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title: Multiple-Parameter GFRFT
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# Multiple-Parameter GFRFT

The multiple-parameter graph fractional Fourier transform (MPGFRFT) generalizes the classical graph fractional Fourier transform by introducing several independent fractional parameters, enabling a highly flexible fractional spectral analysis of signals supported on graphs, including multi-dimensional, time-varying, and spatial-temporal signals on irregular domains. MPGFRFT unifies and extends the bi-fractional transform on Cartesian product graphs, the angular and joint time-vertex generalizations, and offers multiple construction paradigms for both undirected and directed graphs. This approach underpins adaptive and end-to-end learnable spectral filtering frameworks in modern graph signal processing.

## 1. Mathematical Formulation and Variants

MPGFRFT enables per-frequency or per-factor fractional spectral control in both undirected and directed graph settings. Let \( G=(\mathcal N,\mathcal E,Z) \) be a (possibly directed) graph with diagonalizable shift operator \( Z = U\Lambda U^{-1} \).

**Single-Parameter GFRFT:** For order \( a \in \mathbb R \), the classical GFRFT operator is \( F^a = V \Lambda_F^a V^{-1} \), with \(\Lambda_F^a = \operatorname{diag}(\mu_0^a, \dots, \mu_{N-1}^a)\) [2507.23570].

**MPGFRFT–I (Order Vector on Spectrum):**
\[
F^{\boldsymbol{a}}_{\rm I} = V \operatorname{diag}(\mu_0^{a_0}, \dots, \mu_{N-1}^{a_{N-1}}) V^{-1}
\]
with \(\boldsymbol{a}=(a_0,\dots,a_{N-1})\) [2507.23570].

**MPGFRFT–II (Non-unitary Polynomial Extension):**
\[
F^{\boldsymbol{a}}_{\rm II} = \sum_{n=0}^{N-1} C_{n,a_n}^{\rm II} F^n
\]
where coefficients mix spectral orders and basis polynomials (non-unitary in general) [2507.23570].

**Multi-dimensional setting (Cartesian product graphs):**
Given \( d \) undirected graphs \( G_i \) (\( i=1,\ldots,d \)) with orthonormal bases \( \chi_i \), define the vector of fractional orders \( \boldsymbol{\alpha} = (\alpha_1,\ldots,\alpha_d) \). The full MPGFRFT operator on the corresponding Cartesian product is constructed using Kronecker products over the 1D fractional bases:
\[
F_{\boldsymbol{\alpha}} = F_{G_1}^{\alpha_1} \otimes \cdots \otimes F_{G_d}^{\alpha_d}
\]
with each \( F_{G_i}^{\alpha_i} = \chi_i \Lambda_i^{\alpha_i} \chi_i^\mathrm{H} \) [2109.04358, 2510.11279, 2603.01484].

**Dynamic time-vertex domain:** The dynamic multiple-parameter joint time-vertex fractional Fourier transform (DMPJFRFT) assigns a vector-valued spatial fractional order at each time index and a time-indexed vector of temporal fractional orders, yielding a block-diagonal/Kronecker construction [2511.16277].

**Directed graphs:** For each factor, the SVD of the Laplacian \( L = U\Sigma V^\top \) is used to define fractional powers and associated bases; composition on product graphs proceeds via Kronecker and direct sum constructs [2506.03925].

## 2. Fundamental Properties

The key algebraic and analytic properties of MPGFRFT derive from its spectral construction and product structure.

- **Linearity:** MPGFRFT is a linear operator for all variants [2109.04358].
- **Invertibility and Reversibility:** Unitary cases (e.g., MPGFRFT–I with symmetric GSO and modulus-one eigenvalues) satisfy
\[
(F^{\boldsymbol{a}}_{\rm I})^{-1} = F^{-\boldsymbol{a}}_{\rm I}
\]
and similar identity for multi-dimensional MPGFRFT, providing perfect reconstruction [2507.23570, 2510.11279, 2109.04358].
- **Unitarity:** MPGFRFT–I and Cartesian bi-fractional forms are unitary under orthogonal/symmetric eigendecompositions; MPGFRFT–II is not generally unitary [2507.23570].
- **Index Additivity:** For order vectors \( \boldsymbol{a} \), \( \boldsymbol{b} \), type-I satisfies
\[
F^{\boldsymbol{a}}_{\rm I} F^{\boldsymbol{b}}_{\rm I} = F^{\boldsymbol{a}+\boldsymbol{b}}_{\rm I}
\]
and analogously for separable multi-dimensional constructs [2507.23570, 2510.11279, 2109.04358].
- **Reduction:** All schemes collapse to GFRFT or FT for uniform order (all \(\alpha=1\)), or to the identity for all orders zero [2510.11279, 2511.16277, 2109.04358].
- **Energy Preservation:** Unitary cases inherit Parseval’s equality [2109.04358, 2506.03925].

## 3. Implementation and Computational Considerations

Efficient MPGFRFT computation leverages separability and spectral decompositions.

