Large Scale Graph Learning From Smooth Signals
Graphs are a prevalent tool in data science, as they model the inherent structure of the data. Typically they are constructed either by connecting nearest samples, or by learning them from data, solving an optimization problem. While graph learning does achieve a better quality, it also comes with a higher computational cost. In particular, the current state-of-the-art model cost is O(n^2) for n samples. In this paper, we show how to scale it, obtaining an approximation with leading cost of O(n log(n)), with quality that approaches the exact graph learning model. Our algorithm uses known approximate nearest neighbor techniques to reduce the number of variables, and automatically selects the correct parameters of the model, requiring a single intuitive input: the desired edge density.
 This paper proposed an approximation technique to learn the large-scale graph with the desired edge density. It was well-written and contains thorough experimental results and analysis. A minor drawback is that while this work was motivated by the use of k-NN graph in graph convolution network (GCN), there was no evidence on how well A-NN performs in compare to k-NN with GCN.
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Large Scale Graph Learning From Smooth Signals
Graphs are a prevalent tool in data science, as they model the inherent structure of the data. Typically they are constructed either by connecting nearest samples, or by learning them from data, solving an optimization problem. While graph learning does achieve a better quality, it also comes with a higher computational cost. In particular, the current state-of-the-art model cost is O(n^2) for n samples. In this paper, we show how to scale it, obtaining an approximation with leading cost of O(n log(n)), with quality that approaches the exact graph learning model. Our algorithm uses known approximate nearest neighbor techniques to reduce the number of variables, and automatically selects the correct parameters of the model, requiring a single intuitive input: the desired edge density.
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 This paper proposed an approximation technique to learn the large-scale graph with the desired edge density. It was well-written and contains thorough experimental results and analysis. A minor drawback is that while this work was motivated by the use of k-NN graph in graph convolution network (GCN), there was no evidence on how well A-NN performs in compare to k-NN with GCN.
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 This paper proposed an approximation technique to learn the large-scale graph with the desired edge density. It was well-written and contains thorough experimental results and analysis. A minor drawback is that while this work was motivated by the use of k-NN graph in graph convolution network (GCN), there was no evidence on how well A-NN performs in compare to k-NN with GCN.