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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

In recent years, hypergraph generalizations of many graph cut problems have been introduced and analyzed as a way to better explore and understand complex systems and datasets characterized by multiway relationships. Recent work has made…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Austin R. Benson , Jon Kleinberg , Nate Veldt

For any undirected and weighted graph $G=(V,E,w)$ with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, we call a sparse subgraph $H$ of $G$, with proper reweighting of the edges, a $(1+\varepsilon)$-spectral sparsifier if \[…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Yin Tat Lee , He Sun

A seminal work of [Ahn-Guha-McGregor, PODS'12] showed that one can compute a cut sparsifier of an unweighted undirected graph by taking a near-linear number of linear measurements on the graph. Subsequent works also studied computing other…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Yu Chen , Sanjeev Khanna , Huan Li

In vertex-cut sparsification, given a graph $G=(V,E)$ with a terminal set $T\subseteq V$, we wish to construct a graph $G'=(V',E')$ with $T\subseteq V'$, such that for every two sets of terminals $A,B\subseteq T$, the size of a minimum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Itai Boneh , Robert Krauthgamer

Spectral hypergraph sparsification, an attempt to extend well-known spectral graph sparsification to hypergraphs, has been extensively studied over the past few years. For undirected hypergraphs, Kapralov, Krauthgamer, Tardos, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Kazusato Oko , Shinsaku Sakaue , Shin-ichi Tanigawa

Consider the following 2-respecting min-cut problem. Given a weighted graph $G$ and its spanning tree $T$, find the minimum cut among the cuts that contain at most two edges in $T$. This problem is an important subroutine in Karger's…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Sagnik Mukhopadhyay , Danupon Nanongkai

Sketching and streaming algorithms are in the forefront of current research directions for cut problems in graphs. In the streaming model, we show that $(1-\epsilon)$-approximation for Max-Cut must use $n^{1-O(\epsilon)}$ space; moreover,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Dmitry Kogan , Robert Krauthgamer

We consider the minimum cut problem in undirected, weighted graphs. We give a simple algorithm to find a minimum cut that $2$-respects (cuts two edges of) a spanning tree $T$ of a graph $G$. This procedure can be used in place of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Nalin Bhardwaj , Antonio Molina Lovett , Bryce Sandlund

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

We present a deterministic (global) mincut algorithm for weighted, undirected graphs that runs in $m^{1+o(1)}$ time, answering an open question of Karger from the 1990s. To obtain our result, we de-randomize the construction of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Jason Li

We study algorithms for spectral graph sparsification. The input is a graph $G$ with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, and the output is a sparse graph $\tilde{G}$ that approximates $G$ in an algebraic sense. Concretely, for all vectors $x$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-19 Ioannis Koutis , Alex Levin , Richard Peng

Karger (SIAM Journal on Computing, 1999) developed the first fully-polynomial approximation scheme to estimate the probability that a graph $G$ becomes disconnected, given that its edges are removed independently with probability $p$. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-13 David G. Harris , Aravind Srinivasan

Recent years have seen extensive research on directed graph sparsification. In this work, we initiate the study of fast fully dynamic spectral and cut sparsification algorithms for directed graphs. We introduce a new notion of spectral…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yibin Zhao

In cut sparsification, all cuts of a hypergraph $H=(V,E,w)$ are approximated within $1\pm\epsilon$ factor by a small hypergraph $H'$. This widely applied method was generalized recently to a setting where the cost of cutting each hyperedge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Yotam Kenneth , Robert Krauthgamer

CSP sparsification, introduced by Kogan and Krauthgamer (ITCS 2015), considers the following question: how much can an instance of a constraint satisfaction problem be sparsified (by retaining a reweighted subset of the constraints) while…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Sanjeev Khanna , Aaron L. Putterman , Madhu Sudan

The notion of vertex sparsification is introduced in \cite{M}, where it was shown that for any graph $G = (V, E)$ and a subset of $k$ terminals $K \subset V$, there is a polynomial time algorithm to construct a graph $H = (K, E_H)$ on just…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-06-24 Moses Charikar , Tom Leighton , Shi Li , Ankur Moitra

Let $G$ be a graph and $S, T \subseteq V(G)$ be (possibly overlapping) sets of terminals, $|S|=|T|=k$. We are interested in computing a vertex sparsifier for terminal cuts in $G$, i.e., a graph $H$ on a smallest possible number of vertices,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Zhiyang He , Jason Li , Magnus Wahlström

We present new approaches to constructing graph sparsifiers --- weighted subgraphs for which every cut has the same value as the original graph, up to a factor of $(1 \pm \epsilon)$. Our first approach independently samples each edge $uv$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-08-10 Wai Shing Fung , Nicholas J. A. Harvey

Recently, a number of variants of the notion of cut-preserving hypergraph sparsification have been studied in the literature. These variants include directed hypergraph sparsification, submodular hypergraph sparsification, general notions…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Sanjeev Khanna , Aaron L. Putterman , Madhu Sudan