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In this paper we raise the question of how to compress sparse graphs. By introducing the idea of redundancy, we find a way to measure the overlap of neighbors between nodes in networks. We exploit symmetry and information by making use of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-04-01 Jie Sun , Erik M. Bollt , Daniel ben-Avraham

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

In this paper, we consider two fundamental cut approximation problems on large graphs. We prove new lower bounds for both problems that are optimal up to logarithmic factors. The first problem is to approximate cuts in balanced directed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Yu Cheng , Max Li , Honghao Lin , Zi-Yi Tai , David P. Woodruff , Jason Zhang

Graphical data arises naturally in several modern applications, including but not limited to internet graphs, social networks, genomics and proteomics. The typically large size of graphical data argues for the importance of designing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Payam Delgosha , Venkat Anantharam

We consider the approximation capability of orthogonal super greedy algorithms (OSGA) and its applications in supervised learning. OSGA is concerned with selecting more than one atoms in each iteration step, which, of course, greatly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-09-19 Jian Fang , Shaobo Lin , Zongben Xu

This paper describes a graph clustering algorithm that aims to minimize the normalized cut criterion and has a model order selection procedure. The performance of the proposed algorithm is comparable to spectral approaches in terms of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-05-06 Seyed Salim Tabatabaei , Mark Coates , Michael Rabbat

We provide an algorithm that, given an $n$-vertex $m$-edge Eulerian graph with polynomially bounded weights, computes an $\breve{O}(n\log^{2} n \cdot \varepsilon^{-2})$-edge $\varepsilon$-approximate Eulerian sparsifier with high…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Arun Jambulapati , Sushant Sachdeva , Aaron Sidford , Kevin Tian , Yibin Zhao

Many practical data analysis tasks reduce to learning, from observed samples, how a collection of variables depend on each other. A widely used approach is to fit a Gaussian graphical model, which represents the dependence structure as a…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-19 Ignacio Echave-Sustaeta Rodríguez , Aida Abiad , Frank Röttger

In this paper we present a greedy algorithm for solving the problem of the maximum partitioning of graphs with supply and demand (MPGSD). The goal of the method is to solve the MPGSD for large graphs in a reasonable time limit. This is done…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-07-31 Raka Jovanovic , Abdelkader Bousselham , Stefan Voss

In this paper, we revisit the problem of sampling edges in an unknown graph $G = (V, E)$ from a distribution that is (pointwise) almost uniform over $E$. We consider the case where there is some a priori upper bound on the arboriciy of $G$.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Talya Eden , Dana Ron , Will Rosenbaum

We propose SGS-GNN, a novel supervised graph sparsifier that learns the sampling probability distribution of edges and samples sparse subgraphs of a user-specified size to reduce the computational costs required by GNNs for inference tasks…

In recent years, hypergraph generalizations of many graph cut problems have been introduced and analyzed as a way to better explore and understand complex systems and datasets characterized by multiway relationships. Recent work has made…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Austin R. Benson , Jon Kleinberg , Nate Veldt

Graph sparsification is a key technique for improving inference efficiency in Graph Neural Networks by removing edges with minimal impact on predictions. GNN explainability methods generate local importance scores, which can be aggregated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Selahattin Akkas , Ariful Azad

Graph Neural Network (GNN) achieves great success for node-level and graph-level tasks via encoding meaningful topological structures of networks in various domains, ranging from social to biological networks. However, repeated aggregation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Tanvir Hossain , Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin , Muhammad Ifte Khairul Islam , Farhan Tanvir , Esra Akbas

This paper explores sparsification methods as a form of regularization in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to address high memory usage and computational costs in large-scale graph applications. Using techniques from Network Science and Machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Charlotte Cambier van Nooten , Christos Aronis , Yuliya Shapovalova , Lucia Cavallaro

We present a general framework of designing efficient dynamic approximate algorithms for optimization on undirected graphs. In particular, we develop a technique that, given any problem that admits a certain notion of vertex sparsifiers,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Li Chen , Gramoz Goranci , Monika Henzinger , Richard Peng , Thatchaphol Saranurak

The area of sublinear algorithms have recently received a lot of attention. In this setting, one has to choose specific access model for the input, as the algorithm does not have time to pre-process or even to see the whole input. A…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Jakub Tětek

We study differentially private algorithms for graph cut sparsification, a fundamental problem in algorithms, privacy, and machine learning. While significant progress has been made, the best-known private and efficient cut sparsifiers on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Anders Aamand , Justin Y. Chen , Mina Dalirrooyfard , Slobodan Mitrović , Yuriy Nevmyvaka , Sandeep Silwal , Yinzhan Xu

Decision Tree is a classic formulation of active learning: given $n$ hypotheses with nonnegative weights summing to 1 and a set of tests that each partition the hypotheses, output a decision tree using the provided tests that uniquely…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Ray Li , Percy Liang , Stephen Mussmann

We analyze greedy algorithms for the Hierarchical Aggregation (HAG) problem, a strategy introduced in [Jia et al., KDD 2020] for speeding up learning on Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). The idea of HAG is to identify and remove redundancies in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Alexandra Porter , Mary Wootters