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In graph modification problems, one is given a graph G and the goal is to apply a minimum number of modification operations (such as edge deletions) to G such that the resulting graph fulfills a certain property. For example, the Cluster…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Christian Komusiewicz , André Nichterlein , Rolf Niedermeier

This paper presents the development of a new class of algorithms that accurately implement the preferential attachment mechanism of the Barab\'asi-Albert (BA) model to generate scale-free graphs. Contrary to existing approximate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Giorgos Stamatelatos , Pavlos S. Efraimidis

Directed graphs naturally model systems with asymmetric, ordered relationships, essential to applications in biology, transportation, social networks, and visual understanding. Generating such graphs enables tasks such as simulation, data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Alba Carballo-Castro , Manuel Madeira , Yiming Qin , Dorina Thanou , Pascal Frossard

Locally-biased graph algorithms are algorithms that attempt to find local or small-scale structure in a large data graph. In some cases, this can be accomplished by adding some sort of locality constraint and calling a traditional graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Kimon Fountoulakis , David Gleich , Michael Mahoney

We develop a new framework for generalizing approximation algorithms from the structural graph algorithm literature so that they apply to graphs somewhat close to that class (a scenario we expect is common when working with real-world…

Modeling and generating graphs is fundamental for studying networks in biology, engineering, and social sciences. However, modeling complex distributions over graphs and then efficiently sampling from these distributions is challenging due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Jiaxuan You , Rex Ying , Xiang Ren , William L. Hamilton , Jure Leskovec

The graph matching problem emerges naturally in various applications such as web privacy, image processing and computational biology. In this paper, graph matching is considered under a stochastic model, where a pair of randomly generated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Farhad Shirani , Siddharth Garg , Elza Erkip

Computing the embedding distribution of a given graph is a fundamental question in topological graph theory. In this article, we extend our viewpoint to a sequence of graphs and consider their asymptotic embedding distributions, which are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Yichao Chen , Wenjie Fang , Zhicheng Gao , Jinlian Zhang

Data analysts commonly utilize statistics to summarize large datasets. While it is often sufficient to explore only the summary statistics of a dataset (e.g., min/mean/max), Anscombe's Quartet demonstrates how such statistics can be…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Hang Chen , Vahan Huroyan , Utkarsh Soni , Yafeng Lu , Ross Maciejewski , Stephen Kobourov

Let $F_G(P)$ be a functional defined on the set of all the probability distributions on the vertex set of a graph $G$. We say that $G$ is \emph{symmetric with respect to $F_G(P)$} if the uniform distribution on $V(G)$ maximizes $F_G(P)$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-07 Seyed Saeed Changiz Rezaei , Ehsan Chiniforooshan

Graph alignment in two correlated random graphs refers to the task of identifying the correspondence between vertex sets of the graphs. Recent results have characterized the exact information-theoretic threshold for graph alignment in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Osman Emre Dai , Daniel Cullina , Negar Kiyavash , Matthias Grossglauser

Researchers developing implementations of distributed graph analytic algorithms require graph generators that yield graphs sharing the challenging characteristics of real-world graphs (small-world, scale-free, heavy-tailed degree…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Geoffrey Sanders , Roger Pearce , Timothy La Fond , Jeremy Kepner

We introduce a general class of algorithms and supply a number of general results useful for analysing these algorithms when applied to regular graphs of large girth. As a result, we can transfer a number of results proved for random…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-06 Carlos Hoppen , Nicholas Wormald

We describe a linear-time algorithm that finds a planar drawing of every graph of a simple line or pseudoline arrangement within a grid of area O(n^{7/6}). No known input causes our algorithm to use area \Omega(n^{1+\epsilon}) for any…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-07-16 David Eppstein

Analog layout synthesis requires some elements in the circuit netlist to be matched and placed symmetrically. However, the set of symmetries is very circuit-specific and a versatile algorithm, applicable to a broad variety of circuits, has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Kishor Kunal , Jitesh Poojary , Tonmoy Dhar , Meghna Madhusudan , Ramesh Harjani , Sachin S. Sapatnekar

Graphs are ubiquitous real-world data structures, and generative models that approximate distributions over graphs and derive new samples from them have significant importance. Among the known challenges in graph generation tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Wataru Kawai , Yusuke Mukuta , Tatsuya Harada

We consider a Random Graph Model on $\mathbb{Z}^{d}$ that incorporates the interplay between the statistics of the graph and the underlying space where the vertices are located. Based on a graphical construction of the model as the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-19 Andressa Cerqueira , Nancy L. Garcia

We consider the set of all graphs on n labeled vertices with prescribed degrees D=(d_1, ..., d_n). For a wide class of tame degree sequences D we prove a computationally efficient asymptotic formula approximating the number of graphs within…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-12-05 Alexander Barvinok , J. A. Hartigan

We present a hybrid constraint-based/Bayesian algorithm for learning causal networks in the presence of sparse data. The algorithm searches the space of equivalence classes of models (essential graphs) using a heuristic based on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-30 Denver Dash , Marek J. Druzdzel

Graph signal processing (GSP) provides a powerful framework for analyzing signals arising in a variety of domains. In many applications of GSP, multiple network structures are available, each of which captures different aspects of the same…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-03 Michael Weylandt , George Michailidis , T. Mitchell Roddenberry