An operator-splitting algorithm for the hypergraph $p$-Laplacian with applications to missing data recovery
arXiv:2607.17606
2026
Regularization
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What the math gives to ML
The transferable object is a hyperedge regularizer that controls the worst pairwise oscillation inside each group, rather than averaging all pairwise discrepancies. This gives a robust notion of groupwise Lipschitzness: one badly inconsistent pair dominates the penalty, which may help enforce invariance among tokens, augmentations, views, or samples sharing a latent entity. The hyperedge decomposition also permits blockwise computation, although the supplied extraction does not include enough proximal-ADMM equations to reproduce the paper's solver exactly. A practical first transfer is therefore a structured representation regularizer evaluated on groups already present in the training data.
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2026
Add a hypergraph p-Laplacian penalty to hidden representations of samples or tokens grouped by a known relation, such as augmentations of one image, mentions of one entity, or tokens in one retrieved semantic cluster. Unlike mean pairwise smoothing, the penalty targets the maximum weighted discrepancy within each hyperedge, preventing a single representation from becoming an outlier while allowing moderate variation among the remaining members.
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