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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…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Andreas Loukas

Scalability of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) remains a significant challenge. To tackle this, methods like coarsening, condensation, and computation trees are used to train on a smaller graph, resulting in faster computation. Nonetheless,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Shubhajit Roy , Hrriday Ruparel , Kishan Ved , Anirban Dasgupta

The graph partitioning problem is widely used and studied in many practical and theoretical applications. The multilevel strategies represent today one of the most effective and efficient generic frameworks for solving this problem on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-04-04 Ilya Safro , Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz

As real-world graphs expand in size, larger GNN models with billions of parameters are deployed. High parameter count in such models makes training and inference on graphs expensive and challenging. To reduce the computational and memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Hongwu Peng , Deniz Gurevin , Shaoyi Huang , Tong Geng , Weiwen Jiang , Omer Khan , Caiwen Ding

Graph coarsening reduces the size of a graph while preserving certain properties. Most existing methods preserve either spectral or spatial characteristics. Recent research has shown that preserving topological features helps maintain the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Xiang Wu , Rong-Hua Li , Xunkai Li , Kangfei Zhao , Hongchao Qin , Guoren Wang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are known to operate with high accuracy on learning from graph-structured data, but they suffer from high computational and resource costs. Neural network compression methods are used to reduce the model size…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Khatoon Khedri , Reza Rawassizadeh , Qifu Wen , Mehdi Hosseinzadeh

Spatial graphs are particular graphs for which the nodes are localized in space (e.g., public transport network, molecules, branching biological structures). In this work, we consider the problem of spatial graph reduction, that aims to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-10 Anna Calissano , Etienne Lasalle

Recent advances in representation learning on graphs, mainly leveraging graph convolutional networks, have brought a substantial improvement on many graph-based benchmark tasks. While novel approaches to learning node embeddings are highly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-06 Cătălina Cangea , Petar Veličković , Nikola Jovanović , Thomas Kipf , Pietro Liò

Downsampling produces coarsened, multi-resolution representations of data and it is used, for example, to produce lossy compression and visualization of large images, reduce computational costs, and boost deep neural representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Davide Bacciu , Alessio Conte , Francesco Landolfi

Hypergraph partitioning is an NP-hard problem that occurs in many computer science applications where it is necessary to reduce large problems into a number of smaller, computationally tractable sub-problems. Current techniques use a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Richard J. Preen , Jim Smith

Graph coarsening aims to diminish the size of a graph to lighten its memory footprint, and has numerous applications in graph signal processing and machine learning. It is usually defined using a reduction matrix and a lifting matrix,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Antonin Joly , Nicolas Keriven , Aline Roumy

Continual learning on graphs tackles the problem of training a graph neural network (GNN) where graph data arrive in a streaming fashion and the model tends to forget knowledge from previous tasks when updating with new data. Traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Xiaoxue Han , Zhuo Feng , Yue Ning

Online social network services provide a platform for human social interactions. Nowadays, many kinds of online interactions generate large-scale social network data. Network analysis helps to mine knowledge and pattern from the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Andry Alamsyah , Yahya Peranginangin , Intan Muchtadi-Alamsyah , Budi Rahardjo , Kuspriyanto

Many real-world datasets can be naturally represented as graphs, spanning a wide range of domains. However, the increasing complexity and size of graph datasets present significant challenges for analysis and computation. In response, graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Mohammad Hashemi , Shengbo Gong , Juntong Ni , Wenqi Fan , B. Aditya Prakash , Wei Jin

Graph Visualization, also known as Graph Drawing, aims to find geometric embeddings of graphs that optimize certain criteria. Stress is a widely used metric; stress is minimized when every pair of nodes is positioned at their shortest path…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Florian Grötschla , Joël Mathys , Robert Veres , Roger Wattenhofer

In the past few years, graph neural networks (GNNs) have become the de facto model of choice for graph classification. While, from the theoretical viewpoint, most GNNs can operate on graphs of any size, it is empirically observed that their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Davide Buffelli , Pietro Liò , Fabio Vandin

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

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are a type of neural network capable of learning on graph-structured data. However, training GNNs on large-scale graphs is challenging due to iterative aggregations of high-dimensional features from neighboring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Nikolai Merkel , Pierre Toussing , Ruben Mayer , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

$\textbf{Graph Coarsening (GC)}$ is a prominent graph reduction technique that compresses large graphs to enable efficient learning and inference. However, existing GC methods generate only one coarsened graph per run and must recompute…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Mohit Kataria , Shreyash Bhilwade , Sandeep Kumar , Jayadeva

Hierarchical abstractions are a methodology for solving large-scale graph problems in various disciplines. Coarsening is one such approach: it generates a pyramid of graphs whereby the one in the next level is a structural summary of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Tengfei Ma , Jie Chen