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We contribute an approach to the problem of locally computing sparse connected subgraphs of dense graphs. In this setting, given an edge in a connected graph $G = (V, E)$, an algorithm locally decides its membership in a sparse connected…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Rogers Epstein

Sampling edges from a graph in sublinear time is a fundamental problem and a powerful subroutine for designing sublinear-time algorithms. Suppose we have access to the vertices of the graph and know a constant-factor approximation to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Talya Eden , Shyam Narayanan , Jakub Tětek

Spectral graph sparsification has emerged as a powerful tool in the analysis of large-scale networks by reducing the overall number of edges, while maintaining a comparable graph Laplacian matrix. In this paper, we present an efficient…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-16 David G. Anderson , Ming Gu , Christopher Melgaard

We devise new cut sparsifiers that are related to the classical sparsification of Nagamochi and Ibaraki [Algorithmica, 1992], which is an algorithm that, given an unweighted graph $G$ on $n$ nodes and a parameter $k$, computes a subgraph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Amir Abboud , Robert Krauthgamer , Ohad Trabelsi

Spectral sparsification for directed Eulerian graphs is a key component in the design of fast algorithms for solving directed Laplacian linear systems. Directed Laplacian linear system solvers are crucial algorithmic primitives to fast…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Sushant Sachdeva , Anvith Thudi , Yibin Zhao

How might one "reduce" a graph? That is, generate a smaller graph that preserves the global structure at the expense of discarding local details? There has been extensive work on both graph sparsification (removing edges) and graph…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Gecia Bravo-Hermsdorff , Lee M. Gunderson

We give an algorithm to find a minimum cut in an edge-weighted directed graph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges in $\tilde O(n\cdot \max(m^{2/3}, n))$ time. This improves on the 30 year old bound of $\tilde O(nm)$ obtained by Hao and Orlin…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Ruoxu Cen , Jason Li , Danupon Nanongkai , Debmalya Panigrahi , Kent Quanrud , Thatchaphol Saranurak

In this paper, we revisit spectral sparsification for sums of arbitrary positive semidefinite (PSD) matrices. Concretely, for any collection of PSD matrices $\mathcal{A} = \{A_1, A_2, \ldots, A_r\} \subset \mathbb{R}^{n \times n}$, given…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Arpon Basu , Pravesh K. Kothari , Yang P. Liu , Raghu Meka

Graph sketching has emerged as a powerful technique for processing massive graphs that change over time (i.e., are presented as a dynamic stream of edge updates) over the past few years, starting with the work of Ahn, Guha and McGregor…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Michael Kapralov , Aida Mousavifar , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco , Navid Nouri

As graphs scale to billions of nodes and edges, graph Machine Learning workloads are constrained by the cost of multi-hop traversals over exponentially growing neighborhoods. While various system-level and algorithmic optimizations have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yuhang Song , Naima Abrar Shami , Romaric Duvignau , Vasiliki Kalavri

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated superior performance across various graph learning tasks but face significant computational challenges when applied to large-scale graphs. One effective approach to mitigate these challenges is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Guibin Zhang , Xiangguo Sun , Yanwei Yue , Chonghe Jiang , Kun Wang , Tianlong Chen , Shirui Pan

Network sparsification is the task of reducing the number of edges of a given graph while preserving some crucial graph property. In community-aware network sparsification, the preserved property concerns the subgraphs that are induced by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Emanuel Herrendorf , Christian Komusiewicz , Nils Morawietz , Frank Sommer

Graph Sparsification aims at compressing large graphs into smaller ones while preserving important characteristics of the input graph. In this work we study Vertex Sparsifiers, i.e., sparsifiers whose goal is to reduce the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Gramoz Goranci , Monika Henzinger , Pan Peng

We present an algorithm that given any $n$-vertex, $m$-edge, rank $r$ hypergraph constructs a spectral sparsifier with $O(n \varepsilon^{-2} \log n \log r)$ hyperedges in nearly-linear $\widetilde{O}(mr)$ time. This improves in both size…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Arun Jambulapati , Yang P. Liu , Aaron Sidford

Spectral clustering is a fundamental method for graph partitioning, but its reliance on eigenvector computation limits scalability to massive graphs. Classical sparsification methods preserve spectral properties by sampling edges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Kaiwen He , Petros Drineas , Rajiv Khanna

We introduce a new notion of graph sparsificaiton based on spectral similarity of graph Laplacians: spectral sparsification requires that the Laplacian quadratic form of the sparsifier approximate that of the original. This is equivalent to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-07-22 Daniel A. Spielman , Shang-Hua Teng

We consider the problem of estimating the spectral density of the normalized adjacency matrix of an $n$-node undirected graph. We provide a randomized algorithm that, with $O(n\epsilon^{-2})$ queries to a degree and neighbor oracle and in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Yujia Jin , Ishani Karmarkar , Christopher Musco , Aaron Sidford , Apoorv Vikram Singh

We consider the problem of finding a minimum cut of a weighted graph presented as a single-pass stream. While graph sparsification in streams has been intensively studied, the specific application of finding minimum cuts in streams is less…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Matthew Ding , Alexandro Garces , Jason Li , Honghao Lin , Jelani Nelson , Vihan Shah , David P. Woodruff

Let $H=(V,E)$ be an edge-weighted hypergraph of rank $r$. Kogan and Krauthgamer extended Bencz\'{u}r and Karger's random sampling scheme for cut sparsification from graphs to hypergraphs. The sampling requires an algorithm for computing the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Chandra Chekuri , Chao Xu

We study differentially private algorithms for graph cut sparsification, a fundamental problem in algorithms, privacy, and machine learning. While significant progress has been made, the best-known private and efficient cut sparsifiers on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Anders Aamand , Justin Y. Chen , Mina Dalirrooyfard , Slobodan Mitrović , Yuriy Nevmyvaka , Sandeep Silwal , Yinzhan Xu