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We present time-efficient distributed algorithms for decomposing graphs with large edge or vertex connectivity into multiple spanning or dominating trees, respectively. As their primary applications, these decompositions allow us to achieve…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-22 Keren Censor-Hillel , Mohsen Ghaffari , Fabian Kuhn

Graph structure learning aims to learn connectivity in a graph from data. It is particularly important for many computer vision related tasks since no explicit graph structure is available for images for most cases. A natural way to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Yaohua Wang , FangYi Zhang , Ming Lin , Senzhang Wang , Xiuyu Sun , Rong Jin

In several applications in distributed systems, an important design criterion is ensuring that the network is sparse, i.e., does not contain too many edges, while achieving reliable connectivity. Sparsity ensures communication overhead…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Mansi Sood , Eray Can Elumar , Osman Yagan

A mixed graph $G$ is a graph that consists of both undirected and directed edges. An orientation of $G$ is formed by orienting all the undirected edges of $G$, i.e., converting each undirected edge $\{u,v\}$ into a directed edge that is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Loukas Georgiadis , Dionysios Kefallinos , Evangelos Kosinas

In the field of computer science, the network reliability problem for evaluating the network failure probability has been extensively investigated. For a given undirected graph $G$, the network failure probability is the probability that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-27 Akiyuki Yano , Tadashi Wadayama

We propose a simple and natural approximation algorithm for the problem of finding a 2-edge-connected spanning subgraph of minimum total edge cost in a graph. The algorithm maintains a spanning forest starting with an empty edge set. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Stephan Beyer , Markus Chimani , Joachim Spoerhase

We present a new, novel approach to obtaining a network's connectivity. More specifically, we show that there exists a relationship between a network's graph isoperimetric properties and its conditional connectivity. A network's…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Qiang Zhu , Fang Ma , Guodong Guo , Dajin Wang , Weisheng Chen

The main paradigm of smoothed analysis on graphs suggests that for any large graph $G$ in a certain class of graphs, perturbing slightly the edges of $G$ at random (usually adding few random edges to $G$) typically results in a graph having…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-13 Michael Krivelevich , Daniel Reichman , Wojciech Samotij

Modern social networks frequently encompass multiple distinct types of connectivity information; for instance, explicitly acknowledged friend relationships might complement behavioral measures that link users according to their actions or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Brandon Oselio , Alex Kulesza , Alfred O. Hero

A spanning tree of a network or graph is a subgraph that connects all nodes with the least number or weight of edges. The spanning tree is one of the most straightforward techniques for network simplification and sampling, and for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Lovro Šubelj

Connected components is a fundamental kernel in graph applications. The fastest existing parallel multicore algorithms for connectivity are based on some form of edge sampling and/or linking and compressing trees. However, many combinations…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Laxman Dhulipala , Changwan Hong , Julian Shun

Two models are introduced to investigate graph matching in the presence of corrupt nodes. The weak model, inspired by biological networks, allows one or both networks to have a positive fraction of molecular entities interact randomly with…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-02 Taha Ameen , Bruce Hajek

Network (or graph) sparsification compresses a graph by removing inessential edges. By reducing the data volume, it accelerates or even facilitates many downstream analyses. Still, the accuracy of many sparsification methods, with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Zhen Su , Jürgen Kurths , Henning Meyerhenke

We consider the classic problem of Network Reliability. A network is given together with a source vertex, one or more target vertices, and probabilities assigned to each of the edges. Each edge appears in the network with its associated…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Amir Kafshdar Goharshady , Fatemeh Mohammadi

Before executing an attack, adversaries usually explore the victim's network in an attempt to infer the network topology and identify vulnerabilities in the victim's servers and personal computers. Falsifying the information collected by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Rami Puzis , Hadar Polad , Bracha Shapira

Seeking effective neural networks is a critical and practical field in deep learning. Besides designing the depth, type of convolution, normalization, and nonlinearities, the topological connectivity of neural networks is also important.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Kun Yuan , Quanquan Li , Jing Shao , Junjie Yan

A string graph is the intersection graph of curves in the plane. Kratochv\'il previously showed the existence of infinitely many obstacles: graphs that are not string graphs but for which any edge contraction or vertex deletion produces a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Maria Chudnovsky , David Eppstein , David Fischer

In applications of group testing in networks, e.g. identifying individuals who are infected by a disease spread over a network, exploiting correlation among network nodes provides fundamental opportunities in reducing the number of tests…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Hesam Nikpey , Jungyeol Kim , Xingran Chen , Saswati Sarkar , Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti

Binary classification problems can be naturally modeled as bipartite graphs, where we attempt to classify right nodes based on their left adjacencies. We consider the case of labeled bipartite graphs in which some labels and edges are not…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-13 R. W. R. Darling , Mark L. Velednitsky

We present a framework for dynamically maintaining $k$-edge-connectivity of an undirected simple graph $G$ under edge insertions and deletions, where $k$ is a fixed constant. After an edge insertion, the algorithm identifies and removes a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Blazej Wrobel