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We investigate graphs that can be disconnected into small components by removing a vanishingly small fraction of their vertices. We show that when a quantum network is described by such a graph, the network is efficiently controllable, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-05 Can Gokler , Seth Lloyd , Peter Shor , Kevin Thompson

From social science to biology, numerous applications often rely on graphlets for intuitive and meaningful characterization of networks at both the global macro-level as well as the local micro-level. While graphlets have witnessed a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-02-17 Nesreen K. Ahmed , Jennifer Neville , Ryan A. Rossi , Nick Duffield , Theodore L. Willke

The identification and counting of small graph patterns, called network motifs, is a fundamental primitive in the analysis of networks, with application in various domains, from social networks to neuroscience. Several techniques have been…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Ilie Sarpe , Fabio Vandin

Street intersection counts and densities are ubiquitous measures in transport geography and planning. However, typical street network data and typical street network analysis tools can substantially overcount them. This article explains the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-01 Geoff Boeing

We study the hop-constrained s-t path enumeration (HcPE) problem, which takes a graph $G$, two distinct vertices $s,t$ and a hop constraint $k$ as input, and outputs all paths from $s$ to $t$ whose length is at most $k$. The…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Shixuan Sun , Yuhang Chen , Bingsheng He , Bryan Hooi

We consider a new problem of designing a network with small $s$-$t$ effective resistance. In this problem, we are given an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$, two designated vertices $s,t \in V$, and a budget $k$. The goal is to choose a subgraph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Pak Hay Chan , Lap Chi Lau , Aaron Schild , Sam Chiu-wai Wong , Hong Zhou

We study the $P_3$-convexity, the path convexity generated by all three-vertex paths, and focus on the problem of counting the $P_3$-convex vertex sets of a graph $G$, denoted by $\noc(G)$. First, we settle the associated extremal question:…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Mitre C. Dourado , Luciano N. Grippo , Min Chih Lin , Fábio Protti

Shortest Path (SP) computation is a fundamental operation in many real-life applications such as navigation on road networks, link analysis on social networks, etc. These networks tend to be massive, and graph partitioning is commonly…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Mengxuan Zhang , Xinjie Zhou , Lei Li , Ziyi Liu , Goce Trajcevski , Yan Huang , Xiaofang Zhou

We show a flow-augmentation algorithm in directed graphs: There exists a randomized polynomial-time algorithm that, given a directed graph $G$, two vertices $s,t \in V(G)$, and an integer $k$, adds (randomly) to $G$ a number of arcs such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Eun Jung Kim , Stefan Kratsch , Marcin Pilipczuk , Magnus Wahlström

In the graph stream model of computation, an algorithm processes the edges of an input graph in one or more sequential passes while using a memory sublinear in the input size. This model poses significant challenges for constructing long…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Christian Konrad , Chhaya Trehan

Subgraph isomorphism counting is known as #P-complete and requires exponential time to find the accurate solution. Utilizing representation learning has been shown as a promising direction to represent substructures and approximate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Xin Liu , Weiqi Wang , Jiaxin Bai , Yangqiu Song

Community search is a derivative of community detection that enables online and personalized discovery of communities and has found extensive applications in massive real-world networks. Recently, there needs to be more focus on the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Wei Ai , CanHao Xie , Tao Meng , Yinghao Wu , KeQin Li

With the recent rise in the amount of structured data available, there has been considerable interest in methods for machine learning with graphs. Many of these approaches have been kernel methods, which focus on measuring the similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-07 P. -L. Giscard , R. C. Wilson

Shortest path computation is one of the most fundamental operations for managing and analyzing large social networks. Though existing techniques are quite effective for finding the shortest path on large but sparse road networks, social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-05-03 Ruoming Jin , Ning Ruan , Bo You , Haixun Wang

In recent years, there has been a growing effort to develop effective and efficient algorithms for fake account detection in online social networks. This survey comprehensively reviews existing methods, with a focus on graph-based…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Ali Safarpoor Dehkordi , Ahad N. Zehmakan

We consider the NP-complete problem of tracking paths in a graph, first introduced by Banik et. al. [3]. Given an undirected graph with a source $s$ and a destination $t$, find the smallest subset of vertices whose intersection with any…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-10-01 David Eppstein , Michael T. Goodrich , James A. Liu , Pedro Matias

Although Dijkstra's algorithm has near-optimal time complexity for the problem of finding a shortest path from a given vertex $s$ to a given vertex $t$, in practice other algorithms are often superior on huge graphs. A prominent example is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Bernhard Haeupler , Richard Hladík , Vaclav Rozhon , Robert E. Tarjan , Jakub Tětek

Pedestrian trajectory prediction is a challenging task because of the complexity of real-world human social behaviors and uncertainty of the future motion. For the first issue, existing methods adopt fully connected topology for modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Lidan Zhang , Qi She , Ping Guo

Given a graph $G$, and terminal vertices $s$ and $t$, the TRACKING PATHS problem asks to compute a minimum number of vertices to be marked as trackers, such that the sequence of trackers encountered in each s-t path is unique. TRACKING…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Pratibha Choudhary

Pattern counting in graphs is fundamental to network science tasks, and there are many scalable methods for approximating counts of small patterns, often called motifs, in large graphs. However, modern graph datasets now contain richer…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Paul Liu , Austin Benson , Moses Charikar