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Triangle counting is a fundamental graph analytic operation that is used extensively in network science and graph mining. As the size of the graphs that needs to be analyzed continues to grow, there is a requirement in developing scalable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Ancy Sarah Tom , George Karypis

Triangle counting is a fundamental building block in graph algorithms. In this paper, we propose a block-based triangle counting algorithm to reduce data movement during both sequential and parallel execution. Our block-based formulation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Abdurrahman Yaşar , Sivasankaran Rajamanickam , Jonathan Berry , Ümit V. Çatalyürek

We consider the problem of estimating the number of triangles in a graph. This problem has been extensively studied in both theory and practice, but all existing algorithms read the entire graph. In this work we design a {\em…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Talya Eden , Amit Levi , Dana Ron , C. Seshadhri

Triangle counting is a fundamental problem in the analysis of large graphs. There is a rich body of work on this problem, in varying streaming and distributed models, yet all these algorithms require reading the whole input graph. In many…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Suman K. Bera , C. Seshadhri

Counting the frequency of small subgraphs is a fundamental technique in network analysis across various domains, most notably in bioinformatics and social networks. The special case of triangle counting has received much attention. Getting…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-19 Madhav Jha , C. Seshadhri , Ali Pinar

The number of triangles (hereafter denoted by $\Delta$) is an important metric to analyze massive graphs. It is also used to compute clustering coefficient in networks. This paper proposes a new algorithm called PES (Priority Edge Sampling)…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Roohollah Etemadi , Jianguo Lu

The clustering coefficient and the transitivity ratio are concepts often used in network analysis, which creates a need for fast practical algorithms for counting triangles in large graphs. Previous research in this area focused on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Adam Polak

Listing and counting triangles in graphs is a key algorithmic kernel for network analyses including community detection, clustering coefficients, k-trusses, and triangle centrality. We design and implement a new serial algorithm for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-21 David A. Bader

Graphs and networks are used to model interactions in a variety of contexts. There is a growing need to quickly assess the characteristics of a graph in order to understand its underlying structure. Some of the most useful metrics are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-12-02 Tamara G. Kolda , Ali Pinar , Todd Plantenga , C. Seshadhri , Christine Task

We present TRI\`EST, a suite of one-pass streaming algorithms to compute unbiased, low-variance, high-quality approximations of the global and local (i.e., incident to each vertex) number of triangles in a fully-dynamic graph represented as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Lorenzo De Stefani , Alessandro Epasto , Matteo Riondato , Eli Upfal

Triangle counting is a fundamental problem in graph mining, essential for analyzing graph streams with arbitrary edge orders. However, exact counting becomes impractical due to the massive size of real-world graph streams. To address this,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Wei Xuan , Yan Liang , Huawei Cao , Ning Lin , Xiaochun Ye , Dongrui Fan

We consider the fundamental problems of approximately counting the numbers of edges and triangles in a graph in sublinear time. Previous algorithms for these tasks are significantly more efficient under a promise that the arboricity of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Talya Eden , Ronitt Rubinfeld , Arsen Vasilyan

We revisit the algorithmic problem of finding a triangle in a graph (\textsc{Triangle Detection}), and examine its relation to other problems such as \textsc{3Sum}, \textsc{Independent Set}, and \textsc{Graph Coloring}. We obtain several…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Adrian Dumitrescu

Pattern counting in graphs is a fundamental primitive for many network analysis tasks, and a number of methods have been developed for scaling subgraph counting to large graphs. Many real-world networks carry a natural notion of strength of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Raunak Kumar , Paul Liu , Moses Charikar , Austin R. Benson

We present improved distributed algorithms for triangle detection and its variants in the CONGEST model. We show that Triangle Detection, Counting, and Enumeration can be solved in $\tilde{O}(n^{1/2})$ rounds. In contrast, the previous…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Yi-Jun Chang , Seth Pettie , Hengjie Zhang

We design a space efficient algorithm that approximates the transitivity (global clustering coefficient) and total triangle count with only a single pass through a graph given as a stream of edges. Our procedure is based on the classic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-12-05 Madhav Jha , C. Seshadhri , Ali Pinar

Graphs are used to model interactions in a variety of contexts, and there is a growing need to quickly assess the structure of such graphs. Some of the most useful graph metrics are based on triangles, such as those measuring social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-10-21 C. Seshadhri , Ali Pinar , Tamara G. Kolda

There is a trivial $O(\frac{n^3}{T})$ time algorithm for approximate triangle counting where $T$ is the number of triangles in the graph and $n$ the number of vertices. At the same time, one may count triangles exactly using fast matrix…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Jakub Tětek

Listing and counting triangles in graphs is a key algorithmic kernel for network analyses, including community detection, clustering coefficients, k-trusses, and triangle centrality. In this paper, we propose the novel concept of a…

Recently, considerable efforts have been devoted to approximately computing the global and local (i.e., incident to each node) triangle counts of a large graph stream represented as a sequence of edges. Existing approximate triangle…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Pinghui Wang , Peng Jia , Yiyan Qi , Yu Sun , Jing Tao , Xiaohong Guan