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Objective: Modelling the associations from high-throughput experimental molecular data has provided unprecedented insights into biological pathways and signalling mechanisms. Graphical models and networks have especially proven to be useful…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-04-24 Marco Scutari , Radhakrishnan Nagarajan

We consider a variant of the clustering problem for a complete weighted graph. The aim is to partition the nodes into clusters maximizing the sum of the edge weights within the clusters. This problem is known as the clique partitioning…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Alexander Belyi , Stanislav Sobolevsky , Alexander Kurbatski , Carlo Ratti

Subgraph densities play a crucial role in network analysis, especially for the identification and interpretation of meaningful substructures in complex graphs. Localized subgraph densities, in particular, can provide valuable insights into…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Connor Mattes , Esha Datta , Ali Pinar

We investigate the problem of drawing graphs in 2D and 3D such that their edges (or only their vertices) can be covered by few lines or planes. We insist on straight-line edges and crossing-free drawings. This problem has many connections…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-09-02 Steven Chaplick , Krzysztof Fleszar , Fabian Lipp , Alexander Ravsky , Oleg Verbitsky , Alexander Wolff

We present a novel theoretical framework connecting k-component edge connectivity with spectral graph theory and homology theory to pro vide new insights into the resilience of real-world networks. By extending classical edge connectivity…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Joshua Steier

This paper presents a graph signal processing algorithm to uncover the intrinsic low-rank components and the underlying graph of a high-dimensional, graph-smooth and grossly-corrupted dataset. In our problem formulation, we assume that the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-09 Rui Liu , Hossein Nejati , Ngai-Man Cheung

The spectral radius of a graph is the spectral radius of its adjacency matrix. A threshold graph is a simple graph whose vertices can be ordered as $v_1, v_2, \ldots, v_n$, so that for each $2 \le i \le n$, vertex $v_i$ is either adjacent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Péter Csikvári , Ivan Damnjanović , Dragan Stevanović , Stephan Wagner

The Bandwidth Problem seeks for a simultaneous permutation of the rows and columns of the adjacency matrix of a graph such that all nonzero entries are as close as possible to the main diagonal. This work focuses on investigating novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Franz Rendl , Renata Sotirov , Christian Truden

Theoretical analyses for graph learning methods often assume a complete observation of the input graph. Such an assumption might not be useful for handling any-size graphs due to the scalability issues in practice. In this work, we develop…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Takanori Maehara , Hoang NT

We consider the problem of estimating the underlying graph associated with a Markov random field, with the added twist that the decoding algorithm can iteratively choose which subsets of nodes to sample based on the previous samples,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-08 Jonathan Scarlett , Volkan Cevher

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

This paper proves strong lower bounds for distributed computing in the CONGEST model, by presenting the bit-gadget: a new technique for constructing graphs with small cuts. The contribution of bit-gadgets is twofold. First, developing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Amir Abboud , Keren Censor-Hillel , Seri Khoury , Ami Paz

We consider the fundamental problems of approximately counting the numbers of edges and triangles in a graph in sublinear time. Previous algorithms for these tasks are significantly more efficient under a promise that the arboricity of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Talya Eden , Ronitt Rubinfeld , Arsen Vasilyan

The Graph Edit Distance (GED) is an important metric for measuring the similarity between two (labeled) graphs. It is defined as the minimum cost required to convert one graph into another through a series of (elementary) edit operations.…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Andrea D'Ascenzo , Julian Meffert , Petra Mutzel , Fabrizio Rossi

In this paper, we consider two fundamental cut approximation problems on large graphs. We prove new lower bounds for both problems that are optimal up to logarithmic factors. The first problem is to approximate cuts in balanced directed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Yu Cheng , Max Li , Honghao Lin , Zi-Yi Tai , David P. Woodruff , Jason Zhang

In the distributed triangle detection problem, we have an $n$-vertex network $G=(V,E)$ with one player for each vertex of the graph who sees the edges incident on the vertex. The players communicate in synchronous rounds using the edges of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Sepehr Assadi , Janani Sundaresan

Graph connectivity is a fundamental combinatorial optimization problem that arises in many practical applications, where usually a spanning subgraph of a network is used for its operation. However, in the real world, links may fail…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Dimitris Fotakis , Evangelia Gergatsouli , Charilaos Pipis , Miltiadis Stouras , Christos Tzamos

In this paper, we give simple optimal lower bounds on the one-way two-party communication complexity of approximate Maximum Matching and Minimum Vertex Cover with deletions. In our model, Alice holds a set of edges and sends a single…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Jacques Dark , Christian Konrad

Graph analytics elicits insights from large graphs to inform critical decisions for business, safety and security. Several large-scale graph processing frameworks feature efficient runtime systems; however, they often provide programming…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Farzin Houshmand , Mohsen Lesani , Keval Vora

Methods for query answering over incomplete knowledge graphs retrieve entities that are likely to be answers, which is particularly useful when such answers cannot be reached by direct graph traversal due to missing edges. However, existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Daniel Daza , Alberto Bernardi , Luca Costabello , Christophe Gueret , Masoud Mansoury , Michael Cochez , Martijn Schut