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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

Suppose we wish to estimate $\#H$, the number of copies of some small graph $H$ in a large streaming graph $G$. There are many algorithms for this task when $H$ is a triangle, but just a few that apply to arbitrary $H$. Here we focus on one…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Shirin Handjani , Douglas Jungreis , Mark Tiefenbruck

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

The problem of counting small subgraphs, and specifically cycles, in the streaming model received a lot of attention over the past few years. In this paper, we consider arbitrary order insertion-only streams, improving over the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Sofya Vorotnikova

Big graphs (networks) arising in numerous application areas pose significant challenges for graph analysts as these graphs grow to billions of nodes and edges and are prohibitively large to fit in the main memory. Finding the number of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-19 Shaikh Arifuzzaman , Maleq Khan , Madhav Marathe

We present new lower bounds that show that a polynomial number of passes are necessary for solving some fundamental graph problems in the streaming model of computation. For instance, we show that any streaming algorithm that finds a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Sepehr Assadi , Yu Chen , Sanjeev Khanna

We introduce a novel algorithm to perform graph clustering in the edge streaming setting. In this model, the graph is presented as a sequence of edges that can be processed strictly once. Our streaming algorithm has an extremely low memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Alexandre Hollocou , Julien Maudet , Thomas Bonald , Marc Lelarge

Given a graph stream, how can we estimate the number of triangles in it using multiple machines with limited storage? Specifically, how should edges be processed and sampled across the machines for rapid and accurate estimation? The count…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Kijung Shin , Euiwoong Lee , Jinoh Oh , Mohammad Hammoud , Christos Faloutsos

Triangle counting is an important problem in graph mining. Clustering coefficients of vertices and the transitivity ratio of the graph are two metrics often used in complex network analysis. Furthermore, triangles have been used…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-06-30 Charalampos E. Tsourakakis , Mihail N. Kolountzakis , Gary L. Miller

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

In this paper we study graph problems in dynamic streaming model, where the input is defined by a sequence of edge insertions and deletions. As many natural problems require $\Omega(n)$ space, where $n$ is the number of vertices, existing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Zengfeng Huang , Pan Peng

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

Data streaming, in which a large dataset is received as a "stream" of updates, is an important model in the study of space-bounded computation. Starting with the work of Le Gall [SPAA `06], it has been known that quantum streaming…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-16 John Kallaugher

We consider the problem of space-efficiently estimating the number of simplices in a hypergraph stream. This is the most natural hypergraph generalization of the highly-studied problem of estimating the number of triangles in a graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Amit Chakrabarti , Themistoklis Haris

A recent result of Eden, Levi, and Ron (ECCC 2015) provides a sublinear time algorithm to estimate the number of triangles in a graph. Given an undirected graph $G$, one can query the degree of a vertex, the existence of an edge between…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-11 C. Seshadhri

Analyzing massive data sets has been one of the key motivations for studying streaming algorithms. In recent years, there has been significant progress in analysing distributions in a streaming setting, but the progress on graph problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-05-05 Kook Jin Ahn , Sudipto Guha

Motivated by the trend to outsource work to commercial cloud computing services, we consider a variation of the streaming paradigm where a streaming algorithm can be assisted by a powerful helper that can provide annotations to the data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-14 Graham Cormode , Michael Mitzenmacher , Justin Thaler

We consider streaming algorithms for approximating a product of input probabilities up to multiplicative error of $1-\epsilon$. It is shown that every randomized streaming algorithm for this problem needs space $\Omega(\log n + \log b -…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Markus Lohrey , Leon Rische , Louisa Seelbach Benkner , Julio Xochitemol

Triangle counting is a fundamental and widely studied problem on static graphs, and recently on temporal graphs, where edges carry information on the timings of the associated events. Streaming processing and resource efficiency are crucial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Giorgio Venturin , Ilie Sarpe , Fabio Vandin

A simple-triangle graph is the intersection graph of triangles that are defined by a point on a horizontal line and an interval on another horizontal line. The time complexity of the recognition problem for simple-triangle graphs was a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Asahi Takaoka