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In classic distributed graph problems, each instance on a graph specifies a space of feasible solutions (e.g. all proper ($\Delta+1$)-list-colorings of the graph), and the task of distributed algorithm is to construct a feasible solution…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Weiming Feng , Yitong Yin

Graph sampling theory extends the traditional sampling theory to graphs with topological structures. As a key part of the graph sampling theory, subset selection chooses nodes on graphs as samples to reconstruct the original signal. Due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Zhengpin Li , Zheng Wei , Jian Wang , Yun Lin , Byonghyo Shim

We introduce a graph partitioning problem motivated by computational topology and propose two algorithms that produce approximate solutions. Specifically, given a weighted, undirected graph $G$ and a positive integer $k$, we desire to find…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-04 Abdel-Rahman Madkour , Phillip Nadolny , Matthew Wright

As large graph datasets become increasingly common across many fields, sampling is often needed to reduce the graphs into manageable sizes. This procedure raises critical questions about representativeness as no sample can capture the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Alan Zhu , Jiaqi Ma , Qiaozhu Mei

We introduce a graph-signal generalisation of Sample Entropy, denoted SampEn$_{G}$, to quantify irregularity of graph signals on a continuous state space, complementing existing methods on symbolic dynamics. Our approach replaces the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Mei-San Maggie Lei , John Stewart Fabila Carrasco , Javier Escudero

Approximate Graph Pattern Mining (AGPM) is essential for analyzing large-scale graphs where exact counting is computationally prohibitive. While there exist numerous sampling-based AGPM systems, they all rely on uniform sampling and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Seoyong Lee , Jinho Lee

The approximate uniform sampling of graphs with a given degree sequence is a well-known, extensively studied problem in theoretical computer science and has significant applications, e.g., in the analysis of social networks. In this work we…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Georgios Amanatidis , Pieter Kleer

The Maximum Induced Matching problem asks to find the maximum $k$ such that, given a graph $G=(V,E)$, can we find a subset of vertices $S$ of size $k$ for which every vertices $v$ in the induced graph $G[S]$ has exactly degree $1$. In this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Gordon Hoi , Ammar Fathin Sabili , Frank Stephan

We give an extension of the $G$ method, with results, the extension and results being partly suggested by the finite Markov chains and specially by the finite-time consensus problem for the DeGroot model and that for the DeGroot model on…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Udrea Păun

As one of the most fundamental tasks in graph theory, subgraph matching is a crucial task in many fields, ranging from information retrieval, computer vision, biology, chemistry and natural language processing. Yet subgraph matching problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Zixun Lan , Limin Yu , Linglong Yuan , Zili Wu , Qiang Niu , Fei Ma

Uniform sampling of simple graphs having a given degree sequence is a known problem with exponential complexity in the square of the mean degree. For undirected graphs, randomised approximation algorithms have nonetheless been shown to…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Femke van Ieperen , Ivan Kryven

Given a graph $G$, the maximal induced subgraphs problem asks to enumerate all maximal induced subgraphs of $G$ that belong to a certain hereditary graph class. While its optimization version, known as the minimum vertex deletion problem in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Yixin Cao

Computing a shortest path between two nodes in an undirected unweighted graph is among the most basic algorithmic tasks. Breadth first search solves this problem in linear time, which is clearly also a lower bound in the worst case.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Noga Alon , Allan Grønlund , Søren Fuglede Jørgensen , Kasper Green Larsen

Given a network represented by a graph $G=(V,E)$, we consider a dynamical process of influence diffusion in $G$ that evolves as follows: Initially only the nodes of a given $S\subseteq V$ are influenced; subsequently, at each round, the set…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-13 Gennaro Cordasco , Luisa Gargano , Marco Mecchia , Adele A. Rescigno , Ugo Vaccaro

Exact subgraph matching on large-scale graphs remains a challenging problem due to high computational complexity and distributed system constraints. Existing GNN-based path embedding (GNN-PE) frameworks achieve efficient exact matching on…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yu Wang , Hui Wang , Jiake Ge , Xin Wang

We come up with a class of distributed quantized averaging algorithms on asynchronous communication networks with fixed, switching and random topologies. The implementation of these algorithms is subject to the realistic constraint that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-02-12 Minghui Zhu , Sonia Martinez

In this paper, we formulate and investigate a generalized consensus algorithm which makes an attempt to unify distributed averaging and maximizing algorithms considered in the literature. Each node iteratively updates its state as a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-09-06 Guodong Shi , Karl Henrik Johansson

The theory of sampling and recovery of bandlimited graph signals has been extensively studied. However, in many cases, the observation of a signal is quite coarse. For example, users only provide simple comments such as "like" or "dislike"…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-20 Wenwei Liu , Hui Feng , Feng Ji , Bo Hu

Motivated by the increasing need for fast processing of large-scale graphs, we study a number of fundamental graph problems in a message-passing model for distributed computing, called $k$-machine model, where we have $k$ machines that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Khalid Hourani , Hartmut Klauck , William K. Moses , Danupon Nanongkai , Gopal Pandurangan , Peter Robinson , Michele Scquizzato

We develop a novel parallel decomposition strategy for unweighted, undirected graphs, based on growing disjoint connected clusters from batches of centers progressively selected from yet uncovered nodes. With respect to similar previous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-09 Matteo Ceccarello , Andrea Pietracaprina , Geppino Pucci , Eli Upfal