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Let $H$ be an edge-weighted graph, and let $G$ be a subgraph of $H$. We say that $G$ is an $f$-fault-tolerant $t$-spanner for $H$, if the following is true for any subset $F$ of at most $f$ edges of $G$: For any two vertices $p$ and $q$,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Ahmad Biniaz , Jean-Lou De Carufel , Anil Maheshwari , Michiel Smid

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

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

Given an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$, an {\em $(\alpha,\beta)$-spanner} $H=(V,E')$ is a subgraph that approximately preserves distances; for every $u,v\in V$, $d_H(u,v)\le \alpha\cdot d_G(u,v)+\beta$. An $(\alpha,\beta)$-hopset is a graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Ofer Neiman , Idan Shabat

Uncertain graphs are prevalent in several applications including communications systems, biological databases and social networks. The ever increasing size of the underlying data renders both graph storage and query processing extremely…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Panos Parchas , Nikolaos Papailiou , Dimitris Papadias , Francesco Bonchi

Detailed network models of social, biological and other complex systems are often dense, which increases their computational complexity in simulations and analysis. To address this challenge, graph sparsification is used to remove edges…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-19 Bernardo Pereira , Felipe Xavier Costa , Luís M. Rocha

Consider a graph with n nodes and m edges, independent edge weights and lengths, and arbitrary distance demands for node pairs. The spanner problem asks for a minimum-weight subgraph that satisfies these demands via sufficiently short paths…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Fritz Bökler , Markus Chimani , Henning Jasper

Let $P \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ be a planar $n$-point set such that each point $p \in P$ has an associated radius $r_p > 0$. The transmission graph $G$ for $P$ is the directed graph with vertex set $P$ such that for any $p, q \in P$, there is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Haim Kaplan , Wolfgang Mulzer , Liam Roditty , Paul Seiferth

In this paper we address the problem of computing a sparse subgraph of a weighted directed graph such that the exact distances from a designated source vertex to all other vertices are preserved under bounded weight increment. Finding a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Diptarka Chakraborty , Debarati Das

We introduce three new cut tree structures of graphs $G$ in which the vertex set of the tree is a partition of $V(G)$ and contractions of tree vertices satisfy sparsification requirements that preserve various types of cuts. Recently,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-04 On-Hei Solomon Lo , Jens M. Schmidt

For any undirected and weighted graph $G=(V,E,w)$ with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, we call a sparse subgraph $H$ of $G$, with proper reweighting of the edges, a $(1+\varepsilon)$-spectral sparsifier if \[…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Yin Tat Lee , He Sun

Let $G$ be an unweighted $n$-node undirected graph. A \emph{$\beta$-additive spanner} of $G$ is a spanning subgraph $H$ of $G$ such that distances in $H$ are stretched at most by an additive term $\beta$ w.r.t. the corresponding distances…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-03 Davide Bilò , Fabrizio Grandoni , Luciano Gualà , Stefano Leucci , Guido Proietti

A motif is a frequently occurring subgraph of a given directed or undirected graph $G$. Motifs capture higher order organizational structure of $G$ beyond edge relationships, and, therefore, have found wide applications such as in graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Michael Kapralov , Mikhail Makarov , Sandeep Silwal , Christian Sohler , Jakab Tardos

It was recently found that there are very close connections between the existence of additive spanners (subgraphs where all distances are preserved up to an additive stretch), distance preservers (subgraphs in which demand pairs have their…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-07-21 Eden Chlamtáč , Michael Dinitz , Guy Kortsarz , Bundit Laekhanukit

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

We give a simple algorithm for maintaining a $n^{o(1)}$-approximate spanner $H$ of a graph $G$ with $n$ vertices as $G$ receives edge updates by reduction to the dynamic All-Pairs Shortest Paths (APSP) problem. Given an initially empty…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Rasmus Kyng , Simon Meierhans , Gernot Zöcklein

Recently, Chalermsook et al. [SODA'21(arXiv:2007.07862)] introduces a notion of vertex sparsifiers for $c$-edge connectivity, which has found applications in parameterized algorithms for network design and also led to exciting dynamic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Han Jiang , Shang-En Huang , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Tian Zhang

A spanner is a sparse subgraph that approximately preserves the pairwise distances of the original graph. It is well known that there is a smooth tradeoff between the sparsity of a spanner and the quality of its approximation, so long as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Amir Abboud , Greg Bodwin

As graphs scale to billions of nodes and edges, graph Machine Learning workloads are constrained by the cost of multi-hop traversals over exponentially growing neighborhoods. While various system-level and algorithmic optimizations have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yuhang Song , Naima Abrar Shami , Romaric Duvignau , Vasiliki Kalavri

We consider additive spanners of unweighted undirected graphs. Let $G$ be a graph and $H$ a subgraph of $G$. The most na\"ive way to construct an additive $k$-spanner of $G$ is the following: As long as $H$ is not an additive $k$-spanner…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Mathias Bæk Tejs Knudsen