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A structural graph summary is a small graph representation that preserves structural information necessary for a given task. The summary is used instead of the original graph to complete the task faster. We introduce multi-view structural…

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Training of Relational Graph Convolutional Networks (R-GCN) is a memory intense task. The amount of gradient information that needs to be stored during training for real-world graphs is often too large for the amount of memory available on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Alessandro Generale , Till Blume , Michael Cochez

Can one reduce the size of a graph without significantly altering its basic properties? The graph reduction problem is hereby approached from the perspective of restricted spectral approximation, a modification of the spectral similarity…

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With the increasing demands of training graph neural networks (GNNs) on large-scale graphs, graph data condensation has emerged as a critical technique to relieve the storage and time costs during the training phase. It aims to condense the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Zhanyu Liu , Chaolv Zeng , Guanjie Zheng

We describe SynGraphy, a method for visually summarising the structure of large network datasets that works by drawing smaller graphs generated to have similar structural properties to the input graphs. Visualising complex networks is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Jérôme Kunegis , Pawan Kumar , Jun Sun , Anna Samoilenko , Giuseppe Pirró

Graph sampling is a technique to pick a subset of vertices and/ or edges from original graph. It has a wide spectrum of applications, e.g. survey hidden population in sociology [54], visualize social graph [29], scale down Internet AS graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-08-28 Pili Hu , Wing Cheong Lau

Graph condensation (GC) is an emerging technique designed to learn a significantly smaller graph that retains the essential information of the original graph. This condensed graph has shown promise in accelerating graph neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Shengbo Gong , Juntong Ni , Noveen Sachdeva , Carl Yang , Wei Jin

Graphs are naturally used to describe the structures of various real-world systems in biology, society, computer science etc., where subgraphs or motifs as basic blocks play an important role in function expression and information…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Jinhuan Wang , Pengtao Chen , Bin Ma , Jiajun Zhou , Zhongyuan Ruan , Guanrong Chen , Qi Xuan

In machine learning, graph embedding algorithms seek low-dimensional representations of the input network data, thereby allowing for downstream tasks on compressed encodings. Recently, within the framework of network renormalization,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-29 Riccardo Milocco , Fabian Jansen , Diego Garlaschelli

In recent years, many large directed networks such as online social networks are collected with the help of powerful data engineering and data storage techniques. Analyses of such networks attract significant attention from both the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Yunxiang Yan , Meng Jiang

Graph stream summarization refers to the process of processing a continuous stream of edges that form a rapidly evolving graph. The primary challenges in handling graph streams include the impracticality of fully storing the ever-growing…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Xuan Zhao , Xike Xie , Christian S. Jensen

Graph sparsification is a technique that approximates a given graph by a sparse graph with a subset of vertices and/or edges. The goal of an effective sparsification algorithm is to maintain specific graph properties relevant to the…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Yuhan Chen , Haojie Ye , Sanketh Vedula , Alex Bronstein , Ronald Dreslinski , Trevor Mudge , Nishil Talati

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

While advances in computing resources have made processing enormous amounts of data possible, human ability to identify patterns in such data has not scaled accordingly. Efficient computational methods for condensing and simplifying data…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Yike Liu , Tara Safavi , Abhilash Dighe , Danai Koutra

Graph clustering aims at discovering a natural grouping of the nodes such that similar nodes are assigned to a common cluster. Many different algorithms have been proposed in the literature: for simple graphs, for graphs with attributes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Ylli Sadikaj , Yllka Velaj , Sahar Behzadi , Claudia Plant

How might one "reduce" a graph? That is, generate a smaller graph that preserves the global structure at the expense of discarding local details? There has been extensive work on both graph sparsification (removing edges) and graph…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Gecia Bravo-Hermsdorff , Lee M. Gunderson

How can we separate structural information from noise in large graphs? To address this fundamental question, we propose a graph summarization approach based on Szemer\'edi's Regularity Lemma, a well-known result in graph theory, which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Marco Fiorucci , Francesco Pelosin , Marcello Pelillo

Network (or graph) sparsification compresses a graph by removing inessential edges. By reducing the data volume, it accelerates or even facilitates many downstream analyses. Still, the accuracy of many sparsification methods, with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Zhen Su , Jürgen Kurths , Henning Meyerhenke

Graph neural networks (GNNs) enable the analysis of graphs using deep learning, with promising results in capturing structured information in graphs. This paper focuses on creating a small graph to represent the original graph, so that GNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Mengyang Liu , Shanchuan Li , Xinshi Chen , Le Song