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We study the densest subgraph problem and its NP-hard densest at-most-$k$ subgraph variant through the lens of learning-augmented algorithms. We show that, given a reasonably accurate predictor that estimates whether a node belongs to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Thai Bui , Luan Nguyen , Hoa T. Vu

The (non-uniform) sparsest cut problem is the following graph-partitioning problem: given a "supply" graph, and demands on pairs of vertices, delete some subset of supply edges to minimize the ratio of the supply edges cut to the total…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Anupam Gupta , Philip N. Klein , Jason Li

The 2-Vertex-Connected Spanning Subgraph problem (2VCSS) is among the most basic NP-hard (Survivable) Network Design problems: we are given an (unweighted) undirected graph $G$. Our goal is to find a spanning subgraph $S$ of $G$ with the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Miguel Bosch-Calvo , Fabrizio Grandoni , Afrouz Jabal Ameli

We present a new approach for solving (minimum disagreement) correlation clustering that results in sublinear algorithms with highly efficient time and space complexity for this problem. In particular, we obtain the following algorithms for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Sepehr Assadi , Chen Wang

Given an undirected graph $G$, the Densest $k$-subgraph problem (DkS) asks to compute a set $S \subset V$ of cardinality $\left\lvert S\right\rvert \leq k$ such that the weight of edges inside $S$ is maximized. This is a fundamental NP-hard…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Yash Khanna , Anand Louis

Dense subgraph discovery is an important graph-mining primitive with a variety of real-world applications. One of the most well-studied optimization problems for dense subgraph discovery is the densest subgraph problem, where given an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Francesco Bonchi , David García-Soriano , Atsushi Miyauchi , Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

We consider a variation of the spectral sparsification problem where we are required to keep a subgraph of the original graph. Formally, given a union of two weighted graphs $G$ and $W$ and an integer $k$, we are asked to find a $k$-edge…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-12-10 Alexandra Kolla , Yury Makarychev , Amin Saberi , Shanghua Teng

Network analysis has played a key role in knowledge discovery and data mining. In many real-world applications in recent years, we are interested in mining multilayer networks, where we have a number of edge sets called layers, which encode…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Yasushi Kawase , Atsushi Miyauchi , Hanna Sumita

We develop a new technique for constructing sparse graphs that allow us to prove near-linear lower bounds on the round complexity of computing distances in the CONGEST model. Specifically, we show an $\widetilde{\Omega}(n)$ lower bound for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-18 Amir Abboud , Keren Censor-Hillel , Seri Khoury

We define a proportionally dense subgraph (PDS) as an induced subgraph of a graph with the property that each vertex in the PDS is adjacent to proportionally as many vertices in the subgraph as in the graph. We prove that the problem of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Cristina Bazgan , Janka Chlebíková , Clément Dallard , Thomas Pontoizeau

In the restricted shortest paths problem, we are given a graph $G$ whose edges are assigned two non-negative weights: lengths and delays, a source $s$, and a delay threshold $D$. The goal is to find, for each target $t$, the length of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Vikrant Ashvinkumar , Aaron Bernstein , Adam Karczmarz

In graph sparsification, the goal has almost always been of {global} nature: compress a graph into a smaller subgraph ({sparsifier}) that maintains certain features of the original graph. Algorithms can then run on the sparsifier, which in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Shay Solomon

In the Densest k-Subgraph problem, given a graph G and a parameter k, one needs to find a subgraph of G induced on k vertices that contains the largest number of edges. There is a significant gap between the best known upper and lower…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-01-19 Aditya Bhaskara , Moses Charikar , Eden Chlamtac , Uriel Feige , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

Random graph matching refers to recovering the underlying vertex correspondence between two random graphs with correlated edges; a prominent example is when the two random graphs are given by Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi graphs $G(n,\frac{d}{n})$.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-21 Jian Ding , Zongming Ma , Yihong Wu , Jiaming Xu

We consider the Backup Placement problem in networks in the $\mathcal{CONGEST}$ distributed setting. Given a network graph $G = (V,E)$, the goal of each vertex $v \in V$ is selecting a neighbor, such that the maximum number of vertices in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Leonid Barenboim , Gal Oren

We examine directed spanners through flow-based linear programming relaxations. We design an $\~O(n^{2/3})$-approximation algorithm for the directed $k$-spanner problem that works for all $k\geq 1$, which is the first sublinear…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-11-23 Michael Dinitz , Robert Krauthgamer

We aim to learn a sparse and connected graph from sparse data, where the number of observations K can be substantially smaller than the signal dimension N for signals x in R^N, and the underlying distribution is unknown. In this severely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Bahar Oveisgharan , Gene Cheung , Andrew Eckford

In this paper we present a simple but powerful subgraph sampling primitive that is applicable in a variety of computational models including dynamic graph streams (where the input graph is defined by a sequence of edge/hyperedge insertions…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-08 Rajesh Chitnis , Graham Cormode , Hossein Esfandiari , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Andrew McGregor , Morteza Monemizadeh , Sofya Vorotnikova

The minimum-weight $2$-edge-connected spanning subgraph (2-ECSS) problem is a natural generalization of the well-studied minimum-weight spanning tree (MST) problem, and it has received considerable attention in the area of network design.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Michal Dory , Mohsen Ghaffari

Graph coloring is one of the central problems in distributed graph algorithms. Much of the research on this topic has focused on coloring with $\Delta+1$ colors, where $\Delta$ denotes the maximum degree. Using $\Delta+1$ colors may be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Mohsen Ghaffari , Christiana Lymouri