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This paper proposes a scalable algorithmic framework for spectral reduction of large undirected graphs. The proposed method allows computing much smaller graphs while preserving the key spectral (structural) properties of the original…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Zhiqiang Zhao , Yongyu Wang , Zhuo Feng

How might one "reduce" a graph? That is, generate a smaller graph that preserves the global structure at the expense of discarding local details? There has been extensive work on both graph sparsification (removing edges) and graph…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Gecia Bravo-Hermsdorff , Lee M. Gunderson

Network sparsification aims to reduce the number of edges of a network while maintaining its structural properties; such properties include shortest paths, cuts, spectral measures, or network modularity. Sparsification has multiple…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-01-26 Aristides Gionis , Polina Rozenshtein , Nikolaj Tatti , Evimaria Terzi

We consider a variation of the spectral sparsification problem where we are required to keep a subgraph of the original graph. Formally, given a union of two weighted graphs $G$ and $W$ and an integer $k$, we are asked to find a $k$-edge…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-12-10 Alexandra Kolla , Yury Makarychev , Amin Saberi , Shanghua Teng

A sparsifier of a graph $G$ (Bencz\'ur and Karger; Spielman and Teng) is a sparse weighted subgraph $\tilde G$ that approximately retains the cut structure of $G$. For general graphs, non-trivial sparsification is possible only by using…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Nikhil Bansal , Ola Svensson , Luca Trevisan

Graphs are central to modeling complex systems in domains such as social networks, molecular chemistry, and neuroscience. While Graph Neural Networks, particularly Graph Convolutional Networks, have become standard tools for graph learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Angelica Liguori , Ettore Ritacco , Pietro Sabatino , Annalisa Socievole

As a generalization of the use of graphs to describe pairwise interactions, simplicial complexes can be used to model higher-order interactions between three or more objects in complex systems. There has been a recent surge in activity for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Braxton Osting , Sourabh Palande , Bei Wang

Graph sparsification aims to reduce the number of edges of a graph while maintaining its structural properties. In this paper, we propose the first general and effective information-theoretic formulation of graph sparsification, by taking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Shujian Yu , Francesco Alesiani , Wenzhe Yin , Robert Jenssen , Jose C. Principe

Spectral Clustering is one of the most traditional methods to solve segmentation problems. Based on Normalized Cuts, it aims at partitioning an image using an objective function defined by a graph. Despite their mathematical attractiveness,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Rahul Palnitkar , Jeova Farias Sales Rocha Neto

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

Many real-world datasets can be naturally represented as graphs, spanning a wide range of domains. However, the increasing complexity and size of graph datasets present significant challenges for analysis and computation. In response, graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Mohammad Hashemi , Shengbo Gong , Juntong Ni , Wenqi Fan , B. Aditya Prakash , Wei Jin

Graph sparsification underlies a large number of algorithms, ranging from approximation algorithms for cut problems to solvers for linear systems in the graph Laplacian. In its strongest form, "spectral sparsification" reduces the number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-09 Simon Apers , Ronald de Wolf

We consider effective preconditioners for solving Laplacians of general weighted graphs. Theoretically, spectral sparsifiers (SSs) provide preconditioners of optimal computational complexity. However, they are not easy to use for real-world…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Xiaozhe Hu , Junyuan Lin

We present the first almost-linear time algorithm for constructing linear-sized spectral sparsification for graphs. This improves all previous constructions of linear-sized spectral sparsification, which requires $\Omega(n^2)$ time. A key…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-08-14 Yin Tat Lee , He Sun

We introduce a new spectral method for image segmentation that incorporates long range relationships for global appearance modeling. The approach combines two different graphs, one is a sparse graph that captures spatial relationships…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Jeova F. S. Rocha Neto , Pedro F. Felzenszwalb

Recent spectral graph sparsification techniques have shown promising performance in accelerating many numerical and graph algorithms, such as iterative methods for solving large sparse matrices, spectral partitioning of undirected graphs,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Ying Zhang , Zhiqiang Zhao , Zhuo Feng

Spectral clustering is a fundamental method for graph partitioning, but its reliance on eigenvector computation limits scalability to massive graphs. Classical sparsification methods preserve spectral properties by sampling edges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Kaiwen He , Petros Drineas , Rajiv Khanna

Graph-based techniques and spectral graph theory have enriched the field of machine learning with a variety of critical advances. A central object in the analysis is the graph Laplacian L, which encodes the structure of the graph. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Daniele Calandriello , Ioannis Koutis , Alessandro Lazaric , Michal Valko

Graph sparsification is a well-established technique for accelerating graph-based learning algorithms, which uses edge sampling to approximate dense graphs with sparse ones. Because the sparsification error is random and unknown, users must…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Siyao Wang , Miles E. Lopes

In an era of unprecedented deluge of (mostly unstructured) data, graphs are proving more and more useful, across the sciences, as a flexible abstraction to capture complex relationships between complex objects. One of the main challenges…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-10-17 Alaa Saade