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There has been a surge of interest in spectral hypergraph sparsification, a natural generalization of spectral sparsification for graphs. In this paper, we present a simple fully dynamic algorithm for maintaining spectral hypergraph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Sebastian Forster , Gramoz Goranci , Ali Momeni

We aim to learn a sparse and connected graph from sparse data, where the number of observations K can be substantially smaller than the signal dimension N for signals x in R^N, and the underlying distribution is unknown. In this severely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Bahar Oveisgharan , Gene Cheung , Andrew Eckford

We give an algorithm that, with high probability, maintains a $(1-\epsilon)$-approximate $s$-$t$ maximum flow in undirected, uncapacitated $n$-vertex graphs undergoing $m$ edge insertions in $\tilde{O}(m+ n F^*/\epsilon)$ total update time,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Gramoz Goranci , Monika Henzinger , Harald Räcke , A. R. Sricharan

We present a local routing algorithm which guarantees delivery in all connected graphs embedded on a known surface of genus $g$. The algorithm transports $O(g\log n)$ memory and finishes in time $O(g^2n^2)$, where $n$ is the size of the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-02-29 Maia Fraser

A dynamic graph algorithm is a data structure that answers queries about a property of the current graph while supporting graph modifications such as edge insertions and deletions. Prior work has shown strong conditional lower bounds for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Monika Henzinger , Ami Paz , A. R. Sricharan

Constructing a sparse spanning subgraph is a fundamental primitive in graph theory. In this paper, we study this problem in the Centralized Local model, where the goal is to decide whether an edge is part of the spanning subgraph by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Christoph Lenzen , Reut Levi

We study the problem of finding and monitoring fixed-size subgraphs in a continually changing large-scale graph. We present the first approach that (i) performs worst-case optimal computation and communication, (ii) maintains a total memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Khaled Ammar , Frank McSherry , Semih Salihoglu , Manas Joglekar

The BFS algorithm is a basic graph data processing algorithm and many other graph data processing algorithms have similar architectural features with BFS algorithm and can be built on the basis of BFS algorithm model. We analyze the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Chenglong Zhang

We contribute an approach to the problem of locally computing sparse connected subgraphs of dense graphs. In this setting, given an edge in a connected graph $G = (V, E)$, an algorithm locally decides its membership in a sparse connected…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Rogers Epstein

In this paper, we present a number of network-analysis algorithms in the external-memory model. We focus on methods for large naturally sparse graphs, that is, n-vertex graphs that have O(n) edges and are structured so that this sparsity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-07-01 Michael T. Goodrich , Pawel Pszona

Algebraic techniques have had an important impact on graph algorithms so far. Porting them, e.g., the matrix inverse, into the dynamic regime improved best-known bounds for various dynamic graph problems. In this paper, we develop new…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Adam Karczmarz , Piotr Sankowski

A low out-degree orientation directs each edge of an undirected graph with the goal of minimizing the maximum out-degree of a vertex. In the parallel batch-dynamic setting, one can insert or delete batches of edges, and the goal is to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Guy Blelloch , Andrew Brady , Laxman Dhulipala , Jeremy Fineman , Kishen Gowda , Chase Hutton

In this paper, we develop a distributed algorithm for solving a class of distributed convex optimization problems where the local objective functions can be a general nonsmooth function, and all equalities and inequalities are network-wide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Yeong-Ung Kim , Hyo-Sung Ahn

We consider the problems of maintaining an approximate maximum matching and an approximate minimum vertex cover in a dynamic graph undergoing a sequence of edge insertions/deletions. Starting with the seminal work of Onak and Rubinfeld…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-21 Sayan Bhattacharya , Deeparnab Chakrabarty , Monika Henzinger

Let G=(V,E) be a graph with f:V\to Z_+ a function assigning degree bounds to vertices. We present the first efficient algebraic algorithm to find an f-factor. The time is \tilde{O}(f(V)^{\omega}). More generally for graphs with integral…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-26 Harold N. Gabow , Piotr Sankowski

Universality, namely distributional invariance, is a well-known property for many random structures. For example, it is known to hold for a broad range of variational problems with random input. Much less is known about the algorithmic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Houssam El Cheairi , David Gamarnik

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success across various graph-based tasks but remain highly sensitive to distribution shifts. In this work, we focus on a prevalent yet under-explored phenomenon in graph generalization,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yang Qiu , Yixiong Zou , Jun Wang

Constructing a spanning tree of a graph is one of the most basic tasks in graph theory. We consider a relaxed version of this problem in the setting of local algorithms. The relaxation is that the constructed subgraph is a sparse spanning…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Reut Levi , Dana Ron , Ronitt Rubinfeld

Maintaining and updating shortest paths information in a graph is a fundamental problem with many applications. As computations on dense graphs can be prohibitively expensive, and it is preferable to perform the computations on a sparse…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Thiago Bergamaschi , Monika Henzinger , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Nicole Wein

By prior work, there is a distributed algorithm that finds a maximal fractional matching (maximal edge packing) in $O(\Delta)$ rounds, where $\Delta$ is the maximum degree of the graph. We show that this is optimal: there is no distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Mika Göös , Juho Hirvonen , Jukka Suomela