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awesome-latex-drawing is a collection of 20+ academic drawing examples for using LaTeX, including Bayesian networks, function plotting, graphical models, tensor structure, and technical frameworks.
LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting system, and it is available as a free software. In recent years, it is very popular for creating and drawing academic graphics by using LaTeX. This is because that LaTeX is able to draw many complicated graphics containing special symbols and math equations. It is really a great attempt for using LaTeX to draw certain graphics in your research.This post will introduce some graphics that created by using LaTeX. It would be easy to follow the examples with a popular online LaTeX system - Overleaf. If you are interested, welcome to use Overleaf and reproduce our examples. The Overleaf is available at overleaf.com, please feel free to try it.
Table of Examples
- Bayesian networks
pgfplots
function plotting
Open overleaf.com in your Chrome.
It is not necessary to open each file in this repository because you can just follow this readme document.
Looking for some good LaTeX drawing examples? Here is a few (20+) to peruse.
LaTeX provides some powerful domain-specific packages and tools like tikz
to enable flexible graphical models. Bayesian networks represent a family of graphical models consisting of variables (usually denoted by nodes) and dependency relationships (usually denoted by arrows). Fortunately, tikz
has a specific library for drawing Bayesian networks and directed factor graphs.
This example is from the following paper:
- Qibin Zhao, Liqing Zhang, Andrzej Cichocki (2015). Bayesian CP factorization of incomplete tensors with automatic rank determination. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 37(9): 1751-1763.
![drawing](BayesNet/BCPF.png)
preamble
codes:- define the
documentclass
asstandalone
, e.g.,\documentclass[border = 0.1cm]{standalone}
with 0.1cm border, - use package
tikz
in preamble, i.e.,\usepackage{tikz}
, and usetikz
library like\usetikzlibrary{bayesnet}
which is an important tool for drawing Bayesian networks and directed factor graphs, - set the
tikz
style by using the\tikzstyle{}
command, - use math equation environments including
\usepackage{amsfonts, amsmath, amssymb}
.
- define the
body
codes:- use
\begin{tikzpicture} \end{tikzpicture}
to start drawing, - use
\node
to define nodes and text boxes in the Bayesian network, - use
\path
to define arrows in the Bayesian network, - use
\plate
to define plates in the Bayesian network.
- use
Please click on the image and check out the source code.
This example is from the following paper:
Xinyu Chen, Zhaocheng He, Lijun Sun (2019). A Bayesian tensor decomposition approach for spatiotemporal traffic data imputation. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 98: 73-84.
![drawing](BayesNet/BGCP-1.png)
preamble
codes:- define the
documentclass
asstandalone
, e.g.,\documentclass[border = 0.1cm]{standalone}
with 0.1cm border, - use package
tikz
in preamble, i.e.,\usepackage{tikz}
, and usetikz
library like\usetikzlibrary{bayesnet}
which is an important tool for drawing Bayesian networks and directed factor graph, - set the
tikz
style by using the\tikzstyle{}
command, - use math equation environments including
\usepackage{amsmath, amsfonts, amssymb}
.
- define the
body
codes:- use
\begin{tikzpicture} \end{tikzpicture}
to start drawing, - use
\node
to define nodes and text boxes in the Bayesian network, - use
\path
to define arrows in the Bayesian network, - use
\plate
to define plates in the Bayesian network.
- use
Please click on the image and check out the source code. If you are interested in the original Bayesian network of BGCP in the paper, please check out BGCP.tex.
This example is from the following paper:
Xinyu Chen, Zhaocheng He, Yixian Chen, Yuhuan Lu, Jiawei Wang (2019). Missing traffic data imputation and pattern discovery with a Bayesian augmented tensor factorization model. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 104: 66-77.
![drawing](BayesNet/BATF.png)
preamble
codes:- define the
documentclass
asstandalone
, e.g.,\documentclass[border = 0.1cm]{standalone}
with 0.1cm border, - use package
tikz
in preamble, i.e.,\usepackage{tikz}
, and usetikz
library like\usetikzlibrary{bayesnet}
which is an important tool for drawing Bayesian networks and directed factor graph, - set the
tikz
style by using the\tikzstyle{}
command, - use math equation environments including
\usepackage{amsmath, amsfonts, amssymb}
.
