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In this paper, we present new incremental algorithms for maintaining data structures that represent all connectivity cuts of size one in directed graphs (digraphs), and the strongly connected components that result by the removal of each of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Loukas Georgiadis , Giuseppe F. Italiano , Nikos Parotsidis

Graph clustering is an important algorithmic technique for analysing massive graphs, and has been widely applied in many research fields of data science. While the objective of most graph clustering algorithms is to find a vertex set of low…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Joyentanuj Das , Suranjan De , He Sun

How can we find a good graph clustering of a real-world network, that allows insight into its underlying structure and also potential functions? In this paper, we introduce a new graph clustering algorithm Dcut from a density point of view.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Junming Shao , Qinli Yang , Jinhu Liu , Stefan Kramer

Graphs are useful to interpret widely used image processing methods, e.g., bilateral filtering, or to develop new ones, e.g., kernel based techniques. However, simple graph constructions are often used, where edge weight and connectivity…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Sarath Shekkizhar , Antonio Ortega

Many modern data-intensive computational problems either require, or benefit from distance or similarity data that adhere to a metric. The algorithms run faster or have better performance guarantees. Unfortunately, in real applications, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-31 Anna C. Gilbert , Lalit Jain

Let $\mathcal{D}$ be a set of $n$ disks in the plane. The disk graph $G_\mathcal{D}$ for $\mathcal{D}$ is the undirected graph with vertex set $\mathcal{D}$ in which two disks are joined by an edge if and only if they intersect. The…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Sergio Cabello , Wolfgang Mulzer

Recovering hidden graph-like structures from potentially noisy data is a fundamental task in modern data analysis. Recently, a persistence-guided discrete Morse-based framework to extract a geometric graph from low-dimensional data has…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Tamal K. Dey , Jiayuan Wang , Yusu Wang

Metric graphs are ubiquitous in science and engineering. For example, many data are drawn from hidden spaces that are graph-like, such as the cosmic web. A metric graph offers one of the simplest yet still meaningful ways to represent the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Tamal K. Dey , Dayu Shi , Yusu Wang

We study resistance sparsification of graphs, in which the goal is to find a sparse subgraph (with reweighted edges) that approximately preserves the effective resistances between every pair of nodes. We show that every dense regular…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-26 Michael Dinitz , Robert Krauthgamer , Tal Wagner

A geometric intersection graph is constructed over a set of geometric objects, where each vertex represents a distinct object and an edge connects two vertices if and only if the corresponding objects intersect. We examine the problem of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-12-23 J. Mark Keil , Debajyoti Mondal

In this paper, we consider the problem of designing cut sparsifiers and sketches for directed graphs. To bypass known lower bounds, we allow the sparsifier/sketch to depend on the balance of the input graph, which smoothly interpolates…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Ruoxu Cen , Yu Cheng , Debmalya Panigrahi , Kevin Sun

Recent spectral graph sparsification research allows constructing nearly-linear-sized subgraphs that can well preserve the spectral (structural) properties of the original graph, such as the first few eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Ying Zhang , Zhiqiang Zhao , Zhuo Feng

There has been a surge of interest in spectral hypergraph sparsification, a natural generalization of spectral sparsification for graphs. In this paper, we present a simple fully dynamic algorithm for maintaining spectral hypergraph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Sebastian Forster , Gramoz Goranci , Ali Momeni

In this paper we show how to combine two algorithmic techniques to obtain linear time algorithms for various optimization problems on graphs, and present a subroutine which will be useful in doing so. The first technique is iterative…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-28 Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Zhentao Li , Bruce Reed

Graph sparsification is an area of interest in computer science and applied mathematics. Sparsification of a graph, in general, aims to reduce the number of edges in the network while preserving specific properties of the graph, like cuts…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Abhishek Ajayakumar , Soumyendu Raha

Disk contact representations realize graphs by mapping vertices bijectively to interior-disjoint disks in the plane such that two disks touch each other if and only if the corresponding vertices are adjacent in the graph. Deciding whether a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-09-03 Boris Klemz , Martin Nöllenburg , Roman Prutkin

We study vertex sparsification for preserving cuts. Given a graph $G$ with a subset $|T|=k$ of its vertices called terminals, a \emph{quality-$q$ cut sparsifier} is a graph $G'$ that contains $T$, such that, for any partition $(T_1,T_2)$ of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Yu Chen , Zihan Tan

On an evolving graph that is continuously updated by a high-velocity stream of edges, how can one efficiently maintain if two vertices are connected? This is the connectivity problem, a fundamental and widely studied problem on graphs. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-18 Natcha Simsiri , Kanat Tangwongsan , Srikanta Tirthapura , Kun-Lung Wu

In this letter, we propose a novel image denoising method based on correlation preserving sparse coding. Because the instable and unreliable correlations among basis set can limit the performance of the dictionary-driven denoising methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-26 Rui Chen , Huizhu Jia , Xiaodong Xie , Wen Gao

Spectral graph sparsification aims to find ultra-sparse subgraphs which can preserve spectral properties of original graphs. In this paper, a new spectral criticality metric based on trace reduction is first introduced for identifying…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Zhiqiang Liu , Wenjian Yu