Yerel durağan zaman düğüm süreç modelleri

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Authors: Deniz Aslan
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Abstract

Graph signal processing provides a powerful framework for analyzing data defined over irregular network structures. In many real-world applications, time-vertex signals are observed only partially due to sensing failures, communication constraints, or limited data availability, making the learning of reliable signal models a challenging task. In particular, estimating parametric models from incomplete time-vertex observations requires capturing both temporal dynamics and graph-dependent statistical structures. Existing approaches based on joint wide-sense stationarity (JWSS) offer effective tools for modeling global statistical properties of time-vertex signals; however, their global stationarity assumptions often fail to represent local variations that naturally arise across both temporal and graph dimensions. In this thesis, we address the problem of estimating time-vertex signals with missing observations by learning parametric models that exhibit locally stationary behavior over time and graph. The proposed framework extends the concept of local stationarity to the time-vertex setting by modeling a structured covariance matrix derived from the sample covariance through a JWSS-inspired formulation. Model parameters are estimated via an alternating optimization algorithm that efficiently exploits the covariance structure for model fitting. Experimental results on synthetic and real data demonstrate that the proposed approach achieves lower normalized mean error (NME) and mean absolute error (MAE) compared to reference time-vertex methods. Overall, this study introduces a covariance-driven parametric framework for learning locally stationary time-vertex processes, enabling more reliable modeling of complex graph-temporal signals.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Advanced Graph Neural Networks Mathematical Analysis and Transform Methods Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques

Publication details

Journal / source
OpenMETU (Middle East Technical University)
Publication date
6 February 2026
Document type
Thesis