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Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a critical capability in autonomous navigation, but memory and computational limits make long-term application of common SLAM techniques impractical; a robot must be able to determine what…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Kevin Doherty , Alan Papalia , Yewei Huang , David Rosen , Brendan Englot , John Leonard

We present a general framework of designing efficient dynamic approximate algorithms for optimization on undirected graphs. In particular, we develop a technique that, given any problem that admits a certain notion of vertex sparsifiers,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Li Chen , Gramoz Goranci , Monika Henzinger , Richard Peng , Thatchaphol Saranurak

We design a Local Computation Algorithm (LCA) for the set cover problem. Given a set system where each set has size at most $s$ and each element is contained in at most $t$ sets, the algorithm reports whether a given set is in some fixed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Christoph Grunau , Slobodan Mitrović , Ronitt Rubinfeld , Ali Vakilian

We study the node classification problem on feature-decorated graphs in the sparse setting, i.e., when the expected degree of a node is $O(1)$ in the number of nodes, in the fixed-dimensional asymptotic regime, i.e., the dimension of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Aseem Baranwal , Kimon Fountoulakis , Aukosh Jagannath

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

Cuts in graphs are a fundamental object of study, and play a central role in the study of graph algorithms. The problem of sparsifying a graph while approximately preserving its cut structure has been extensively studied and has many…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Yu Chen , Sanjeev Khanna , Ansh Nagda

Hypergraphs allow modeling problems with multi-way high-order relationships. However, the computational cost of most existing hypergraph-based algorithms can be heavily dependent upon the input hypergraph sizes. To address the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Ali Aghdaei , Zhiqiang Zhao , Zhuo Feng

As graphs scale to billions of nodes and edges, graph Machine Learning workloads are constrained by the cost of multi-hop traversals over exponentially growing neighborhoods. While various system-level and algorithmic optimizations have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yuhang Song , Naima Abrar Shami , Romaric Duvignau , Vasiliki Kalavri

We initiate the study of dynamic algorithms for graph sparsification problems and obtain fully dynamic algorithms, allowing both edge insertions and edge deletions, that take polylogarithmic time after each update in the graph. Our three…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Ittai Abraham , David Durfee , Ioannis Koutis , Sebastian Krinninger , Richard Peng

Stochastic optimization algorithms update models with cheap per-iteration costs sequentially, which makes them amenable for large-scale data analysis. Such algorithms have been widely studied for structured sparse models where the sparsity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Baojian Zhou , Feng Chen , Yiming Ying

The current landscape of balanced graph partitioning is divided into high-quality but expensive multilevel algorithms and cheaper approaches with linear running time, such as single-level algorithms and streaming algorithms. We demonstrate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Lars Gottesbüren , Nikolai Maas , Dominik Rosch , Peter Sanders , Daniel Seemaier

Estimating the average degree of graph is a classic problem in sublinear graph algorithm. Eden, Ron, and Seshadhri (ICALP 2017, SIDMA 2019) gave a simple algorithm for this problem whose running time depended on the graph arboricity, but…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Talya Eden , C. Seshadhri

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

In the model of \emph{local computation algorithms} (LCAs), we aim to compute the queried part of the output by examining only a small (sublinear) portion of the input. Many recently developed LCAs on graph problems achieve time and space…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-16 Reut Levi , Ronitt Rubinfeld , Anak Yodpinyanee

Graph clustering has many important applications in computing, but due to growing sizes of graphs, even traditionally fast clustering methods such as spectral partitioning can be computationally expensive for real-world graphs of interest.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Julian Shun , Farbod Roosta-Khorasani , Kimon Fountoulakis , Michael W. Mahoney

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

Suppose we want to construct some structure on a bounded-degree graph, e.g., an almost maximum matching, and we want to decide about each edge depending only on its constant-radius neighborhood. We examine and compare the strengths of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-03 Endre Csóka

Graph coarsening is a widely used dimensionality reduction technique for approaching large-scale graph machine learning problems. Given a large graph, graph coarsening aims to learn a smaller-tractable graph while preserving the properties…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-04 Manoj Kumar , Anurag Sharma , Sandeep Kumar

A \emph{sparsification} of a given graph $G$ is a sparser graph (typically a subgraph) which aims to approximate or preserve some property of $G$. Examples of sparsifications include but are not limited to spanning trees, Steiner trees,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Reyan Ahmed , Keaton Hamm , Stephen Kobourov , Mohammad Javad Latifi Jebelli , Faryad Darabi Sahneh , Richard Spence

Sparsification reduces the size of networks while preserving structural and statistical properties of interest. Various sparsifying algorithms have been proposed in different contexts. We contribute the first systematic conceptual and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Gerd Lindner , Christian L. Staudt , Michael Hamann , Henning Meyerhenke , Dorothea Wagner