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Graphs naturally appear in several real-world contexts including social networks, the web network, and telecommunication networks. While the analysis and the understanding of graph structures have been a central area of study in algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Gramoz Goranci

In this paper we introduce a notion of spectral approximation for directed graphs. While there are many potential ways one might define approximation for directed graphs, most of them are too strong to allow sparse approximations in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Michael B. Cohen , Jonathan Kelner , John Peebles , Richard Peng , Anup Rao , Aaron Sidford , Adrian Vladu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely used to perform different machine learning tasks on graphs. As the size of the graphs grows, and the GNNs get deeper, training and inference time become costly in addition to the memory requirement.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Md. Khaledur Rahman , Ariful Azad

A \emph{sparsification} of a given graph $G$ is a sparser graph (typically a subgraph) which aims to approximate or preserve some property of $G$. Examples of sparsifications include but are not limited to spanning trees, Steiner trees,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Reyan Ahmed , Keaton Hamm , Stephen Kobourov , Mohammad Javad Latifi Jebelli , Faryad Darabi Sahneh , Richard Spence

In this work we provide a new technique to design fast approximation algorithms for graph problems where the points of the graph lie in a metric space. Specifically, we present a sampling approach for such metric graphs that, using a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Hossein Esfandiari , Michael Mitzenmacher

We establish that a simple polynomial-time algorithm that we call reweighted spectral partitioning obtains small 2/3-balanced vertex-separators for a number of graph classes, including $O(\sqrt{n})$-sized separators for planar graphs,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jack Spalding-Jamieson

In graph signal processing, data samples are associated to vertices on a graph, while edge weights represent similarities between those samples. We propose a convex optimization problem to learn sparse well connected graphs from data. We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 Eduardo Pavez , Antonio Ortega

Network sparsification is the task of reducing the number of edges of a given graph while preserving some crucial graph property. In community-aware network sparsification, the preserved property concerns the subgraphs that are induced by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Emanuel Herrendorf , Christian Komusiewicz , Nils Morawietz , Frank Sommer

Given a family $\mathcal{F}$ of graphs, a graph is \emph{$\mathcal{F}$-subgraph-free} if it has no subgraph isomorphic to a member of $\mathcal{F}$. We present a fixed-parameter linear-time algorithm that decides whether a planar graph can…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Shinwoo An , Seonghyuk Im , Seokbeom Kim , Myounghwan Lee

For a graph $F$, we say a hypergraph is a Berge-$F$ if it can be obtained from $F$ by replacing each edge of $F$ with a hyperedge containing it. A hypergraph is Berge-$F$-free if it does not contain a subhypergraph that is a Berge-$F$. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-14 Sean English , Dániel Gerbner , Abhishek Methuku , Cory Palmer

As the popularity of graph data increases, there is a growing need to count the occurrences of subgraph patterns of interest, for a variety of applications. Many graphs are massive in scale and also fully dynamic (with insertions and…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Kaixin Wang , Cheng Long , Da Yan , Jie Zhang , H. V. Jagadish

We show variants of spectral sparsification routines can preserve the total spanning tree counts of graphs, which by Kirchhoff's matrix-tree theorem, is equivalent to determinant of a graph Laplacian minor, or equivalently, of any SDDM…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-03 David Durfee , John Peebles , Richard Peng , Anup B. Rao

Graphs are central to modeling complex systems in domains such as social networks, molecular chemistry, and neuroscience. While Graph Neural Networks, particularly Graph Convolutional Networks, have become standard tools for graph learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Angelica Liguori , Ettore Ritacco , Pietro Sabatino , Annalisa Socievole

A seminal palette sparsification result of Assadi, Chen, and Khanna states that in every $n$-vertex graph of maximum degree $\Delta$, sampling $\Theta(\log n)$ colors per vertex from $\{1, \ldots, \Delta+1\}$ almost certainly allows for a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Abhishek Dhawan

In this work we propose a random graph model that can produce graphs at different levels of sparsity. We analyze how sparsity affects the graph spectra, and thus the performance of graph neural networks (GNNs) in node classification on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Luana Ruiz , Ningyuan Huang , Soledad Villar

A multigraph $G = (V, E)$ is $(k, \ell)$-sparse if every subset $X \subseteq V$ induces at most $\max\{k|X| - \ell, 0\}$ edges. Finding a maximum-size $(k, \ell)$-sparse subgraph is a classical problem in rigidity theory and combinatorial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Péter Madarasi

A $t$-spanner of a weighted undirected graph $G=(V,E)$, is a subgraph $H$ such that $d_H(u,v)\le t\cdot d_G(u,v)$ for all $u,v\in V$. The sparseness of the spanner can be measured by its size (the number of edges) and weight (the sum of all…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-05-01 Michael Elkin , Ofer Neiman , Shay Solomon

Graph matching aims at finding the vertex correspondence between two unlabeled graphs that maximizes the total edge weight correlation. This amounts to solving a computationally intractable quadratic assignment problem. In this paper we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-23 Zhou Fan , Cheng Mao , Yihong Wu , Jiaming Xu

Graphs are useful to interpret widely used image processing methods, e.g., bilateral filtering, or to develop new ones, e.g., kernel based techniques. However, simple graph constructions are often used, where edge weight and connectivity…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Sarath Shekkizhar , Antonio Ortega

Given a capacitated graph $G = (V,E)$ and a set of terminals $K \subseteq V$, how should we produce a graph $H$ only on the terminals $K$ so that every (multicommodity) flow between the terminals in $G$ could be supported in $H$ with low…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-04 Matthias Englert , Anupam Gupta , Robert Krauthgamer , Harald Raecke , Inbal Talgam , Kunal Talwar