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Hypergraphs have gained increasing attention in the machine learning community lately due to their superiority over graphs in capturing super-dyadic interactions among entities. In this work, we propose a novel approach for the partitioning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Deepak Maurya , Balaraman Ravindran

This paper is concerned with the Cauchy problem of a multivalued ordinary differential equation governed by the hypergraph Laplacian, which describes the diffusion of ``heat'' or ``particles'' on the vertices of hypergraph. We consider the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Takeshi Fukao , Masahiro Ikeda , Shun Uchida

In cut sparsification, all cuts of a hypergraph $H=(V,E,w)$ are approximated within $1\pm\epsilon$ factor by a small hypergraph $H'$. This widely applied method was generalized recently to a setting where the cost of cutting each hyperedge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Yotam Kenneth , Robert Krauthgamer

In this article, we first introduce the concepts of vector fields and their divergence, and we recall the concepts of the gradient, Laplacian operator, Cheeger constants, eigenvalues, and heat kernels on a locally finite graph $V$. We give…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-13 Li Ma

This paper presents a detailed review of both theory and algorithms for the Cheeger cut based on the graph $1$-Laplacian. In virtue of the cell structure of the feasible set, we propose a cell descend (CD) framework for achieving the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-08 K. C. Chang , Sihong Shao , Dong Zhang

The $\mu$-conductance measure proposed by Lov\'asz and Simonovits is a size-specific conductance score that identifies the set with smallest conductance while disregarding those sets with volume smaller than a $\mu$ fraction of the whole…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Yufan Huang , David F. Gleich

In recent years, hypergraph generalizations of many graph cut problems have been introduced and analyzed as a way to better explore and understand complex systems and datasets characterized by multiway relationships. Recent work has made…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Austin R. Benson , Jon Kleinberg , Nate Veldt

We show how 'test' vector fields may be used to give lower bounds for the Cheeger constant of a Euclidean domain (or Riemannian manifold with boundary), and hence for the lowest eigenvalue of the Dirichlet Laplacian on the domain. Also, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Daniel Grieser

For graphs there exists a strong connection between spectral and combinatorial expansion properties. This is expressed, e.g., by the discrete Cheeger inequality, the lower bound of which states that $\lambda(G) \leq h(G)$, where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-12 Anna Gundert , May Szedlák

The problem of sparsifying a graph or a hypergraph while approximately preserving its cut structure has been extensively studied and has many applications. In a seminal work, Bencz\'ur and Karger (1996) showed that given any $n$-vertex…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Yu Chen , Sanjeev Khanna , Ansh Nagda

We introduce and develop equivalent spectral graph theory for several fundamental graph cut problems including maxcut, mincut, Cheeger cut, anti-Cheeger cut, dual Cheeger problem and their useful variants. A specified strategy for achieving…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Sihong Shao , Chuan Yang , Dong Zhang , Weixi Zhang

The minimum $s$-$t$ cut problem in graphs is one of the most fundamental problems in combinatorial optimization, and graph cuts underlie algorithms throughout discrete mathematics, theoretical computer science, operations research, and data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Nate Veldt , Austin R. Benson , Jon Kleinberg

In this paper, we use machine learning to show that the Cheeger constant of a connected regular graph has a predominant linear dependence on the largest two eigenvalues of the graph spectrum. We also show that a trained deep neural network…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-13 Ambar Jain , Shivam Pal , Kashyap Rajeevsarathy

We relate the nontrivial singular values $\sigma_2,\ldots,\sigma_n$ of the normalized adjacency matrix of an Eulerian directed graph to combinatorial measures of graph expansion: \\ 1. We introduce a new directed analogue of conductance…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Jake Ruotolo , Salil Vadhan

The densest subgraph problem (DSG) aiming at finding an induced subgraph such that the average edge-weights of the subgraph is maximized, is a well-studied problem. However, when the input graph is a hypergraph, the existing notion of DSG…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Yi Zhou , Shan Hu , Zimo Sheng

A simple probabilistic argument shows that every $r$-uniform hypergraph with $m$ edges contains an $r$-partite subhypergraph with at least $\frac{r!}{r^r}m$ edges. The celebrated result of Edwards states that in the case of graphs, that is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Eero Räty , István Tomon

We prove Cheeger inequalities for p-Laplacians on finite and infinite weighted graphs. Unlike in previous works, we do not impose boundedness of the vertex degree, nor do we restrict ourselves to the normalized Laplacian and, more…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-21 Matthias Keller , Delio Mugnolo

We study the problem of extracting a selective connector for a given set of query vertices $Q \subseteq V$ in a graph $G = (V,E)$. A selective connector is a subgraph of $G$ which exhibits some cohesiveness property, and contains the query…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Natali Ruchansky , Francesco Bonchi , David Garcia-Soriano , Francesco Gullo , Nicolas Kourtellis

The expansion of a graph is typically associated with its spectral properties - testing whether a graph is an expander is usually done using Cheeger's inequality. One can also use multiple eigenvalues in a higher-order Cheeger's inequality…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-23 Kelly Yancey , Matthew Yancey

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