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Let H be a graph, and let C_H(G) be the number of (subgraph isomorphic) copies of H contained in a graph G. We investigate the fundamental problem of estimating C_H(G). Previous results cover only a few specific instances of this general…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Martin Furer , Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan

Graph signals are functions of the underlying graph. When the edge-weight between a pair of nodes is high, the corresponding signals generally have a higher correlation. As a result, the signals can be represented in terms of a graph-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-09 Rishabh Ravi , Kaushani Majumder , Kalp Vyas , Satish Mulleti

Counting small subgraphs, referred to as motifs, in large graphs is a fundamental task in graph analysis, extensively studied across various contexts and computational models. In the sublinear-time regime, the relaxed problem of approximate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Talya Eden , Reut Levi , Dana Ron , Ronitt Rubinfeld

This paper looks at the task of network topology inference, where the goal is to learn an unknown graph from nodal observations. One of the novelties of the approach put forth is the consideration of prior information about the density of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Samuel Rey , T. Mitchell Roddenberry , Santiago Segarra , Antonio G. Marques

As networks continue to increase in size, current methods must be capable of handling large numbers of nodes and edges in order to be practically relevant. Instead of working directly with the entire (large) network, analyzing sub-networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Eric Yanchenko

A new heuristic based on vertex invariants is developed to rapidly distinguish non-isomorphic graphs to a desired level of accuracy. The method is applied to sample subgraphs from an E.coli protein interaction network, and as a probe for…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-13 Kim Baskerville , Maya Paczuski

Due to the limited resources and the scale of the graphs in modern datasets, we often get to observe a sampled subgraph of a larger original graph of interest, whether it is the worldwide web that has been crawled or social connections that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Ashish Khetan , Harshay Shah , Sewoong Oh

How might one test the hypothesis that networks were sampled from the same distribution? Here, we compare two statistical tests that use subgraph counts to address this question. The first uses the empirical subgraph densities themselves as…

Graphs are used in many disciplines to model the relationships that exist between objects in a complex discrete system. Researchers may wish to compare a network of interest to a "typical" graph from a family (or ensemble) of graphs which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Catherine Greenhill

In this paper we show how to efficiently produce unbiased estimates of subgraph frequencies from a probability sample of egocentric networks (i.e., focal nodes, their neighbors, and the induced subgraphs of ties among their neighbors). A…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-10-29 Minas Gjoka , Emily Smith , Carter T. Butts

We give a probabilistic interpretation of sampling theory of graph signals. To do this, we first define a generative model for the data using a pairwise Gaussian random field (GRF) which depends on the graph. We show that, under certain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Akshay Gadde , Antonio Ortega

Pattern counting in graphs is fundamental to network science tasks, and there are many scalable methods for approximating counts of small patterns, often called motifs, in large graphs. However, modern graph datasets now contain richer…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Paul Liu , Austin Benson , Moses Charikar

Network motifs are recurrent, small-scale patterns of interactions observed frequently in a system. They shed light on the interplay between the topology and the dynamics of complex networks across various domains. In this work, we focus on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Quintino Francesco Lotito , Federico Musciotto , Federico Battiston , Alberto Montresor

Many online networks are measured and studied via sampling techniques, which typically collect a relatively small fraction of nodes and their associated edges. Past work in this area has primarily focused on obtaining a representative…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-05-30 Maciej Kurant , Minas Gjoka , Yan Wang , Zack W. Almquist , Carter T. Butts , Athina Markopoulou

Mapping the Internet generally consists in sampling the network from a limited set of sources by using traceroute-like probes. This methodology, akin to the merging of different spanning trees to a set of destination, has been argued to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Luca Dall'Asta , Ignacio Alvarez-Hamelin , Alain Barrat , Alexei Vazquez , Alessandro Vespignani

Dynamic networks, a.k.a. graph streams, consist of a set of vertices and a collection of timestamped interaction events (i.e., temporal edges) between vertices. Temporal motifs are defined as classes of (small) isomorphic induced subgraphs…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-02-23 Xiaojing Zhu , Eric D. Kolaczyk

In recent years, the problem of computing the frequencies of the induced $k$-vertex subgraphs of a graph, or \emph{$k$-graphlets}, has become central. One approach for this problem is to sample $k$-graphlets randomly. Classic algorithms for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Marco Bressan , T-H. Hubert Chan , Qipeng Kuang , Mauro Sozio

Several sampling algorithms with variance reduction have been proposed for accelerating the training of Graph Convolution Networks (GCNs). However, due to the intractable computation of optimal sampling distribution, these sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Ziqi Liu , Zhengwei Wu , Zhiqiang Zhang , Jun Zhou , Shuang Yang , Le Song , Yuan Qi

We consider the problem of estimating the topology of multiple networks from nodal observations, where these networks are assumed to be drawn from the same (unknown) random graph model. We adopt a graphon as our random graph model, which is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-21 Madeline Navarro , Santiago Segarra

In the k-arc connected subgraph problem, we are given a directed graph G and an integer k and the goal is the find a subgraph of minimum cost such that there are at least k-arc disjoint paths between any pair of vertices. We give a simple…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-05-09 Bundit Laekhanukit , Shayan Oveis Gharan , Mohit Singh