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We revisit the classical question of the relationship between the diameter of a graph and its expansion properties. One direction is well understood: expander graphs exhibit essentially the lowest possible diameter. We focus on the reverse…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-23 Michael Dinitz , Michael Schapira , Gal Shahaf

Given a graph G and the desired size k in bits, how can we summarize G within k bits, while minimizing the information loss? Large-scale graphs have become omnipresent, posing considerable computational challenges. Analyzing such large…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Kyuhan Lee , Hyeonsoo Jo , Jihoon Ko , Sungsu Lim , Kijung Shin

Let G be an arbitrary finite weighted digraph with weights in the set of complex rational functions. A general procedure is proposed which allows for the reduction of G to a smaller graph with a less complicated structure having the same…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-11-12 Leonid Bunimovich , Benjamin Webb

The recent surge in contrast-based graph self-supervised learning has prominently featured an intensified exploration of spectral cues. Spectral augmentation, which involves modifying a graph's spectral properties such as eigenvalues or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Xiangru Jian , Xinjian Zhao , Wei Pang , Chaolong Ying , Yimu Wang , Yaoyao Xu , Tianshu Yu

Graph comparison deals with identifying similarities and dissimilarities between graphs. A major obstacle is the unknown alignment of graphs, as well as the lack of accurate and inexpensive comparison metrics. In this work we introduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Hermina Petric Maretic , Mireille El Gheche , Giovanni Chierchia , Pascal Frossard

Graph Sparsification aims at compressing large graphs into smaller ones while preserving important characteristics of the input graph. In this work we study Vertex Sparsifiers, i.e., sparsifiers whose goal is to reduce the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Gramoz Goranci , Monika Henzinger , Pan Peng

$\textbf{Graph Coarsening (GC)}$ is a prominent graph reduction technique that compresses large graphs to enable efficient learning and inference. However, existing GC methods generate only one coarsened graph per run and must recompute…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Mohit Kataria , Shreyash Bhilwade , Sandeep Kumar , Jayadeva

Baker devised a powerful technique to obtain approximation schemes for various problems restricted to planar graphs. Her technique can be directly extended to various other graph classes, among the most general ones the graphs avoiding a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Zdeněk Dvořák

We study the problem of deleting the smallest set $S$ of vertices (resp. edges) from a given graph $G$ such that the induced subgraph (resp. subgraph) $G \setminus S$ belongs to some class $\mathcal{H}$. We consider the case where graphs in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Anupam Gupta , Euiwoong Lee , Jason Li , Pasin Manurangsi , Michał Włodarczyk

Recent research on graph embedding has achieved success in various applications. Most graph embedding methods preserve the proximity in a graph into a manifold in an embedding space. We argue an important but neglected problem about this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Hongbin Pei , Bingzhe Wei , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang , Chunxu Zhang , Bo Yang

We present a general method for obtaining the spectra of large graphs with short cycles using ideas from statistical mechanics of disordered systems. This approach leads to an algorithm that determines the spectra of graphs up to a high…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-01-12 D. Bollé , F. L. Metz , I. Neri

In this paper, we provide a Graph Fourier Transform based approach to downsample signals on graphs. For bandlimited signals on a graph, a test is provided to identify whether signal reconstruction is possible from the given downsampled…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2016-12-23 Nileshkumar Vaishnav , Aditya Tatu

Spectral sparsification is a technique that is used to reduce the number of non-zero entries in a positive semidefinite matrix with little changes to its spectrum. In particular, the main application of spectral sparsification is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Fabricio Mendoza-Granada , Marcos Villagra

The task of finding an extension to a given partial drawing of a graph while adhering to constraints on the representation has been extensively studied in the literature, with well-known results providing efficient algorithms for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Sujoy Bhore , Robert Ganian , Liana Khazaliya , Fabrizio Montecchiani , Martin Nöllenburg

A spectral sparsifier of a graph $G$ is a sparser graph $H$ that approximately preserves the quadratic form of $G$, i.e. for all vectors $x$, $x^T L_G x \approx x^T L_H x$, where $L_G$ and $L_H$ denote the respective graph Laplacians.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Rasmus Kyng , Jakub Pachocki , Richard Peng , Sushant Sachdeva

A regularized optimization problem over a large unstructured graph is studied, where the regularization term is tied to the graph geometry. Typical regularization examples include the total variation and the Laplacian regularizations over…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-20 Adil Salim , Pascal Bianchi , Walid Hachem

Graph is an important data representation which appears in a wide diversity of real-world scenarios. Effective graph analytics provides users a deeper understanding of what is behind the data, and thus can benefit a lot of useful…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Hongyun Cai , Vincent W. Zheng , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang

Network (or graph) sparsification compresses a graph by removing inessential edges. By reducing the data volume, it accelerates or even facilitates many downstream analyses. Still, the accuracy of many sparsification methods, with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Zhen Su , Jürgen Kurths , Henning Meyerhenke

The degree-constrained subgraph problem asks for a subgraph of a given graph such that the degree of each vertex is within some specified bounds. We study the following reconfiguration variant of this problem: Given two solutions to a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-08-07 Moritz Mühlenthaler

As Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) become increasingly popular for learning from large-scale graph data across various domains, their susceptibility to adversarial attacks when using graph reduction techniques for scalability remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Kerui Wu , Ka-Ho Chow , Wenqi Wei , Lei Yu