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The \emph{Dominating $H$-Pattern} problem generalizes the classical $k$-Dominating Set problem: for a fixed \emph{pattern} $H$ and a given graph $G$, the goal is to find an induced subgraph $S$ of $G$ such that (1) $S$ is isomorphic to $H$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Jonathan Dransfeld , Marvin Künnemann , Mirza Redzic , Marcus Wunderlich

We consider the problem of learning the weighted edges of a balanced mixture of two undirected graphs from epidemic cascades. While mixture models are popular modeling tools, algorithmic development with rigorous guarantees has lagged.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Jessica Hoffmann , Soumya Basu , Surbhi Goel , Constantine Caramanis

We study the problem of detecting the edge correlation between two random graphs with $n$ unlabeled nodes. This is formalized as a hypothesis testing problem, where under the null hypothesis, the two graphs are independently generated;…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Yihong Wu , Jiaming Xu , Sophie H. Yu

In the Network Inference problem, one seeks to recover the edges of an unknown graph from the observations of cascades propagating over this graph. In this paper, we approach this problem from the sparse recovery perspective. We introduce a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Jean Pouget-Abadie , Thibaut Horel

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

In network tomography, one goal is to identify a small set of failed links in a network, by sending a few packets through the network and seeing which reach their destination. This problem can be seen as a variant of combinatorial group…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Bruce Spang , Mary Wootters

Hidden community is a useful concept proposed recently for social network analysis. To handle the rapid growth of network scale, in this work, we explore the detection of hidden communities from the local perspective, and propose a new…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Meng Wang , Boyu Li , Kun He , John E. Hopcroft

This work studies fundamental limits for recovering the underlying correspondence among multiple correlated graphs. In the setting of inhomogeneous random graphs, we present and analyze a matching algorithm: first partially match the graphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Taha Ameen , Bruce Hajek

Uncertain graphs have been widely used to model complex linked data in many real-world applications, such as guaranteed-loan networks and power grids, where a node or edge may be associated with a probability. In these networks, a node…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Dawei Cheng , Chen Chen , Xiaoyang Wang , Sheng Xiang

Many complex networks in real world can be formulated as hypergraphs where community detection has been widely used. However, the fundamental question of whether communities exist or not in an observed hypergraph still remains unresolved.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-07 Mingao Yuan , Ruiqi Liu , Yang Feng , Zuofeng Shang

This study investigates the robustness of graph embedding methods for community detection in the face of network perturbations, specifically edge deletions. Graph embedding techniques, which represent nodes as low-dimensional vectors, are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-05 Zhi-Feng Wei , Pablo Moriano , Ramakrishnan Kannan

We consider the class of conditional graph patterns (\emph{CGPs}) that allow user to query data graphs with complex patterns that contain negation and predicates. To overcome the prohibitive cost of subgraph isomorphism, we consider…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Houari Mahfoud

Network topology inference is a prominent problem in Network Science. Most graph signal processing (GSP) efforts to date assume that the underlying network is known, and then analyze how the graph's algebraic and spectral characteristics…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-22 Gonzalo Mateos , Santiago Segarra , Antonio G. Marques , Alejandro Ribeiro

Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) are widely used probabilistic undirected graphical models with visible and latent nodes, playing an important role in statistics and machine learning. The task of structure learning for RBMs involves…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Liming Zhao , Aman Agrawal , Patrick Rebentrost

Community detection in networks is a key exploratory tool with applications in a diverse set of areas, ranging from finding communities in social and biological networks to identifying link farms in the World Wide Web. The problem of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-05 Peter J. Bickel , Purnamrita Sarkar

We study the complexity of fundamental distributed graph problems in the recently popular setting where information about the input graph is available to the nodes before the start of the computation. We focus on the most common such…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Alkida Balliu , Thomas Boudier , Sebastian Brandt , Dennis Olivetti

In this paper, we show how one may (efficiently) construct two types of extremal combinatorial objects whose existence was previously conjectural. (*) Panchromatic Graphs: For fixed integer k, a k-panchromatic graph is, roughly speaking, a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Boris Bukh , Karthik C. S. , Bhargav Narayanan

Community detection is a central problem in graph analysis, with applications ranging from network science to graph signal processing. In recent years, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as effective tools for learning…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Roberto Cavoretto , Alessandra De Rossi , Enrico Montini

The large amount of work on community detection and its applications leaves unaddressed one important question: the statistical validation of the results. In this paper we present a methodology able to clearly detect if the community…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Annamaria Carissimo , Luisa Cutillo , Italia Defeis

For a fixed graph property $\Phi$ and integer $k \geq 1$, consider the problem of counting the induced $k$-vertex subgraphs satisfying $\Phi$ in an input graph $G$. This problem can be solved by brute-force in time $O(n^{k})$. Under ETH, we…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Radu Curticapean , Daniel Neuen