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We consider the problem of cutting a set of edges on a polyhedral manifold surface, possibly with boundary, to obtain a single topological disk, minimizing either the total number of cut edges or their total length. We show that this…

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Given a weighted graph $G$ and an error parameter $\epsilon > 0$, the {\em graph sparsification} problem requires sampling edges in $G$ and giving the sampled edges appropriate weights to obtain a sparse graph $G_{\epsilon}$ (containing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-04-26 Ramesh Hariharan , Debmalya Panigrahi

Constructing a sparse spanning subgraph is a fundamental primitive in graph theory. In this paper, we study this problem in the Centralized Local model, where the goal is to decide whether an edge is part of the spanning subgraph by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Christoph Lenzen , Reut Levi

We consider the problem of finding all allowed edges in a bipartite graph $G=(V,E)$, i.e., all edges that are included in some maximum matching. We show that given any maximum matching in the graph, it is possible to perform this…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-07-26 Tamir Tassa

Many real-world networks exhibit correlations between the node degrees. For instance, in social networks nodes tend to connect to nodes of similar degree. Conversely, in biological and technological networks, high-degree nodes tend to be…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-09-30 Kevin E. Bassler , Charo I. Del Genio , Péter L. Erdős , István Miklós , Zoltán Toroczkai

We propose an efficient $\epsilon$-differentially private algorithm, that given a simple {\em weighted} $n$-vertex, $m$-edge graph $G$ with a \emph{maximum unweighted} degree $\Delta(G) \leq n-1$, outputs a synthetic graph which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Jingcheng Liu , Jalaj Upadhyay , Zongrui Zou

We describe a new approximation algorithm for Max Cut. Our algorithm runs in $\tilde O(n^2)$ time, where $n$ is the number of vertices, and achieves an approximation ratio of $.531$. On instances in which an optimal solution cuts a…

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Let G be a directed graph with n vertices and non-negative weights in its directed edges, embedded on a surface of genus g, and let f be an arbitrary face of G. We describe a randomized algorithm to preprocess the graph in O(gn log n) time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-05-13 Sergio Cabello , Erin Wolf Chambers , Jeff Erickson

Finding important edges in a graph is a crucial problem for various research fields, such as network epidemics, signal processing, machine learning, and sensor networks. In this paper, we tackle the problem based on sampling theory on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-16 Kenta Yanagiya , Koki Yamada , Yasuo Katsuhara , Tomoya Takatani , Yuichi Tanaka

Counting small subgraphs, referred to as motifs, in large graphs is a fundamental task in graph analysis, extensively studied across various contexts and computational models. In the sublinear-time regime, the relaxed problem of approximate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Talya Eden , Reut Levi , Dana Ron , Ronitt Rubinfeld

In this work, we resolve the query complexity of global minimum cut problem for a graph by designing a randomized algorithm for approximating the size of minimum cut in a graph, where the graph can be accessed through local queries like…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Arijit Bishnu , Arijit Ghosh , Gopinath Mishra , Manaswi Paraashar

We introduce Tiered Sampling, a novel technique for approximate counting sparse motifs in massive graphs whose edges are observed in a stream. Our technique requires only a single pass on the data and uses a memory of fixed size $M$, which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Lorenzo De Stefani , Erisa Terolli , Eli Upfal

A conditional sampling oracle for a probability distribution D returns samples from the conditional distribution of D restricted to a specified subset of the domain. A recent line of work (Chakraborty et al. 2013 and Cannone et al. 2014)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-18 Themistoklis Gouleakis , Christos Tzamos , Manolis Zampetakis

The minimum cut problem in an undirected and weighted graph $G$ is to find the minimum total weight of a set of edges whose removal disconnects $G$. We completely characterize the quantum query and time complexity of the minimum cut problem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-25 Simon Apers , Troy Lee

We study the classic set cover problem from the perspective of sub-linear algorithms. Given access to a collection of $m$ sets over $n$ elements in the query model, we show that sub-linear algorithms derived from existing techniques have…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Piotr Indyk , Sepideh Mahabadi , Ronitt Rubinfeld , Ali Vakilian , Anak Yodpinyanee

We consider the problem of finding a minimum cut of a weighted graph presented as a single-pass stream. While graph sparsification in streams has been intensively studied, the specific application of finding minimum cuts in streams is less…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Matthew Ding , Alexandro Garces , Jason Li , Honghao Lin , Jelani Nelson , Vihan Shah , David P. Woodruff

We give the first polynomial-time, differentially node-private, and robust algorithm for estimating the edge density of Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graphs and their generalization, inhomogeneous random graphs. We further prove…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Hongjie Chen , Jingqiu Ding , Yiding Hua , David Steurer

Solving optimization problems leads to elegant and practical solutions in a wide variety of real-world applications. In many of those real-world applications, some of the information required to specify the relevant optimization problem is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Kritkorn Karntikoon , Yiheng Shen , Sreenivas Gollapudi , Kostas Kollias , Aaron Schild , Ali Sinop

We study the following problem: given an integer $k \ge 3$ and a simple graph $G$, sample a connected induced $k$-node subgraph of $G$ uniformly at random. This is a fundamental graph mining primitive with applications in social network…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Marco Bressan

A simple probabilistic argument shows that every $r$-uniform hypergraph with $m$ edges contains an $r$-partite subhypergraph with at least $\frac{r!}{r^r}m$ edges. The celebrated result of Edwards states that in the case of graphs, that is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Eero Räty , István Tomon