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Ron Levie

21 accepted papers

2026

A Graphop Analysis of Graph Neural Networks on Sparse Graphs: Generalization and Universal Approximation

ICML 2026poster

Generalization and approximation capabilities of message passing graph neural networks (MPNNs) are often studied by defining a compact metric on a space of input graphs under which MPNNs are Hölder continuous. Such analyses are of two varieties: 1) when the metric space includes graphs of unbounded …

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2026

Efficient Learning on Large Graphs using a Densifying Regularity Lemma

ICLR 2026poster

Learning on large graphs presents significant challenges, with traditional Message Passing Neural Networks suffering from computational and memory costs scaling linearly with the number of edges. We introduce the Intersecting Block Graph (IBG), a low-rank factorization of large directed graphs based…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Covered Forest: Fine-grained generalization analysis of graph neural networks

ICML 2025spotlight

The expressive power of message-passing graph neural networks (MPNNs) is reasonably well understood, primarily through combinatorial techniques from graph isomorphism testing. However, MPNNs' generalization abilities---making meaningful predictions beyond the training set---remain less explored. Cur…

2025

Equivariance Everywhere All At Once: A Recipe for Graph Foundation Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

Graph machine learning architectures are typically tailored to specific tasks on specific datasets, which hinders their broader applicability. This has led to a new quest in graph machine learning: \emph{how to build graph foundation models (GFMs)} capable of generalizing across arbitrary graphs an…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Generalization, Expressivity, and Universality of Graph Neural Networks on Attributed Graphs

ICLR 2025poster

We analyze the universality and generalization of graph neural networks (GNNs) on attributed graphs, i.e., with node attributes. To this end, we propose pseudometrics over the space of all attributed graphs that describe the fine-grained expressivity of GNNs. Namely, GNNs are both Lipschitz continuo…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

PieClam: A Universal Graph Autoencoder Based on Overlapping Inclusive and Exclusive Communities

ICML 2025poster

We propose PieClam (Prior Inclusive Exclusive Cluster Affiliation Model): a graph autoencoder, where nodes are embedded into a code space by an algorithm that maximizes the log-likelihood of the decoded graph. PieClam is a community affiliation model that extends well-known methods like BigClam in t…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Equivariant Machine Learning on Graphs with Nonlinear Spectral Filters

NeurIPS 2024poster

Equivariant machine learning is an approach for designing deep learning models that respect the symmetries of the problem, with the aim of reducing model complexity and improving generalization. In this paper, we focus on an extension of shift equivariance, which is the basis of convolution network…

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2024

Learning on Large Graphs using Intersecting Communities

NeurIPS 2024poster

Message Passing Neural Networks (MPNNs) are a staple of graph machine learning. MPNNs iteratively update each node’s representation in an input graph by aggregating messages from the node’s neighbors, which necessitates a memory complexity of the order of the __number of graph edges__. This complexi…

2024

Position: Future Directions in the Theory of Graph Machine Learning

ICML 2024poster

Machine learning on graphs, especially using graph neural networks (GNNs), has seen a surge in interest due to the wide availability of graph data across a broad spectrum of disciplines, from life to social and engineering sciences. Despite their practical success, our theoretical understanding of t…

Cited by 14SourcePDFScholar
2023

Explaining Image Classifiers With Multiscale Directional Image Representation

CVPR 2023poster

Image classifiers are known to be difficult to interpret and therefore require explanation methods to understand their decisions. We present ShearletX, a novel mask explanation method for image classifiers based on the shearlet transform -- a multiscale directional image representation. Current mask…

2023

Fine-grained Expressivity of Graph Neural Networks

NeurIPS 2023poster

Numerous recent works have analyzed the expressive power of message-passing graph neural networks (MPNNs), primarily utilizing combinatorial techniques such as the $1$-dimensional Weisfeiler--Leman test ($1$-WL) for the graph isomorphism problem. However, the graph isomorphism objective is inherentl…

2023

Memorization-Dilation: Modeling Neural Collapse Under Noise

ICLR 2023poster

The notion of neural collapse refers to several emergent phenomena that have been empirically observed across various canonical classification problems. During the terminal phase of training a deep neural network, the feature embedding of all examples of the same class tend to collapse to a single…

Cited by 13SourcePDFScholar
2023

The First Pathloss Radio Map Prediction Challenge

ICASSP 2023accepted

To foster research and facilitate fair comparisons among recently proposed pathloss radio map prediction methods, we have launched the ICASSP 2023 First Pathloss Radio Map Prediction Challenge. In this short overview paper, we briefly describe the pathloss prediction problem, the provided datasets,…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

Unveiling the sampling density in non-uniform geometric graphs

ICLR 2023poster

A powerful framework for studying graphs is to consider them as geometric graphs: nodes are randomly sampled from an underlying metric space, and any pair of nodes is connected if their distance is less than a specified neighborhood radius. Currently, the literature mostly focuses on uniform samplin…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2022

Cartoon Explanations of Image Classifiers

ECCV 2022poster

"We present CartoonX (Cartoon Explanation), a novel model-agnostic explanation method tailored towards image classifiers and based on the rate-distortion explanation (RDE) framework. Natural images are roughly piece-wise smooth signals---also called cartoon-like images---and tend to be sparse in the…

2022

Generalization Analysis of Message Passing Neural Networks on Large Random Graphs

NeurIPS 2022accept

Message passing neural networks (MPNN) have seen a steep rise in popularity since their introduction as generalizations of convolutional neural networks to graph-structured data, and are now considered state-of-the-art tools for solving a large variety of graph-focused problems. We study the general…

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2022

LocUNet: Fast Urban Positioning Using Radio Maps and Deep Learning

ICASSP 2022accepted

This paper deals with the problem of localization in a cellular network in a dense urban scenario. Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) typically perform poorly in urban environments, where the likelihood of line-of-sight conditions is low, and thus alternative localization methods are require…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2020

Pathloss Prediction using Deep Learning with Applications to Cellular Optimization and Efficient D2D Link Scheduling

ICASSP 2020accepted

In this paper we propose a highly efficient and very accurate method for estimating the propagation pathloss from a point x to all points y on the 2D plane. Our method, termed RadioUNet, is a deep neural network. For applications such as user-cell site association and device-to-device (D2D) link sch…

Cited by 26SourceScholar