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In modern applications of graphs algorithms, where the graphs of interest are large and dynamic, it is unrealistic to assume that an input representation contains the full information of a graph being studied. Hence, it is desirable to use…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Nithin Varma , Yuichi Yoshida

The betweenness centrality of a graph vertex measures how often this vertex is visited on shortest paths between other vertices of the graph. In the analysis of many real-world graphs or networks, betweenness centrality of a vertex is used…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Sebastian Buß , Hendrik Molter , Rolf Niedermeier , Maciej Rymar

Node centralities play a pivotal role in network science, social network analysis, and recommender systems. In temporal data, static path-based centralities like closeness or betweenness can give misleading results about the true importance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Franziska Heeg , Ingo Scholtes

We revisit the problem of designing sublinear algorithms for estimating the average degree of an $n$-vertex graph. The standard access model for graphs allows for the following queries: sampling a uniform random vertex, the degree of a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Lorenzo Beretta , Deeparnab Chakrabarty , C. Seshadhri

The modeling of time-varying graph signals as stationary time-vertex stochastic processes permits the inference of missing signal values by efficiently employing the correlation patterns of the process across different graph nodes and time…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-16 Eylem Tugce Guneyi , Berkay Yaldiz , Abdullah Canbolat , Elif Vural

Estimating the average degree of graph is a classic problem in sublinear graph algorithm. Eden, Ron, and Seshadhri (ICALP 2017, SIDMA 2019) gave a simple algorithm for this problem whose running time depended on the graph arboricity, but…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Talya Eden , C. Seshadhri

Many dynamic processes such as telecommunication and transport networks can be described through discrete time series of graphs. Modelling the dynamics of such time series enables prediction of graph structure at future time steps, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Sevvandi Kandanaarachchi , Ziqi Xu , Stefan Westerlund , Conrad Sanderson

A cornerstone of geometric reconstruction, rotation averaging seeks the set of absolute rotations that optimally explains a set of measured relative orientations between them. In addition to being an integral part of bundle adjustment and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Gabriel Moreira , Manuel Marques , João Paulo Costeira

In graph-based active learning, algorithms based on expected error minimization (EEM) have been popular and yield good empirical performance. The exact computation of EEM optimally balances exploration and exploitation. In practice,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-09-06 Kwang-Sung Jun , Robert Nowak

One of the cornerstones of the field of signal processing on graphs are graph filters, direct analogues of classical filters, but intended for signals defined on graphs. This work brings forth new insights on the distributed graph filtering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Elvin Isufi , Andreas Loukas , Andrea Simonetto , Geert Leus

In this paper we study dynamic averaging load balancing on general graphs. We consider infinite time and dynamic processes, where in every step new load items are assigned to randomly chosen nodes. A matching is chosen, and the load is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Petra Berenbrink , Lukas Hintze , Hamed Hosseinpour , Dominik Kaaser , Malin Rau

The diameter, radius and eccentricities are natural graph parameters. While these problems have been studied extensively, there are no known dynamic algorithms for them beyond the ones that follow from trivial recomputation after each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Bertie Ancona , Monika Henzinger , Liam Roditty , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Nicole Wein

Graph matching, also known as network alignment, refers to finding a bijection between the vertex sets of two given graphs so as to maximally align their edges. This fundamental computational problem arises frequently in multiple fields…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Cheng Mao , Mark Rudelson , Konstantin Tikhomirov

Making sense of a dataset in an automatic and unsupervised fashion is a challenging problem in statistics and AI. Classical approaches for {exploratory data analysis} are usually not flexible enough to deal with the uncertainty inherent to…

Dynamic graph algorithms have seen significant theoretical advancements, but practical evaluations often lag behind. This work bridges the gap between theory and practice by engineering and empirically evaluating recently developed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Ernestine Großmann , Ivor van der Hoog , Henrik Reinstädtler , Eva Rotenberg , Christian Schulz , Juliette Vlieghe

There are several centrality measures that have been introduced and studied for real world networks. They account for the different vertex characteristics that permit them to be ranked in order of importance in the network. Betweenness…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-20 Sunil Kumar R , Kannan Balakrishnan , M. Jathavedan

We describe a simple parallel-friendly lightweight graph reordering algorithm for COO graphs (edge lists). Our ``Batched Order By Attachment'' (BOBA) algorithm is linear in the number of edges in terms of reads and linear in the number of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Matthew Drescher , Muhammad A. Awad , Serban D. Porumbescu , John D. Owens

Social studies researchers use graphs to model group activities in social networks. An important property in this context is the centrality of a vertex: the inverse of the average distance to each other vertex. We describe a randomized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-03-08 David Eppstein , Joseph Wang

We study dynamic algorithms in the model of algorithms with predictions. We assume the algorithm is given imperfect predictions regarding future updates, and we ask how such predictions can be used to improve the running time. This can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Jan van den Brand , Sebastian Forster , Yasamin Nazari , Adam Polak

An important index widely used to analyze social and information networks is betweenness centrality. In this paper, first given a directed network $G$ and a vertex $r\in V(G)$, we present a novel adaptive algorithm for estimating…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Mostafa Haghir Chehreghani , Albert Bifet , Talel Abdessalem