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Graph disaggregation is a technique used to address the high cost of computation for power law graphs on parallel processors. The few high-degree vertices are broken into multiple small-degree vertices, in order to allow for more efficient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Xiaozhe Hu , John C. Urschel , Ludmil T. Zikatanov

We propose an approach to graph sparsification based on the idea of preserving the smallest $k$ eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the Graph Laplacian. This is motivated by the fact that small eigenvalues and their associated eigenvectors tend…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Catherine Babecki , Stefan Steinerberger , Rekha R. Thomas

Via the process of isospectral graph reduction the adjacency matrix of a graph can be reduced to a smaller matrix while its spectrum is preserved up to some known set. It is then possible to estimate the spectrum of the original matrix by…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-13 L. A. Bunimovich , B. Z. Webb

The graph Laplacian, a typical representation of a network, is an important matrix that can tell us much about the network structure. In particular its eigenpairs (eigenvalues and eigenvectors) incubate precious topological information…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-11-08 Luca Bergamaschi , Enrico Bozzo , Massimo Franceschet

We study the problem of determining the optimal low dimensional projection for maximising the separability of a binary partition of an unlabelled dataset, as measured by spectral graph theory. This is achieved by finding projections which…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-29 David P. Hofmeyr , Nicos G. Pavlidis , Idris A. Eckley

We consider partitions of a finite, simple, weighted graph that minimize a spectral energy functional, defined to be the maximum of the first eigenvalues on each component. These partitions are minimized with respect to a parameter that we…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Connor Menzel

The smallest eigenvalues and the associated eigenvectors (i.e., eigenpairs) of a graph Laplacian matrix have been widely used in spectral clustering and community detection. However, in real-life applications the number of clusters or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Pin-Yu Chen , Baichuan Zhang , Mohammad Al Hasan

Spectral graph theory is well known and widely used in computer vision. In this paper, we analyze image segmentation algorithms that are based on spectral graph theory, e.g., normalized cut, and show that there is a natural connection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-09 Chengxi Ye , Yuxu Lin , Mingli Song , Chun Chen , David W. Jacobs

Given a graph and one of its weighted Laplacian matrix, a Fiedler vector is an eigenvector with respect to the second smallest eigenvalue. The Fiedler vectors have been used widely for graph partitioning, graph drawing, spectral clustering,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Jephian C. -H. Lin , Mahsa N Shirazi

We propose an efficient heuristic for mapping the logical qubits of quantum algorithms to the physical qubits of connectivity-limited devices, adding a minimal number of connectivity-compliant SWAP gates. In particular, given a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-15 Joseph X. Lin , Eric R. Anschuetz , Aram W. Harrow

In this paper, we detail the improvement of the Cascadic Multigrid algorithm with the addition of the Gauss Seidel algorithm in order to compute the Fiedler vector of a graph Laplacian, which is the eigenvector corresponding to the second…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-16 Shivam Gandhi

Motivated by discrete Laplacian differential operators with various accuracy orders in numerical analysis, we introduce new matrices attached to a simple graph that can be considered graph Laplacians with higher accuracy. In particular, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Mary Yoon

The mincut graph bisection problem involves partitioning the n vertices of a graph into disjoint subsets, each containing exactly n/2 vertices, while minimizing the number of "cut" edges with an endpoint in each subset. When considered over…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-04-27 Allon G. Percus , Gabriel Istrate , Bruno Goncalves , Robert Z. Sumi , Stefan Boettcher

Graph-based representations play a key role in machine learning. The fundamental step in these representations is the association of a graph structure to a dataset. In this paper, we propose a method that aims at finding a block sparse…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-27 Stefania Sardellitti , Sergio Barbarossa , Paolo Di Lorenzo

Learning a suitable graph is an important precursor to many graph signal processing (GSP) pipelines, such as graph spectral signal compression and denoising. Previous graph learning algorithms either i) make some assumptions on connectivity…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-19 Saghar Bagheri , Gene Cheung , Antonio Ortega , Fen Wang

Persistent homology is constrained to purely topological persistence while multiscale graphs account only for geometric information. This work introduces persistent spectral theory to create a unified low-dimensional multiscale paradigm for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-13 Rui Wang , Duc Duy Nguyen , Guo-Wei Wei

In many areas of machine learning, it becomes necessary to find the eigenvector decompositions of large matrices. We discuss two methods for reducing the computational burden of spectral decompositions: the more venerable Nystom extension…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-07-22 Darren Homrighausen , Daniel J. McDonald

A fundamental problem in mathematics and network analysis is to find conditions under which a graph can be partitioned into smaller pieces. The most important tool for this partitioning is the Fiedler vector or discrete Cheeger inequality.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Sabyasachi Basu , Suman Kalyan Bera , C. Seshadhri

Graph-structured data is central to many scientific and industrial domains, where the goal is often to optimize objectives defined over graph structures. Given the combinatorial complexity of graph spaces, such optimization problems are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Shiqiang Zhang , Ruth Misener

Many variants of join operations of graphs have been introduced and their spectral properties have been studied extensively by many researchers. This paper mainly focuses on the Laplacian spectra of some double join operations of graphs. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-04 Gui-Xian Tian , Jing-Xiang He , Shu-Yu Cui