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We present a randomized algorithm that computes a constant approximation of a graph's arboricity, using $\tilde{O}(n/\lambda)$ queries to adjacency lists and in the same time bound. Here, $n$ and $\lambda$ denote the number of nodes and the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Jiangqi Dai , Mohsen Ghaffari , Julian Portmann

We present the first sublinear-time algorithm for a distributed message-passing network sto compute its edge connectivity $\lambda$ exactly in the CONGEST model, as long as there are no parallel edges. Our algorithm takes $\tilde…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Mohit Daga , Monika Henzinger , Danupon Nanongkai , Thatchaphol Saranurak

In the graph label selection problem, one is given an $n$-vertex graph and a budget $k$, and seeks to select $k$ vertices whose labels enable accurate prediction of the labels on the remaining vertices. This problem formalizes distilling a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Josia John , Simon Meierhans , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg

Algorithms for node clustering typically focus on finding homophilous structure in graphs. That is, they find sets of similar nodes with many edges within, rather than across, the clusters. However, graphs often also exhibit heterophilous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Sudhanshu Chanpuriya , Cameron Musco

In this work, we use algebraic methods for studying distance computation and subgraph detection tasks in the congested clique model. Specifically, we adapt parallel matrix multiplication implementations to the congested clique, obtaining an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Keren Censor-Hillel , Petteri Kaski , Janne H. Korhonen , Christoph Lenzen , Ami Paz , Jukka Suomela

We present the first sublinear-in-$n$ round algorithm for sampling an approximately uniform spanning tree of an $n$-vertex graph in the CongestedClique model of distributed computing. In particular, our algorithm requires…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Sriram V. Pemmaraju , Sourya Roy , Joshua Z. Sobel

This paper presents a graph bundling algorithm that agglomerates edges taking into account both spatial proximity as well as user-defined criteria in order to reveal patterns that were not perceivable with previous bundling techniques. Each…

Graphics · Computer Science 2015-04-13 Daniel C. Moura

Clustering is a fundamental problem in unsupervised machine learning with many applications in data analysis. Popular clustering algorithms such as Lloyd's algorithm and $k$-means++ can take $\Omega(ndk)$ time when clustering $n$ points in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Moses Charikar , Monika Henzinger , Lunjia Hu , Maxmilian Vötsch , Erik Waingarten

Counting the number of triangles in a graph has many important applications in network analysis. Several frequently computed metrics like the clustering coefficient and the transitivity ratio need to count the number of triangles in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-24 Mostafa Haghir Chehreghani

This paper presents algorithms for hierarchical, agglomerative clustering which perform most efficiently in the general-purpose setup that is given in modern standard software. Requirements are: (1) the input data is given by pairwise…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-09-13 Daniel Müllner

A clustering algorithm partitions a set of data points into smaller sets (clusters) such that each subset is more tightly packed than the whole. Many approaches to clustering translate the vector data into a graph with edges reflecting a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-06-06 Jesse Johnson

Recent works on Hierarchical Clustering (HC), a well-studied problem in exploratory data analysis, have focused on optimizing various objective functions for this problem under arbitrary similarity measures. In this paper we take the first…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Moses Charikar , Vaggos Chatziafratis , Rad Niazadeh , Grigory Yaroslavtsev

We present an $\tilde O(m+n^{1.5})$-time randomized algorithm for maximum cardinality bipartite matching and related problems (e.g. transshipment, negative-weight shortest paths, and optimal transport) on $m$-edge, $n$-node graphs. For…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Jan van den Brand , Yin-Tat Lee , Danupon Nanongkai , Richard Peng , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Aaron Sidford , Zhao Song , Di Wang

Given query access to an undirected graph $G$, we consider the problem of computing a $(1\pm\epsilon)$-approximation of the number of $k$-cliques in $G$. The standard query model for general graphs allows for degree queries, neighbor…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Talya Eden , Dana Ron , C. Seshadhri

We study the cost function for hierarchical clusterings introduced by [arXiv:1510.05043] where hierarchies are treated as first-class objects rather than deriving their cost from projections into flat clusters. It was also shown in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Aurko Roy , Sebastian Pokutta

Since the representative capacity of graph-based clustering methods is usually limited by the graph constructed on the original features, it is attractive to find whether graph neural networks (GNNs) can be applied to augment the capacity.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Hongyuan Zhang , Jiankun Shi , Rui Zhang , Xuelong Li

Graph clustering is a fundamental computational problem with a number of applications in algorithm design, machine learning, data mining, and analysis of social networks. Over the past decades, researchers have proposed a number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-06 He Sun , Luca Zanetti

Clustering is indispensable for data analysis in many scientific disciplines. Detecting clusters from heavy noise remains challenging, particularly for high-dimensional sparse data. Based on graph-theoretic framework, the present paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-07-08 Deli Zhao , Xiaoou Tang

Complex networks constitute the backbones of many complex systems such as social networks. Detecting the community structure in a complex network is both a challenging and a computationally expensive task. In this paper, we present the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Eduar Castrillo , Elizabeth León , Jonatan Gómez

Correlation Clustering is a fundamental and widely-studied problem in unsupervised learning and data mining. The input is a graph and the goal is to construct a clustering minimizing the number of inter-cluster edges plus the number of…

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