Network Learning with Directional Sign Patterns
2024 (English)In: 2024 IEEE 63rd Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2024, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2024, p. 3924-3929Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Complex systems can be effectively modeled via graphs that encode networked interactions, where relations between entities or nodes are often quantified by signed edge weights, e.g., promotion/inhibition in gene regulatory networks, or encoding political of friendship differences in social networks. However, it is often the case that only an aggregate consequence of such edge weights that characterize relations may be directly observable, as in protein expression of in gene regulatory networks. Thus, learning edge weights poses a significant challenge that is further exacerbated for intricate and large-scale networks. In this article, we address a model problem to determine the strength of sign-indefinite relations that explain marginal distributions that constitute our data. To this end, we develop a paradigm akin to that of the Schrödinger bridge problem and an efficient Sinkhorn type algorithm (more properly, Schrödinger-Fortet-Sinkhorn algorithm) that allows fast convergence to parameters that minimize a relative entropy/likelihood criterion between the sought signed adjacency matrix and a prior. The formalism that we present represents a novel generalization of the earlier Schrödinger formalism in that marginal computations may incorporate weights that model directionality in underlying relations, and further, that it can be extended to high-order networks - the Schrödinger-Fortet-Sinkhorn algorithm that we derive is applicable all the same and allows geometric convergence to a sought sign-indefinite adjacency matrix or tensor, for high-order networks.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2024. p. 3924-3929
National Category
Control Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-361735DOI: 10.1109/CDC56724.2024.10886518Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-86000657371OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-361735DiVA, id: diva2:1948002
Conference
63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2024, Milan, Italy, Dec 16 2024 - Dec 19 2024
Note
QC 20250331
2025-03-272025-03-272025-03-31Bibliographically approved