance Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) Via Stable Equilibrium Point

Yuxuan Song, Yongyu Wang

Exploratory data analysis (EDA) is a vital procedure for data science projects. In this work, we introduce a stable equilibrium point (SEP) - based framework for improving the effi…

cs.LG2023

Accelerate Support Vector Clustering via Spectrum-Preserving Data Compression

Yuxuan Song, Yongyu Wang

This paper proposes a novel framework for accelerating support vector clustering. The proposed method first computes much smaller compressed data sets while preserving the key clus…

physics.data-an2023

Enhancing Graph Topology and Clustering Quality: A Modularity-Guided Approach

Yongyu Wang, Shiqi Hao, Xiaoyang Wang +1

Current modularity-based community detection algorithms attempt to find cluster memberships that maximize modularity within a fixed graph topology. Diverging from this conventional…

cs.CV2021

Accelerate 3D Object Processing via Spectral Layout

Yongyu Wang

3D image processing is an important problem in computer vision and pattern recognition fields. Compared with 2D image processing, its computation difficulty and cost are much highe…

cs.LG2021

Improving Spectral Clustering Using Spectrum-Preserving Node Aggregation

Yongyu Wang

Spectral clustering is one of the most popular clustering methods. However, the high computational cost due to the involved eigen-decomposition procedure can immediately hinder its…

cs.LG2019★ 6 cited

GRASPEL: Graph Spectral Learning at Scale

Yongyu Wang, Zhiqiang Zhao, Zhuo Feng

Learning meaningful graphs from data plays important roles in many data mining and machine learning tasks, such as data representation and analysis, dimension reduction, data clust…

cs.LG2019★ 14 cited

GraphZoom: A multi-level spectral approach for accurate and scalable graph embedding

Chenhui Deng, Zhiqiang Zhao, Yongyu Wang +2

Graph embedding techniques have been increasingly deployed in a multitude of different applications that involve learning on non-Euclidean data. However, existing graph embedding m…

cs.DS2018★ 11 cited

Nearly-Linear Time Spectral Graph Reduction for Scalable Graph Partitioning and Data Visualization

Zhiqiang Zhao, Yongyu Wang, Zhuo Feng

This paper proposes a scalable algorithmic framework for spectral reduction of large undirected graphs. The proposed method allows computing much smaller graphs while preserving th…

cs.LG2017★ 6 cited

Towards Scalable Spectral Clustering via Spectrum-Preserving Sparsification

Yongyu Wang, Zhuo Feng

The eigendeomposition of nearest-neighbor (NN) graph Laplacian matrices is the main computational bottleneck in spectral clustering. In this work, we introduce a highly-scalable, s…