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Listing and counting triangles in graphs is a key algorithmic kernel for network analyses, including community detection, clustering coefficients, k-trusses, and triangle centrality. In this paper, we propose the novel concept of a…

We propose data-driven one-pass streaming algorithms for estimating the number of triangles and four cycles, two fundamental problems in graph analytics that are widely studied in the graph data stream literature. Recently, (Hsu 2018) and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Justin Y. Chen , Talya Eden , Piotr Indyk , Honghao Lin , Shyam Narayanan , Ronitt Rubinfeld , Sandeep Silwal , Tal Wagner , David P. Woodruff , Michael Zhang

In this paper, we consider the problems from the area of sublinear-time algorithms of edge sampling, edge counting, and triangle counting. Part of our contribution is that we consider three different settings, differing in the way in which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Jakub Tětek , Mikkel Thorup

Subgraph counting aims to count the occurrences of a subgraph template T in a given network G. The basic problem of computing structural properties such as counting triangles and other subgraphs has found applications in diverse domains.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Langshi Chen , Jiayu Li , Ariful Azad , Lei Jiang , Madhav Marathe , Anil Vullikanti , Andrey Nikolaev , Egor Smirnov , Ruslan Israfilov , Judy Qiu

Graphs are used to model interactions in a variety of contexts, and there is a growing need to quickly assess the structure of such graphs. Some of the most useful graph metrics are based on triangles, such as those measuring social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-10-21 C. Seshadhri , Ali Pinar , Tamara G. Kolda

The problem of counting occurrences of query graphs in a large data graph, known as subgraph counting, is fundamental to several domains such as genomics and social network analysis. Many important special cases (e.g. triangle counting)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Venkatesan T. Chakaravarthy , Michael Kapralov , Prakash Murali , Fabrizio Petrini , Xinyu Que , Yogish Sabharwal , Baruch Schieber

Triangle centrality is introduced for finding important vertices in a graph based on the concentration of triangles surrounding each vertex. It has the distinct feature of allowing a vertex to be central if it is in many triangles or none…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Paul Burkhardt

We revisit the well-studied problem of triangle count estimation in graph streams. Given a graph represented as a stream of $m$ edges, our aim is to compute a $(1\pm\varepsilon)$-approximation to the triangle count $T$, using a small space…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Suman K. Bera , C. Seshadhri

Triangle counting is a fundamental graph analytic operation that is used extensively in network science and graph mining. As the size of the graphs that needs to be analyzed continues to grow, there is a requirement in developing scalable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Ancy Sarah Tom , George Karypis

Understanding the higher-order interactions within network data is a key objective of network science. Surveys of metadata triangles (or patterned 3-cycles in metadata-enriched graphs) are often of interest in this pursuit. In this work, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Trevor Steil , Tahsin Reza , Keita Iwabuchi , Benjamin W. Priest , Geoffrey Sanders , Roger Pearce

Given a simple, unweighted, undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ with $|V|=n$ and $|E|=m$, and parameters $0 < \varepsilon, \delta <1$, along with \texttt{Degree}, \texttt{Neighbour}, \texttt{Edge} and \texttt{RandomEdge} query access to $G$, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Arijit Bishnu , Debarshi Chanda , Gopinath Mishra

Hypergraphs, which use hyperedges to capture groupwise interactions among different entities, have gained increasing attention recently for their versatility in effectively modeling real-world networks. In this paper, we study the problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Haozhe Yin , Kai Wang , Wenjie Zhang , Ying Zhang , Ruijia Wu , Xuemin Lin

Triangle counting is a fundamental technique in network analysis, that has received much attention in various input models. The vast majority of triangle counting algorithms are targeted to static graphs. Yet, many real-world graphs are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Noujan Pashanasangi , C. Seshadhri

The number of triangles (hereafter denoted by $\Delta$) is an important metric to analyze massive graphs. It is also used to compute clustering coefficient in networks. This paper proposes a new algorithm called PES (Priority Edge Sampling)…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Roohollah Etemadi , Jianguo Lu

To capture the inherent geometric features of many community detection problems, we propose to use a new random graph model of communities that we call a Geometric Block Model. The geometric block model generalizes the random geometric…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Sainyam Galhotra , Arya Mazumdar , Soumyabrata Pal , Barna Saha

Graphlets are defined as k-node connected induced subgraph patterns. For an undirected graph, 3-node graphlets include close triangle and open triangle. When k = 4, there are six types of graphlets, e.g., tailed-triangle and clique are two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Xutong Liu , Yu-Zhen Janice Chen , John C. S. Lui , Konstantin Avrachenkov

We tackle the problem of counting the number of $k$-cliques in large-scale graphs, for any constant $k \ge 3$. Clique counting is essential in a variety of applications, among which social network analysis. Due to its computationally…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Irene Finocchi , Marco Finocchi , Emanuele G. Fusco

We present a new algorithm for approximating the number of triangles in a graph $G$ whose edges arrive as an arbitrary order stream. If $m$ is the number of edges in $G$, $T$ the number of triangles, $\Delta_E$ the maximum number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Rajesh Jayaram , John Kallaugher

The distance of a graph from being triangle-free is a fundamental graph parameter, counting the number of edges that need to be removed from a graph in order for it to become triangle-free. Its corresponding computational problem is the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Keren Censor-Hillel , Majd Khoury

A $k$-truss is an edge-induced subgraph $H$ such that each of its edges belongs to at least $k-2$ triangles of $H$. This notion has been introduced around ten years ago in social network analysis and security, as a form of cohesive subgraph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Alessio Conte , Roberto Grossi , Andrea Marino , Luca Versari