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Graph embeddings have emerged as a powerful tool for representing complex network structures in a low-dimensional space, enabling the use of efficient methods that employ the metric structure in the embedding space as a proxy for the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Radosław Nowak , Adam Małkowski , Daniel Cieślak , Piotr Sokół , Paweł Wawrzyński

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

$ \def\vecc#1{\boldsymbol{#1}} $We design a polynomial time algorithm that for any weighted undirected graph $G = (V, E,\vecc w)$ and sufficiently large $\delta > 1$, partitions $V$ into subsets $V_1, \ldots, V_h$ for some $h\geq 1$, such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Vedat Levi Alev , Nima Anari , Lap Chi Lau , Shayan Oveis Gharan

We consider the problem of dynamically maintaining (approximate) all-pairs effective resistances in separable graphs, which are those that admit an $n^{c}$-separator theorem for some $c<1$. We give a fully dynamic algorithm that maintains…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Gramoz Goranci , Monika Henzinger , Pan Peng

Digital presence in the world of online social media entails significant privacy risks. In this work we consider a privacy threat to a social network in which an attacker has access to a subset of random walk-based node similarities, such…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Jeremy G. Hoskins , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco , Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

Graph alignment aims at finding the vertex correspondence between two correlated graphs, a task that frequently occurs in graph mining applications such as social network analysis. Attributed graph alignment is a variant of graph alignment,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Ziao Wang , Ning Zhang , Weina Wang , Lele Wang

This article discusses a geometric perspective on the well-known fact in graph theory that the effective resistance is a metric on the nodes of a graph. The classical proofs of this fact make use of ideas from electrical circuits or random…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-11 Karel Devriendt

In graph signal processing, data samples are associated to vertices on a graph, while edge weights represent similarities between those samples. We propose a convex optimization problem to learn sparse well connected graphs from data. We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 Eduardo Pavez , Antonio Ortega

The concept of effective resistance, originally introduced in electrical circuit theory, has been extended to the setting of graphs by interpreting each edge as a resistor. In this context, the effective resistance between two vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Inés García-Redondo , Claudia Landi , Sarah Percival , Anda Skeja , Bei Wang , Ling Zhou

The effective graph resistance, also known as the Kirchhoff index, is metric that is used to quantify the robustness of a network. We show that the optimisation problem of minimizing the effective graph resistance of a graph by adding a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-04-29 Robert E. Kooij , Massimo A. Achterberg

Robustness estimation is critical for the design and maintenance of resilient networks, one of the global challenges of the 21st century. Existing studies exploit network metrics to generate attack strategies, which simulate intentional…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Sebastian Wandelt , Xiaoqian Sun

One of the main strengths of online algorithms is their ability to adapt to arbitrary data sequences. This is especially important in nonparametric settings, where performance is measured against rich classes of comparator functions that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Ilja Kuzborskij , Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi

We present a simple iterative strategy for measuring the connection strength between a pair of vertices in a graph. The method is attractive in that it has a linear complexity and can be easily parallelized. Based on an analysis of the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-09-24 Jie Chen , Ilya Safro

The computation of resistance distance is pivotal in a wide range of graph analysis applications, including graph clustering, link prediction, and graph neural networks. Despite its foundational importance, efficient algorithms for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Yichun Yang , Longlong Lin , Rong-Hua Li , Meihao Liao , Guoren Wang

Graph matching, also known as network alignment, refers to finding a bijection between the vertex sets of two given graphs so as to maximally align their edges. This fundamental computational problem arises frequently in multiple fields…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Cheng Mao , Mark Rudelson , Konstantin Tikhomirov

Robustness is a critical measure of the resilience of large networked systems, such as transportation and communication networks. Most prior works focus on the global robustness of a given graph at large, e.g., by measuring its overall…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-09 Hau Chan , Shuchu Han , Leman Akoglu

The computation of distance measures between nodes in graphs is inefficient and does not scale to large graphs. We explore dense vector representations as an effective way to approximate the same information: we introduce a simple yet…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Andrey Kutuzov , Mohammad Dorgham , Oleksiy Oliynyk , Chris Biemann , Alexander Panchenko

The graph matching optimization problem is an essential component for many tasks in computer vision, such as bringing two deformable objects in correspondence. Naturally, a wide range of applicable algorithms have been proposed in the last…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Stefan Haller , Lorenz Feineis , Lisa Hutschenreiter , Florian Bernard , Carsten Rother , Dagmar Kainmüller , Paul Swoboda , Bogdan Savchynskyy

This paper presents an introduction and expository account of a beautiful, current, and active application of recursions to the computation of resistance distance. Resistance distance, also referred to as effective resistance, is a…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Emily J. Evans , Russell Jay Hendel

We are going to analyze local algorithms over sparse random graphs. These algorithms are based on local information where local regards to a decision made by the exploration of a small neighbourhood of a certain vertex plus a believe of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-09-19 David Gamarnik , Mathieu Hemery , Samuel Hetterich