Auditing Bayesian Graph Alignment: Diagnostic Comparisons and Reference Failure

📅 2026-09-19
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研究通过比较三种采样器和多种诊断方法,审计了贝叶斯图对齐中的收敛性与准确性的差距问题。
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Bayesian graph alignment estimates correspondence probabilities, but convergence of an alignment-score trace need not imply accurate correspondence marginals. We audit this gap on 240 new exact graph pairs from four source families, 240 larger pairs with 20-100 vertices, and a separate 60-case exact implementation check. Under an explicit edge-flip likelihood, we compare three samplers and score, marginal, indicator, categorical, and classifier-based diagnostics. Marginal disagreement improves error discrimination over score R-hat for the exact informed sampler, but its improvement for vanilla local sampling is uncertain. Assignment-based R* and short indicator panels are competitive; no diagnostic dominates across samplers and endpoints. At larger sizes, diagnostics predict subsequent marginal changes, not posterior error, and classification performance depends on the drift threshold. Disjoint-window and held-out-chain checks attenuate but preserve positive associations. Only 22 of 240 original reference sets pass an agreement screen. On forty failure-selected cases, eightfold SMC particle escalation does not resolve disagreement, whereas additional rejuvenation helps. Longer informed runs remain unstable. An elementary feasible-alignment bound demonstrates severely unrepresentative SMC and informed-chain scores in concentrated 100-vertex cases, independently of approximate reference consensus. We also exhibit common-start chains with near-zero disagreement despite exact marginal error near .967. These results support assignment-sensitive auditing while identifying limits of finite budgets, diagnostic rankings, and reference agreement as evidence of accuracy.
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Bayesian graph alignment
convergence
correspondence marginals
diagnostics
reference agreement
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Bayesian graph alignment
marginal disagreement
diagnostic methods
sampler comparison
posterior error
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Melika Gorgi
Center for Complex Biological Systems, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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Kourosh Mirsohi
Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA