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In this paper, we consider the problem of designing cut sparsifiers and sketches for directed graphs. To bypass known lower bounds, we allow the sparsifier/sketch to depend on the balance of the input graph, which smoothly interpolates…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Ruoxu Cen , Yu Cheng , Debmalya Panigrahi , Kevin Sun

In this work we propose a random graph model that can produce graphs at different levels of sparsity. We analyze how sparsity affects the graph spectra, and thus the performance of graph neural networks (GNNs) in node classification on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Luana Ruiz , Ningyuan Huang , Soledad Villar

Graph coarsening is a technique for solving large-scale graph problems by working on a smaller version of the original graph, and possibly interpolating the results back to the original graph. It has a long history in scientific computing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Yifan Chen , Rentian Yao , Yun Yang , Jie Chen

We present a general method for obtaining the spectra of large graphs with short cycles using ideas from statistical mechanics of disordered systems. This approach leads to an algorithm that determines the spectra of graphs up to a high…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-01-12 D. Bollé , F. L. Metz , I. Neri

Graph clustering is an important algorithmic technique for analysing massive graphs, and has been widely applied in many research fields of data science. While the objective of most graph clustering algorithms is to find a vertex set of low…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Joyentanuj Das , Suranjan De , He Sun

Cut and spectral sparsification of graphs have numerous applications, including e.g. speeding up algorithms for cuts and Laplacian solvers. These powerful notions have recently been extended to hypergraphs, which are much richer and may…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Michael Kapralov , Robert Krauthgamer , Jakab Tardos , Yuichi Yoshida

We study resistance sparsification of graphs, in which the goal is to find a sparse subgraph (with reweighted edges) that approximately preserves the effective resistances between every pair of nodes. We show that every dense regular…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-26 Michael Dinitz , Robert Krauthgamer , Tal Wagner

Graph neural networks have been successful for machine learning, as well as for combinatorial and graph problems such as the Subgraph Isomorphism Problem and the Traveling Salesman Problem. We describe an approach for computing graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Alvin Chiu , Mithun Ghosh , Reyan Ahmed , Kwang-Sung Jun , Stephen Kobourov , Michael T. Goodrich

Spectral graph sparsification is a classical tool for reducing graph complexity while preserving Laplacian quadratic forms. In graph neural networks (GNNs), sparsification is often used to accelerate computation while maintaining predictive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Sanjukta Krishnagopal

To cope with the complexity of large networks, a number of dimensionality reduction techniques for graphs have been developed. However, the extent to which information is lost or preserved when these techniques are employed has not yet been…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2015-08-28 Hector Zenil , Narsis A. Kiani , Jesper Tegnér

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 sparsification is an area of interest in computer science and applied mathematics. Sparsification of a graph, in general, aims to reduce the number of edges in the network while preserving specific properties of the graph, like cuts…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Abhishek Ajayakumar , Soumyendu Raha

Spectral hypergraph sparsification, an attempt to extend well-known spectral graph sparsification to hypergraphs, has been extensively studied over the past few years. For undirected hypergraphs, Kapralov, Krauthgamer, Tardos, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Kazusato Oko , Shinsaku Sakaue , Shin-ichi Tanigawa

We introduce in this paper a new summarization method for large graphs. Our summarization approach retains only a user-specified proportion of the neighbors of each node in the graph. Our main aim is to simplify large graphs so that they…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Abd Errahmane Kiouche , Julien Baste , Mohammed Haddad , Hamida Seba

We give a deterministic, nearly logarithmic-space algorithm for mild spectral sparsification of undirected graphs. Given a weighted, undirected graph $G$ on $n$ vertices described by a binary string of length $N$, an integer $k\leq \log n$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Dean Doron , Jack Murtagh , Salil Vadhan , David Zuckerman

Large graphs can be found in a wide array of scientific fields ranging from sociology and biology to scientometrics and computer science. Their analysis is by no means a trivial task due to their sheer size and complex structure. Such…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Georgios Drakopoulos , Stavros Kontopoulos , Christos Makris , Vasileios Megalooikonomou

Learning meaningful graphs from data plays important roles in many data mining and machine learning tasks, such as data representation and analysis, dimension reduction, data clustering, and visualization, etc. In this work, for the first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Yongyu Wang , Zhiqiang Zhao , Zhuo Feng

The attention mechanism has demonstrated superior performance for inference over nodes in graph neural networks (GNNs), however, they result in a high computational burden during both training and inference. We propose FastGAT, a method to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Rakshith S Srinivasa , Cao Xiao , Lucas Glass , Justin Romberg , Jimeng Sun

A cut $\varepsilon$-sparsifier of a weighted graph $G$ is a re-weighted subgraph of $G$ of (quasi)linear size that preserves the size of all cuts up to a multiplicative factor of $\varepsilon$. Since their introduction by Bencz\'ur and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Silvia Butti , Stanislav Zivny

We study the potential utility of classical techniques of spectral sparsification of graphs as a preprocessing step for digital quantum algorithms, in particular, for Hamiltonian simulation. Our results indicate that spectral sparsification…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-08 Steven Herbert , Sathyawageeswar Subramanian