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If we cannot store all edges in a graph stream, which edges should we store to estimate the triangle count accurately? Counting triangles (i.e., cycles of length three) is a fundamental graph problem with many applications in social network…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Kijung Shin

We develop a new algorithmic technique that allows to transfer some constant time approximation algorithms for general graphs into random order streaming algorithms. We illustrate our technique by proving that in random order streams with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Pan Peng , Christian Sohler

We improve on random sampling techniques for approximately solving problems that involve cuts and flows in graphs. We give a near-linear-time construction that transforms any graph on n vertices into an O(n\log n)-edge graph on the same…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Andras Benczur , David R. Karger

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

Let $P\subset\mathbb{R}^{2}$ be a set of $n$ points. In this paper we show two new algorithms, one to compute the number of triangulations of $P$, and one to compute the number of pseudo-triangulations of $P$. We show that our algorithms…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-12-12 Victor Alvarez , Karl Bringmann , Saurabh Ray

Triangle counting in hypergraph streams, including both hyper-vertex and hyper-edge triangles, is a fundamental problem in hypergraph analytics, with broad applications. However, existing methods face two key limitations: (i) an incomplete…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Lingkai Meng , Long Yuan , Xuemin Lin , Wenjie Zhang , Ying Zhang

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

Characterizing graph properties is fundamental to the analysis and to our understanding of real-world networked systems. The local clustering coefficient, and the more recently introduced, local closure coefficient, capture powerful…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Ilie Sarpe , Aristides Gionis

In the subgraph counting problem, we are given a input graph $G(V, E)$ and a target graph $H$; the goal is to estimate the number of occurrences of $H$ in $G$. Our focus here is on designing sublinear-time algorithms for approximately…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Sepehr Assadi , Michael Kapralov , Sanjeev Khanna

Sampling edges from a graph in sublinear time is a fundamental problem and a powerful subroutine for designing sublinear-time algorithms. Suppose we have access to the vertices of the graph and know a constant-factor approximation to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Talya Eden , Shyam Narayanan , Jakub Tětek

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 revisit the well-studied problem of triangle count estimation in graph streams. Given a graph represented as a stream of $m$ edges, our aim is to compute a $(1\pm\varepsilon)$-approximation to the triangle count $T$, using a small space…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Suman K. Bera , C. Seshadhri

We consider the maximum matching problem in the semi-streaming model formalized by Feigenbaum, Kannan, McGregor, Suri, and Zhang that is inspired by giant graphs of today. As our main result, we give a two-pass $(1/2 + 1/16)$-approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Sagar Kale , Sumedh Tirodkar

We study the problem of approximating the number of $k$-cliques in a graph when given query access to the graph. We consider the standard query model for general graphs via (1) degree queries, (2) neighbor queries and (3) pair queries. Let…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Talya Eden , Dana Ron , C. Seshadhri

We tackle the problem of counting the number of $k$-cliques in large-scale graphs, for any constant $k \ge 3$. Clique counting is essential in a variety of applications, among which social network analysis. Due to its computationally…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Irene Finocchi , Marco Finocchi , Emanuele G. Fusco

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

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

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-04-22 C. Seshadhri , Ali Pinar , Tamara G. Kolda

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

The identification and counting of small graph patterns, called network motifs, is a fundamental primitive in the analysis of networks, with application in various domains, from social networks to neuroscience. Several techniques have been…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Ilie Sarpe , Fabio Vandin

We provide a simple new randomized contraction approach to the global minimum cut problem for simple undirected graphs. The contractions exploit 2-out edge sampling from each vertex rather than the standard uniform edge sampling. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Mohsen Ghaffari , Krzysztof Nowicki , Mikkel Thorup