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Given a directed acyclic graph with positive edge-weights, two vertices s and t, and a threshold-weight L, we present a fully-polynomial time approximation-scheme for the problem of counting the s-t paths of length at most L. We extend the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-10-14 Matúš Mihalák , Rastislav Šrámek , Peter Widmayer

Suppose we wish to estimate $\#H$, the number of copies of some small graph $H$ in a large streaming graph $G$. There are many algorithms for this task when $H$ is a triangle, but just a few that apply to arbitrary $H$. Here we focus on one…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Shirin Handjani , Douglas Jungreis , Mark Tiefenbruck

We significantly improve known time bounds for solving the minimum cut problem on undirected graphs. We use a ``semi-duality'' between minimum cuts and maximum spanning tree packings combined with our previously developed random sampling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 David R. Karger

We design an algorithm for approximating the size of \emph{Max Cut} in dense graphs. Given a proximity parameter $\varepsilon \in (0,1)$, our algorithm approximates the size of \emph{Max Cut} of a graph $G$ with $n$ vertices, within an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Arijit Ghosh , Gopinath Mishra , Rahul Raychaudhury , Sayantan Sen

In this short note, we give a novel algorithm for $O(1)$ round triangle counting in bounded arboricity graphs. Counting triangles in $O(1)$ rounds (exactly) is listed as one of the interesting remaining open problems in the recent survey of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Quanquan C. Liu , C. Seshadhri

Let G = (V,E) be an n-vertex graph and M_d a d-vertex graph, for some constant d. Is M_d a subgraph of G? We consider this problem in a model where all n processes are connected to all other processes, and each message contains up to O(log…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-11-06 Danny Dolev , Christoph Lenzen , Shir Peled

We study approximation algorithms for the following geometric version of the maximum coverage problem: Let P be a set of n weighted points in the plane. We want to place m a * b rectangles such that the sum of the weights of the points in P…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Jian Li , Haitao Wang , Bowei Zhang , Ningye Zhang

The trapping problem on graph (or network) as a typical focus of great interest has attracted more attention from various science fields, including applied mathematics and theoretical computer science, in the past. Here, we first study this…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Fei Ma , Ping Wang

We study a number of graph exploration problems in the following natural scenario: an algorithm starts exploring an undirected graph from some seed node; the algorithm, for an arbitrary node $v$ that it is aware of, can ask an oracle to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Flavio Chierichetti , Shahrzad Haddadan

We study the problem of maximizing the number of spanning trees in a connected graph by adding at most $k$ edges from a given candidate edge set. We give both algorithmic and hardness results for this problem: - We give a greedy algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Huan Li , Stacy Patterson , Yuhao Yi , Zhongzhi Zhang

Subgraph Isomorphism is a very basic graph problem, where given two graphs $G$ and $H$ one is to check whether $G$ is a subgraph of $H$. Despite its simple definition, the Subgraph Isomorphism problem turns out to be very broad, as it…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Marek Cygan , Jakub Pachocki , Arkadiusz Socała

We develop new $(1+\epsilon)$-approximation algorithms for finding the global minimum edge-cut in a directed edge-weighted graph, and for finding the global minimum vertex-cut in a directed vertex-weighted graph. Our algorithms are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Ron Mosenzon

Given an undirected graph and $0\le\epsilon\le1$, a set of nodes is called $\epsilon$-near clique if all but an $\epsilon$ fraction of the pairs of nodes in the set have a link between them. In this paper we present a fast synchronous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-05-27 Zvika Brakerski , Boaz Patt-Shamir

The edge list model is arguably the simplest input model for graphs, where the graph is specified by a list of its edges. In this model, we study the quantum query complexity of three variants of the triangle finding problem. The first asks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Amin Shiraz Gilani , Daochen Wang , Pei Wu , Xingyu Zhou

Effective Resistance (ER) is a fundamental tool in various graph learning tasks. In this paper, we address the problem of efficiently approximating ER on a graph $\mathcal{G}=(\mathcal{V},\mathcal{E})$ with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yichun Yang , Rong-Hua Li , Meihao Liao , Guoren Wang

We attempt to better understand randomization in local distributed graph algorithms by exploring how randomness is used and what we can gain from it: - We first ask the question of how much randomness is needed to obtain efficient…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Mohsen Ghaffari , Fabian Kuhn

This paper deals with the problem of finding a collection of vertex-disjoint paths in a given graph G=(V,E) such that each path has at least four vertices and the total number of vertices in these paths is maximized. The problem is NP-hard…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Mingyang Gong , Zhi-Zhong Chen , Guohui Lin , Zhaohui Zhan

In this paper, we revisit the problem of sampling edges in an unknown graph $G = (V, E)$ from a distribution that is (pointwise) almost uniform over $E$. We consider the case where there is some a priori upper bound on the arboriciy of $G$.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Talya Eden , Dana Ron , Will Rosenbaum

It is well-known that the graph isomorphism problem can be posed as an equivalent problem of determining whether an auxiliary graph structure contains a clique of specific order. However, the algorithms that have been developed so far for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Giannis Nikolentzos , Michalis Vazirgiannis

We present a randomized algorithm that, given a constant $\epsilon > 0$, outputs a proper $(1+\epsilon)\Delta$-edge-coloring of an $m$-edge simple graph $G$ of maximum degree $\Delta \geq 1/\epsilon$ in $O(m)$ time with high probability.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Anton Bernshteyn , Abhishek Dhawan