Yu Zhu

T. Mitchell Roddenberry, Yu Zhu, Santiago Segarra

With the increasing popularity of graph-based methods for dimensionality reduction and representation learning, node embedding functions have become important objects of study in the literature. In this paper, we take an axiomatic approach to understanding node embedding methods, first stating three properties for embedding dissimilarity networks, then proving that all three cannot be satisfied simultaneously by any node embedding method. Similar to existing results on the impossibility of clustering under certain axiomatic assumptions, this points to fundamental difficulties inherent to node embedding tasks. Once these difficulties are identified, we then relax these axioms to allow for certain node embedding methods to be admissible in our framework.

Michael T. Schaub, Yu Zhu, Jean-Baptiste Seby et al.

In this tutorial, we provide a didactic treatment of the emerging topic of signal processing on higher-order networks. Drawing analogies from discrete and graph signal processing, we introduce the building blocks for processing data on simplicial complexes and hypergraphs, two common higher-order network abstractions that can incorporate polyadic relationships. We provide brief introductions to simplicial complexes and hypergraphs, with a special emphasis on the concepts needed for the processing of signals supported on these structures. Specifically, we discuss Fourier analysis, signal denoising, signal interpolation, node embeddings, and nonlinear processing through neural networks, using these two higher-order network models. In the context of simplicial complexes, we specifically focus on signal processing using the Hodge Laplacian matrix, a multi-relational operator that leverages the special structure of simplicial complexes and generalizes desirable properties of the Laplacian matrix in graph signal processing. For hypergraphs, we present both matrix and tensor representations, and discuss the trade-offs in adopting one or the other. We also highlight limitations and potential research avenues, both to inform practitioners and to motivate the contribution of new researchers to the area.