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Motivated by applications such as discovering strong ties in social networks and assembling genome subsequences in biology, we study the problem of recovering a hidden $2k$-nearest neighbor (NN) graph in an $n$-vertex complete graph, whose…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Jian Ding , Yihong Wu , Jiaming Xu , Dana Yang

We study the graph matching problem in the presence of vertex feature information using shallow graph neural networks. Specifically, given two graphs that are independent perturbations of a single random geometric graph with sparse binary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Suqi Liu , Morgane Austern

This work studies fundamental limits for recovering the underlying correspondence among multiple correlated graphs. In the setting of inhomogeneous random graphs, we present and analyze a matching algorithm: first partially match the graphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Taha Ameen , Bruce Hajek

For a $d$-uniform random hypergraph on $n$ vertices in which hyperedges are included i.i.d.\ so that the average degree in the hypergraph is $n^{\delta+o(1)}$, the projection of such a hypergraph is a graph on the same $n$ vertices where an…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Shuyang Gong , Zhangsong Li , Qiheng Xu

We investigate contextual graph matching in the Gaussian setting, where both edge weights and node features are correlated across two networks. We derive precise information-theoretic thresholds for exact recovery, and identify conditions…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-25 Mohammad Hassan Ahmad Yarandi , Luca Ganassali

Graph matching problem aims to identify node correspondence between two or more correlated graphs. Previous studies have primarily focused on models where only edge information is provided. However, in many social networks, not only the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Joonhyuk Yang , Hye Won Chung

Consider a $d$-uniform random hypergraph on $n$ vertices in which hyperedges are included iid so that the average degree is $n^\delta$. The projection of a hypergraph is a graph on the same $n$ vertices where an edge connects two vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-24 Guy Bresler , Chenghao Guo , Yury Polyanskiy , Andrew Yao

Motivated by the problem of matching two correlated random geometric graphs, we study the problem of matching two Gaussian geometric models correlated through a latent node permutation. Specifically, given an unknown permutation $\pi^*$ on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Shuyang Gong , Zhangsong Li

We study the graph alignment problem over two independent Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi graphs on $n$ vertices, with edge density $p$ falling into two regimes separated by the critical window around $p_c=\sqrt{\log n/n}$. Our result reveals an…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Hang Du , Shuyang Gong , Rundong Huang

Embedding graphs in a geographical or latent space, i.e.\ inferring locations for vertices in Euclidean space or on a smooth manifold or submanifold, is a common task in network analysis, statistical inference, and graph visualization. We…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Varsha Dani , Josep Díaz , Thomas P. Hayes , Cristopher Moore

We give a quasipolynomial time algorithm for the graph matching problem (also known as noisy or robust graph isomorphism) on correlated random graphs. Specifically, for every $\gamma>0$, we give a $n^{O(\log n)}$ time algorithm that given a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Boaz Barak , Chi-Ning Chou , Zhixian Lei , Tselil Schramm , Yueqi Sheng

Consider a pair of correlated Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi graphs $\mathcal G(n,\tfrac{\lambda}{n};s)$ that are subsampled from a common parent Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi graph with average degree $\lambda$ and subsampling probability $s$. We establish a sharp…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Chenxu Feng

In this paper, we study the problem of detecting the presence of a planted perfect matching or spanning tree in an Erd\H{o}s--R\'enyi random graph. More precisely, we study the hypothesis testing problem where the statistician observes a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Louigi Addario-Berry , Omer Angel , Gábor Lugosi , Miklós Z. Rácz , Tselil Schramm

The problem of aligning Erd\"os-R\'enyi random graphs is a noisy, average-case version of the graph isomorphism problem, in which a pair of correlated random graphs is observed through a random permutation of their vertices. We study a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Giovanni Piccioli , Guilhem Semerjian , Gabriele Sicuro , Lenka Zdeborová

The distribution $\mathsf{RGG}(n,\mathbb{S}^{d-1},p)$ is formed by sampling independent vectors $\{V_i\}_{i = 1}^n$ uniformly on $\mathbb{S}^{d-1}$ and placing an edge between pairs of vertices $i$ and $j$ for which $\langle V_i,V_j\rangle…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-05 Kiril Bangachev , Guy Bresler

This paper studies the problem of recovering a hidden vertex correspondence between two correlated graphs when both edge weights and node features are observed. While most existing work on graph alignment relies primarily on edge…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Dong Huang , Chenyang Tian , Pengkun Yang

This paper considers the problem of label recovery in random graphs and matrices. Motivated by transitive behavior in real-world networks (i.e., ``the friend of my friend is my friend''), a recent line of work considers spatially-embedded…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Julia Gaudio , Charlie K. Guan

The graph projection of a hypergraph is a simple graph with the same vertex set and with an edge between each pair of vertices that appear in a hyperedge. We consider the problem of reconstructing a random $d$-uniform hypergraph from its…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Guy Bresler , Chenghao Guo , Yury Polyanskiy

We determine information theoretic conditions under which it is possible to partially recover the alignment used to generate a pair of sparse, correlated Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi graphs. To prove our achievability result, we introduce the $k$-core…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Daniel Cullina , Negar Kiyavash , Prateek Mittal , H. Vincent Poor

In this article we consider the graph alignment problem from the perspective of high-dimensional statistics: we aim to estimate an unknown permutation $\pi^*$ from the observation of two correlated random adjacency matrices $A_1$, $A_2$. We…

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