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This paper presents efficient distributed algorithms for a number of fundamental problems in the area of graph sparsification: We provide the first deterministic distributed algorithm that computes an ultra-sparse spanner in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Marcel Bezdrighin , Michael Elkin , Mohsen Ghaffari , Christoph Grunau , Bernhard Haeupler , Saeed Ilchi , Václav Rozhoň

In the subgraph counting problem, we are given a input graph $G(V, E)$ and a target graph $H$; the goal is to estimate the number of occurrences of $H$ in $G$. Our focus here is on designing sublinear-time algorithms for approximately…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Sepehr Assadi , Michael Kapralov , Sanjeev Khanna

Hypergraph partitioning is a recurring NP-hard problem in engineering; its efficient solution at scale hinges on parallelism. This work proposes a GPU-centric algorithm for multi-level hypergraph partitioning aimed at a specific set of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Marco Ronzani , Cristina Silvano

Flow sparsification is a classic graph compression technique which, given a capacitated graph $G$ on $k$ terminals, aims to construct another capacitated graph $H$, called a flow sparsifier, that preserves, either exactly or approximately,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Syamantak Das , Nikhil Kumar , Daniel Vaz

A non-trivial minimum cut (NMC) sparsifier is a multigraph $\hat{G}$ that preserves all non-trivial minimum cuts of a given undirected graph $G$. We introduce a flexible data structure for fully dynamic graphs that can efficiently provide…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Monika Henzinger , Evangelos Kosinas , Robin Münk , Harald Räcke

We devise new cut sparsifiers that are related to the classical sparsification of Nagamochi and Ibaraki [Algorithmica, 1992], which is an algorithm that, given an unweighted graph $G$ on $n$ nodes and a parameter $k$, computes a subgraph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Amir Abboud , Robert Krauthgamer , Ohad Trabelsi

Low congestion shortcuts, introduced by Ghaffari and Haeupler (SODA 2016), provide a unified framework for global optimization problems in the congest model of distributed computing. Roughly speaking, for a given graph $G$ and a collection…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Shimon Kogan , Merav Parter

We develop a new algorithmic framework for designing approximation algorithms for cut-based optimization problems on capacitated undirected graphs that undergo edge insertions and deletions. Specifically, our framework dynamically maintains…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Gramoz Goranci , Monika Henzinger , Peter Kiss , Ali Momeni , Gernot Zöcklein

Graphons are limit objects of sequences of graphs and are used to analyze the behavior of large graphs. Recently, graphon signal processing has been developed to study signal processing on large graphs. A major limitation of this approach…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Feng Ji , Xingchao Jian , Wee Peng Tay

Image segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision. Data annotation for training supervised methods can be labor-intensive, motivating unsupervised methods. Current approaches often rely on extracting deep features from pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Amit Aflalo , Shai Bagon , Tamar Kashti , Yonina Eldar

We propose a new random pruning method (called "submodular sparsification (SS)") to reduce the cost of submodular maximization. The pruning is applied via a "submodularity graph" over the $n$ ground elements, where each directed edge is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Tianyi Zhou , Hua Ouyang , Yi Chang , Jeff Bilmes , Carlos Guestrin

In a nutshell, submodular functions encode an intuitive notion of diminishing returns. As a result, submodularity appears in many important machine learning tasks such as feature selection and data summarization. Although there has been a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Marko Mitrovic , Moran Feldman , Andreas Krause , Amin Karbasi

Partitioning the vertices of a graph into two roughly equal parts while minimizing the number of edges crossing the cut is a fundamental problem (called Balanced Separator) that arises in many settings. For this problem, and variants such…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Venkatesan Guruswami , Ali Kemal Sinop , Yuan Zhou

Expander decompositions form the basis of one of the most flexible paradigms for close-to-linear-time graph algorithms. Length-constrained expander decompositions generalize this paradigm to better work for problems with lengths, distances…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Bernhard Haeupler , D Ellis Hershkowitz , Zihan Tan

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

The notions of hypertree width and generalized hypertree width were introduced by Gottlob, Leone, and Scarcello in order to extend the concept of hypergraph acyclicity. These notions were further generalized by Grohe and Marx, who…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-09-23 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

Graph Auto-Encoders (GAEs) are powerful tools for graph representation learning. In this paper, we develop a novel Hierarchical Cluster-based GAE (HC-GAE), that can learn effective structural characteristics for graph data analysis. To this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Zhuo Xu , Lu Bai , Lixin Cui , Ming Li , Yue Wang , Edwin R. Hancock

We consider the problem of enumerating optimal solutions for two hypergraph $k$-partitioning problems -- namely, Hypergraph-$k$-Cut and Minmax-Hypergraph-$k$-Partition. The input in hypergraph $k$-partitioning problems is a hypergraph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Calvin Beideman , Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran , Weihang Wang

We introduce a new algorithmic framework for designing dynamic graph algorithms in minor-free graphs, by exploiting the structure of such graphs and a tool called vertex sparsification, which is a way to compress large graphs into small…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Gramoz Goranci , Monika Henzinger , Pan Peng

The densest subgraph problem (DSG) aiming at finding an induced subgraph such that the average edge-weights of the subgraph is maximized, is a well-studied problem. However, when the input graph is a hypergraph, the existing notion of DSG…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Yi Zhou , Shan Hu , Zimo Sheng