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In this work we provide a new technique to design fast approximation algorithms for graph problems where the points of the graph lie in a metric space. Specifically, we present a sampling approach for such metric graphs that, using a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Hossein Esfandiari , Michael Mitzenmacher

Graph sparsification is a well-established technique for accelerating graph-based learning algorithms, which uses edge sampling to approximate dense graphs with sparse ones. Because the sparsification error is random and unknown, users must…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Siyao Wang , Miles E. Lopes

Graph-based techniques and spectral graph theory have enriched the field of machine learning with a variety of critical advances. A central object in the analysis is the graph Laplacian L, which encodes the structure of the graph. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Daniele Calandriello , Ioannis Koutis , Alessandro Lazaric , Michal Valko

A recent palette sparsification theorem of Assadi, Chen, and Khanna [SODA'19] states that in every $n$-vertex graph $G$ with maximum degree $\Delta$, sampling $O(\log{n})$ colors per each vertex independently from $\Delta+1$ colors almost…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Noga Alon , Sepehr Assadi

In this paper we consider the problem of computing spectral approximations to graphs in the single pass dynamic streaming model. We provide a linear sketching based solution that given a stream of edge insertions and deletions to a $n$-node…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Michael Kapralov , Navid Nouri , Aaron Sidford , Jakab Tardos

Strongly Rayleigh distributions are a class of negatively dependent distributions of binary-valued random variables [Borcea, Branden, Liggett JAMS 09]. Recently, these distributions have played a crucial role in the analysis of algorithms…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-10-22 Rasmus Kyng , Zhao Song

Let $G$ be a graph and $S, T \subseteq V(G)$ be (possibly overlapping) sets of terminals, $|S|=|T|=k$. We are interested in computing a vertex sparsifier for terminal cuts in $G$, i.e., a graph $H$ on a smallest possible number of vertices,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Zhiyang He , Jason Li , Magnus Wahlström

Randomized matrix sparsification has proven to be a fruitful technique for producing faster algorithms in applications ranging from graph partitioning to semidefinite programming. In the decade or so of research into this technique, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-23 Alex Gittens , Joel A. Tropp

We study the following version of cut sparsification. Given a large edge-weighted network $G$ with $k$ terminal vertices, compress it into a smaller network $H$ with the same terminals, such that every minimum terminal cut in $H$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Robert Krauthgamer , Havana , Rika

We describe a simple algorithm for spectral graph sparsification, based on iterative computations of weighted spanners and uniform sampling. Leveraging the algorithms of Baswana and Sen for computing spanners, we obtain the first…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-21 Ioannis Koutis

Spectral graph bisections are a popular heuristic aimed at approximating the solution of the NP-complete graph bisection problem. This technique, however, does not always provide a robust tool for graph partitioning. Using a special class…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-22 John C. Urschel , Ludmil T. Zikatanov

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

Whether or not the Sparsest Cut problem admits an efficient $O(1)$-approximation algorithm is a fundamental algorithmic question with connections to geometry and the Unique Games Conjecture. Revisiting spectral algorithms for Sparsest Cut,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Tommaso d'Orsi , Chris Jones , Jake Ruotolo , Salil Vadhan , Jiyu Zhang

Graph coloring is one of the central problems in distributed graph algorithms. Much of the research on this topic has focused on coloring with $\Delta+1$ colors, where $\Delta$ denotes the maximum degree. Using $\Delta+1$ colors may be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Mohsen Ghaffari , Christiana Lymouri

The expansion of a hypergraph, a natural extension of the notion of expansion in graphs, is defined as the minimum over all cuts in the hypergraph of the ratio of the number of the hyperedges cut to the size of the smaller side of the cut.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-18 Anand Louis , Yury Makarychev

A geometric graph associated with a set of points $P= \{x_1, x_2, \cdots, x_n \} \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ and a fixed kernel function $\mathsf{K}:\mathbb{R}^d\times \mathbb{R}^d\to\mathbb{R}_{\geq 0}$ is a complete graph on $P$ such that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Yang Cao , Yichuan Deng , Wenyu Jin , Xiaoyu Li , Zhao Song , Xiaorui Sun , Omri Weinstein

Recently, a number of variants of the notion of cut-preserving hypergraph sparsification have been studied in the literature. These variants include directed hypergraph sparsification, submodular hypergraph sparsification, general notions…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Sanjeev Khanna , Aaron L. Putterman , Madhu Sudan

Constructing a spanning tree of a graph is one of the most basic tasks in graph theory. We consider a relaxed version of this problem in the setting of local algorithms. The relaxation is that the constructed subgraph is a sparse spanning…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Reut Levi , Dana Ron , Ronitt Rubinfeld

The spectral theory of graphs provides a bridge between classical signal processing and the nascent field of graph signal processing. In this paper, a spectral graph analogy to Heisenberg's celebrated uncertainty principle is developed.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-02 Ameya Agaskar , Yue M. Lu

For any undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ and a set $E_W$ of candidate edges with $E\cap E_W=\emptyset$, the $(k,\gamma)$-spectral augmentability problem is to find a set $F$ of $k$ edges from $E_W$ with appropriate weighting, such that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Bogdan-Adrian Manghiuc , Pan Peng , He Sun