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In the graph stream model of computation, an algorithm processes the edges of an input graph in one or more sequential passes while using a memory sublinear in the input size. This model poses significant challenges for constructing long…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Christian Konrad , Chhaya Trehan

In the Max-Cut problem in the streaming model, an algorithm is given the edges of an unknown graph $G = (V,E)$ in some fixed order, and its goal is to approximate the size of the largest cut in $G$. Improving upon an earlier result of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Yumou Fei , Dor Minzer , Shuo Wang

We study streaming algorithms for the maximum directed cut problem. The edges of an $n$-vertex directed graph arrive one by one in an arbitrary order, and the goal is to estimate the value of the maximum directed cut using a single pass and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Amir Azarmehr , Soheil Behnezhad , Shane Ferrante , Mohammad Saneian

We propose a fast approximate algorithm for large graph matching. A new projected fixed-point method is defined and a new doubly stochastic projection is adopted to derive the algorithm. Previous graph matching algorithms suffer from high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-08-13 Yao Lu , Kaizhu Huang , Cheng-Lin Liu

In this paper we further investigate the well-studied problem of finding a perfect matching in a regular bipartite graph. The first non-trivial algorithm, with running time $O(mn)$, dates back to K\"{o}nig's work in 1916 (here $m=nd$ is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-11-18 Ashish Goel , Michael Kapralov , Sanjeev Khanna

We study maximum matchings in fully dynamic graphs, which are graphs that undergo both edge insertions and deletions. Our focus is on algorithms that estimate the size of maximum matching after each update while spending a small time. An…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Amir Azarmehr , Soheil Behnezhad , Mohammad Roghani

In this paper, we study linear programming based approaches to the maximum matching problem in the semi-streaming model. The semi-streaming model has gained attention as a model for processing massive graphs as the importance of such graphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Kook Jin Ahn , Sudipto Guha

As massive graphs become more prevalent, there is a rapidly growing need for scalable algorithms that solve classical graph problems, such as maximum matching and minimum vertex cover, on large datasets. For massive inputs, several…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Sepehr Assadi , MohammadHossein Bateni , Aaron Bernstein , Vahab Mirrokni , Cliff Stein

Finding dense subgraphs is a fundamental problem with applications to community detection, clustering, and data mining. Our work focuses on finding approximate densest subgraphs in directed graphs in computational models for processing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Slobodan Mitrović , Theodore Pan , Mahdi Qaempanah , Mohammad Amin Raeisi

We study learning-augmented streaming algorithms for estimating the value of MAX-CUT in a graph. In the classical streaming model, while a $1/2$-approximation for estimating the value of MAX-CUT can be trivially achieved with $O(1)$ words…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yinhao Dong , Pan Peng , Ali Vakilian

We study four-cycle counting in arbitrary order graph streams. We present a 3-pass algorithm for $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximating the number of four-cycles using $\widetilde{O}(m/\sqrt{T})$ space, where $m$ is the number of edges and $T$ the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Sebastian Lüderssen , Stefan Neumann , Pan Peng

We present a data stream algorithm for estimating the size of the maximum matching of a low arboricity graph. Recall that a graph has arboricity $\alpha$ if its edges can be partitioned into at most $\alpha$ forests and that a planar graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Andrew McGregor , Sofya Vorotnikova

We improve on random sampling techniques for approximately solving problems that involve cuts and flows in graphs. We give a near-linear-time construction that transforms any graph on n vertices into an O(n\log n)-edge graph on the same…

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

This paper presents an algorithm for estimating the weight of a maximum weighted matching by augmenting any estimation routine for the size of an unweighted matching. The algorithm is implementable in any streaming model including dynamic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-10 Marc Bury , Chris Schwiegelshohn

We design quantum algorithms for maximum matching. Working in the query model, in both adjacency matrix and adjacency list settings, we improve on the best known algorithms for general graphs, matching previously obtained results for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Shelby Kimmel , R. Teal Witter

The maximum weighted matching (MWM) problem is one of the most well-studied combinatorial optimization problems in distributed graph algorithms. Despite a long development on the problem, and the recent progress of Fischer, Mitrovic, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Shang-En Huang , Hsin-Hao Su

We present a new approach for finding matchings in dense graphs by building on Szemer\'edi's celebrated Regularity Lemma. This allows us to obtain non-trivial albeit slight improvements over longstanding bounds for matchings in streaming…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Sepehr Assadi , Soheil Behnezhad , Sanjeev Khanna , Huan Li

Counting the number of triangles in a graph has many important applications in network analysis. Several frequently computed metrics like the clustering coefficient and the transitivity ratio need to count the number of triangles in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-24 Mostafa Haghir Chehreghani

We consider the unweighted bipartite maximum matching problem in the one-pass turnstile streaming model where the input stream consists of edge insertions and deletions. In the insertion-only model, a one-pass $2$-approximation streaming…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-07 Christian Konrad

In 1988, Vazirani gave an NC algorithm for computing the number of perfect matchings in $K_{3,3}$-minor-free graphs by building on Kasteleyn's scheme for planar graphs, and stated that this "opens up the possibility of obtaining an NC…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-29 David Eppstein , Vijay V. Vazirani