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Given an undirected weighted graph $G(V,E)$, a constrained sketch over a terminal set $T\subset V$ is a subgraph $G'$ that connects the terminal vertices while satisfying a given set of constraints. Examples include Steiner trees…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Reyan Ahmed , Keaton Hamm , Mohammad Javad Latifi Jebelli , Stephen Kobourov , Faryad Darabi Sahneh , Richard Spence

Many deep learning tasks have to deal with graphs (e.g., protein structures, social networks, source code abstract syntax trees). Due to the importance of these tasks, people turned to Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) as the de facto method for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Shunhua Jiang , Yunze Man , Zhao Song , Zheng Yu , Danyang Zhuo

A spectral sparsifier of a graph $G$ is a sparser graph $H$ that approximately preserves the quadratic form of $G$, i.e. for all vectors $x$, $x^T L_G x \approx x^T L_H x$, where $L_G$ and $L_H$ denote the respective graph Laplacians.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Rasmus Kyng , Jakub Pachocki , Richard Peng , Sushant Sachdeva

A fundamental question in streaming complexity is whether every space-efficient turnstile algorithm is implicitly a linear sketch. The landmark work of Li, Nguyen, and Woodruff [LNW14] established an equivalence between the two, but their…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Cheng Jiang , Yinchen Liu , Huacheng Yu

While in many graph mining applications it is crucial to handle a stream of updates efficiently in terms of {\em both} time and space, not much was known about achieving such type of algorithm. In this paper we study this issue for a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-23 Sayan Bhattacharya , Monika Henzinger , Danupon Nanongkai , Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

We study graph computations in an enhanced data streaming setting, where a space-bounded client reading the edge stream of a massive graph may delegate some of its work to a cloud service. We seek algorithms that allow the client to verify…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Amit Chakrabarti , Prantar Ghosh , Justin Thaler

A $(1 \pm \epsilon)$-sparsifier of a hypergraph $G(V,E)$ is a (weighted) subgraph that preserves the value of every cut to within a $(1 \pm \epsilon)$-factor. It is known that every hypergraph with $n$ vertices admits a $(1 \pm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Sanjeev Khanna , Aaron L. Putterman , Madhu Sudan

Additive spanners are fundamental graph structures with wide applications in network design, graph sparsification, and distance approximation. In particular, a $4$-additive spanner is a subgraph that preserves all pairwise distances up to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Chuhan Qi

Recently [Bhattacharya et al., STOC 2015] provide the first non-trivial algorithm for the densest subgraph problem in the streaming model with additions and deletions to its edges, i.e., for dynamic graph streams. They present a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Hossein Esfandiari , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , David P. Woodruff

Embedding networks into a fixed dimensional feature space, while preserving its essential structural properties is a fundamental task in graph analytics. These feature vectors (graph descriptors) are used to measure the pairwise similarity…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Zohair Raza Hassan , Mudassir Shabbir , Imdadullah Khan , Waseem Abbas

A $t$-spanner of an undirected $n$-vertex graph $G$ is a sparse subgraph $H$ of $G$ that preserves all pairwise distances between its vertices to within multiplicative factor $t$, also called the \emph{stretch}. We investigate the problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Julia Chuzhoy , Merav Parter

We explore the use of local algorithms in the design of streaming algorithms for the Maximum Directed Cut problem. Specifically, building on the local algorithm of Buchbinder et al. (FOCS'12) and Censor-Hillel et al. (ALGOSENSORS'17), we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Raghuvansh R. Saxena , Noah G. Singer , Madhu Sudan , Santhoshini Velusamy

Sketching algorithms have recently proven to be a powerful approach both for designing low-space streaming algorithms as well as fast polynomial time approximation schemes (PTAS). In this work, we develop new techniques to extend the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Gregory Dexter , Petros Drineas , David P. Woodruff , Taisuke Yasuda

Graph streams are rapidly evolving sequences of edges that convey continuously changing relationships among entities, playing a crucial role in domains such as networking, finance, and cybersecurity. Their massive scale and high dynamism…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Boyan Wang , Zhuochen Fan , Dayu Wang , Fangcheng Fu , Zeyu Luan , Lei Zou , Qing Li , Tong Yang

Large-scale distributed training of neural networks is often limited by network bandwidth, wherein the communication time overwhelms the local computation time. Motivated by the success of sketching methods in sub-linear/streaming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Nikita Ivkin , Daniel Rothchild , Enayat Ullah , Vladimir Braverman , Ion Stoica , Raman Arora

We study the problem of constructing hypergraph cut sparsifiers in the streaming model where a hypergraph on $n$ vertices is revealed either via an arbitrary sequence of hyperedge insertions alone ({\em insertion-only} streaming model) or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Sanjeev Khanna , Aaron Putterman , Madhu Sudan

Connectivity related concepts are of fundamental interest in graph theory. The area has received extensive attention over four decades, but many problems remain unsolved, especially for directed graphs. A directed graph is 2-edge-connected…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Shiri Chechik , Thomas Dueholm Hansen , Giuseppe F. Italiano , Veronika Loitzenbauer , Nikos Parotsidis

We show how to combine two techniques for efficiently computing shortest paths in directed planar graphs. The first is the linear-time shortest-path algorithm of Henzinger, Klein, Subramanian, and Rao [STOC'94]. The second is Fakcharoenphol…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-04 Shay Mozes , Yahav Nussbaum , Oren Weimann

We consider the maximum matching problem in the semi-streaming model formalized by Feigenbaum, Kannan, McGregor, Suri, and Zhang that is inspired by giant graphs of today. As our main result, we give a two-pass $(1/2 + 1/16)$-approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Sagar Kale , Sumedh Tirodkar

We present parameterized streaming algorithms for the graph matching problem in both the dynamic and the insert-only models. For the dynamic streaming model, we present a one-pass algorithm that, with high probability, computes a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Jianer Chen , Qin Huang , Iyad Kanj , Ge Xia