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We present new approaches to constructing graph sparsifiers --- weighted subgraphs for which every cut has the same value as the original graph, up to a factor of $(1 \pm \epsilon)$. Our first approach independently samples each edge $uv$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-08-10 Wai Shing Fung , Nicholas J. A. Harvey

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

Graph sparsification is a technique that approximates a given graph by a sparse graph with a subset of vertices and/or edges. The goal of an effective sparsification algorithm is to maintain specific graph properties relevant to the…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Yuhan Chen , Haojie Ye , Sanketh Vedula , Alex Bronstein , Ronald Dreslinski , Trevor Mudge , Nishil Talati

Uncertain graphs are prevalent in several applications including communications systems, biological databases and social networks. The ever increasing size of the underlying data renders both graph storage and query processing extremely…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Panos Parchas , Nikolaos Papailiou , Dimitris Papadias , Francesco Bonchi

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

Spectral graph sparsification has emerged as a powerful tool in the analysis of large-scale networks by reducing the overall number of edges, while maintaining a comparable graph Laplacian matrix. In this paper, we present an efficient…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-16 David G. Anderson , Ming Gu , Christopher Melgaard

Graph sparsification is to approximate an arbitrary graph by a sparse graph and is useful in many applications, such as simplification of social networks, least squares problems, numerical solution of symmetric positive definite linear…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Ming-Jun Lai , Jiaxin Xie , Zhiqiang Xu

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

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

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 methods play an important role in modern network analysis when fast estimation of computationally expensive properties (such as the diameter, centrality indices, and paths) is required. We propose a method of network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-01-22 Emmanuel John , Ilya Safro

Edge bundling reduces the visual complexity of drawings of large and complex graphs by clustering "compatible" edges. However, it often introduces distortion by bundling "unrelated" edges, resulting in misleading, ambiguous drawings.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Xingjue Jiang , Seok-Hee Hong , Amyra Meidiana , Xianyuan Zeng

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

While the harmonic function solution performs well in many semi-supervised learning (SSL) tasks, it is known to scale poorly with the number of samples. Recent successful and scalable methods, such as the eigenfunction method focus on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-01-22 Daniele Calandriello , Alessandro Lazaric , Michal Valko , Ioannis Koutis

The message-passing paradigm of Graph Neural Networks often struggles with exchanging information across distant nodes typically due to structural bottlenecks in certain graph regions, a limitation known as \textit{over-squashing}. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Langzhang Liang , Fanchen Bu , Zixing Song , Zenglin Xu , Shirui Pan , Kijung Shin

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

This work presents inGRASS, a novel algorithm designed for incremental spectral sparsification of large undirected graphs. The proposed inGRASS algorithm is highly scalable and parallel-friendly, having a nearly-linear time complexity for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Ali Aghdaei , Zhuo Feng

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

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

In graph sparsification, the goal has almost always been of {global} nature: compress a graph into a smaller subgraph ({sparsifier}) that maintains certain features of the original graph. Algorithms can then run on the sparsifier, which in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Shay Solomon