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Analyzing massive data sets has been one of the key motivations for studying streaming algorithms. In recent years, there has been significant progress in analysing distributions in a streaming setting, but the progress on graph problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-05-05 Kook Jin Ahn , Sudipto Guha

Graph embedding has become an increasingly important technique for analyzing graph-structured data. By representing nodes in a graph as vectors in a low-dimensional space, graph embedding enables efficient graph processing and analysis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Hamidreza Lotfalizadeh , Mohammad Al Hasan

Embedding the vertices of arbitrary graphs into trees while minimizing some measure of overlap is an important problem with applications in computer science and physics. In this work, we consider the problem of bijectively embedding the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Sayan Mukherjee , Shinichiro Akiyama

In this paper we show how to combine two algorithmic techniques to obtain linear time algorithms for various optimization problems on graphs, and present a subroutine which will be useful in doing so. The first technique is iterative…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-28 Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Zhentao Li , Bruce Reed

Reducing the running time of graph algorithms is vital for tackling real-world problems such as shortest paths and matching in large-scale graphs, where path information plays a crucial role. To address this critical challenge, this paper…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Akshar Chavan , Sanaz Rabinia , Daniel Grosu , Marco Brocanelli

A cut of a graph can be represented in many different ways. Here we propose to represent a cut through a ``relation tree'', which is a spanning tree with signed edges. We show that this picture helps to classify the main greedy heuristics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-19 Jianan Wang , Chuixiong Wu , Fen Zuo

Recently, one has seen a surge of interest in developing such methods including ones for learning such representations for (undirected) graphs (while preserving important properties). However, most of the work to date on embedding graphs…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Jiankai Sun , Srinivasan Parthasarathy

Recent years have seen extensive research on directed graph sparsification. In this work, we initiate the study of fast fully dynamic spectral and cut sparsification algorithms for directed graphs. We introduce a new notion of spectral…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yibin Zhao

Given a dynamic network, where edges appear and disappear over time, we are interested in finding sets of edges that have similar temporal behavior and form a dense subgraph. Formally, we define the problem as the enumeration of the maximal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Giulia Preti , Polina Rozenshtein , Aristides Gionis , Yannis Velegrakis

Can we use machine learning to compress graph data? The absence of ordering in graphs poses a significant challenge to conventional compression algorithms, limiting their attainable gains as well as their ability to discover relevant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Giorgos Bouritsas , Andreas Loukas , Nikolaos Karalias , Michael M. Bronstein

In federated learning, communication cost is often a critical bottleneck to scale up distributed optimization algorithms to collaboratively learn a model from millions of devices with potentially unreliable or limited communication and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Farzin Haddadpour , Mohammad Mahdi Kamani , Aryan Mokhtari , Mehrdad Mahdavi

In this paper, we lay the groundwork on the comparison of phylogenetic networks based on edge contractions and expansions as edit operations, as originally proposed by Robinson and Foulds to compare trees. We prove that these operations…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Bertrand Marchand , Nadia Tahiri , Olivier Tremblay-Savard , Manuel Lafond

We present a framework to define a large class of neural networks for which, by construction, training by gradient flow provably reaches arbitrarily low loss when the number of parameters grows. Distinct from the fixed-space global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-13 David A. R. Robin , Kevin Scaman , Marc Lelarge

We study the inertia of distance matrices of weighted graphs. Our novel congruence-based proof of the inertia of weighted trees extends to a proof for the inertia of weighted unicyclic graphs whose cycle is a triangle. Partial results are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Jeffrey Cheng , Ian Malcolm Johnson McInnis , Matthew Yee

The formation trajectory planning using complete graphs to model collaborative constraints becomes computationally intractable as the number of drones increases due to the curse of dimensionality. To tackle this issue, this paper presents a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Yuan Zhou , Lun Quan , Chao Xu , Guangtong Xu , Fei Gao

The problem of modifying a given graph to satisfy certain properties has been one of the central topics in parameterized tractability study. In this paper, we study the cycle contraction problem, which makes a graph into a cycle by edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Bin Sheng , Yuefang Sun

Finding coarse representations of large graphs is an important computational problem in the fields of scientific computing, large scale graph partitioning, and the reduction of geometric meshes. Of particular interest in all of these fields…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Christopher Brissette , Andy Huang , George Slota

Effective resistances are ubiquitous in graph algorithms and network analysis. In this work, we study sublinear time algorithms to approximate the effective resistance of an adjacent pair $s$ and $t$. We consider the classical adjacency…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Dongrun Cai , Xue Chen , Pan Peng

A hypergraph spectral sparsifier of a hypergraph $G$ is a weighted subgraph $H$ that approximates the Laplacian of $G$ to a specified precision. Recent work has shown that similar to ordinary graphs, there exist $\widetilde{O}(n)$-size…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Sanjeev Khanna , Huan Li , Aaron Putterman

Embedding graphs in a geographical or latent space, i.e.\ inferring locations for vertices in Euclidean space or on a smooth manifold or submanifold, is a common task in network analysis, statistical inference, and graph visualization. We…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Varsha Dani , Josep Díaz , Thomas P. Hayes , Cristopher Moore