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Discovering Lobby-Parliamentarian Alignments through NLP

Matthias Grossglauser, Victor Kristof, Aswin Suresh

We discover alignments of views between interest groups (lobbies) and members of the European Parliament (MEPs) by automatically analyzing their texts. Specifically, we do so by collecting novel datasets of lobbies’ position papers and MEPs’ speeches, and ...

2024

Universal Lower Bounds and Optimal Rates: Achieving Minimax Clustering Error in Sub-Exponential Mixture Models

Patrick Thiran, Matthias Grossglauser, Maximilien Claude Robert Dreveton

Clustering is a pivotal challenge in unsupervised machine learning and is often investigated through the lens of mixture models. The optimal error rate for recovering cluster labels in Gaussian and sub-Gaussian mixture models involves ad hoc signal-to-nois ...

2024

Why the Metric Backbone Preserves Community Structure

Patrick Thiran, Matthias Grossglauser, Maximilien Claude Robert Dreveton

The metric backbone of a weighted graph is the union of all-pairs shortest paths. It is obtained by removing all edges

(u,v)

that are not the shortest path between

u

and

v

. In networks with well-separated communities, the metric backbone tends to pre ...

2024