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Hierarchical abstractions are a methodology for solving large-scale graph problems in various disciplines. Coarsening is one such approach: it generates a pyramid of graphs whereby the one in the next level is a structural summary of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Tengfei Ma , Jie Chen

Distributed processing of large-scale graph data has many practical applications and has been widely studied. In recent years, a lot of distributed graph processing frameworks and algorithms have been proposed. While many efforts have been…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Lingkai Meng , Yu Shao , Long Yuan , Longbin Lai , Peng Cheng , Xue Li , Wenyuan Yu , Wenjie Zhang , Xuemin Lin , Jingren Zhou

Graph coarsening is a graph dimensionality reduction technique that aims to construct a smaller and more tractable graph while preserving the essential structural and semantic properties of the original graph. However, most existing methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Xu Bai , Bin Lu , Kun Zhang , Shengbo Chen , Xinbing Wang , Chenghu Zhou , Meng Jin

Modularity is one of the most widely used quality measures for graph clusterings. Maximizing modularity is NP-hard, and the runtime of exact algorithms is prohibitive for large graphs. A simple and effective class of heuristics coarsens the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-09-22 Andreas Noack , Randolf Rotta

Hypergraph partitioning is a recurring NP-hard problem in engineering; its efficient solution at scale hinges on parallelism. This work proposes a GPU-centric algorithm for multi-level hypergraph partitioning aimed at a specific set of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Marco Ronzani , Cristina Silvano

Spatial graphs are particular graphs for which the nodes are localized in space (e.g., public transport network, molecules, branching biological structures). In this work, we consider the problem of spatial graph reduction, that aims to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-10 Anna Calissano , Etienne Lasalle

In the context of multi-domain network slices, multiple domains need to work together to provide a service. The problem of determining which part of the service fits within which domain is referred to as slice partitioning. The partitioning…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Zhouxiang Wu , Genya Ishigaki , Riti Gour , Congzhou Li , Divya Khanure , Jason P. Jue

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become powerful tools for learning from graph-structured data, finding applications across diverse domains. However, as graph sizes and connectivity increase, standard GNN training methods face significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Eshed Gal , Moshe Eliasof , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Ivan I. Kyrchei , Eldad Haber , Eran Treister

Scalability of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) remains a significant challenge. To tackle this, methods like coarsening, condensation, and computation trees are used to train on a smaller graph, resulting in faster computation. Nonetheless,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Shubhajit Roy , Hrriday Ruparel , Kishan Ved , Anirban Dasgupta

In recent years, significant advances have been made in the design and evaluation of balanced (hyper)graph partitioning algorithms. We survey trends of the last decade in practical algorithms for balanced (hyper)graph partitioning together…

Modeling data sharing in GPU programs is a challenging task because of the massive parallelism and complex data sharing patterns provided by GPU architectures. Better GPU caching efficiency can be achieved through careful task scheduling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Lingda Li , Ari B. Hayes , Stephen A. Hackler , Eddy Z. Zhang , Mario Szegedy , Shuaiwen Leon Song

Recently, graph neural networks (GNNs) have gained much attention as a growing area of deep learning capable of learning on graph-structured data. However, the computational and memory requirements for training GNNs on large-scale graphs…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Nikolai Merkel , Daniel Stoll , Ruben Mayer , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) underpin many scientific phenomena, yet traditional computational approaches often struggle with complex, nonlinear systems and irregular geometries. This paper introduces the AMG method, a Multi-Graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Zhihao Li , Haoze Song , Di Xiao , Zhilu Lai , Wei Wang

In this paper, we discuss the convergence of an Algebraic MultiGrid (AMG) method for general symmetric positive-definite matrices. The method relies on an aggregation algorithm, named \emph{coarsening based on compatible weighted matching},…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Pasqua D'Ambra , Fabio Durastante , Salvatore Filippone , Ludmil Zikatanov

Filtering-based graph neural networks (GNNs) constitute a distinct class of GNNs that employ graph filters to handle graph-structured data, achieving notable success in various graph-related tasks. Conventional methods adopt a graph-wise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Guoming Li , Jian Yang , Yifan Chen

Graph-level representations are crucial tools for characterising structural differences between graphs. However, comparing graphs with different cardinalities, even when sampled from the same underlying distribution, remains challenging.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Katharina Limbeck , Nadja Häusermann , Martin Carrasco , Guy Wolf , Bastian Rieck

Partitioning a graph into blocks of roughly equal weight while cutting only few edges is a fundamental problem in computer science with numerous practical applications. While shared-memory parallel partitioners have recently matured to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Peter Sanders , Daniel Seemaier

Graph coarsening aims to reduce the size of a large graph while preserving some of its key properties, which has been used in many applications to reduce computational load and memory footprint. For instance, in graph machine learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Antonin Joly , Nicolas Keriven

Hypergraphs allow modeling problems with multi-way high-order relationships. However, the computational cost of most existing hypergraph-based algorithms can be heavily dependent upon the input hypergraph sizes. To address the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Ali Aghdaei , Zhiqiang Zhao , Zhuo Feng

Matchings and coverings are central topics in graph theory. The close relationship between these two has been key to many fundamental algorithmic and polyhedral results. For mixed graphs, the notion of matching forest was proposed as a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-18 Tamás Király , Yu Yokoi