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In the realm of generative models for graphs, extensive research has been conducted. However, most existing methods struggle with large graphs due to the complexity of representing the entire joint distribution across all node pairs and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Andreas Bergmeister , Karolis Martinkus , Nathanaël Perraudin , Roger Wattenhofer

Local clustering aims to identify specific substructures within a large graph without any additional structural information of the graph. These substructures are typically small compared to the overall graph, enabling the problem to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Zhaiming Shen , Sung Ha Kang

In this paper we study variants of the widely used spectral clustering that partitions a graph into k clusters by (1) embedding the vertices of a graph into a low-dimensional space using the bottom eigenvectors of the Laplacian matrix, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-01 Richard Peng , He Sun , Luca Zanetti

We present an analysis of the transductive node classification problem, where the underlying graph consists of communities that agree with the node labels and node features. For node classification, we propose a novel optimization problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Firooz Shahriari-Mehr , Javad Aliakbari , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Ashkan Panahi

We develop graph-based methods for semi-supervised learning based on label propagation on a data similarity graph. When data is abundant or arrive in a stream, the problems of computation and data storage arise for any graph-based method.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Michal Valko

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm that enables collaboration among multiple clients to train a shared model without sharing raw data. However, a major challenge in FL is the label imbalance, where clients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Ziyu Yao

Graph contrastive learning (GCL), as a popular approach to graph self-supervised learning, has recently achieved a non-negligible effect. To achieve superior performance, the majority of existing GCL methods elaborate on graph data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Yuansheng Wang , Wangbin Sun , Kun Xu , Zulun Zhu , Liang Chen , Zibin Zheng

Many real-world systems, such as social networks, rely on mining efficiently large graphs, with hundreds of millions of vertices and edges. This volume of information requires partitioning the graph across multiple nodes in a distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-09-11 Luis Vaquero , Felix Cuadrado , Dionysios Logothetis , Claudio Martella

We study the optimization version of the set partition problem (where the difference between the partition sums are minimized), which has numerous applications in decision theory literature. While the set partitioning problem is NP-hard and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Kaan Gokcesu , Hakan Gokcesu

In this paper, we report an optimized union-find (UF) algorithm that can label the connected components on a 2D image efficiently by employing the GPU architecture. The proposed method contains three phases: UF-based local merge, boundary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Jun Chen , Qiang Yao , Houari Sabirin , Keisuke Nonaka , Hiroshi Sankoh , Sei Naito

In this paper, a new graph partitioning problem is introduced. The depth of each part is constrained, i.e., the node count in the longest path of the corresponding sub-graph is no more than a predetermined positive integer value p. An…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Ghasem Pasandi , Massoud Pedram

We present a novel segmentation algorithm based on a hierarchical representation of images. The main contribution of this work is to explore the capabilities of the A Contrario reasoning when applied to the segmentation problem, and to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-05-07 Juan Cardelino , Vicent Caselles , Marcelo Bertalmio , Gregory Randall

Unsupervised graph alignment aims to find the node correspondence across different graphs without any anchor node pairs. Despite the recent efforts utilizing deep learning-based techniques, such as the embedding and optimal transport…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Songyang Chen , Youfang Lin , Yu Liu , Shuai Zheng , Lei Zou

Partitioning an input graph over a set of workers is a complex operation. Objectives are twofold: split the work evenly, so that every worker gets an equal share, and minimize edge cut to achieve a good work locality (i.e. workers can work…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-11-28 Le Merrer Erwan , Liang Yizhong , Trédan Gilles

We propose a decentralised "local2global" approach to graph representation learning, that one can a-priori use to scale any embedding technique. Our local2global approach proceeds by first dividing the input graph into overlapping subgraphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Lucas G. S. Jeub , Giovanni Colavizza , Xiaowen Dong , Marya Bazzi , Mihai Cucuringu

Structural balance theory studies stability in networks. Given a $n$-vertex complete graph $G=(V,E)$ whose edges are labeled positive or negative, the graph is considered \emph{balanced} if every triangle either consists of three positive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Vikrant Ashvinkumar , Sepehr Assadi , Chengyuan Deng , Jie Gao , Chen Wang

We propose a new algorithm for finding the center of a graph, as well as the rank of each node in the hierarchy of distances to the center. In other words, our algorithm allows to partition the graph according to nodes distance to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Frédéric Protin

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

We are going to analyze local algorithms over sparse random graphs. These algorithms are based on local information where local regards to a decision made by the exploration of a small neighbourhood of a certain vertex plus a believe of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-09-19 David Gamarnik , Mathieu Hemery , Samuel Hetterich

We present a shared-memory algorithm to compute high-quality solutions to the balanced $k$-way hypergraph partitioning problem. This problem asks for a partition of the vertex set into $k$ disjoint blocks of bounded size that minimizes the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Lars Gottesbüren , Tobias Heuer , Peter Sanders , Sebastian Schlag