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Learning with Covariance Matrices: Principal Component Analysis Meets Learning with Graphs

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 9, 2026 · UTC

This feature article provides an overview of the theoretical foundations for coVariance neural networks (VNNs), i.e., graph neural networks (GNNs) operating on covariance matrices as graphs. Covariance matrices are ubiquitous across domains, and hence, the deployment of GNNs often leverages graphs of pairwise statistical dependencies. Existing theoretical contributions on GNNs consider abstract graph representations and cannot accommodate the data-driven nuances associated with covariance matrices. This tutorial brings into focus various novel theoretical insights via mathematical analyses of

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