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Graph Isomorphism is the prime example of a computational problem with a wide difference between the best known lower and upper bounds on its complexity. We bridge this gap for a natural and important special case, planar graph isomorphism,…

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One of the major challenges in applications related to social networks, computational biology, collaboration networks etc., is to efficiently search for similar patterns in their underlying graphs. These graphs are typically noisy and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-12-17 Kanigalpula Samanvi , Naveen Sivadasan

The graph alignment problem aims to identify the vertex correspondence between two correlated graphs. Most existing studies focus on the scenario in which the two graphs share the same vertex set. However, in many real-world applications,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Chun Hei Michael Shiu , Hei Victor Cheng , Lele Wang

Subgraph isomorphism is a well-known NP-hard problem which is widely used in many applications, such as social network analysis and knowledge graph query. Its performance is often limited by the inherent hardness. Several insightful works…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Li Zeng , Yan Jiang , Weixin Lu , Lei Zou

Constructing a Depth First Search (DFS) tree is a fundamental graph problem, whose parallel complexity is still not settled. Reif showed parallel intractability of lex-first DFS. In contrast, randomized parallel algorithms (and more…

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Many real world networks are considered temporal networks, in which the chronological ordering of the edges has importance to the meaning of the data. Performing temporal subgraph matching on such graphs requires the edges in the subgraphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Patrick Mackey , Katherine Porterfield , Erin Fitzhenry , Sutanay Choudhury , George Chin

The graph is one of the most widely used mathematical structures in engineering and science because of its representational power and inherent ability to demonstrate the relationship between objects. The objective of this work is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Shri Prakash Dwivedi

We develop the methodology of positioning graph vertices relative to each other to solve the problem of determining isomorphism of two undirected graphs. Based on the position of the vertex in one of the graphs, it is determined the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Anatoly D. Plotnikov

We present the first parallel depth-first search algorithm for undirected graphs that has near-linear work and sublinear depth. Concretely, in any $n$-node $m$-edge undirected graph, our algorithm computes a DFS in $\tilde{O}(\sqrt{n})$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Mohsen Ghaffari , Christoph Grunau , Jiahao Qu

Vertex connectivity and edge connectivity are fundamental concepts in graph theory that have been widely studied from both structural and algorithmic perspectives. The focus of this paper is on computing these two parameters for graphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Therese Biedl , Prosenjit Bose , Karthik Murali

It is well-known that the graph isomorphism problem can be posed as an equivalent problem of determining whether an auxiliary graph structure contains a clique of specific order. However, the algorithms that have been developed so far for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Giannis Nikolentzos , Michalis Vazirgiannis

For various purposes and, in particular, in the context of data compression, a graph can be examined at three levels. Its structure can be described as the unlabeled version of the graph; then the labeling of its structure can be added; and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Ioannis Kontoyiannis , Yi Heng Lim , Katia Papakonstantinopoulou , Wojtek Szpankowski

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

Subgraph matching is a compute-intensive problem that asks to enumerate all the isomorphic embeddings of a query graph within a data graph. This problem is generally solved with backtracking, which recursively evolves every possible partial…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Junya Arai , Makoto Onizuka , Yasuhiro Fujiwara , Sotetsu Iwamura

In this paper we study a natural generalization of both {\sc $k$-Path} and {\sc $k$-Tree} problems, namely, the {\sc Subgraph Isomorphism} problem. In the {\sc Subgraph Isomorphism} problem we are given two graphs $F$ and $G$ on $k$ and $n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-12-15 Fedor V. Fomin , Daniel Lokshtanov , Venkatesh Raman , B. V. Raghavendra Rao , Saket Saurabh

Randomized parallel algorithms for many fundamental problems achieve optimal linear work in expectation, but upgrading this guarantee to hold with high probability (whp) remains a recurring theoretical challenge. In this paper, we address…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Chase Hutton , Adam Melrod

Twin-width is a graph parameter introduced in the context of first-order model checking, and has since become a central parameter in algorithmic graph theory. While many algorithmic problems become easier on arbitrary classes of bounded…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Irene Heinrich , Moritz Lichter , Klara Pakhomenko , Simon Raßmann

Many studies have been conducted on seeking the efficient solution for subgraph similarity search over certain (deterministic) graphs due to its wide application in many fields, including bioinformatics, social network analysis, and…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-05-31 Ye Yuan , Guoren Wang , Lei Chen , Haixun Wang

Given a family $\mathcal{F}$ of graphs, a graph is \emph{$\mathcal{F}$-subgraph-free} if it has no subgraph isomorphic to a member of $\mathcal{F}$. We present a fixed-parameter linear-time algorithm that decides whether a planar graph can…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Shinwoo An , Seonghyuk Im , Seokbeom Kim , Myounghwan Lee

We present the first work-optimal polylogarithmic-depth parallel algorithm for the minimum cut problem on non-sparse graphs. For $m\geq n^{1+\epsilon}$ for any constant $\epsilon>0$, our algorithm requires $O(m \log n)$ work and $O(\log^3…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Andrés López-Martínez , Sagnik Mukhopadhyay , Danupon Nanongkai