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The maximum clique problem is a well known NP-Hard problem with applications in data mining, network analysis, informatics, and many other areas. Although there exist several algorithms with acceptable runtimes for certain classes of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-15 Bharath Pattabiraman , Md. Mostofa Ali Patwary , Assefaw H. Gebremedhin , Wei-keng Liao , Alok Choudhary

How efficiently can we find an unknown graph using distance queries between its vertices? We assume that the unknown graph is connected, unweighted, and has bounded degree. The goal is to find every edge in the graph. This problem admits a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Claire Mathieu , Hang Zhou

Sparse recovery can recover sparse signals from a set of underdetermined linear measurements. Motivated by the need to monitor large-scale networks from a limited number of measurements, this paper addresses the problem of recovering sparse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Meng Wang , Weiyu Xu , Enrique Mallada , Ao Tang

A fundamental question that shrouds the emergence of massively parallel computing (MPC) platforms is how can the additional power of the MPC paradigm be leveraged to achieve faster algorithms compared to classical parallel models such as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Sepehr Assadi , Xiaorui Sun , Omri Weinstein

In this letter, we propose an algorithm for learning a sparse weighted graph by estimating its adjacency matrix under the assumption that the observed signals vary smoothly over the nodes of the graph. The proposed algorithm is based on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-11 Ghania Fatima , Aakash Arora , Prabhu Babu , Petre Stoica

A dominating set $D$ of a graph $G$ is a set of vertices such that any vertex in $G$ is in $D$ or its neighbor is in $D$. Enumeration of minimal dominating sets in a graph is one of central problems in enumeration study since enumeration of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Kazuhiro Kurita , Kunihiro Wasa , Hiroki Arimura , Takeaki Uno

We give the first fully dynamic algorithm which maintains a $(1-\epsilon)$-approximate densest subgraph in worst-case time $\text{poly}(\log n, \epsilon^{-1})$ per update. Dense subgraph discovery is an important primitive for many…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Saurabh Sawlani , Junxing Wang

The problem of finding the vertex correspondence between two noisy graphs with different number of vertices where the smaller graph is still large has many applications in social networks, neuroscience, and computer vision. We propose a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-03 Daniel L. Sussman , Youngser Park , Carey E. Priebe , Vince Lyzinski

Given a graph G and the desired size k in bits, how can we summarize G within k bits, while minimizing the information loss? Large-scale graphs have become omnipresent, posing considerable computational challenges. Analyzing such large…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Kyuhan Lee , Hyeonsoo Jo , Jihoon Ko , Sungsu Lim , Kijung Shin

We initiate the study of approximation algorithms and computational barriers for constructing sparse $\alpha$-navigable graphs [IX23, DGM+24], a core primitive underlying recent advances in graph-based nearest neighbor search. Given an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Sanjeev Khanna , Ashwin Padaki , Erik Waingarten

We present a general method for obtaining the spectra of large graphs with short cycles using ideas from statistical mechanics of disordered systems. This approach leads to an algorithm that determines the spectra of graphs up to a high…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-01-12 D. Bollé , F. L. Metz , I. Neri

Graph clustering is a fundamental computational problem with a number of applications in algorithm design, machine learning, data mining, and analysis of social networks. Over the past decades, researchers have proposed a number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-06 He Sun , Luca Zanetti

In this paper, we consider the problem of approximating the densest subgraph in the dynamic graph stream model. In this model of computation, the input graph is defined by an arbitrary sequence of edge insertions and deletions and the goal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Andrew McGregor , David Tench , Sofya Vorotnikova , Hoa T. Vu

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

We study algorithms for spectral graph sparsification. The input is a graph $G$ with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, and the output is a sparse graph $\tilde{G}$ that approximates $G$ in an algebraic sense. Concretely, for all vectors $x$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-19 Ioannis Koutis , Alex Levin , Richard Peng

In this article, we propose an algorithm, NESTA-LASSO, for the LASSO problem, i.e., an underdetermined linear least-squares problem with a 1-norm constraint on the solution. We prove under the assumption of the restricted isometry property…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-04-03 Ming Gu , Lek-Heng Lim , Cinna Julie Wu

We consider the problem of reconstructing an undirected graph $G$ on $n$ vertices given multiple random noisy subgraphs or "traces". Specifically, a trace is generated by sampling each vertex with probability $p_v$, then taking the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Andrew McGregor , Rik Sengupta

In the graph clustering problem with a planted solution, the input is a graph on $n$ vertices partitioned into $k$ clusters, and the task is to infer the clusters from graph structure. A standard assumption is that clusters induce…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Hendrik Fichtenberger , Michael Kapralov , Ekaterina Kochetkova , Silvio Lattanzi , Davide Mazzali , Weronika Wrzos-Kaminska

Large data applications rely on storing data in massive, sparse graphs with millions to trillions of nodes. Graph-based methods, such as node prediction, aim for computational efficiency regardless of graph size. Techniques like localized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yushen Huang , Ertai Luo , Reza Babenezhad , Yifan Sun

We prove algorithmic weak and \Szemeredi{} regularity lemmas for several classes of sparse graphs in the literature, for which only weak regularity lemmas were previously known. These include core-dense graphs, low threshold rank graphs,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Greg Bodwin , Santosh Vempala