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Graph sparsification is an area of interest in computer science and applied mathematics. Sparsification of a graph, in general, aims to reduce the number of edges in the network while preserving specific properties of the graph, like cuts…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Abhishek Ajayakumar , Soumyendu Raha

We study resistance sparsification of graphs, in which the goal is to find a sparse subgraph (with reweighted edges) that approximately preserves the effective resistances between every pair of nodes. We show that every dense regular…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-26 Michael Dinitz , Robert Krauthgamer , Tal Wagner

Spectral sparsification for directed Eulerian graphs is a key component in the design of fast algorithms for solving directed Laplacian linear systems. Directed Laplacian linear system solvers are crucial algorithmic primitives to fast…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Sushant Sachdeva , Anvith Thudi , Yibin Zhao

Graph compression or sparsification is a basic information-theoretic and computational question. A major open problem in this research area is whether $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate cut-preserving vertex sparsifiers with size close to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Parinya Chalermsook , Syamantak Das , Bundit Laekhanukit , Yunbum Kook , Yang P. Liu , Richard Peng , Mark Sellke , Daniel Vaz

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

This work introduces a highly-scalable spectral graph densification framework (SGL) for learning resistor networks with linear measurements, such as node voltages and currents. We show that the proposed graph learning approach is equivalent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Ying Zhang , Zhiqiang Zhao , Zhuo Feng

In this paper we study the problem of dynamically maintaining graph properties under batches of edge insertions and deletions in the massively parallel model of computation. In this setting, the graph is stored on a number of machines, each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-07 David Durfee , Laxman Dhulipala , Janardhan Kulkarni , Richard Peng , Saurabh Sawlani , Xiaorui Sun

This work introduces a highly scalable spectral graph densification framework for learning resistor networks with linear measurements, such as node voltages and currents. We prove that given $O(\log N)$ pairs of voltage and current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Zhuo Feng

A $t$-spanner of an undirected $n$-vertex graph $G$ is a sparse subgraph $H$ of $G$ that preserves all pairwise distances between its vertices to within multiplicative factor $t$, also called the \emph{stretch}. We investigate the problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Julia Chuzhoy , Merav Parter

We make several advances broadly related to the maintenance of electrical flows in weighted graphs undergoing dynamic resistance updates, including: 1. More efficient dynamic spectral vertex sparsification, achieved by faster length…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Jan van den Brand , Yu Gao , Arun Jambulapati , Yin Tat Lee , Yang P. Liu , Richard Peng , Aaron Sidford

Spectral graph sparsification is a classical tool for reducing graph complexity while preserving Laplacian quadratic forms. In graph neural networks (GNNs), sparsification is often used to accelerate computation while maintaining predictive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Sanjukta Krishnagopal

This paper presents the first parallel batch-dynamic algorithms for computing spanners and sparsifiers. Our algorithms process any batch of edge insertions and deletions in an $n$-node undirected graph, in $\text{poly}(\log n)$ depth and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Mohsen Ghaffari , Jaehyun Koo

Graphs naturally appear in several real-world contexts including social networks, the web network, and telecommunication networks. While the analysis and the understanding of graph structures have been a central area of study in algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Gramoz Goranci

We study vertex sparsification for preserving cuts. Given a graph $G$ with a subset $|T|=k$ of its vertices called terminals, a \emph{quality-$q$ cut sparsifier} is a graph $G'$ that contains $T$, such that, for any partition $(T_1,T_2)$ of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Yu Chen , Zihan Tan

In this paper we introduce a notion of spectral approximation for directed graphs. While there are many potential ways one might define approximation for directed graphs, most of them are too strong to allow sparse approximations in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Michael B. Cohen , Jonathan Kelner , John Peebles , Richard Peng , Anup Rao , Aaron Sidford , Adrian Vladu

We show the existence of O(f(c)k) sized vertex sparsifiers that preserve all edge-connectivity values up to c between a set of k terminal vertices, where f(c) is a function that only depends on c, the edge-connectivity value. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Yang P. Liu , Richard Peng , Mark Sellke

We present the first single pass algorithm for computing spectral sparsifiers of graphs in the dynamic semi-streaming model. Given a single pass over a stream containing insertions and deletions of edges to a graph G, our algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-17 Michael Kapralov , Yin Tat Lee , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco , Aaron Sidford

The eigendeomposition of nearest-neighbor (NN) graph Laplacian matrices is the main computational bottleneck in spectral clustering. In this work, we introduce a highly-scalable, spectrum-preserving graph sparsification algorithm that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Yongyu Wang , Zhuo Feng

In this paper, we consider a ${\rm U}(1)$-connection graph, that is, a graph where each oriented edge is endowed with a unit modulus complex number that is conjugated under orientation flip. A natural replacement for the combinatorial…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Michaël Fanuel , Rémi Bardenet

We present an algorithm that on input of an $n$-vertex $m$-edge weighted graph $G$ and a value $k$, produces an {\em incremental sparsifier} $\hat{G}$ with $n-1 + m/k$ edges, such that the condition number of $G$ with $\hat{G}$ is bounded…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Ioannis Koutis , Gary L. Miller , Richard Peng