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Many real world networks contain a statistically surprising number of certain subgraphs, called network motifs. In the prevalent approach to motif analysis, network motifs are detected by comparing subgraph frequencies in the original…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Anatol E. Wegner

The mining of pattern subgraphs, known as motifs, is a core task in the field of graph mining. Edges in real-world networks often have timestamps, so there is a need for temporal motif mining. A temporal motif is a richer structure that…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yunjie Pan , Omkar Bhalerao , C. Seshadhri , Nishil Talati

Hypergraphs provide a powerful framework for modeling complex systems and networks with higher-order interactions beyond simple pairwise relationships. However, graph-based clustering approaches, which focus primarily on pairwise relations,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Giuseppe F. Italiano , Athanasios L. Konstantinidis , Anna Mpanti , Fariba Ranjbar

Graph sparsification underlies a large number of algorithms, ranging from approximation algorithms for cut problems to solvers for linear systems in the graph Laplacian. In its strongest form, "spectral sparsification" reduces the number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-09 Simon Apers , Ronald de Wolf

Many real-world networks describe systems in which interactions decay with the distance between nodes. Examples include systems constrained in real space such as transportation and communication networks, as well as systems constrained in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Shalev Itzkovitz , Uri Alon

Graphs naturally appear in several real-world contexts including social networks, the web network, and telecommunication networks. While the analysis and the understanding of graph structures have been a central area of study in algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Gramoz Goranci

Graph compression or sparsification is a basic information-theoretic and computational question. A major open problem in this research area is whether $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate cut-preserving vertex sparsifiers with size close to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Parinya Chalermsook , Syamantak Das , Bundit Laekhanukit , Yunbum Kook , Yang P. Liu , Richard Peng , Mark Sellke , Daniel Vaz

Graphs are naturally used to describe the structures of various real-world systems in biology, society, computer science etc., where subgraphs or motifs as basic blocks play an important role in function expression and information…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Jinhuan Wang , Pengtao Chen , Bin Ma , Jiajun Zhou , Zhongyuan Ruan , Guanrong Chen , Qi Xuan

We consider problems of the following type: given a graph $G$, how many edges are needed in the worst case for a sparse subgraph $H$ that approximately preserves distances between a given set of node pairs $P$? Examples include pairwise…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Greg Bodwin

We study algorithms for spectral graph sparsification. The input is a graph $G$ with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, and the output is a sparse graph $\tilde{G}$ that approximates $G$ in an algebraic sense. Concretely, for all vectors $x$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-19 Ioannis Koutis , Alex Levin , Richard Peng

As graphs scale to billions of nodes and edges, graph Machine Learning workloads are constrained by the cost of multi-hop traversals over exponentially growing neighborhoods. While various system-level and algorithmic optimizations have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yuhang Song , Naima Abrar Shami , Romaric Duvignau , Vasiliki Kalavri

Brain graphs, which model the structural and functional relationships between brain regions, are crucial in neuroscientific and clinical applications involving graph classification. However, dense brain graphs pose computational challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Gaotang Li , Marlena Duda , Xiang Zhang , Danai Koutra , Yujun Yan

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

How might one "reduce" a graph? That is, generate a smaller graph that preserves the global structure at the expense of discarding local details? There has been extensive work on both graph sparsification (removing edges) and graph…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Gecia Bravo-Hermsdorff , Lee M. Gunderson

Given an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ with edge capacities $c_e\geq 1$ for $e\in E$ and a subset $T$ of $k$ vertices called terminals, we say that a graph $H$ is a quality-$q$ cut sparsifier for $G$ iff $T\subseteq V(H)$, and for any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-04-16 Julia Chuzhoy

We introduce three new cut tree structures of graphs $G$ in which the vertex set of the tree is a partition of $V(G)$ and contractions of tree vertices satisfy sparsification requirements that preserve various types of cuts. Recently,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-04 On-Hei Solomon Lo , Jens M. Schmidt

The sparsest cut problem consists of identifying a small set of edges that breaks the graph into balanced sets of vertices. The normalized cut problem balances the total degree, instead of the size, of the resulting sets. Applications of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-17 Arlei Silva , Ambuj Singh , Ananthram Swami

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

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

We study the problem of compressing a weighted graph $G$ on $n$ vertices, building a "sketch" $H$ of $G$, so that given any vector $x \in \mathbb{R}^n$, the value $x^T L_G x$ can be approximated up to a multiplicative $1+\epsilon$ factor…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-30 Jiecao Chen , Bo Qin , David P. Woodruff , Qin Zhang