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The eigendeomposition of nearest-neighbor (NN) graph Laplacian matrices is the main computational bottleneck in spectral clustering. In this work, we introduce a highly-scalable, spectrum-preserving graph sparsification algorithm that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Yongyu Wang , Zhuo Feng

A graph G'(V,E') is an \eps-sparsification of G for some \eps>0, if every (weighted) cut in G' is within (1\pm \eps) of the corresponding cut in G. A celebrated result of Benczur and Karger shows that for every undirected graph G, an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Ashish Goel , Michael Kapralov , Sanjeev Khanna

The interconnectedness and interdependence of modern graphs are growing ever more complex, causing enormous resources for processing, storage, communication, and decision-making of these graphs. In this work, we focus on the task graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Ryan Wickman , Xiaofei Zhang , Weizi Li

Spectral hypergraph sparsification, a natural generalization of the well-studied spectral sparsification notion on graphs, has been the subject of intensive research in recent years. In this work, we consider spectral hypergraph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Gramoz Goranci , Ali Momeni

Given a weighted graph $G$ and an error parameter $\epsilon > 0$, the {\em graph sparsification} problem requires sampling edges in $G$ and giving the sampled edges appropriate weights to obtain a sparse graph $G_{\epsilon}$ (containing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-04-26 Ramesh Hariharan , Debmalya Panigrahi

For any undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ and a set $E_W$ of candidate edges with $E\cap E_W=\emptyset$, the $(k,\gamma)$-spectral augmentability problem is to find a set $F$ of $k$ edges from $E_W$ with appropriate weighting, such that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Bogdan-Adrian Manghiuc , Pan Peng , He Sun

We consider a fundamental algorithmic question in spectral graph theory: Compute a spectral sparsifier of random-walk matrix-polynomial $$L_\alpha(G)=D-\sum_{r=1}^d\alpha_rD(D^{-1}A)^r$$ where $A$ is the adjacency matrix of a weighted,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-13 Dehua Cheng , Yu Cheng , Yan Liu , Richard Peng , Shang-Hua Teng

We provide the first online algorithm for spectral hypergraph sparsification. In the online setting, hyperedges with positive weights are arriving in a stream, and upon the arrival of each hyperedge, we must irrevocably decide whether or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Tasuku Soma , Kam Chuen Tung , Yuichi Yoshida

This work presents inGRASS, a novel algorithm designed for incremental spectral sparsification of large undirected graphs. The proposed inGRASS algorithm is highly scalable and parallel-friendly, having a nearly-linear time complexity for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Ali Aghdaei , Zhuo Feng

Graph sparsification is a well-established technique for accelerating graph-based learning algorithms, which uses edge sampling to approximate dense graphs with sparse ones. Because the sparsification error is random and unknown, users must…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Siyao Wang , Miles E. Lopes

A geometric graph associated with a set of points $P= \{x_1, x_2, \cdots, x_n \} \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ and a fixed kernel function $\mathsf{K}:\mathbb{R}^d\times \mathbb{R}^d\to\mathbb{R}_{\geq 0}$ is a complete graph on $P$ such that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Yang Cao , Yichuan Deng , Wenyu Jin , Xiaoyu Li , Zhao Song , Xiaorui Sun , Omri Weinstein

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) play a pivotal role in graph-based tasks for their proficiency in representation learning. Among the various GNN methods, spectral GNNs employing polynomial filters have shown promising performance on tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Haipeng Ding , Zhewei Wei , Yuhang Ye

Cuts in graphs are a fundamental object of study, and play a central role in the study of graph algorithms. The problem of sparsifying a graph while approximately preserving its cut structure has been extensively studied and has many…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Yu Chen , Sanjeev Khanna , Ansh Nagda

A classic result in graph theory, due to Batson, Spielman, and Srivastava (STOC 2009) shows that every graph admits a $(1 \pm \varepsilon)$ cut (or spectral) sparsifier which preserves only $O(n / \varepsilon^2)$ reweighted edges. However,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jun-Ting Hsieh , Daniel Z. Lee , Sidhanth Mohanty , Aaron Putterman , Rachel Yun Zhang

We contribute an approach to the problem of locally computing sparse connected subgraphs of dense graphs. In this setting, given an edge in a connected graph $G = (V, E)$, an algorithm locally decides its membership in a sparse connected…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Rogers Epstein

Graph sparsification is a technique that approximates a given graph by a sparse graph with a subset of vertices and/or edges. The goal of an effective sparsification algorithm is to maintain specific graph properties relevant to the…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Yuhan Chen , Haojie Ye , Sanketh Vedula , Alex Bronstein , Ronald Dreslinski , Trevor Mudge , Nishil Talati

In graph sparsification, the goal has almost always been of {global} nature: compress a graph into a smaller subgraph ({sparsifier}) that maintains certain features of the original graph. Algorithms can then run on the sparsifier, which in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Shay Solomon

We introduce a new algorithmic framework for designing dynamic graph algorithms in minor-free graphs, by exploiting the structure of such graphs and a tool called vertex sparsification, which is a way to compress large graphs into small…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Gramoz Goranci , Monika Henzinger , Pan Peng

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

There has been a surge of interest in spectral hypergraph sparsification, a natural generalization of spectral sparsification for graphs. In this paper, we present a simple fully dynamic algorithm for maintaining spectral hypergraph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Sebastian Forster , Gramoz Goranci , Ali Momeni