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Diffusion models have become a leading method for generative modeling of both image and scientific data. As these models are costly to train and \emph{evaluate}, reducing the inference cost for diffusion models remains a major goal.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Haoxuan Chen , Yinuo Ren , Lexing Ying , Grant M. Rotskoff

Additive spanners are fundamental graph structures with wide applications in network design, graph sparsification, and distance approximation. In particular, a $4$-additive spanner is a subgraph that preserves all pairwise distances up to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Chuhan Qi

We design new algorithms for approximating 2CSPs on graphs with bounded threshold rank, that is, whose normalized adjacency matrix has few eigenvalues larger than $\varepsilon$, smaller than $-\varepsilon$, or both. Unlike on worst-case…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Prashanti Anderson , Samuel B. Hopkins , Amit Rajaraman , David Steurer

From social science to biology, numerous applications often rely on graphlets for intuitive and meaningful characterization of networks at both the global macro-level as well as the local micro-level. While graphlets have witnessed a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-02-17 Nesreen K. Ahmed , Jennifer Neville , Ryan A. Rossi , Nick Duffield , Theodore L. Willke

We give a deterministic algorithm for computing a global minimum vertex cut in a vertex-weighted graph $n$ vertices and $m$ edges in $\widehat O(mn)$ time. This breaks the long-standing $\widehat \Omega(n^{4})$-time barrier in dense graphs,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yonggang Jiang , Chaitanya Nalam , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Sorrachai Yingchareonthawornchai

More and more large data collections are gathered worldwide in various IT systems. Many of them possess the networked nature and need to be processed and analysed as graph structures. Due to their size they require very often usage of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-06-04 Tomasz Kajdanowicz , Przemyslaw Kazienko , Wojciech Indyk

We give a generalized definition of stretch that simplifies the efficient construction of low-stretch embeddings suitable for graph algorithms. The generalization, based on discounting highly stretched edges by taking their $p$-th power for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-07 Michael B. Cohen , Gary L. Miller , Jakub W. Pachocki , Richard Peng , Shen Chen Xu

Nucleus decompositions have been shown to be a useful tool for finding dense subgraphs. The coreness value of a clique represents its density based on the number of other cliques it is adjacent to. One useful output of nucleus decomposition…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Jessica Shi , Laxman Dhulipala , Julian Shun

The sheer sizes of modern datasets are forcing data-structure designers to consider seriously both parallel construction and compactness. To achieve those goals we need to design a parallel algorithm with good scalability and with low…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Leo Ferres , José Fuentes-Sepúlveda , Travis Gagie , Meng He , Gonzalo Navarro

Several classic problems in graph processing and computational geometry are solved via incremental algorithms, which split computation into a series of small tasks acting on shared state, which gets updated progressively. While the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Dan Alistarh , Nikita Koval , Giorgi Nadiradze

In this paper we propose a graph-based data clustering algorithm which is based on exact clustering of a minimum spanning tree in terms of a minimum isoperimetry criteria. We show that our basic clustering algorithm runs in $O(n \log n)$…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-03-20 Amir Daneshgar , Ramin Javadi , Basir Shariat Razavi

Contraction Hierarchies is a successful speedup-technique to Dijkstra's seminal shortest path algorithm that has a convenient trade-off between preprocessing and query times. We investigate a shared-memory parallel implementation that uses…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-08-14 Dennis Luxen , Dennis Schieferdecker

We study the problem of scheduling a set of jobs with release dates, deadlines and processing requirements (or works), on parallel speed-scaled processors so as to minimize the total energy consumption. We consider that both preemption and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-07-13 Eric Angel , Evripidis Bampis , Fadi Kacem , Dimitrios Letsios

We provide linear-time algorithms for geometric graphs with sublinearly many crossings. That is, we provide algorithms running in O(n) time on connected geometric graphs having n vertices and k crossings, where k is smaller than n by an…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-12-16 David Eppstein , Michael T. Goodrich , Darren Strash

Calculating the diameter of an undirected graph requires quadratic running time under the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis and this barrier works even against any approximation better than 3/2. For planar graphs with positive edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Michał Włodarczyk

We study the classical scheduling problem on parallel machines %with precedence constraints where the precedence graph has the bounded depth $h$. Our goal is to minimize the maximum completion time. We focus on developing approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Bin Fu , Yumei Huo , Hairong Zhao

Expander decompositions form the basis of one of the most flexible paradigms for close-to-linear-time graph algorithms. Length-constrained expander decompositions generalize this paradigm to better work for problems with lengths, distances…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Bernhard Haeupler , D Ellis Hershkowitz , Zihan Tan

Graph-based nearest neighbor search methods have seen a surge of popularity in recent years, offering state-of-the-art performance across a wide variety of applications. Central to these methods is the task of constructing a sparse…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Alex Conway , Laxman Dhulipala , Martin Farach-Colton , Rob Johnson , Ben Landrum , Christopher Musco , Yarin Shechter , Torsten Suel , Richard Wen

As a fundamental tool in hierarchical graph clustering, computing connected components has been a central problem in large-scale data mining. While many known algorithms have been developed for this problem, they are either not scalable in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Jakub Łącki , Vahab Mirrokni , Michał Włodarczyk

Max-k-Cut and correlation clustering are fundamental graph partitioning problems. For a graph with G=(V,E) with n vertices, the methods with the best approximation guarantees for Max-k-Cut and the Max-Agree variant of correlation clustering…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-28 Nimita Shinde , Vishnu Narayanan , James Saunderson