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This paper presents a spectral framework for quantifying the differentiation between graph data samples by introducing a novel metric named Graph Geodesic Distance (GGD). For two different graphs with the same number of nodes, our framework…

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Spatial graphs are particular graphs for which the nodes are localized in space (e.g., public transport network, molecules, branching biological structures). In this work, we consider the problem of spatial graph reduction, that aims to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-10 Anna Calissano , Etienne Lasalle

Reducing the complexity of large systems described as complex networks is key to understand them and a crucial issue is to know which properties of the initial system are preserved in the reduced one. Here we use random walks to design a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 David Gfeller , Paolo De los Rios

Spectral sparsification is a general technique developed by Spielman et al. to reduce the number of edges in a graph while retaining its structural properties. We investigate the use of spectral sparsification to produce good visual…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Peter Eades , Quan Nguyen , Seok-Hee Hong

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

The graph is one of the most widely used mathematical structures in engineering and science because of its representational power and inherent ability to demonstrate the relationship between objects. The objective of this work is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Shri Prakash Dwivedi

Pairwise comparison of graphs is key to many applications in Machine learning ranging from clustering, kernel-based classification/regression and more recently supervised graph prediction. Distances between graphs usually rely on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-29 Junjie Yang , Matthieu Labeau , Florence d'Alché-Buc

Large graphs are difficult to represent, visualize, and understand. In this paper, we introduce "gate graph" - a new approach to perform graph simplification. A gate graph provides a simplified topological view of the original graph.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ning Ruan , Ruoming Jin , Yan Huang

Graph coarsening reduces the size of a graph while preserving certain properties. Most existing methods preserve either spectral or spatial characteristics. Recent research has shown that preserving topological features helps maintain the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Xiang Wu , Rong-Hua Li , Xunkai Li , Kangfei Zhao , Hongchao Qin , Guoren Wang

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

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated significant achievements in processing graph data, yet scalability remains a substantial challenge. To address this, numerous graph coarsening methods have been developed. However, most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Shuyin Xia , Xinjun Ma , Zhiyuan Liu , Cheng Liu , Sen Zhao , Guoyin Wang

Graph coarsening aims to diminish the size of a graph to lighten its memory footprint, and has numerous applications in graph signal processing and machine learning. It is usually defined using a reduction matrix and a lifting matrix,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Antonin Joly , Nicolas Keriven , Aline Roumy

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

Spectral graph theory is well known and widely used in computer vision. In this paper, we analyze image segmentation algorithms that are based on spectral graph theory, e.g., normalized cut, and show that there is a natural connection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-09 Chengxi Ye , Yuxu Lin , Mingli Song , Chun Chen , David W. Jacobs

Detailed network models of social, biological and other complex systems are often dense, which increases their computational complexity in simulations and analysis. To address this challenge, graph sparsification is used to remove edges…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-19 Bernardo Pereira , Felipe Xavier Costa , Luís M. Rocha

For many graph-related problems, it can be essential to have a set of structurally diverse graphs. For instance, such graphs can be used for testing graph algorithms or their neural approximations. However, to the best of our knowledge, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Fedor Velikonivtsev , Mikhail Mironov , Liudmila Prokhorenkova

We introduce a graph renormalization procedure based on the coarse-grained Laplacian, which generates reduced-complexity representations for characteristic scales identified through the spectral gap. This method retains both diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-20 M. Schmidt , F. Caccioli , T. Aste

We develop a theory to measure the variance and covariance of probability distributions defined on the nodes of a graph, which takes into account the distance between nodes. Our approach generalizes the usual (co)variance to the setting of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-08-19 Karel Devriendt , Samuel Martin-Gutierrez , Renaud Lambiotte

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

Graph embeddings are a ubiquitous tool for machine learning tasks, such as node classification and link prediction, on graph-structured data. However, computing the embeddings for large-scale graphs is prohibitively inefficient even if we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Matthew Fahrbach , Gramoz Goranci , Richard Peng , Sushant Sachdeva , Chi Wang