- define the
body
codes:- use
\begin{tikzpicture} \end{tikzpicture}
to start drawing, - use
\node
to define nodes and text boxes in the Bayesian network, - use
\path
to define arrows in the Bayesian network, - use
\plate
to define plates in the Bayesian network.
- use
Please click on the image and check out the source code.
This example is from the following paper:
Xinyu Chen, Lijun Sun (2021). Bayesian temporal factorization for multidimensional time series prediction. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. (Early access)
![drawing](BayesNet/BTMF.png)
preamble
codes:- define the
documentclass
asstandalone
, e.g.,\documentclass[border = 0.1cm]{standalone}
with 0.1cm border, - use package
tikz
in preamble, i.e.,\usepackage{tikz}
, and usetikz
library like\usetikzlibrary{bayesnet}
which is an important tool for drawing Bayesian networks and directed factor graph, - set the
tikz
style by using the\tikzstyle{}
command, - use math equation environments including
\usepackage{amsmath, amsfonts, amssymb}
.
- define the
body
codes:- use
\begin{tikzpicture} \end{tikzpicture}
to start drawing, - use
\node
to define nodes and text boxes in the Bayesian network, - use
\path
to define arrows in the Bayesian network, - use
\plate
to define plates in the Bayesian network.
- use
Please click on the image and check out the source code. Instead of multivariate vector autoregressive process on temporal factors, we can also use univariate autoregressive process to rebuild BTMF. The Beyasian network is available at btmf_net.png, you can also check out the source code btmf_net.tex.
These two examples show the probability density function (PDF) and cumulative density function (CDF) of Erlang distribution, respectively. To draw the example, there are few steps to follow:
preamble
codes:- define the
documentclass
asstandalone
, - use package
pgfplots
in preamble, - set font style and adjust
\pgfplotsset{}
as you prefer.
- define the
body
codes:- use
\begin{tikzpicture} \end{tikzpicture}
to start drawing, - use
\begin{axis} \end{axis}
to draw the function, - use
\addplot
to define the function for drawing.
- use
![drawing](pgfplots-function/normal_pdf.png)
This example shows the PDF of normal distribution with different means and variances. To draw this example, there are few step to follow:
preamble
codes:- define the
documentclass
asstandalone
, - use package
pgfplots
in preamble, - set font style and adjust
\pgfplotsset{}
as you prefer.
- define the
body
codes:- use
\pgfmathdeclarefunction
to define the PDF function of normal (Gaussian) distribution, - use
\begin{tikzpicture} \end{tikzpicture}
to start drawing, - use
\begin{axis} \end{axis}
to draw the function, - use
\addplot
to define the function for drawing.
- use
- More posts:
These two examples show the PDF and joint PDF of Lognormal distributions, respectively. There are some recommended material to follow the examples:
- More posts:
- Open
- Upload
in your overleaf project, then you will see the following picture:
Figure 7: Tensor completion task and its framework including data organization and tensor completion, in which traffic measurements are partially observed.
- Open rolling_prediction_strategy.tex in your overleaf project, then you will see the following picture:
Figure 8: A graphical illustration of rolling prediction strategy with temporal matrix factorization and autoregressive model.
- Open rolling_prediction.tex in your overleaf project, then you will see the following picture:
Figure 9: A graphical illustration of rolling prediction strategy with temporal matrix factorization and vector autoregressive model.
- Open graphical_time_series.tex in your overleaf project, then you will see the following picture:
Figure 10: A graphical illustration of the partially observed time series data.
- Open tensor_time_series.tex in your overleaf project, then, you will see the following picture:
Figure 11: A graphical illustration of the partially observed time series tensor.
- Open graphical_matrix_time_series.tex in your overleaf project, then you will see the following picture:
Figure 12: Multivariate time series data prediction with missing values.
- Open graphical_tensor_time_series.tex in your overleaf project, then you will see the following picture:
Figure 13: Tensor time series data prediction with missing values.