- **Precomputation:** Initial eigendecomposition (or SVD for directed graphs) of the shift operators \(O(N^3)\) or the constituent graphs in product cases [2510.11279, 2603.01484, 2109.04358, 2506.03925].
- **Multi-dimensional applications:** Mode-wise application of the transform matrices along each axis yields \(O(d\,N_1N_2…N_d\,\max_i N_i)\) complexity, substantially less than full graph diagonalization on the product [2109.04358].
- **Product graph filtering:** For a 2D signal on \(G_1\) and \(G_2\):
  - Apply \(F_{G_1}^{\alpha_1}\) along rows, \(F_{G_2}^{\alpha_2}\) along columns; equivalent to \(F_{G_2}^{\alpha_2} \otimes F_{G_1}^{\alpha_1}\) on the vectorized signal [2510.11279, 2603.01484].
- **Joint time-vertex settings:** Block-diagonal in spatial parameter, Kronecker in temporal, for each time slice or vice versa [2511.16277].
- **Parameter selection:** Manual sweep, grid search, or end-to-end learnable parameters via backpropagation and matrix differential calculus [2507.23570, 2510.11279, 2603.01484, 2507.21527].

## 4. Spectral Filtering and Learnability

MPGFRFT’s parameterization is highly amenable to adaptive filtering and learning frameworks.

- **Wiener-style filtering:** Diagonal filter design is conducted in the MPGFRFT domain, optimizing for MSE [2510.11279, 2603.01484].
- **End-to-end differentiability:** Gradients w.r.t. each parameter (fractional orders, rotation/angle, coupling) are analytically derived, enabling SGD-based optimization of both transform parameters and filter coefficients [2507.23570, 2510.11279, 2603.01484, 2507.21527].
- **Spectral Compression:** Custom unitary bases constructed by Gram–Schmidt that align the leading basis vector with the signal achieve near-lossless encoding at ultra-low compression ratios, leveraging the full flexibility of the order vector [2507.23570].
- **Dynamic settings:** DMPJFRFT extends this by tailoring the fractional basis to the evolution of the time-vertex structure, further supporting neural network embeddings and gradient-based training [2511.16277].

## 5. Relationship to Other Fractional Graph Transforms

MPGFRFT generalizes and subsumes several existing spectral transforms:

| Transform          | Free Parameters                | Description                                              |
|--------------------|-------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------|
| GFRFT              | 1 global order                | Uniform fractional rotation of spectrum                  |
| 2D-GFRFT           | 1 global order (both factors) | Shared-order transform on product graphs                 |
| Bi-fractional FRFT | 2 (α₁, α₂)                    | Independent orders for each graph (axes)                 |
| AGFRFT             | 2 (angle θ, order α)          | Joint angular and fractional spectral control            |
| JFRFT              | 2 (α, β)                      | Fractional order on both vertex and temporal dimensions  |
| DMPJFRFT           | \(N\times T\) + \(T\)         | Separate per-time and per-frequency fractional orders    |
| MPGFRFT–I/II       | N                             | Per-spectral-mode fractional order                       |

This taxonomy illustrates the progressive increase in modeling capacity, spectral localization, and adaptivity as parameterization becomes richer, with corresponding algorithmic and implementation challenges [2507.23570, 2511.16111, 2511.16277, 2510.11279, 2603.01484].

## 6. Empirical Outcomes and Applications

Experimental studies consistently show that MPGFRFT and its multi-parameter specializations outperform their single-parameter or fixed-basis counterparts.

- **Graph Signal Denoising:** MPGFRFT–I/II, especially with learnable order vectors and filters, yields lower MSE and higher SNR compared to GFRFT, GFT, or fixed bases on diverse real datasets (SST, PM2.5, COVID) [2507.23570, 2603.01484, 2510.11279].
- **Image Denoising:** Blockwise MPGFRFT–I provides higher PSNR, SSIM, and visually improved output versus classical methods [2507.23570, 2510.11279].
- **Spectral Compression:** Adaptive compression with MPGFRFT achieves relative errors and normalized RMS on the order of \(10^{-14}\) and perfect correlation at low retained-coefficient ratios [2507.23570, 2109.04358].
- **Encryption:** Use of order vectors as cryptographic keys yields high key sensitivity and drastically expands the key space compared to single-parameter approaches [2507.23570].
- **Spatiotemporal Filtering:** The 2D-GBFRFT and geodesic-coupled MPGFRFT consistently surpass traditional 2D-GFRFT and deep learning baselines in dynamic image restoration and time-varying signal denoising, with the hybrid interpolation demonstrating further improvements [2510.11279, 2603.01484].

## 7. Future Perspectives and Open Issues

- **Fast Approximation:** High computational complexity (cubic in graph size for naive eigendecomposition) motivates the development of sparsity-aware, approximate, or recursive schemes [2507.23570].
- **Dynamic Graphs:** Ongoing development includes smoothness/regularization for order vectors, adaptation to temporally evolving topologies, and further generalization to directed or weighted time-varying graphs [2511.16277].
- **Higher-Dimensional Extensions:** The theory and practice of MPGFRFT for products of more than two graphs, fine-grained angular and geodesic parameterizations, and compositions with neural graph learning architectures are emerging directions [2511.16111, 2511.16277].
- **Control of Non-commutativity:** For angular and spectral-deformation extensions, commutation relations between multiple spectral deformation generators complicate invertibility and identifiability, representing both a flexibility and a challenge [2511.16111].

MPGFRFT thus stands as a unifying and extensible paradigm for adaptive, learnable, and task-specific spectral analysis of complex graph-supported signals. Its algebraic structure supports robust theoretical properties—linearity, invertibility, unitarity—while its parameterization enables fine-grained and application-driven spectral filtering, with empirical efficacy validated across numerous graph signal processing applications [2507.23570, 2510.11279, 2603.01484, 2511.16111, 2511.16277, 2109.04358, 2506.03925].

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