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Graph Learning with Spectral Connectivity Priors for Scarce Data

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arXiv:2609.27278 (cs)
[Submitted on 23 Sep 2026]

Title:Graph Learning with Spectral Connectivity Priors for Scarce Data

Authors:Mingxiao Liu (1), Bahar Oveisgharan (2), Bingyan Zou (1), Gene Cheung (2), H. Vicky Zhao (1), Feifei Gao (1) ((1) Tsinghua University, China, (2) York University, Canada)
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Abstract:Learning a sparse graph from scarce data is practically important but challenging. Motivated by the desirable combination of local sparsity and strong global connectivity exhibited by expander-like graphs, we propose spectral connectivity-regularized graph learning (SCoGL), a framework that incorporates a family of Laplacian spectral priors to explicitly promote global connectivity. Specifically, SCoGL augments a combinatorial-Laplacian-constrained graphical lasso (GLASSO) objective over a target adjacency matrix $\mathbf{W}$ with a general connectivity prior computed from Laplacian eigenvalues. We derive gradients for several representative connectivity priors and develop a projected gradient descent (PGD) algorithm with Armijo backtracking to efficiently optimize $\mathbf{W}$. Experiments show that the proposed SCoGL variants improve graph recovery and enhance downstream tasks such as graph signal denoising when signal observations are scarce.
Comments: 5 pages, 1 figure. Submitted to IEEE ICASSP 2027
Subjects: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Signal Processing (eess.SP)
Cite as: arXiv:2609.27278 [cs.LG]
  (or arXiv:2609.27278v1 [cs.LG] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.27278
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From: Mingxiao Liu [view email]
[v1] Wed, 23 Sep 2026 03:08:17 UTC (93 KB)
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