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Pattern counting in graphs is a fundamental primitive for many network analysis tasks, and a number of methods have been developed for scaling subgraph counting to large graphs. Many real-world networks carry a natural notion of strength of…

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Color coding is an algorithmic technique used in parameterized complexity theory to detect "small" structures inside graphs. The idea is to derandomize algorithms that first randomly color a graph and then search for an easily-detectable,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Max Bannach , Till Tantau

We revisit the problem of counting the number of copies of a fixed graph in a random graph or multigraph, for various models of random (multi)graphs. For our proofs we introduce the notion of \emph{patchworks} to describe the possible…

The unsupervised learning of community structure, in particular the partitioning vertices into clusters or communities, is a canonical and well-studied problem in exploratory graph analysis. However, like most graph analyses the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Benjamin W. Priest , Alec Dunton , Geoffrey Sanders

Triangle counting is a fundamental and widely studied problem on static graphs, and recently on temporal graphs, where edges carry information on the timings of the associated events. Streaming processing and resource efficiency are crucial…

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This article explores and analyzes the unsupervised clustering of large partially observed graphs. We propose a scalable and provable randomized framework for clustering graphs generated from the stochastic block model. The clustering is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Mostafa Rahmani , Andre Beckus , Adel Karimian , George Atia

We define a graph-based rate optimization problem and consider its computation, which provides a unified approach to the computation of various theoretical limits, including the (conditional) graph entropy, rate-distortion functions and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Deheng Yuan , Tao Guo , Zhongyi Huang , Shi Jin

Subgraph counting aims to count occurrences of a template T in a given network G(V, E). It is a powerful graph analysis tool and has found real-world applications in diverse domains. Scaling subgraph counting problems is known to be memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Langshi Chen , Jiayu Li , Ariful Azad , Cenk Sahinalp , Madhav Marathe , Anil Vullikanti , Andrey Nikolaev , Egor Smirnov , Ruslan Israfilov , Judy Qiu

Color modelling and extraction is an important topic in fashion, art, and design. Recommender systems, color-based retrieval, decorating, and fashion design can benefit from color extraction tools. Research has shown that modeling color so…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Mohammed Al-Rawi

This paper is concerned with efficiently coloring sparse graphs in the distributed setting with as few colors as possible. According to the celebrated Four Color Theorem, planar graphs can be colored with at most 4 colors, and the proof…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-28 Pierre Aboulker , Marthe Bonamy , Nicolas Bousquet , Louis Esperet

Big graphs (networks) arising in numerous application areas pose significant challenges for graph analysts as these graphs grow to billions of nodes and edges and are prohibitively large to fit in the main memory. Finding the number of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-19 Shaikh Arifuzzaman , Maleq Khan , Madhav Marathe

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have achieved impressive empirical advancement across a wide variety of semi-supervised node classification tasks. Despite their great success, training GCNs on large graphs suffers from computational and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Weilin Cong , Morteza Ramezani , Mehrdad Mahdavi

The graph coloring problem (GCP) is a classic combinatorial optimization problem that aims to find the minimum number of colors assigned to vertices of a graph such that no two adjacent vertices receive the same color. GCP has been…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Enqiang Zhu , Yu Zhang , Haopeng Sun , Ziqi Wei , Witold Pedrycz , Chanjuan Liu , Jin Xu

A common approach for designing scalable algorithms for massive data sets is to distribute the computation across, say $k$, machines and process the data using limited communication between them. A particularly appealing framework here is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Sepehr Assadi , Sanjeev Khanna

A set of colored graphs are compatible, if for every color $i$, the number of vertices of color $i$ is the same in every graph. A simultaneous embedding of $k$ compatibly colored graphs, each with $n$ vertices, consists of $k$ planar…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Debajyoti Mondal

Many real-world phenomena are best represented as interaction networks with dynamic structures (e.g., transaction networks, social networks, traffic networks). Interaction networks capture flow of data which is transferred between their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Chrysanthi Kosyfaki , Nikos Mamoulis , Evaggelia Pitoura , Panayiotis Tsaparas

Finding a maximum cut is a fundamental task in many computational settings. Surprisingly, it has been insufficiently studied in the classic distributed settings, where vertices communicate by synchronously sending messages to their…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Keren Censor-Hillel , Rina Levy , Hadas Shachnai

We present an algorithm to count the number of occurrences of a pattern graph $H$ as an induced subgraph in a host graph $G$. If $G$ belongs to a bounded expansion class, the algorithm runs in linear time. Our design choices are motivated…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Felix Reidl , Blair D. Sullivan

Sampling of signals defined over the nodes of a graph is one of the crucial problems in graph signal processing. While in classical signal processing sampling is a well defined operation, when we consider a graph signal many new challenges…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Diego Valsesia , Giulia Fracastoro , Enrico Magli

We provide a simple new randomized contraction approach to the global minimum cut problem for simple undirected graphs. The contractions exploit 2-out edge sampling from each vertex rather than the standard uniform edge sampling. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Mohsen Ghaffari , Krzysztof Nowicki , Mikkel Thorup