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Austin R Benson

8 accepted papers

2022

Understanding Non-linearity in Graph Neural Networks from the Bayesian-Inference Perspective

NeurIPS 2022accept

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown superiority in many prediction tasks over graphs due to their impressive capability of capturing nonlinear relations in graph-structured data. However, for node classification tasks, often, only marginal improvement of GNNs has been observed in practice over t…

2021

Approximate Decomposable Submodular Function Minimization for Cardinality-Based Components

NeurIPS 2021poster

Minimizing a sum of simple submodular functions of limited support is a special case of general submodular function minimization that has seen numerous applications in machine learning. We develop faster techniques for instances where components in the sum are cardinality-based, meaning they depend…

2020

Better Set Representations For Relational Reasoning

NeurIPS 2020poster

Incorporating relational reasoning into neural networks has greatly expanded their capabilities and scope. One defining trait of relational reasoning is that it operates on a set of entities, as opposed to standard vector representations. Existing end-to-end approaches for relational reasoning typic…

2020

Entrywise convergence of iterative methods for eigenproblems

NeurIPS 2020poster

Several problems in machine learning, statistics, and other fields rely on computing eigenvectors. For large scale problems, the computation of these eigenvectors is typically performed via iterative schemes such as subspace iteration or Krylov methods. While there is classical and comprehensive ana…