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Finding connected components in a graph is a fundamental problem in graph analysis. In this work, we present a novel minimum-mapping based Contour algorithm to efficiently solve the connectivity problem. We prove that the Contour algorithm…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Zhihui Du , Oliver Alvarado Rodriguez , Fuhuan Li , Mohammad Dindoost , David A. Bader

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

In a random linear graph, vertices are points on a line, and pairs of vertices are connected, independently, with a link probability that decreases with distance. We study the problem of reconstructing the linear embedding from the graph,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-25 Israel Rocha , Jeannette Janssen , Nauzer Kalyaniwalla

Consider a generalization of the classical binary search problem in linearly sorted data to the graph-theoretic setting. The goal is to design an adaptive query algorithm, called a strategy, that identifies an initially unknown target…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Dariusz Dereniowski , Aleksander Łukasiewicz , Przemysław Uznański

We present near-optimal algorithms for detecting small vertex cuts in the CONGEST model of distributed computing. Despite extensive research in this area, our understanding of the vertex connectivity of a graph is still incomplete,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Merav Parter , Asaf Petruschka

In this paper, we consider the problem of reconstructing a directed graph using path queries. In this query model of learning, a graph is hidden from the learner, and the learner can access information about it with path queries. For a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Mano Vikash Janardhanan , Lev Reyzin

Constructing a sparse spanning subgraph is a fundamental primitive in graph theory. In this paper, we study this problem in the Centralized Local model, where the goal is to decide whether an edge is part of the spanning subgraph by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Christoph Lenzen , Reut Levi

Graph alignment refers to the task of finding the vertex correspondence between two correlated graphs of $n$ vertices. Extensive study has been done on polynomial-time algorithms for the graph alignment problem under the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Ziao Wang , Weina Wang , Lele Wang

Consider a $d$-uniform random hypergraph on $n$ vertices in which hyperedges are included iid so that the average degree is $n^\delta$. The projection of a hypergraph is a graph on the same $n$ vertices where an edge connects two vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-24 Guy Bresler , Chenghao Guo , Yury Polyanskiy , Andrew Yao

The question whether there exists a hypergraph whose degrees are equal to a given sequence of integers is a well-known reconstruction problem in graph theory, which is motivated by discrete tomography. In this paper we approach the problem…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Michela Ascolese , Matthias Lienau , Matthias Schulte , Anusch Taraz

Random geometric graphs are random graph models defined on metric measure spaces. A random geometric graph is generated by first sampling points from a metric space and then connecting each pair of sampled points independently with a…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Han Huang , Pakawut Jiradilok , Elchanan Mossel

Any graph which is not vertex transitive has a proper induced subgraph which is unique due to its structure or the way of its connection to the rest of the graph. We have called such subgraph as an anchor. Using an anchor which, in fact, is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-08 Ameneh Farhadian

We propose an algorithm to estimate the topology of an embedded metric graph from a well-sampled finite subset of the underlying graph.

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Brittany Terese Fasy , Rafal Komendarczyk , Sushovan Majhi , Carola Wenk

Consider the following "local" cut-detection problem in a directed graph: We are given a seed vertex $x$ and need to remove at most $k$ edges so that at most $\nu$ edges can be reached from $x$ (a "local" cut) or output $\bot$ to indicate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Sebastian Forster , Danupon Nanongkai , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Liu Yang , Sorrachai Yingchareonthawornchai

A novel approach is put forth that utilizes data similarity, quantified on a graph, to improve upon the reconstruction performance of principal component analysis. The tasks of data dimensionality reduction and reconstruction are formulated…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-26 Ioannis D. Schizas

In this paper, we study the exact learning problem for weighted graphs, where we are given the vertex set, $V$, of a weighted graph, $G=(V,E,w)$, but we are not given $E$. The problem, which is also known as graph reconstruction, is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Michael T. Goodrich , Songyu Liu , Ioannis Panageas

We present a quantum algorithm solving the $k$-distinctness problem in $O(n^{1-2^{k-2}/(2^k-1)})$ queries with a bounded error. This improves the previous $O(n^{k/(k+1)})$-query algorithm by Ambainis. The construction uses a modified…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-10 Aleksandrs Belovs

We show how to find and efficiently maintain maximal k-edge-connected subgraphs in undirected graphs. In particular, we provide the following results. (1) A general framework for maintaining the maximal k-edge-connected subgraphs upon…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Loukas Georgiadis , Giuseppe F. Italiano , Evangelos Kosinas , Debasish Pattanayak

A new efficient algorithm is presented for finding all simple cycles that satisfy a length constraint in a directed graph. When the number of vertices is non-trivial, most cycle-finding problems are of practical interest for sparse graphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Anshul Gupta , Toyotaro Suzumura

This paper gives simple distributed algorithms for the fundamental problem of computing graph distances in the Congested Clique model. One of the main components of our algorithms is fast matrix multiplication, for which we show an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Keren Censor-Hillel , Ami Paz