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We study the problem of estimating the number of triangles in a graph stream. No streaming algorithm can get sublinear space on all graphs, so methods in this area bound the space in terms of parameters of the input graph such as the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-18 John Kallaugher , Eric Price

In this work, we propose a novel approach for subgraph matching, the problem of finding a given query graph in a large source graph, based on the fused Gromov-Wasserstein distance. We formulate the subgraph matching problem as a partial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Wen-Xin Pan , Isabel Haasler , Pascal Frossard

In this column, we overview recent progress by many authors on understanding the approximability of constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) in low-space streaming models. Inspired by this recent progress, we collate nine conjectural lower…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Noah G. Singer

In this paper, we give new, tight subexponential lower bounds for a number of graph embedding problems. We introduce two related combinatorial problems, which we call String Crafting and Orthogonal Vector crafting, and show that these…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Hans L. Bodlaender , Tom C. van der Zanden

The problem of finding a maximum size matching in a graph (known as the maximum matching problem) is one of the most classical problems in computer science. Despite a significant body of work dedicated to the study of this problem in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Moran Feldman , Ariel Szarf

Consider the following problem: given a graph with edge costs and a subset Q of vertices, find a minimum-cost subgraph in which there are two edge-disjoint paths connecting every pair of vertices in Q. The problem is a failure-resilient…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-10-01 Glencora Borradaile , Philip Klein

We study the problem of estimating the maximum matching size in graphs whose edges are revealed in a streaming manner. We consider both insertion-only streams and dynamic streams and present new upper and lower bound results for both…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-01-17 Sepehr Assadi , Sanjeev Khanna , Yang Li

The Max-DICUT problem has gained a lot of attention in the streaming setting in recent years, and has so far served as a canonical problem for designing algorithms for general constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) in this setting. A…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Santhoshini Velusamy

An output-polynomial algorithm for the listing of minimal dominating sets in graphs is a challenging open problem and is known to be equivalent to the well-known Transversal problem which asks for an output-polynomial algorithm for listing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-09 Mamadou Moustapha Kanté , Vincent Limouzy , Arnaud Mary , Lhouari Nourine , Takeaki Uno

The problem of counting small subgraphs, and specifically cycles, in the streaming model received a lot of attention over the past few years. In this paper, we consider arbitrary order insertion-only streams, improving over the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Sofya Vorotnikova

We present a unified framework for proving memory lower bounds for multi-pass streaming algorithms that detect planted structures. Planted structures -- such as cliques or bicliques in graphs, and sparse signals in high-dimensional data --…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Sumegha Garg , Jabari Hastings , Chirag Pabbaraju , Vatsal Sharan

We consider the problem of graph searching with prediction recently introduced by Banerjee et al. (2022). In this problem, an agent, starting at some vertex $r$ has to traverse a (potentially unknown) graph $G$ to find a hidden goal node…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Adela Frances DePavia , Erasmo Tani , Ali Vakilian

We present parameterized streaming algorithms for the graph matching problem in both the dynamic and the insert-only models. For the dynamic streaming model, we present a one-pass algorithm that, with high probability, computes a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Jianer Chen , Qin Huang , Iyad Kanj , Ge Xia

We study the space complexity of four variants of the standard subgraph finding problem in the streaming model. Specifically, given an $n$-vertex input graph and a fixed-size pattern graph, we consider two settings: undirected simple…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yu-Sheng Shih , Meng-Tsung Tsai , Yen-Chu Tsai , Ying-Sian Wu

We address the question of detecting minimal virtual diagrams with respect to the number of virtual crossings. This problem is closely connected to the problem of detecting the minimal number of additional intersection points for a generic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-11-06 Denis Afanasiev , Vassily Manturov

In recent years, the problem of computing the frequencies of the induced $k$-vertex subgraphs of a graph, or \emph{$k$-graphlets}, has become central. One approach for this problem is to sample $k$-graphlets randomly. Classic algorithms for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Marco Bressan , T-H. Hubert Chan , Qipeng Kuang , Mauro Sozio

In this paper, we focus on lower bounds and algorithms for some basic geometric problems in the one-pass (insertion only) streaming model. The problems considered are grouped into three categories: (i) Klee's measure (ii) Convex body…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Arijit Bishnu , Arijit Ghosh , Gopinath Mishra , Sandeep Sen

Recent breakthroughs in graph streaming have led to the design of single-pass semi-streaming algorithms for various graph coloring problems such as $(\Delta+1)$-coloring, degeneracy-coloring, coloring triangle-free graphs, and others. These…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Sepehr Assadi , Andrew Chen , Glenn Sun

We initiate the study of a fundamental combinatorial problem: Given a capacitated graph $G=(V,E)$, find a shortest walk ("route") from a source $s\in V$ to a destination $t\in V$ that includes all vertices specified by a set…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Saeed Akhoondian Amiri , Klaus-Tycho Foerster , Stefan Schmid

We study the minimum \emph{Monitoring Edge Geodetic Set} (\megset) problem introduced in [Foucaud et al., CALDAM'23]: given a graph $G$, we say that an edge is monitored by a pair $u,v$ of vertices if \emph{all} shortest paths between $u$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Davide Bilò , Giordano Colli , Luca Forlizzi , Stefano Leucci