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Generating graphs subject to strict structural constraints is a fundamental computational challenge in network science. Simultaneously preserving interacting properties-such as the diameter and the clustering coefficient- is particularly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Dávid Ferenczi , Alexander Grigoriev

In this work, we focus on the efficiency and scalability of pairwise constraint-based active clustering, crucial for processing large-scale data in applications such as data mining, knowledge annotation, and AI model pre-training. Our goals…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Wen-Bo Xie , Xun Fu , Bin Chen , Yan-Li Lee , Tao Deng , Tian Zou , Xin Wang , Zhen Liu , Jaideep Srivastavad

Over the last two decades, frameworks for distributed-memory parallel computation, such as MapReduce, Hadoop, Spark and Dryad, have gained significant popularity with the growing prevalence of large network datasets. The Massively Parallel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Amartya Shankha Biswas , Talya Eden , Quanquan C. Liu , Slobodan Mitrović , Ronitt Rubinfeld

This paper presents new parallel algorithms for generating Euclidean minimum spanning trees and spatial clustering hierarchies (known as HDBSCAN$^*$). Our approach is based on generating a well-separated pair decomposition followed by using…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Yiqiu Wang , Shangdi Yu , Yan Gu , Julian Shun

Hierarchical clustering over graphs is a fundamental task in data mining and machine learning with applications in domains such as phylogenetics, social network analysis, and information retrieval. Specifically, we consider the recently…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Arpit Agarwal , Sanjeev Khanna , Huan Li , Prathamesh Patil

We use exponential start time clustering to design faster and more work-efficient parallel graph algorithms involving distances. Previous algorithms usually rely on graph decomposition routines with strict restrictions on the diameters of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-25 Gary L. Miller , Richard Peng , Adrian Vladu , Shen Chen Xu

The \emph{maximal $k$-edge-connected subgraphs} problem is a classical graph clustering problem studied since the 70's. Surprisingly, no non-trivial technique for this problem in weighted graphs is known: a very straightforward…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Chaitanya Nalam , Thatchaphol Saranurak

Many applications produce massive complex networks whose analysis would benefit from parallel processing. Parallel algorithms, in turn, often require a suitable network partition. For solving optimization tasks such as graph partitioning on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-14 Roland Glantz , Henning Meyerhenke , Christian Schulz

We give an algorithm for finding the arboricity of a weighted, undirected graph, defined as the minimum number of spanning forests that cover all edges of the graph, in $\sqrt{n} m^{1+o(1)}$ time. This improves on the previous best bound of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ruoxu Cen , Henry Fleischmann , George Z. Li , Jason Li , Debmalya Panigrahi

Given all pairwise weights (distances) among a set of objects, filtered graphs provide a sparse representation by only keeping an important subset of weights. Such graphs can be passed to graph clustering algorithms to generate hierarchical…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Shangdi Yu , Julian Shun

We present improved learning-augmented algorithms for finding an approximate minimum spanning tree (MST) for points in an arbitrary metric space. Our work follows a recent framework called metric forest completion (MFC), where the learned…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Nate Veldt , Thomas Stanley , Benjamin W. Priest , Trevor Steil , Keita Iwabuchi , T. S. Jayram , Grace J. Li , Geoffrey Sanders

We give the first non-trivial fully dynamic probabilistic tree embedding algorithm for weighted graphs undergoing edge insertions and deletions. We obtain a trade-off between amortized update time and expected stretch against an oblivious…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Sebastian Forster , Gramoz Goranci , Monika Henzinger

Finding $k$-cores in graphs is a valuable and effective strategy for extracting dense regions of otherwise sparse graphs. We focus on the important problem of maintaining cores on rapidly changing dynamic graphs, where batches of edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Kasimir Gabert , Ali Pınar , Ümit V. Çatalyürek

The dynamic trees problem is to maintain a forest undergoing edge insertions and deletions while supporting queries for information such as connectivity. There are many existing data structures for this problem, but few of them are capable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Thomas Tseng , Laxman Dhulipala , Guy Blelloch

We initiate the study on fault-tolerant spanners in hypergraphs and develop fast algorithms for their constructions. A fault-tolerant (FT) spanner preserves approximate distances under network failures, often used in applications like…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jialin He , Nicholas Popescu , Chunjiang Zhu

The Hierarchical Clustering (HC) problem consists of building a hierarchy of clusters to represent a given dataset. Motivated by the modern large-scale applications, we study the problem in the \streaming model, in which the memory is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Sepehr Assadi , Vaggos Chatziafratis , Jakub Łącki , Vahab Mirrokni , Chen Wang

This paper considers the \textit{minimum spanning tree (MST)} problem in the Congested Clique model and presents an algorithm that runs in $O(\log \log \log n)$ rounds, with high probability. Prior to this, the fastest MST algorithm in this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-09 Sriram V. Pemmaraju , Vivek B. Sardeshmukh

We develop the first theoretically-efficient algorithm for maintaining the maximal independent set (MIS) of a graph in the parallel batch-dynamic setting. In this setting, a graph is updated with batches of edge insertions/deletions, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Guy Blelloch , Andrew Brady , Laxman Dhulipala , Jeremy Fineman , Jared Lo

Many networks in real-life typically contain parts in which some nodes are more highly connected to each other than the other nodes of the network. The collection of such nodes are usually called clusters, communities, cohesive groups or…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2008-06-20 Xiahong Lin , Lin Gao , Kefei Chen , David K. Y. Chiu

When processing data with uncertainty, it is desirable that the output of the algorithm is stable against small perturbations in the input. Varma and Yoshida [SODA'21] recently formalized this idea and proposed the notion of average…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Soh Kumabe , Yuichi Yoshida