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We are presented with a graph, $G$, on $n$ vertices with $m$ edges whose edge set is unknown. Our goal is to learn the edges of $G$ with as few queries to an oracle as possible. When we submit a set $S$ of vertices to the oracle, it tells…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 Asaf Ferber , Liam Hardiman

Let $G$ be an $n$-vertex graph with $m$ edges. When asked a subset $S$ of vertices, a cut query on $G$ returns the number of edges of $G$ that have exactly one endpoint in $S$. We show that there is a bounded-error quantum algorithm that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Troy Lee , Miklos Santha , Shengyu Zhang

We study the problem of learning a hypergraph via edge detecting queries. In this problem, a learner queries subsets of vertices of a hidden hypergraph and observes whether these subsets contain an edge or not. In general, learning a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Eric Balkanski , Oussama Hanguir , Shatian Wang

We consider the problem of finding an edge in a hidden undirected graph $G = (V, E)$ with $n$ vertices, in a model where we only allowed queries that ask whether or not a subset of vertices contains an edge. We study the non-adaptive model…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Ron Kupfer , Noam Nisan

We study the problem of estimating the number of edges in an unknown graph. We consider a hybrid model in which an algorithm may issue independent set, degree, and neighbor queries. We show that this model admits strictly more efficient…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Tomer Adar , Yahel Hotam , Amit Levi

We study the problem of estimating the number of edges of an unknown, undirected graph $G=([n],E)$ with access to an independent set oracle. When queried about a subset $S\subseteq [n]$ of vertices the independent set oracle answers whether…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Xi Chen , Amit Levi , Erik Waingarten

In this paper, we consider the problem of learning an unknown graph via queries on groups of nodes, with the result indicating whether or not at least one edge is present among those nodes. While learning arbitrary graphs with $n$ nodes and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Zihan Li , Matthias Fresacher , Jonathan Scarlett

We present a simple nonadaptive randomized algorithm that estimates the number of edges in a simple, unweighted, undirected graph, possibly containing isolated vertices, using only degree and random edge queries. For an $n$-vertex graph,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Arijit Bishnu , Debarshi Chanda , Buddha Dev Das , Arijit Ghosh , Gopinath Mishra

The area of sublinear algorithms have recently received a lot of attention. In this setting, one has to choose specific access model for the input, as the algorithm does not have time to pre-process or even to see the whole input. A…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Jakub Tětek

We consider the problem of sampling an edge almost uniformly from an unknown graph, $G = (V, E)$. Access to the graph is provided via queries of the following types: (1) uniform vertex queries, (2) degree queries, and (3) neighbor queries.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Talya Eden , Will Rosenbaum

Learning a hidden hypergraph is a natural generalization of the classical group testing problem that consists in detecting unknown hypergraph $H_{un}=H(V,E)$ by carrying out edge-detecting tests. In the given paper we focus our attention…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-05 A. G. D'yachkov , I. V. Vorobyev , N. A. Polyanskii , V. Yu. Shchukin

Learning a hidden hypergraph is a natural generalization of the classical group testing problem that consists in detecting unknown hypergraph $H_{un}=H(V,E)$ by carrying out edge-detecting tests. In the given paper we focus our attention…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 A. G. D'yachkov , I. V. Vorobyev , N. A. Polyanskii , V. Yu. Shchukin

The problem of learning or reconstructing an unknown graph from a known family via partial-information queries arises as a mathematical model in various contexts. The most basic type of access to the graph is via \emph{edge queries}, where…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Nikhil S. Mande , Swagato Sanyal , Viktor Zamaraev

In this paper, we revisit the problem of sampling edges in an unknown graph $G = (V, E)$ from a distribution that is (pointwise) almost uniform over $E$. We consider the case where there is some a priori upper bound on the arboriciy of $G$.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Talya Eden , Dana Ron , Will Rosenbaum

Let $H$ be a fixed $k$-vertex graph with $m$ edges and minimum degree $d >0$. We use the learning graph framework of Belovs to show that the bounded-error quantum query complexity of determining if an $n$-vertex graph contains $H$ as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-04 Troy Lee , Frederic Magniez , Miklos Santha

In the cut-query model, the algorithm can access the input graph $G=(V,E)$ only via cut queries that report, given a set $S\subseteq V$, the total weight of edges crossing the cut between $S$ and $V\setminus S$. This model was introduced by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yotam Kenneth-Mordoch , Robert Krauthgamer

We study the problem of learning a hidden hypergraph $G=(V,E)$ by making a single batch of queries (non-adaptively). We consider the hyperedge detection model, in which every query must be of the form: ``Does this set $S\subseteq V$ contain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Bethany Austhof , Lev Reyzin , Erasmo Tani

We revisit the problem of designing sublinear algorithms for estimating the average degree of an $n$-vertex graph. The standard access model for graphs allows for the following queries: sampling a uniform random vertex, the degree of a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Lorenzo Beretta , Deeparnab Chakrabarty , C. Seshadhri

Given a graph $G = (V, E)$ with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, the DominatingSet problem asks for a set $D \subseteq V$ of minimal cardinality such that every vertex either is in $D$ or adjacent to a member of $D$. Although there is little…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Lukas Geis , Alexander Leonhardt , Johannes Meintrup , Ulrich Meyer , Manuel Penschuck , Lukas Retschmeier

We present new quantum algorithms for Triangle Finding improving its best previously known quantum query complexities for both dense and spare instances.For dense graphs on $n$ vertices, we get a query complexity of $O(n^{5/4})$ without any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-13 Titouan Carette , Mathieu Laurière , Frédéric Magniez
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