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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

Recently, Chalermsook et al. [SODA'21(arXiv:2007.07862)] introduces a notion of vertex sparsifiers for $c$-edge connectivity, which has found applications in parameterized algorithms for network design and also led to exciting dynamic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Han Jiang , Shang-En Huang , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Tian Zhang

Network (or graph) sparsification compresses a graph by removing inessential edges. By reducing the data volume, it accelerates or even facilitates many downstream analyses. Still, the accuracy of many sparsification methods, with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Zhen Su , Jürgen Kurths , Henning Meyerhenke

Given a large edge-weighted network $G$ with $k$ terminal vertices, we wish to compress it and store, using little memory, the value of the minimum cut (or equivalently, maximum flow) between every bipartition of terminals. One appealing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-07-27 Robert Krauthgamer , Inbal Rika

We study treewidth sparsifiers. Informally, given a graph $G$ of treewidth $k$, a treewidth sparsifier $H$ is a minor of $G$, whose treewidth is close to $k$, $|V(H)|$ is small, and the maximum vertex degree in $H$ is bounded. Treewidth…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-10-07 Chandra Chekuri , Julia Chuzhoy

We present the first single pass algorithm for computing spectral sparsifiers of graphs in the dynamic semi-streaming model. Given a single pass over a stream containing insertions and deletions of edges to a graph G, our algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-17 Michael Kapralov , Yin Tat Lee , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco , Aaron Sidford

Persistence diagrams (PD)s play a central role in topological data analysis. This analysis requires computing distances among such diagrams such as the $1$-Wasserstein distance. Accurate computation of these PD distances for large data sets…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Tamal K. Dey , Simon Zhang

A sparsifier of a graph $G$ (Bencz\'ur and Karger; Spielman and Teng) is a sparse weighted subgraph $\tilde G$ that approximately retains the cut structure of $G$. For general graphs, non-trivial sparsification is possible only by using…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Nikhil Bansal , Ola Svensson , Luca Trevisan

A motif is a frequently occurring subgraph of a given directed or undirected graph $G$. Motifs capture higher order organizational structure of $G$ beyond edge relationships, and, therefore, have found wide applications such as in graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Michael Kapralov , Mikhail Makarov , Sandeep Silwal , Christian Sohler , Jakab Tardos

A hypergraph spectral sparsifier of a hypergraph $G$ is a weighted subgraph $H$ that approximates the Laplacian of $G$ to a specified precision. Recent work has shown that similar to ordinary graphs, there exist $\widetilde{O}(n)$-size…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Sanjeev Khanna , Huan Li , Aaron Putterman

We study the problem of constructing hypergraph cut sparsifiers in the streaming model where a hypergraph on $n$ vertices is revealed either via an arbitrary sequence of hyperedge insertions alone ({\em insertion-only} streaming model) or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Sanjeev Khanna , Aaron Putterman , Madhu Sudan

We study the problem of graph and hypergraph sparsification in insertion-only data streams. The input is a hypergraph $H=(V, E, w)$ with $n$ nodes, $m$ hyperedges, and rank $r$, and the goal is to compute a hypergraph $\widehat{H}$ that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Vincent Cohen-Addad , David P. Woodruff , Shenghao Xie , Samson Zhou

We present a nearly-linear time algorithm that produces high-quality sparsifiers of weighted graphs. Given as input a weighted graph $G=(V,E,w)$ and a parameter $\epsilon>0$, we produce a weighted subgraph $H=(V,\tilde{E},\tilde{w})$ of $G$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-11-18 Daniel A. Spielman , Nikhil Srivastava

We introduce a notion of code sparsification that generalizes the notion of cut sparsification in graphs. For a (linear) code $\mathcal{C} \subseteq \mathbb{F}_q^n$ of dimension $k$ a $(1 \pm \epsilon)$-sparsification of size $s$ is given…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Sanjeev Khanna , Aaron L Putterman , Madhu Sudan

We consider the sparsification of sums $F : \mathbb{R}^n \to \mathbb{R}$ where $F(x) = f_1(\langle a_1,x\rangle) + \cdots + f_m(\langle a_m,x\rangle)$ for vectors $a_1,\ldots,a_m \in \mathbb{R}^n$ and functions $f_1,\ldots,f_m : \mathbb{R}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Arun Jambulapati , James R. Lee , Yang P. Liu , Aaron Sidford

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

We study the problem of compressing a weighted graph $G$ on $n$ vertices, building a "sketch" $H$ of $G$, so that given any vector $x \in \mathbb{R}^n$, the value $x^T L_G x$ can be approximated up to a multiplicative $1+\epsilon$ factor…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-30 Jiecao Chen , Bo Qin , David P. Woodruff , Qin Zhang

Let $G$ be a graph and $S, T \subseteq V(G)$ be (possibly overlapping) sets of terminals, $|S|=|T|=k$. We are interested in computing a vertex sparsifier for terminal cuts in $G$, i.e., a graph $H$ on a smallest possible number of vertices,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Zhiyang He , Jason Li , Magnus Wahlström

A reachability preserver is a basic kind of graph sparsifier, which preserves the reachability relation of an $n$-node directed input graph $G$ among a set of given demand pairs $P$ of size $|P|=p$. We give constructions of sparse…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Greg Bodwin , Tuong Le

The problem of sparsifying a graph or a hypergraph while approximately preserving its cut structure has been extensively studied and has many applications. In a seminal work, Bencz\'ur and Karger (1996) showed that given any $n$-vertex…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Yu Chen , Sanjeev Khanna , Ansh Nagda