- Open mf-explained.tex in your overleaf project, then you will see the following picture:
Figure 14: A graphical illustration of matrix factorization.
- Open LRTC-flow.tex and upload
in your overleaf project, then you will see the following picture:
Figure 15: A graphical illustration of low-rank tensor completion model.
- Open latc_framework in your overleaf project, then you will see the following picture:
Figure 16: A graphical illustration of low-rank autoregressive tensor completion model.
- Open tensor.tex in your overleaf project, then you will see the following picture:
Figure 17: A graphical illustration for the (origin,destination,time slot) tensor.
- Open AuTF.tex in your overleaf project, then you will see the following picture:
Figure 18: Augmented tensor factorization (AuTF) model.
- Open TVART.tex in your overleaf project, then you will see the following picture:
Figure 19: Tensor regression model.
- Open tensor_svt.tex in your overleaf project, then you will see the following picture:
Figure 20: Singular value thresholding process of the tensor data with unitary transform.
- Open CP_factorization.tex in your overleaf project, then you will see the following picture:
Figure 21: Illustration of CP factorization on third-order tensor.
- Open RMseries.tex in your overleaf project, then you will see the following picture:
Figure 22: Random missing pattern.
- Open NMseries.tex in your overleaf project, then you will see the following picture:
Figure 23: Non-random missing pattern.
- Open performance_bar.tex and upload
in your overleaf project, then you will see the following picture:
Figure 24: Imputation performance.
If you want to draw each sub-figure, please check out the following
.tex
files:
- Sub-figure at the 1st row and 1st column: RM_Gdata.tex
- Sub-figure at the 1st row and 2nd column: RM_Bdata.tex
- Sub-figure at the 1st row and 3rd column: RM_Hdata.tex
- Sub-figure at the 1st row and 4th column: RM_Sdata.tex
- Sub-figure at the 2nd row and 1st column: NM_Gdata.tex
- Sub-figure at the 2nd row and 2nd column: NM_Bdata.tex
- Sub-figure at the 2nd row and 3rd column: NM_Hdata.tex
- Sub-figure at the 2nd row and 4th column: NM_Sdata.tex
- Open
- Upload
in your overleaf project, then, you will see the following picture:
Figure 25: transdim logo.
Coming soon...
Most of these examples are from our papers:
-
Xinyu Chen, Mengying Lei, Nicolas Saunier, Lijun Sun (2021). Low-rank autoregressive tensor completion for spatiotemporal traffic data imputation. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. [Preprint] [DOI] [Data & Python code] (Also accepted in part to MiLeTS Workshop of KDD 2021, see workshop paper)
-
Xinyu Chen, Yixian Chen, Nicolas Saunier, Lijun Sun (2021). Scalable low-rank tensor learning for spatiotemporal traffic data imputation. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 129: 103226. [Preprint] [DOI] [Data] [Python code]
-
Xinyu Chen, Lijun Sun (2021). Bayesian temporal factorization for multidimensional time series prediction. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. (Early access) [Preprint] [DOI] [Slides] [Data & Python code]
-
Xinyu Chen, Lijun Sun (2020). Low-rank autoregressive tensor completion for multivariate time series forecasting. arXiv: 2006.10436. [Preprint] [Data & Python code]
-
Xinyu Chen, Jinming Yang, Lijun Sun (2020). A nonconvex low-rank tensor completion model for spatiotemporal traffic data imputation. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 117: 102673. [Preprint] [DOI] [Data & Python code]
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Xinyu Chen, Zhaocheng He, Yixian Chen, Yuhuan Lu, Jiawei Wang (2019). Missing traffic data imputation and pattern discovery with a Bayesian augmented tensor factorization model. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 104: 66-77. [DOI] [Slides] [Data] [Matlab code] [Python code]
-
Xinyu Chen, Zhaocheng He, Lijun Sun (2019). A Bayesian tensor decomposition approach for spatiotemporal traffic data imputation. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 98: 73-84. [Preprint] [DOI] [Data] [Matlab code] [Python code]
Please cite our papers if you find these codes help your research.