Fitting a Graph to Vector Data

author:Daniel A. Spielman, Department of Computer Science, Yale University
published: July 30, 2009,   recorded: June 2009,   views: 109
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0:00 Fitting a Graph to Vector Data
1:22 Find a natural weighted graph on V = {1, …, n} that is
2:47 Helps solve TCS problems on the vectors
3:00 Outline
4:40 Standard ways to make graphs
6:32 Our first proposal (1)
7:36 Our first proposal (2)
7:55 Motivation (1)
10:10 Motivation (2)
11:16 Motivation (3)
12:09 Motivation (4)
12:23 Motivation, tricky example (1)
12:34 Motivation, tricky example (2)
12:54 Motivation, tricky example (3)
13:09 Motivation, tricky example (4)
13:18 Motivation, tricky example (5)
14:16 Motivation, fixing bad example (1)
15:01 Motivation, fixing bad example (2)
16:57 Example (1)
18:15 Example (2)
19:03 Example (3)
20:31 Unique?
21:07 Related to
22:06 In terms of the graph Laplacian (1)
23:13 In terms of the graph Laplacian (2)
24:36 Sparse Solution
28:16 Sparsity
28:47 Degrees on real data (1)
29:21 Degrees on real data (2)
29:51 Example for which graphs are not unique
31:40 Planarity (1)
32:09 Planarity (2)
32:28 Planarity, proof (1)
33:51 Planarity, proof (2)
35:07 Classification and Regression Experiments
36:25 Classification Experiments (1)
36:52 Classification Experiments (2)
39:16 Classification Experiments (3)
39:53 Regression Error
40:25 Clustering Experiments (0.1-soft) (1)
41:14 Clustering Experiments (0.1-soft) (2)
41:49 Choosing number vectors for spectral
42:47 Quadratic Program for Edge Weights
43:39 Objective function is quadratic
44:11 Soft graph program (1)
44:36 Soft graph program (2)
45:13 Soft graph program, as NNLSQ
45:53 Computing Soft graph quickly
46:52 Computation Time (secs)
47:35 Approximate Sparse Solutions (1)
48:54 Approximate Sparse Solutions (2)
50:06 Sparsification (1)
50:55 Sparsification (2)
51:32 Lovasz’s Graphs
53:38 Open Questions

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We ask "What is the right graph to fit to a set of vectors?" We propose one solution that provides good answers to standard Machine Learning problems, that has interesting combinatorial properties, and that we can compute efficiently. Joint work with Jonathan Kelner and Samuel Daitch.

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