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In this paper we study the problem of discovering a timeline of events in a temporal network. We model events as dense subgraphs that occur within intervals of network activity. We formulate the event-discovery task as an optimization…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Polina Rozenshtein , Francesco Bonchi , Aristides Gionis , Mauro Sozio , Nikolaj Tatti

This work proposes a framework LGKDE that learns kernel density estimation for graphs. The key challenge in graph density estimation lies in effectively capturing both structural patterns and semantic variations while maintaining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Xudong Wang , Ziheng Sun , Chris Ding , Jicong Fan

Community detection refers to finding densely connected groups of nodes in graphs. In important applications, such as cluster analysis and network modelling, the graph is sparse but outliers and heavy-tailed noise may obscure its structure.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-19 Aylin Tastan , Michael Muma , Abdelhak M. Zoubir

The history of deep learning has shown that human-designed problem-specific networks can greatly improve the classification performance of general neural models. In most practical cases, however, choosing the optimal architecture for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Nicolo Colombo , Yang Gao

Graph pattern mining methods can extract informative and useful patterns from large-scale graphs and capture underlying principles through the overwhelmed information. Contrast analysis serves as a keystone in various fields and has…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Jingbo Shang , Xiyao Shi , Meng Jiang , Liyuan Liu , Timothy Hanratty , Jiawei Han

Given an edge-weighted directed graph $G=(V,E)$ on $n$ vertices and a set $T=\{t_1, t_2, \ldots, t_p\}$ of $p$ terminals, the objective of the \scss ($p$-SCSS) problem is to find an edge set $H\subseteq E$ of minimum weight such that $G[H]$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-07 Rajesh Chitnis , Hossein Esfandiari , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Rohit Khandekar , Guy Kortsarz , Saeed Seddighin

We consider deletion problems in graphs and supermodular functions where the goal is to reduce density. In Graph Density Deletion (GraphDD), we are given a graph $G=(V,E)$ with non-negative vertex costs and a non-negative parameter $\rho…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran , Chandra Chekuri , Shubhang Kulkarni

Hypergraphs, increasingly utilised for modelling complex and diverse relationships in modern networks, gain much attention representing intricate higher-order interactions. Among various challenges, cohesive subgraph discovery is one of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Song Kim , Dahee Kim , Taejoon Han , Junghoon Kim , Hyun Ji Jeong , Jungeun Kim

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are important across different domains, such as social network analysis and recommendation systems, due to their ability to model complex relational data. This paper introduces subgraph queries as a new task for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Erfaneh Mahmoudzadeh , Parmis Naddaf , Kiarash Zahirnia , Oliver Schulte

Finding frequently occurring subgraph patterns or network motifs in neural architectures is crucial for optimizing efficiency, accelerating design, and uncovering structural insights. However, as the subgraph size increases,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yikang Yang , Zhengxin Yang , Minghao Luo , Luzhou Peng , Hongxiao Li , Wanling Gao , Lei Wang , Jianfeng Zhan

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

Computing cohesive subgraphs is a central problem in graph theory. While many formulations of cohesive subgraphs lead to NP-hard problems, finding a densest subgraph can be done in polynomial time. As such, the densest subgraph model has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Riccardo Dondi , Danny Hermelin

Say that an edge of a graph G dominates itself and every other edge adjacent to it. An edge dominating set of a graph G = (V,E) is a subset of edges E' of E which dominates all edges of G. In particular, if every edge of G is dominated by…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Min Chih Lin , Michel J. Mizrahi , Jayme L. Szwarcfiter

With an exponentially growing number of graphs from disparate repositories, there is a strong need to analyze a graph database containing an extensive collection of small- or medium-sized data graphs (e.g., chemical compounds). Although…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Kai Huang , Haibo Hu , Qingqing Ye , Kai Tian , Bolong Zheng , Xiaofang Zhou

Subgraph densities play a crucial role in network analysis, especially for the identification and interpretation of meaningful substructures in complex graphs. Localized subgraph densities, in particular, can provide valuable insights into…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Connor Mattes , Esha Datta , Ali Pinar

The \emph{maximal $k$-edge-connected subgraphs} problem is a classical graph clustering problem studied since the 70's. Surprisingly, no non-trivial technique for this problem in weighted graphs is known: a very straightforward…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Chaitanya Nalam , Thatchaphol Saranurak

One of the intensely studied concepts of network robustness is $r$-robustness, which is a network topology property quantified by an integer $r$. It is required by mean subsequence reduced (MSR) algorithms and their variants to achieve…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 Yuhao Yi , Yuan Wang , Xingkang He , Stacy Patterson , Karl H. Johansson

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

We consider the problem of estimating the edge density of densest $K$-node subgraphs of an Erd\"os-R\'{e}nyi graph $\mathbb{G}(n,1/2)$. The problem is well-understood in the regime $K=\Theta(\log n)$ and in the regime $K=\Theta(n)$. In the…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-12-09 Houssam El Cheairi , David Gamarnik

Finding the dense regions in a graph is an important problem in network analysis. Core decomposition and truss decomposition address this problem from two different perspectives. The former is a vertex-driven approach that assigns density…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Penghang Liu , A. Erdem Sarıyüce